2piradians 2 days ago • 100%
After Feige owning up to the recent quantity over quality issues, and allowing Deadpool to trash the Multiverse handling, it seems to me AAA has to be good. Hopefully this isn't just wishful thinking
2piradians 4 days ago • 100%
Is there anything to this, or is it just a hail mary?
2piradians 4 days ago • 100%
"Fight like hell"...
...to keep weapons of war in the hands of jackasses
2piradians 4 days ago • 100%
If Garland outlives me I'd like him to be a pallbearer at my funeral so he can let me down one last time.
2piradians 4 days ago • 100%
I had a similar impression she's been keeping a lower profile for awhile. I don't keep up with her apart from headlines, but until last week she'd seemed quieter.
You're probably right, but damn I wish she'd just go back to heckling bartenders.
2piradians 7 days ago • 100%
That bright red poof when the structure collapsed in Multiverse of Madness was her noping the hell out.
2piradians 1 week ago • 100%
Well, she did conjure up a can of whoopass
2piradians 1 week ago • 100%
I don't know how anyone can watch this and not feel Trump is exposed as being nonsensical and vindictive. I feel hopeful that Kamala is changing plenty of undecided minds, though I wish she'd been able to expand more on policy and less on Trump's lies.
2piradians 1 week ago • 100%
Bias due to fact checking Trump or from what?
2piradians 2 weeks ago • 90%
Strike until you blow the doors off the place!
2piradians 2 weeks ago • 100%
After he loses the election and gets sentenced, I hope to never again hear from this scourge.
2piradians 2 weeks ago • 100%
It wouldn't be surprising to hear the influencers knew full well they were being funded by Russia.
Nor would it be surprising to learn they were completely duped since they're into that sort of thing--just like their followers.
2piradians 3 weeks ago • 100%
Good old German engineering!
2piradians 3 weeks ago • 100%
Basically their argument is "we would hate for him to face consequences for his actions from two elections ago because he's, uh well, running for office again".
Fuck all the way off. Time for a spanking, removed boy.
2piradians 3 weeks ago • 100%
Cult 45 and Olde E(gotism)
2piradians 4 weeks ago • 94%
To his credit, Biden adhered to the give/take of ideas with Trump. It's courteous to let the other person speak and I'm sure he thought those watching would clearly see he's the reasonable person in the debate. Since Trump has no such courtesy, he just ran out the clock with nonsense, making Biden look weak/confused rather than reasonable. So they wanted the mics cut. I think they're confident in Harris' ability to put Trump on his ass when he tries with her.
2piradians 4 weeks ago • 100%
Back to the Future on NES. All I remember is a series of pain in the ass mini games having little to nothing to do with the plot. One of them was called "That Sinking Feeling", where Marty apparently had to platform his way out of his own stomach.
And E.T. of course, fuck that game.
2piradians 4 weeks ago • 100%
I struggle with this too. I think it's because it feels so damned nonproductive to not try and figure out how to make things better. Matter of fact, it feels like how I approach people dumping personal problems at work...indifference I suppose. And that's the last thing I want to show someone I care about. So it weighs me down.
I've taken to asking questions from different angles during the venting, and this seems to be my best strategy. Results are mixed.
I've accepted that I can't be one of these "there, there" people because I don't enjoy feeling useless. I care, what's being said matters to me, but I can't be myself in the situation. And that feels bad.
2piradians 4 weeks ago • 87%
Maybe she just wants to stay out of it. I think that's responsible since Meal Team 6/Y'all Qaeda attacking her fans is a real possibility.
2piradians 1 month ago • 100%
People are saying it. They're saying he looks too old, too tired to make the cover of Time magazine. Lots of people are talking about it. Have you heard him speak? I had to shut it off, but people say he kept on and on, rambling. Rambling on and saying weird things, lotta weirdness coming from him.
2piradians 1 month ago • 100%
He doesn't pretend to have anyone's best interest in mind but his own. Why people don't see that, or worse support those aims, is beyond me.
