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  1. ā€œLook, the dumbest and most racist person ever elected to Congress shares my thoughts on Israelā€ should prompt more introspection. (Side note, the Gaza plan which is just vaporware and terrible grift does not involve money to Israel).
  2. I am trying to think of a massive, record breaking property like Avatar that has less cultural impact. I cannot recall the names of any characters without thinking hard. No memorable dialogue. No musical earbugs. No real attempts to capitalize off of Avatar mania. No gifs or catchphrases or touchstone characters. I assume there are toys but it’s not like kids beg for the stuff. You go, you oooh and ahh over the special effects, you leave. It’s not like Cameron can’t do this: Titanic, Alien, Terminator— huge lasting cultural impact. But Avatar remains basically a massive SFX showpiece that doesn’t resonate beyond that. The only real impact I can think of is the SNL Papyrus sketch which is ironically about Avatar being bland and generic.
  3. Me, geeked up on meth and getting arrested after running over a pedestrian: ā€œWe’re just looksmaxxing, officer.ā€
  4. Mid-range is likely the worst place to shop for fridges and appliances. Appliance guys I talk to say the same thing: Whirlpool or Frigidaire, no ice-maker or dispenser, top freezer. Simplest and will run for as long as the compressor will. I’m happy with the Frigidaire we have. Interior plastics even on high-end models now are mostly shit.
  5. Comedy is awful in large part because comics crawled up their own asses and began performing for each other and putting out endless meta content about themselves and their philosophy of comedy instead of just telling jokes and being funny. It was always clear that it’s harder than it looks and that comics are mostly self-loathing and nasty and back-biting. And that they have rivalries and beefs. All that stuff is supposed to be behind the scenes. For the audience there should just be jokes. Let us believe you’re a funny person telling jokes. We really don’t want to know you, we want to enjoy the character you play. All the performing arts are like this. I don’t want a podcast on YoYoMa’s theories of practice or hours of him just jawboning with musicians. It’s mildly interesting to know that Daniel Day Lewis is a madman method actor— at most that’s a few magazine profiles. I just want to watch him chew the scenery as Bill the Butcher. Also their feuds and beefs are boring and stupid and no one wants to hear it. Hollywood gossip is vaguely fun because beautiful people sleeping with each other is inherently fascinating. Funny men griping about their problems with other funny men is anti-comedy.
  6. They are both terrible people and a big part of the movie is that Bob/Pat is Charlene/Willia’s real family because the other two actively harm her. ā€œPussy is for war, the guns is the funā€ is her credo. Most people look at that in the frame of her imbalanced but quasi-consensual involvement with Lockjaw, but it applies to her treatment of Pat. We first see her having sex with him after seeing his explosives expertise and asking him ā€œdo you like black girls?ā€ After a confirmed yes, she has sex with him but abandons him after he asks her to stop shooting shit and settle down and take care of their daughter. She was using him all along to keep him around blowing stuff up for the French 75 and once he was done, he was no longer instrumentally useful. Neither he or her daughter mean anything and she dumped them when needed. She drinks while pregnant, murders an innocent man (who is black so it’s bad even in the warped ethics of the French 75), she cares more about chaos than her ā€œcause.ā€ And when she is down she rats on her group and runs away— again causing danger to Charlene and Bob instead of, for example, making their safety a condition of her ratting. Her name means treachery, you aren’t supposed to like her. As I mentioned, this isnt a nuanced film in a lot of ways.
  7. Now just getting actual NBA players to come play midseason. This was totally worth just letting the kids do a local car commercial. He scored points this weekend for the Bulls.
  8. Christmas leg of lamb.
  9. Yeah, jokes aside I agree here. This is an admission that the program will need a factory reset. Wittingham won’t be the guy to win an NC, but he can be the guy to go to the CFP and make UM a desirable destination.
  10. Minnesota vs New Mexico will be color vs color. I love everything about this except the giant gopher.
  11. He summons the dead, because Circe explained that he had to ask the shade of a dead prophet for answers about what to do to get home. He has to sail to the edge of the known world and perform a ritual. Honestly a pretty great summary of the story:
  12. Not having friends is a major issue and it would be fascinating to see the make friendship rate for Slutcon attendees. A big issue is men who expect a prospective partner to fill every social, emotional, and sexual need they have. It’s notable they don’t have a philosophy to blame men for a lack of friends. These people have existed. If you recall Columbine, the shooters targeted pretty girls and the boys they liked. In this decade they’d be called incels. I do think the online world allowed them to seek out others like them, take shelter from the reality of their behavior, and even create a monetized ecosystem targeting them. We all knew a few ā€œincelsā€ in college and high school— no one was trying to make money off them and they didn’t have a huge community of people validating their frustrations. We need to consider the impact on women and girls, too. It is no longer one weirdo classmate leering or making inappropriate comments on her body, or developing an unreciprocated crush. It’s a stream of inappropriate, awkward, unwanted sexual advances from guys who are fed a stream of OF girls by the algos. A dating app is designed to deliver low-effort shock flirting or creepy advances that and I believe it creates a really distorted view of what most men are like. A topic for another thread is the impact of platforms that encourage teenagers to express their opinions of a classmate’s bikini photos via nuanced pictograms and what that does to everyone’s mental health.
