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  1. Was coming to post. Fantastic stuff. Save the biker shorts.
  2. Trump is an anti-establishment figure, even though he often works in favor of (some parts of) the establishment. That’s partly the genius of the Larry David skit— wearing a MAGA hat is far more off-putting and upsetting to the established order than nose piercings and wild hair. Trump is the person who affirms that you don’t have to eat vegetables or say thank you. For people who spent their youth bucking social norms not because of a deeply held sense of injustice, but because they are oppositional and have difficult relationships with authority (this is most young people who act out or get hyper-involved in causes)— he’s a perfect vessel for frustration.
  3. Extremely surprised to learn that people who spent their youth visibly acting out, showing poor impulse control, and having unhealthy conflicts with authority figures grew up and gravitated towards Donald Trump when they got older. Gonna have to mull over how this happens.
  4. Because regulating things like inheritance, child custody and responsibility, and property division (and modern similar concerns like social security, military benefits, insurance coverage, immigration benefits, medical decisions, etc) is one of the most ancient concerns of social authorities; and having every single person create sets of customizable personal contracts that lawyers and courts must then try to untangle and that will likely be grotesquely inequitable is not at all a tenable solution.
  5. Bernie Sanders 2028! He’d be 87 on Election Day and turn 88 three months after inauguration. Are you fucking kidding me? How about we run Diane Feinstein’s corpse? It’s not just likely it’s more than probable he keels over in office. Also, Sanders is— not a Democrat! He’s not! How’s this for an idea, maybe we don’t have people who aren’t Democrats stop spending primary season convincing the country to not vote for Democrats? Maybe try that? The country has to move past anyone who remembers the 1960s as their youth, it just does. Biggest most selflish and foolish generation we have ever seen and because they are so big they’ve been fucking things up for close to 40 years now.
  6. Opposite of eye candy and today’s Seattle-TB game: Arizona and Tennessee. Especially rage-making when you think about what this would look like as Arizona vs. Houston. These are dog shit all around.
  7. Wyoming’s bucking cowboy is one of the best logos in all of CFB. Perfect for the state, school, colors.
  8. I think there’s honestly a bit too much neurotic overthinking it (Dems! No!). I think the bigger danger is rigged/legal fuckery. MAGA is not governing like there will be another election. A five years younger Joe Biden probably wins in 2024. An unselfish Biden who is comfortable being Cincinnatus and announced early to allow an open primary probably gets a D who can win. Unbelievable personal selfishness and institutional harm there. Trump is historically unpopular. The GOP has won two popular elections since 1988, and one of them required a summer candidate switcheroo. No one behind Trump captures the morons like he does. Find someone who can talk like a normal person who comes off like he (it’s probably a he) likes the United States and then—this is the critical part— resist the urge to shit all over him and ask for stupid tests to make him earn your vote over JD Fuckin’ Vance.
  9. Fantastic uniform matchup.
  10. I’ve talked about this on some other threads and think it’s the model of the future for most schools. No matter what budget you have. There’s a reason most pro teams follow it. Coaches have enough on their plate and can’t play money ball. They also need to outsource the negotiations .
  11. The parity this year is something. I think OSU, Oregon, and Miami are the three top teams but they aren’t juggernauts and I can easily seem them slipping in the CFP. The next ten, put them in a basket and shake them up. Just as good as trying to rank them. I think Alabama is going to be the buzzsaw no one wants at the end of the year. GT likely doesn’t look awesome against non—ACC powers. ND could sneak in if they rack up style points and will also be a tough out.
  12. Every time Reed uncorks it I know it’s overthrown before it’s past the OL. That TD would have sailed if Concepcion wasn’t a crazy good athlete.
  13. Klein may have some brain damage. I will never understand the determination to play out of the shotgun on the 1.
  14. Pat McAfee and Theo Von together are like a singularity of dipshits on my tv.
  15. Use the poles to lift it onto the crate floor, slide them out, then assemble the crate around it. Presumably you’ve tossed a fabric cover on it like the ancient Hebrews did.
  16. The dragons in GoT drive me nuts because the warfare is just “medieval (kind of) but with dragons! In fact they could/should completely change what Daenerys’ armies do. - It took almost no time at all for aerial warfare implementers to realize that they should bomb targets at night. You achieve surprise and you make it incredibly difficult to shoot at you, and the damage is harder to mitigate. In a medieval type environment? No spotlights, no AA beyond bolts that are heavy, require perfect aim, and cannot shoot rapidly. All this daylight air raid stuff is bullshit; Americans did it in WWII to try and achieve precision and that’s irrelevant in this context. - Related, having a long-range strike when your enemy has none and no real defenses changes the game for campaigning. Daenerys uses them like CAS while her army engages on the ground. But dragons are strategic and not tactical. Any army trying to muster and then move at the speed of foot and ox cart is entirely vulnerable to dragon fire. Especially— again— at night when they are in camp. Daenerys needs scouts to find the enemy army and then, when it’s dark, burn them all alive in camp. Her foes here would be reduced to insurgent warfare because assembling any meaningful force in the field would just make them a target. And in fact, this happens when one side of a war has complete air superiority (Afghanistan, Iraq).
  17. Oh fuck yes, straight into my veins. I’m actually encouraged. Things that devolve into full on lunacy cannot hold.
  18. I love these people. I wish they could teach me to be this crazy.
  19. Not really plot holes, just a lack of explanation for the movie going audience. The Bible Lau’s out the rules for how to treat the ark. It can only be carried on the wooden poles, it must not be touched, and it must be covered and not looked at or into. In the Old Testament various people are killed by God via the ark for breaking them. Indy as an archaeologist deeply into antiquities would surely know this. I prefer the “no explanation” version as it’s in keeping with Indy’s respect and knowledge versus the Nazis who are only interested in how to weaponize the ark. WWII submarines were diesel electric and ran on the surface most of the time. More efficient, faster, and more comfortable. It’s 1936 in peacetime. A sub in transit would be at least at snorkel depth unless they did a drill or something. But this one had places to go.
  20. I just think they’re trying to do different things. The Godfather is using the crime setting to really explore themes around family, lower, fate, etc. Like a lot of Scorsese’s best, Goodfellas is about showing you who characters are through actions and not a story. And in this case, they reel you in and charm you and by the end you should feel bad for sympathizing with any of them. Everything they do and say, including the codes they use to justify what they do for themselves, is ultimately just bullshit that hurts them and everyone around them.
  21. Godfather 1 + 2 together stand alone as a saga but Goodfellas is in the same tier of either as a stand-alone. Departed isn’t there with them, or other Scorsese greatness like Raging Bull. I also forgot how selling ultra-high tech microprocessors to the Chinese is the Macguffin for this movie. Yeah, that’s for sure another way for the FBI to end whatever deal they have with you LOL.
  22. There’s a deleted scene that explains why the other potential rat/maybe a cop didn’t out Costigan. Also, the whole thing is showing how gangsters are dumb and paranoid. Costello has moles upon moles and is also an FBI informant. It’s even possible he knows who Costigan is but has decided it’s better to keep an eye on him. The bigger plothole is a high-ranking state trooper overseeing organized crime gets thrown off a building in broad daylight and the FBI doesn’t haul in their local kingpin informant and change the terms of the deal. Even in the height of post 9/11 terrorist hunting, that shit isn’t going to to fly for the FBI, especially if Costello has really only been feeding them bullshit.
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