2piradians 2 months ago • 100%
His couch, on the other hand, calls him "weird". And rightly so :/
2piradians 3 months ago • 100%
To hear Russell Crowe tell it, Gladiator 2 may suffer from this
2piradians 3 months ago • 81%
...here's Tom with the weather.
It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom, okay?
2piradians 4 months ago • 100%
I may have an opportunity coming up to work in greater Austin. It's tempting for many reasons, and I like the area, but I don't think I can make it work for exactly that reason...housing prices are sky high.
For me it would mean trading a lot of financial stability for quality of life, or having a commute similar to yours. Living in or near the city is probably still manageable for those who have been there for many years, but I think most newcomers will find housing prohibitively expensive.
2piradians 4 months ago • 97%
Good for her. Now the voters she duped with fearmongering, most of whom haven't gone over the curriculum themselves, probably won't learn that she found nothing. They'll probably credit her for eliminating what was never there.
2piradians 5 months ago • 100%
I'm with you there. SFTD hit a great balance between dark and light. I think Josh needs Nick Oliveri's approach, though I know he had his problems (maybe still?). Musically though, I think they're a case of a whole being greater than the sum of its parts.
2piradians 5 months ago • 80%
"I'm literally dying of thirst. I can only pick from two glasses of water. One is poison and will definitely kill me. The other tastes bad and may give me the runs, but I'll survive."
"I have it! I'll drink neither and wait as others pour the poison water down my throat for me!"
2piradians 5 months ago • 100%
Yeah based on the photos I see, it seems like lots of complicated fuckery goes into all her exposed parts.
2piradians 5 months ago • 100%
It's like the alt-1985 Biff reality came to pass.
Any reasonable person looking at these circumstances say 10, 15, 20 years ago would think 'No, that could never happen. He'd be barred from office, maybe even imprisoned."
And yet, here we are. This timeline, for the US anyway, deserves to be pruned.
2piradians 8 months ago • 8%
A steady stream of people showing up daily with nothing, starting from scratch, is not a crisis to you?
What do we do with those who show up to find all the farm jobs in Idaho and other places are filled? Furthermore, do you condone the treatment refugees receive while working these jobs?
There are certainly racists opposed to letting in refugees, and a lot of them make policy on such things. But minimizing the long term need to assist the ongoing influx of people as purely racism isn't productive. We have no solution for what to do with all of them.
Leaving drugs completely out of discussion, this is a humanitarian crisis. Do you think just opening up the border and letting whatever happens afterward work itself out is the answer?
2piradians 8 months ago • 100%
Dusty Deevers, lmao. I went to elementary school with him for a few years. You don't forget a name like that. Trust me, he comes by the dipshitidness honestly from growing up in that Oklahoma town. It's isolated and simple, and at least 50 years behind the times. I wouldn't call anyone from there wordly.
I was obviously just a kid at the time, but an opportunity came and I noped the hell out.
2piradians 8 months ago • 100%
You'd think corporations would learn from these types of failures. But no, not as long as endless growth is the overall plan. The yes men will keep cutting corners at the expense of safety and quality.
2piradians 8 months ago • 100%
And someone had to put an arrow, furthering the sentiment
2piradians 8 months ago • 90%
Fuck sake Harris, why make fear your message? Republicans and supporters love that. Why give them what they want?
Voters need to hear about resolve. Strength through sanity. Looking past MAGA rather than making it the focus.
2piradians 8 months ago • 100%
They're showing less of the train wreck than before and denying him some of the free coverage to which he feels entitled. The tantrum was inevitable.
2piradians 8 months ago • 100%
They're so eager to turn down anything perceived as coming from Biden that they're speeding their own irrelevance. Many of the kids they're screwing over will remember these things the R cult is doing now. They'll reach voting age, more elderly bigots will die, MAGA will be just a reminder of dark times, and many things will improve.
2piradians 8 months ago • 97%
He should have been arrested, cuffed, and hauled off to be locked up like anyone else.
Instead everyone will continue to coddle him, emboldening his jackass followers as if this course is somehow favorable to consequences.
