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  1. On 3/11/2022 at 1:43 PM, RomaVicta said:

     

    Sure. The art work is extraordinary to me, but I'm not up on Asian cartoons. Maybe it's common place. The faces are very expressive even evocative.

    The first frame illustrates that people (like me) thinking of higher gas prices as a small price to pay really don't consider a single mother with children just scraping by. For her, even in her economy turtle, 5-10 dollars a week is a big deal. I've lived squeaking by at times where a gallon of Los Angeles gas meant $4. I'm stung by the first frame because I am not her. I didn't think hard enough about her.

    Second frame would be good filmmaking. A long shot to indicate how small she is in this world. It's not just a cartoon making a point, the creator has made me care about her. I don't know that I noticed the land yacht next her on the first pass.

    Third frame. This guy states my position. He's creepy with his smile. At first read, I felt it was a caricature of a the simple viewpoint.

    Fourth frame invites you to think. He pulls away in his giant SUV pouring filth into the air. Maybe I'm not that guy. There's another dimension to this. The man in the car could do more than make his patriotic donation with broad self-congratulation. He has the means to make a patriotic donation by driving a car of less excessive demand of fuel.

    Then the thought occured to me that he could also make a the patriotic gesture of helping a fellow citizen whose patriotism comes at a much greater personal cost. 

    His patriotic gesture is trivial. Her patriotic gesture is mandatory and very costly.

    Next, I was invited to consider the satisfaction non-Ukrainians get from wearing Uke flag pins or retweeting sweet cartoons of old ladies staring down tanks. We're the guy in the big car. The Ukrainians appreciate international sympathy, but they're the woman with woefully short resources trying to make life work.

    It's a thought provoking excercise in interpretation. At least to me. It's not a matter of intelligence. I was interested and moved by the art. Others may not be. It's subjective.

    Well done. 

    I'm guessing that you're a fan of Miyazaki's films? 

  2. Dang, awesome thread. I'm just 4 years late.

    For rice cooker I can't recommend the Zojirushi enough. I've bought 3. 

    For tom yum soup I cheat and get a paste in a bottle from my local asian grocery store. Same with tom kha soup. 

    Thanks for the note on differences between vietnamese and thai fish sauce. 

  3. So when we have a chance to add something that's weird and cool, we just say "nah, b/c all the weird and cool stuff was gone 15 years ago"?

    I don't know if the word for that is shortsighted, or self-fulfilling, but what a strange way to basically guarantee that nothing new/weird/cool is ever added to the city or university. Just my opinion. 

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  4. I like Ellsworth Kelly's Austin.

    What I'm kinda worried about is moisture seeping into the widows where it joins the wall. If any black mold type stuff starts growing I hope they take care of it asap, and I can't imagine it won't grow. 

    But, imo, it's weird stuff like this that makes a great university, and city. 

    Good for UT and good for Austin for having this. Fuck the haters.

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  5. I'm not much of a Rogan fan, but don't hate him, either. 

    Imo, give this shit a rest (trying to cancel Rogan). This is not the battle worth fighting. Neil Young and the other 60's era musicians can take their music and their tens of dollars in royalties and do whatever they want. 

    Rogan can have whatever idiots on his show that he wants. Again, "progressives" need to stop getting so butt-hurt over this. 

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  6. 17 hours ago, Satchel said:

    Flight crews are vulnerable at 30,000 feet. Any passenger who lays a hand a crew member should be prohibited from flying. I’m just not convinced a drunken 19 year old girl who pushes away the hand of a flight attendant should be kept off planes for the rest of her life.

    How about 10 years, then? Don't like that? Then don't get drunk and push away the hand of a flight attendant. 

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  7. Nothing necessarily against BLM, but imo they share the same major weakness that afflicts the Dem party: sheer organizational incompetence. Absolute dumbfucks when it comes to being realistic and practical and achieving the (or any) mission.

     

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  8. I want to like tech. I mean, they are like your slow-witted but mostly nice cousin you see once in a while at the family reunion. Not retarded, but not quite all there. They live in the trailer park and claim to like it that way. Their septic system is on its last legs and they don't really have potable water and everything in their garden is stunted and wilted. But they like to party and for the most part you can look past their faults. 

    But every once in a while they get a burr in their saddle and have to be put down. 

    That time is coming. 

  9. 11 hours ago, mchookem said:

    good lord imagine what kind of malfuction your amygdala has to have for you to expressly prefer to DIE rather than be vaccinated 😐

    Weird.

    Maybe I'm a bad person but I kinda find a cosmic karma thing going on when their own actions greatly hasten their own demise. 

    The world is a better place without them. Literally. They could wind up killing your mom, grandmother, etc. b/c of their dumbshit anti-vax views.

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  10. Haven't read any of the prior posts in re Clemens. Neg me all you want but he doesn't deserve to get into the Hall. I love him for being a Horn and all, but he's a liar and a cheater. Fuck him. Some people can't tolerate rudeness in a man. I can't tolerate those who should know better but lie and cheat nonetheless. 

