Such an ignorant, lazy take.
How the heck are they complaining about biden's take on immigration when he increased the border control budget so much despite Republican protests against border control?
What happened is the opposite of what this article is talking about.
"Biden's weak policies and incoherent responses during the debate may give us another four years of Trump"
No, the election May give us another 4 years of trump.
It's an election.
Biden has very strong immigration policies, this article doesn't know what it's talking about.
Hahahaha, Those are real out loud in the world has.
I identified with this statement.
I'm so happy for you.
Holy cow a twofer.
Also absolutely amazing.
Where the heck did you find these?
You're mistaking consequences for unilateral penalties absent of due process.
He's facing a whole ton of consequences, like 500 million of them.
I blocked them a while ago, lemmy seems more open without the clutter.
Who's bones of the Moon though?
Dang it, he just posted an awesome video that I love.
Well...probation it is.
Thanks, good to hear from a local.
You mean they're getting airtime to voice their views?
Which fascist views are being adopted?
And you don't believe in the law of accelerating returns, or you just don't like that the list so clearly lays out how his predictions are correct?
Thank you, that is a great point.
That's cool that he changed his name to Dominic for the article.
No, I don't, but I understand how pretending I said something I didn't supports your false rebuttals.
Oh, a curated list with the intent to slander?
Here's a more complete and correct list showing that his predictions are correct 86% of the time.
https://bigthink.com/articles/why-ray-kurzweils-predictions-are-right-86-of-the-time/
Sure, learn to chew your food or it'll go down the wrong pipe.
That's just the same ignorant technicality that only applies to a couple items on the list.
You're agreeing with me on both points.
- Yes, sometimes his predictions were not entirely accurate to the specific year.
Despite the straw man, no one argued that he predicted everything in 2009.
- Yes, he had a bunch of accurate predictions.
I'm good.
You aren't pointing out mistakes, you're fumbling technicalities on a limited number of points because you can't find anything substantive wrong with his predictions.
I'm a fan
This one guy invented "the laff box", a fairly complex machine with a wide variety of laughs that you could put together however you wanted to, and it was so successful in getting the audience to laugh that every show used it.
And that one guy would often be the only one who knew how to operate it, and could basically play a piano of laughs to suit the mood or whatever for any tv show.
It's a pretty great story if you're interested
Super fun.
It says it's by fleur, but then the song info says it's performed by the kryng?
Is that the studio band and just she is fleur?
I've spoken to a few single issue voters.
They might identify with the conservatives as a group, but they are definitely voting Republican for a single issue.
One lady was abortion, and three off the top of my head were guns.
I wholeheartedly agree and have been ranting about lobbying and term limits for ppfffff I literally don't even know how long now.
Lobbying is absolutely insanity.
Term limits, age limits, like you can kind of see why those bad decisions had been made in the first place and need to be rectified, but lobbying is just insanity.
A lot of advertising in the states is crazy.
Like did you know that there's only two countries in the world that can advertise prescription medicine, and one of them is the United States?
The other is strangely New Zealand.
Marketing medicine is bonkers, like absolutely bonkers.
What's your favorite fun t-shirt?
I have one from a band called Massie that says "you work hard, I'll be sexy".
Makes me laugh every time.
I also have a t-shirt with a purple teddy bear under a paragraph of text telling a nihilist horror story in broken english about that teddy bear as if he were a real person.
Both winners.
I think this is hilarious, but I don't have Instagram so I can't look at the hi-res version of this picture. can someone reply with the hi-res picture? thanks!
It's here:
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Flookaside.instagram.com%2Fseo%2Fgoogle_widget%2Fcrawler%2F%3Fmedia_id%3D3315223092475838181&tbnid=ePm-IWvBiHwkZM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fbenbeirreuge%2Fp%2FC4CCde-M_tB%2F&docid=h-1N1e03nty40M&w=1440&h=1800&hl=en-US&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F4&kgs=071a5391bbb01dd6&shem=abme%2Ctrie
Mulling Over Morphs #41 - The Familiar
I owned most of these books and this was one of the ones I reread the most because of how poetic so many difficult personal struggles and fears are faced and worked through so rapid fire, it's pretty overwhelming without being trite.
This book ends perfectly,
Title
the simple act of asking Cassie if she was okay when he didn't ask her like he should have the day before.
The singing, dancing, the colors, I cannot more heartily recommend any song or music video - Lido Pimienta - ESO Que TU Haces
This is one of my favorite songs and videos.
Mulling Over Morphs #40 - The Other
I cannot remember the first time I read this series, but I can't imagine thinking anything other than "ah, The power of friendship!"
Which upon this reread is hilarious given how clearly the authors wanted to portray a gay couple in 2000, which wasn't done often in a series fronted by a major publisher.