2piradians 8 months ago • 100%
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIZZAS
2piradians 8 months ago • 100%
Playing it safe will definitely work, but also there's nothing wrong with using your sink disposal properly. Nothing hard or firm like bones or plastic, no coffee grounds, and don't drain fat in the sink.
Former President Donald Trump took the witness stand in a New York courtroom Monday, testifying in a high-stakes $250 million civil fraud case that could lead to the dismantling of his sprawling business empire. Trump was sworn in shortly after the court was called in session and was soon ranting about the lawyer questioning him from state Attorney General Letitia James' office. “You and every other Democrat … coming after me from 15 different sides … all haters,” Trump complained to his questioner, Kevin Wallace. Trump is testifying before state Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron — who he has repeatedly mocked on his social media platform, Truth Social. In recent days, he has posted that Engoron is “crazy, totally unhinged, and dangerous" and a “Trump hating judge” who is a “disgrace to the legal profession.” In one post, he said Engoron "should be thrown off the 'Bench' as a giant Embarrassment to New York State!" Trump wasted little time mixing it up with the judge from the stand as well. After the judge chided him for giving non-responsive answers, Trump said "The judge will rule against me because he will always rule against me." The judge said that comment was not true, and asked Trump to "please answer the question. You can attack me all you want but just answer the question." After more tangents, he told Trump's lawyers "I beseech you to control" him. "This is not a political rally," he said.
His key fund has spent nearly all of the more than $150 million it raised, and is sitting on less than $4 million, according to the latest numbers available. He’s already dug into his fund for 2024 ads, and borrowed money to post bail in Georgia. And some of his allies are begging for donations, saying he won’t pony up.
Allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis outlined a strategy for next week's GOP presidential primary debate in a memo encouraging him to defend former President Donald Trump from attacks by rival Chris Christie and call upstart contender Vivek Ramaswamy "fake." The two-page memo, written by leaders of the pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down, was published to the website of Axiom Strategies and dated Aug. 15. Axiom founder Jeff Roe also leads the pro-DeSantis' super PAC. “Defend Trump when Chris Christie attacks him,” the memo reads, adding a potential line for DeSantis to use on stage in Milwaukee against the former governor of New Jersey: “Trump isn’t here so let’s just leave him alone. He’s too weak to defend himself here. We’re all running against him. I don’t think we want to join forces with someone on this stage who’s auditioning for a show on MSNBC.” On Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old businessman whose long-shot campaign has seen upward movement in the polls in recent weeks, the DeSantis allies write that the Florida governor needs to “take a sledge-hammer” to him, calling him “Fake Vivek” or “Vivek the Fake.” The New York Times was first to report on the memo. Never Back Down did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Twitter, Ramaswamy called the attack plan "boring" and hit "Robot Ron" for "taking lame, pre-programmed attack lines against me for next week’s debate." The document offers an insider's perspective into what DeSantis' boosters believe he needs to accomplish on stage next Wednesday, listing among "four basic must dos" his defense of Trump and attack on Ramaswamy. The memo states two additional overarching goals for DeSantis: Blast President Joe Biden and the press at least three to five times and give a positive vision for the country at least two or three times. It also lists two approaches for when candidates on stage invoke DeSantis' name and he is given a chance to respond, referring to the governor as "GRD." "1. When there is a core attack on GRD’s central candidacy (calling GRD a liberal, hitting veteran record, hitting conservative record), GRD should take the time, correct the record, and highlight the positive/dismiss the attacker if it’s a tier one candidate," it read. "GRD can also pivot to hitting Joe Biden when possible." "2. If it’s not a core attack but GRD’s name is invoked, GRD should take the response opportunity to pivot and take up time," the memo continued. "GRD should ignore the weak attack, not even address it, and instead pivot to message and vision and name check Iowa, New Hampshire, etc. voters directly. 'Iowans/Americans, I’m talking directly to you now….'" The memo offers a window into how DeSantis is planning for the upcoming contest, in which more than a half dozen candidates will battle on stage. Trump has signaled he is unlikely to attend, which would put DeSantis, currently a distant second behind Trump in most polls, at center stage and more likely to take incoming heat from rivals looking to leapfrog him in the race. NBC News was made aware of the document's existence by a person not connected to either the DeSantis campaign or the pro-DeSantis super PAC. It is not uncommon for super PACs to post such memos online, sometimes in hard-to-find places, as a way to get around laws barring coordination between super PACs and political campaigns. While the memo calls on DeSantis to defend Trump from Christie's attacks, it also urges DeSantis to convey himself as the leader best positioned to carry "the torch" of Trumpism forward. "'He was a breath of fresh air and the first president to tell the elite where to shove it," the memo reads, suggesting a potential line for the governor. "'But he was attacked all the time, provoked attacks all the time, and it was non-stop. The drama affected families. Trump’s drama pitted brother against brother, friend against friend. He’s got so many distractions that it’s almost impossible for him to focus on moving the country forward. This election is too important." Interestingly, the memo also implores DeSantis to make mention of a "personal anecdote" or "story about his family, children" and/or his wife, Casey DeSantis, while "showing emotion."
