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Is the distinction you're making based on whether it was written or not? None of them have provided written quotes ahead of time. Just verbal "I will do this job for X$". First a concrete guy, then an electrician, then a fence guy. it appears to be the standard scam: underbid to get the job...

Show runners that race and gender swapped the cast are utterly disregarding the source material? If only there had been some kind of sign? Some warning?

OK, my rant for the day. Fuck any profession who sets the price after the work is completed and fuck every single person working in those professions. Three times in the past 2 years I've hired a guy to do some work at my place. In each case I carefully get multiple quotes from different...

I mean, it sounds like Uber or Lyft, dont those drivers lose money on average (upkeep/gas/etc) while a few drivers actually do well?

If you think the impact on Rands character development is the biggest trouble this signals I don't know what to tell you. When they deliberately fuck up something as easy to get right as casting a series where the author has described each character in painful detail down to the embroidery on...

I missed that this was a coal burner family, I thought it was just a random diversity casting I can see their clownlogic in giving the halfbreed kids black skin but white hair. But how the fuck do they explain the black dude (presumably the husband who married into the family) white targaryan...

Youre missing it. His death made perfect sense.

No, I agree -- all that stuff was a good representation of the Catholic service. Just not the sermon. Catholics don't shout and get excited during the sermon. The sermon is a sedate, almost academic discussion. It is also a minor part of the service in the catholic church compared to Protestant...

This show is awesome despite its issues. it just feels like every one of the main actors is giving it 110%, along with the writers. We bitch about characters whose motivations dont make sense. The main character in this... they set up his backstory so well, that his end made perfect sense...

Lol they literally cast a black dude as a Targaryan and gave him platinum blond dreads I'm convinced the simulation is just trolling us at this point

Whats funny about it is how it reveals the mental illness in these people. FB goes down briefly? Normal people don't even notice The folks at Twitter think everyones like "oh no I can't get on FB, quick I have to log into SOME social media! aaaggghhhh!!!"

This show suffers from the same flaw as every other Hollywood production that involves a Church. The director and actor have clearly never stepped foot in a catholic Church. Its goddam ridiculous. Its like if someone who didnt speak Spanish or ever heard any Spanish, tried to write and direct...

What you've said is obviously reasonable so dont take this the wrong way. I just want to explore this "breathing and not much else" part. One of the principles I've learned in life is that we never really understand a stage until we've gone through it ourselves. Young single people don't...

You ordered a style of "pizza" known for putting the sauce on top of the cheese. On purpose. ygwyfd

Not to mention that if they had timepaded into some universe with the stones in hand, the stones would have presumably returned to their original power level where a normal mortal cant even touch them without dying. Its not like they were ever easily usable.

https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2021/09/30/machine_learning_identifies_the_most_important_predictors_of_infidelity_796700.html What a shocking revelation. Truly, it took a study to reveal this conclusion. Social science is not science and should not be funded.

Yeah, after all, women can't enjoy watching movies with male leads, just like men can't enjoy watching movies with female leads, and little black kids can only look up to black actors. Thats why they cast so many of the Wakandans white and so many of the Handmaids male, it was important to make...

My students have so many audible notifications turned on that any time I interact with them its like theres a third entity in the room with us, an R2D2 sitting there beeping and chiming away. its not just their phones, they have this shit turn on on their laptops too. Bleep, bloop, ding...

The black chick just doesnt do a convincing mathematician. After 2 episodes its pretty grating. Every time she talks about math its more like some mysticism or female intuition or some shit. Or The Force. Compare this with a Beautiful Mind or even Good Will Hunting. This is a Womens Studies...

I have a hobby. When I'm travelling, I just blatantly watch the dumb shit people do on their phones. Like, I don't try to hide it or look out the corner of my eye or something, I practically lean over and just watch them. 99.99% of people are doing the most ridiculous, childish...

Hawkeye was bad ass this episode.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/americans-check-their-smartphones-96-times-a-day-survey-says hilarious and believable Smartphone addiction is a really funny thing to watch from the outside. its such an extreme compulsion and people just have so little shame or self awareness about indulging it...

the black chick on terminus isnt the same one? they need to wear name tags or something

This was something I appreciated as a rare moment of non-wokeness. They had the black chicks planet pretty much all black. They had one of the planets having a meeting with the Emperor, all albino/white/blue eyes. Actual differences instead of making each planet a "beautiful rainbow of...

To be clear, I believe you're correct about the actual legislation. I was referring to the Law Of The Road, which states: "get your fucking childrens toy out of traffic" When I was a kid, we biked everywhere. When a car came, we pulled over to the side of the road and let it pass. Because we...

I've read a couple articles about the event. Neither of them made any mention of the driver swerving, losing control, or anything like that. If a cyclist is in the road and get shit by a car its the cyclists fault. Children's toys dont belong in traffic.

Its really frustrating that even the non-woke say stuff like this. Literally no one gives a shit about or objects to having non-white people in sci fi settings. Literally zero people. We can make a poll if this is a contentious point, but I dont think it is. I can sit here and list examples of...

Did I completely misunderstand or are you splitting hairs? I thought He Who Remains was just the version of Kang that won the first multiverse war.

Yeah, people just have a thing for praising black actors as a way of virtue signaling. The weird thing is even extend sto FOH. "OMG Idris Alba is such a good actor, did you see how he turned that sword to open the bifrost? swoon" He didnt come across as ancient, genuis, eccentric, or dangerous...

I took option 5. God help me, I loved Dune that much. I'm ashamed, for what its worth

Of course, thats what I mean. The obscenity of an ending to which I refer was the godawful Sandworms.

Good lord he actually kept going after that obscenity of an ending? How the fuck did he keep getting up in the morning? I just assumed he had drowned himself in pills and alcohol which failed to deaden the shame of destroying the greatest sci fi stories of all time so he finally offed himself.

The article I linked is a shitty pop sci thing I agree, but the first sentence had a link to the study itself, thats where the good stuff was. I agree with what youre saying though. The increase is not in North America. Still, it does very effectively debunk the colony collapse narrative...

any fucking time, brother sorry, were you unable to read this post because I used a tab instead of a space? shame

On today's episode of "everything you've been told is a lie", we learn that the Bee Collapse isnt a thing and never was. There are more bees than ever, no decline at all. https://www.science20.com/hank_campbell/honeybees_have_increased_85_in_the_last_60_years-255678 Is anything reported by the...

Here's a nice iron collar you have to wear around your neck at all times. If we find you not wearing it, you won't be able to access your own information or money. But why would you object? It doesnt transmit any data to our servers, so theres obviously no reason to object

Oh I'm fully aware that fucking skynet will permit me to be shackled to an alternative fucking device instead of my phone, what a merciful and understanding OverLord it is. fucking quisling

The fact that so many willingly accepted this slavery to their devices and said "sure sign me up for 2FA!!" makes me sincerely wish for an extinction level event. No, I dont have my fucking phone on me. No goddam idea where it is at the moment. Thats the normal state of things. Any...

I feed a family of 5 on our eggs. I think our feed costs and egg costs break even more or less. Its not about saving money, its about quality and independence. A homegrown egg is as different from those garbage supermarket eggs as a homegrown vine ripened tomato is from those garbage plastic...

Frustrating that they didnt even hint at how the events of the episode would lead that to happen. I mean, a person could dream up some scenario but the argument isnt even hinted at. First time I've wished for a part 2.