  13. The difference between being the Michigan HC and just a guy in your 40s is that you can leave fire emojis on that OF model’s Insta stories and sometimes she will respond.
  14. Anyway, better advice than Slutcon is: try to become an acquaintance or friend of a woman you are not sexually attracted to. Go in with the intention of getting to know a woman you don’t think you’d ever want to fuck, and don’t act like you want to fuck her. Don’t even think about it. - Maybe you’ll make a friend. Awesome! She will also likely help you meet more women. Use your new social skills there. - Maybe she won’t want to get to know you. Maybe she won’t like being around you. Maybe your problem is just ā€œpeople.ā€ Time to reassess. Tweak your game. Try again champ! - Maybe this is a meet cute and over time you will fall for each other. This won’t happen but it could. But don’t try to make it happen. If you do that you’re doing it wrong! Back to step one— DO NOT TRY TO SLEEP WITH HER. - Maybe she will mistake friendly interest for romantic interest and you will need to grapple with that. Look at you- putting someone in the ā€œfriend zone.ā€ Are you a bad or cruel person? Is it your fault that she couldn’t accept what you felt and were offering? No? Many life lessons to ponder here.
  15. I mostly agree with this but for the incels and weirdos who go to Slutcon I think it still won’t work and they’ll need training wheels. Church is for sure a place where a slightly inexperienced, or dorky awkward guy can meet women with a support network of people cheering for them. Works well for our generation. I don’t think we appreciate how nuked this generation of weirdos are. They are not going to be able to: - Politely feign interest in the sermon or Bible study she wants to talk or ask about - Spend a few minutes jawboning with the dads there about a game or camping or how business is going - Slap on a pair of khakis and a button-down and get a haircut that looks like the married men there (signaling that they are in the mix for that future). - Get acquainted with a church girl, accept that this particular church girl isn’t interested, and then show up next Sunday and be polite and genuinely friendly, and demonstrate that maybe you’re OK for some other church girl even if the first didn’t work out. - Making friends with a church girl THEY are not interested in or even—gasp— with another man there so they can practice doing things like ā€œtalking to peopleā€ or ā€œcompromising on an activityā€ or ā€œgrabbing a burger just to hang out. These guys are FRIED man. They can’t interact with women without either explicitly trying to fuck them, getting angry that they don’t want to fuck, or treating them like non-entities because they aren’t fuckable. They don’t make friends, they just look for other dudes who validate their women hate. They don’t have normal or non-off putting interests and can’t pretend they do. A lot of these skills they can’t or don’t want to learn and they didn’t learn them in youth group or wherever. My folks are in leadership in a church and have talked to me about 1-2 burnouts— 18-20 with no job or prospects— who actually where part of the church with their families. They failed to develop and they’ve had to be talked to (and their parents) about how church is for everyone, and that means these dudes can’t creep on girls and act wounded when girls don’t reciprocate.
  16. The Odyssey is just much more fun- sex, monsters, shipwrecks, swashbuckling, and a big final shootout. The Iliad is brooding, deep, and a bunch of dudes being their worse selves because they have been stuck on a shitty beach they never wanted to go to anyway. I love the Odyssey, it is a foundational story and basically all incredible journey/hero trying to go home stories are just covers. I want to know how Nolan treats Odysseus. The Greeks treat him as the most Greek of all heroes, admiring his cleverness and resourceful pragmatism. The Romans felt like he was a tricky, deceitful asshole who bucked their stodgy, do a simple job well attitude. Dante and Shakespeare agreed and the former put him in Hell for being a real dick. There isn’t a ā€œrealā€ Odysseus, every Western generation creates its own, and I expect Nolan will give us a brooding post-modern guy with lots of inner torment (the Greeks didn’t seem to think he should be bothered by being a selfish prick, and the Gods appeared to come around to the view that he was just smart enough you had to tip your hat). But he shouldn’t be in a fucking Viking longship.
  17. Maybe it’s part of the expanded Nolan Universe and we are looking at Bruce Wayne being incepted or Teneted or Interstellared into ancient Mycenae and he’s also Agamemnon. Or Bruce Wayne was Agamemnon all along.
  18. Shot (do you want to get married?): Chaser:
  19. One of the interesting phenomena (albeit predictable) associated with rapid demographic shift in Britain is that the center-left party is now home to more voters who individually disapprove of gay people than the far-right party. Trans is not a part of this, but I’d expect similar ratios. It will be interesting to see where/whether gay rights moves or lands. US demographic shifts are a different mix. Although there are isolated pockets where this tracks, like in locales in Michigan where Democratic Muslim leaders have taken majorities and banned pride flags on public property for display.
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