My son is afraid of reporting this to police because many of his friends work there, and he's afraid of retaliation at school for being a "snitch". This is not the first time he's witnessed something very wrong and had to report it, that time to police, and he was targeted at school both physically and just with asshole kids treating him the way they do (while also influencing others). Management made up an excuse and fired my son after it became apparent that he knew about the meth situation and was not ok with it. He does want corporate to know all of this and take action, so we plan to report it to them. Part of the trouble is this: My SO's daughter had a similar situation at another fast food joint, it was reported to corporate, and the response was basically "we can't do anything because that location is a franchise". The problem manager in that instance was promoted soon afterward. I'm not sure if my son's restaurant is corporate owned or franchise. If it's a franchise as I fear, and corporate will take no action, what recourse can we take without police? I'm super pissed my son was exposed to this and I'm concerned for the girl that informed him, not to mention the other employees. This obviously cannot stand, but I also don't want to ruin my son's social life over it. I remember being a high schooler, it's hard enough without being targeted by jerks. EDIT: Thank you for all the replies. I plan to wait awhile to give my son some distance, then contact police. To all who said we live in a broken place, you're right, and if we could move immediately we would. It helps to get outside perspectives on stuff like this, and I appreciate all your replies. Also fuck Spez!
Late to the party, but I really enjoyed Demon 79. I know Black Mirror as an anthology doesn't do follow ups to its episodes, but I wouldn't mind if they made a one-time exception for this one. What if, after crossing over, Nida learns that Gaap had been lying to her about all of it? He'd placed a wager with Satan over ruling earth...if Gaap could get an otherwise good human to murder three people in as many days, Gaap would take over as earth's new demonic ruler while Satan moved to another world. And with a kicker--if he could then get this human to join him in eternity, Gaap would take over all of Hell for the universe. Obviously Gaap had also lied about Chris not counting for Nida's killing spree to make her choice in joining him easy. Satan took the bet. Gaap had previously ruled over a 'boring' world filled with good souls...it was basically untouchable by evil, and Gaap couldn't stand it anymore. Had Gaap failed in the bet Satan would have laid waste to both Gaap and his world of innocents, and he found this idea irresistible. Nida actually triggered the destruction of Earth by fulfilling her kills. Satan had already been close to achieving this himself, he just needed a last push of evil in the form of a demon corrupting a good human to finish the job. Gaap hadn't known Earth would actually be destroyed and was somewhat pissed off when it began to happen. Earth was to be his after all. Nida learns all of this after crossing over, and she's angry and more determined than ever. The demon power she gains allows her to appeal to the Council of Hell, whom she convinces that the entire bet is invalid since Satan destroyed the Earth. Both Gaap and Satan are banished to oblivion, and Nida takes over Gaap's innocent world as a benevolent demon. The more I typed this the sillier it sounded, but for some reason I was compelled!