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  11. The whole drinking piss thing is funny. Stupid but funny. I remember Ghandi saying something about doing that (for ostensible health reasons) and even referenced the bible where it says to "drink from your own well" or something like that. 

    The stupidity of people is boundless. 

  12. Yeah, never heard of her. 

    Some of the comments/writing in the linked article mentioned her being in heaven. I wouldn't be too sure of that. Dipshits who knowingly put not only themselves but others at risk of contracting a potentially lethal virus belong in hell. Just my opinion.

  13. 38 minutes ago, ouflak said:

    Sorry if I'm replying out of context. But wasn't the hope initially 100% effectiveness, by pretty much every person on the planet, including and especially those who were developing them?

    Ok, not to be "that guy" but come on, grow up, be an adult (at least a college-educated one) and first of all realize that there is no such thing as 100% effectiveness. It doesn't exist in the real world. And this is something the Trumptards latch onto: ooh, ooh, you said it was 100% effective but some dipshit has a cousin in the Caribbean who has a friend whose nuts swolled up after he (or maybe she) got the shot. 

    Look, medicine and biology don't play by the 100% rules. I mean, I think a lot of the transgender stuff is bullshit, but there are some people who are born with both, let's say, some biological confusion. It happens. Sorry for the rant (again) but do NOT start any kind of medical topic with 100% effectiveness. It doesn't exist. And it only plays into the dumbfuck's card of coming up with excuses for not getting the vaccine. 

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  14. Not to criticize anyone in particular here, but give me a fucking break if you're complaining about 3-letter gubmint agencies changing (or vacillating) b/t 5-day or 10-day isolation periods. 

    It's a virus. We have a vaccine. No one knows if 3 days, or 5 days, or 10 days is the optimal isolation period. Don't be a dumb fuck: get all (ALL) your shots (includes flu vaccine), be smart, wear a mask if you're unsure. If your take on all this is "the gotdamned feds don't know what they are talking about b/c last week it was 10 days and now it's 5 days then fuck you. 

    sorry for the rant

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  15. 11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    A Republican was minding his own business when a pandemic struck. He started praying to God for help.

    Soon, a neighbor came by and said "here, I have some extra masks"

    The Republican shouted back "No, it's OK, I'm owning the liberals and God will keep me safe"

    So the neighbor went to the next house, and the Republican went about his business and prayed some more.

    Almost a year later, companies started rolling out vaccines, because President Trump had created three vaccines.

    Neighbors, family, and friends contacted the Republican and told him about the vaccines.

    The Republican responded "NO, IT'S OKAY I'M OWNING THE LIBS AND THE VACCINES ARE EXPERIMENTAL AND THEY TRACK YOU AND GOD WILL KEEP ME SAFE" and began praying again.

    In late 2021, President Trump began telling more and more people to take the vaccine that he had created.

    Neighbors, family, and friends contacted the Republican and told him that President Trump is urging people to get vaccines and get the booster.

    The Republican became angry and started yelling "PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN COMPROMISED BY THE DEEP STATE AND CAN NO LONGER BE TRUSTED, HE'S A FRAUD, BUT HAVE FAITH, GOD WILL KEEP ME SAFE!" and he prayed some more.

    Then the Republican got sick and quickly ended up in the hospital.  He was offered Monoclonal antibody treatments.

    The Republican refused and began screaming that " MONOCLONAL TREATMENTS ARE EXPERIMENTAL AND GOD IS GOING TO SAVE ME, AND NO LIBERAL MEDICINE WILL BEFOUL MY HEALTHY BODY!  I JUST NEED IVERMECTIN AND MY INTERNET FRIENDS" although all of that was less of a scream, and more of a quiet wheezing and gasping as he barely had the breath to talk.

    His internet friends showed up and helped get the Republican discharged from the hospital, all the while telling every doctor and nurse they saw to "DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!"

    Within a few hours of being discharged they began giving him apple-flavored Ivermectin, but he died.

    He somehow went to the Gates of Heaven, and he got to discuss things with God, who was standing there rather impatiently, and the man yelled "I HAD FAITH IN YOU, BUT YOU DIDN'T SAVE ME FROM THE CHINA VIRUS, YOU LET ME DIE AND I CAN'T OWN ANY MORE LIBERALS, WHY DID YOU DO THAT, I DID MY OWN RESEARCH?"

    To this God replied, "I sent you masks, I sent you vaccines, I sent that dumbass Trump on tour with Bill O'Reilly and then on Candace Owens's show to tell people like you to get the vaccine and did you really think he wanted to go out and get booed for telling people to get vaccinated, I sent monoclonal treatments in case you got sick, what more did you expect?"

     

    Lol. More likely he went to Hell and Satan said "good work, dumbass".

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