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Israel
āLook, 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).
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
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 itās not like kids beg for the stuff. You go, you oooh and ahh over the special effects, you leave. Itās not like Cameron canāt do this: Titanic, Alien, Terminatorā huge lasting cultural impact. But Avatar remains basically a massive SFX showpiece that doesnāt 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.
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Looksmaxxing: Body Dysmorphia For Men! Now Featuring Meth, Smashing One's Own Face With A Hammer, and Intentionally Driving Your Cybertruck Over Another Person
Me, geeked up on meth and getting arrested after running over a pedestrian: āWeāre just looksmaxxing, officer.ā
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
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. Iām happy with the Frigidaire we have. Interior plastics even on high-end models now are mostly shit.
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comedy is in a weird place right now
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 itās 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 youāre a funny person telling jokes. We really donāt want to know you, we want to enjoy the character you play. All the performing arts are like this. I donāt want a podcast on YoYoMaās theories of practice or hours of him just jawboning with musicians. Itās mildly interesting to know that Daniel Day Lewis is a madman method actorā at most thatās 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.
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One Battle After Another, the next Paul Thomas Anderson film
They are both terrible people and a big part of the movie is that Bob/Pat is Charlene/Williaās real family because the other two actively harm her. āPussy 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 ādo 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 itās bad even in the warped ethics of the French 75), she cares more about chaos than her ācause.ā And when she is down she rats on her group and runs awayā again causing danger to Charlene and Bob instead of, for example, making their safety a condition of her ratting. Her name means treachery, you arenāt supposed to like her. As I mentioned, this isnt a nuanced film in a lot of ways.
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NCAA Hoops 2025-26
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.
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Shit I've Cooked Lately
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Yeah, jokes aside I agree here. This is an admission that the program will need a factory reset. Wittingham wonāt be the guy to win an NC, but he can be the guy to go to the CFP and make UM a desirable destination.- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Someone gotta find his Finsta.- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Would have been a great hire in 2015.- Uniform Pron
Minnesota vs New Mexico will be color vs color. I love everything about this except the giant gopher.- Christopher Nolan's next film, The Odyssey
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:- Christopher Nolan's next film, The Odyssey
The penteconters slap.- Slutcon (Apropos of Incels, White Male Millennials, Gen Z Nihilism, #MeToo, and Declining Birth Rates)
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. Itās notable they donāt 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 theyād 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 āincelsā in college and high schoolā no one was trying to make money off them and they didnāt 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. Itās 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 classmateās bikini photos via nuanced pictograms and what that does to everyoneās mental health.- Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
The difference between being the Michigan HC and just a guy in your 40s is that you can leave fire emojis on that OF modelās Insta stories and sometimes she will respond.- Slutcon (Apropos of Incels, White Male Millennials, Gen Z Nihilism, #MeToo, and Declining Birth Rates)
Thatās an announcement you make at the altar call.- Slutcon (Apropos of Incels, White Male Millennials, Gen Z Nihilism, #MeToo, and Declining Birth Rates)
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 donāt think youād ever want to fuck, and donāt act like you want to fuck her. Donāt even think about it. - Maybe youāll make a friend. Awesome! She will also likely help you meet more women. Use your new social skills there. - Maybe she wonāt want to get to know you. Maybe she wonāt like being around you. Maybe your problem is just āpeople.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 wonāt happen but it could. But donāt try to make it happen. If you do that youāre doing it wrong! Back to step oneā 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 āfriend zone.ā Are you a bad or cruel person? Is it your fault that she couldnāt accept what you felt and were offering? No? Many life lessons to ponder here.- Slutcon (Apropos of Incels, White Male Millennials, Gen Z Nihilism, #MeToo, and Declining Birth Rates)
I mostly agree with this but for the incels and weirdos who go to Slutcon I think it still wonāt work and theyāll 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 donāt 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 isnāt interested, and then show up next Sunday and be polite and genuinely friendly, and demonstrate that maybe youāre OK for some other church girl even if the first didnāt work out. - Making friends with a church girl THEY are not interested in or evenāgaspā with another man there so they can practice doing things like ātalking to peopleā or ācompromising on an activityā or āgrabbing a burger just to hang out. These guys are FRIED man. They canāt interact with women without either explicitly trying to fuck them, getting angry that they donāt want to fuck, or treating them like non-entities because they arenāt fuckable. They donāt make friends, they just look for other dudes who validate their women hate. They donāt have normal or non-off putting interests and canāt pretend they do. A lot of these skills they canāt or donāt want to learn and they didnāt learn them in youth group or wherever. My folks are in leadership in a church and have talked to me about 1-2 burnoutsā 18-20 with no job or prospectsā who actually where part of the church with their families. They failed to develop and theyāve had to be talked to (and their parents) about how church is for everyone, and that means these dudes canāt creep on girls and act wounded when girls donāt reciprocate.- Christopher Nolan's next film, The Odyssey
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 isnāt a ārealā 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 didnāt 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 shouldnāt be in a fucking Viking longship.- Christopher Nolan's next film, The Odyssey
Maybe itās part of the expanded Nolan Universe and we are looking at Bruce Wayne being incepted or Teneted or Interstellared into ancient Mycenae and heās also Agamemnon. Or Bruce Wayne was Agamemnon all along.- Trumpās America
- Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
- The Democratic Party
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 Iād 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. - Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
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