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This time, I was like "oh right, the andalites living together, and then I was inundated with the hunts of gardening, super fitness, pink furniture, shunned by society, debilitating incurable illness, cared for by "best friend", androgynes, and especially the poetic language of how the became friends, they were both pilots and their wings tangled together and they crashed to the ground together.
Pretty awesome that when so other few authors were willing to have gay characters, especially in a young adults series, ka and grant went full bore and even named this title "the other".
I always thought the "Marco" being bi what sort of and unsupported gimme afterthought, but they already had an unmistakably gay couple having badass adventures.
I wonder if they made them both pilots because of top gun?
And this title is not merely a showcase of queer culture, the story is as developed and well told as any of the other books, and of course more so than some of them.
I find the thought-speak across great distances very interesting, how visser 3 doesn't want anything to do with either of them because of andalite culture treating difference as an embarrassment, and also how ax is very openly hostile toward both of them.
It's another good book!
Mulling Over Morphs # 39 - The Hidden
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It is very creepy when the ant begins turning Cassie, but it's downright horrifying when the Buffalo begins to learn how to speak while it's morphed into chapman.
That is so yikes that it makes perfect sense. They have to fry him at the end.
Yikes.
They really get at some horror here.
Litecanthropy
Credit to "no banana" for the image and Hobbes_Dent for the title.
Zero credit to me for doomscroll.
Mulling Over Morphs #38 - The Arrival
Ax gets a big ol' crush on
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A genocidal sort of asshole.
Still, the heart wants what it wants.
This is a great book, testing ax's loyalty again.
A very good example of people insisting they're doing some necessary thing for the greater good by becoming the thing they're fighting against.
The characters and their Dynamics were very interesting in this book, non-stop action.
Superorganism - Something For Your M.I.N.D.
And the tiny desk concert after you watch this video and you're like oh my God they're f****** amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K49QKVR0p0
Mulling Over Morphs #37 - The Weakness
I remember this book because as soon as you realize that Jake is gone, you're like oh shit.
Wow! This book is really good, dealing with leadership and Marco's criticisms and how poorly Rachel deals with the leadership she thought she wanted,
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and then the absolutely batshit insane plan at the end that foreshadows Rachel's final act.
I also never understood why the garatron looks so much like an andalite.
Are they just like hey isn't evolution weird? This one thing looks like another thing but they're not the same thing.
I don't get why that was so important.
Also, I was so glad that Jake spoke with Rachel shortly at the end of the book. Perfect ending.
I found an unsettling picture of Cassie mid morph
Since I learned the word estreen, the andalite word for an extremely talented morpher, I searched for fanart based on that and found some interesting stuff.
Beautifully colored, is this oil painting?
Artist is artbyLars
Cassie showing off her skills to Tobias and Rachel
Update: Estreen! That's the word. Found it!
An exceptionally talented morpher is an estreen! I knew there was a word for it.
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I can't find the word.
Isn't there a specific andalite word for how good Cassie is at morphing?
Artist - iara catunda
hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?
I feel like that game literally changed my life in the 2 hours or whatever it took me to play it.
That game is so beautiful. It made me a better person.
I was absolutely entranced.
I'm watching due date 2010 for the first time, Jamie Foxx refers to galiafanakis as "debarge", does anyone know why? The musical group? is it his perm?
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21123242
> Thanks. it's fine if nobody knows the answer to this or has not seen the movie, it's not a very good movie.
I'm watching due date 2010 for the first time, Jamie Foxx refers to galiafanakis as "debarge", does anyone know why? The musical group? is it his perm?
Thanks. it's fine if nobody knows the answer to this or has not seen the movie, it's not a very good movie.
Mulling Over Morphs #36 - The Mutation
Yikes, I only remembered one scene from this book, and somehow managed to forget
Title
The Atlanteans slicing open living humans and aliens to harvest their organs in the blood and sowing them back up into mummies.
Pretty hardcore.
And there's some cute Tobias Rachel back and forth.
Man, I wanna morph an orca.
Mulling Over Morphs #35 - The Proposal
Tons of good quotes in this one.
I like that inside cover too, how they can't actually show the guy
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strangling a dog,
even though of course it's described in great detail in the book.
Ax is so funny as a human. When he finds out that Marco's dad is dating, and ax's been getting used to TV, he says <Ah. Perhaps your father is Young and Restless. Those who are Young and Restless frequently change mates.>
Love it.
You know what else is interesting, that both sides in this war look like humans, they look like anybody else, even though both sides can turn into murderers at the drop of a hat. Sure. The aliens look like humans, but the child soldiers who change into animals all the time and kill people also look harmless most of the time.
And Jake has a great line about how they're all different and they have to deal with their trauma in their own way.
And also Jake said I love you to Cassie! Wooo!
Marco has this great quote:
"Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that's tough."
I am definitely an unlikely optimist, I wonder if this book had any part to play in that particular personality development.