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- Comment on Vlad Vexler: Trump’s Authoritarian Revolution - for the USA, world & Ukraine 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve enjoyed this guys commentary in the past. Also he’s so… calm and soothing in how he speaks, which is always a nice find in a content creator.
- Comment on Peak performance 3 weeks ago:
I remember when I learned that jeep Windshields fold down not because it’s a cool lifestyle thing, but because it allows you to stack them on top of each other in the holds of liberty ships… didn’t have to worry about roll bars in ww2 I suppose.
- Comment on Peak performance 3 weeks ago:
Bulbasaur has curves, jeep is a series of boxes. So very possibly bulbasaur wins.
- Comment on David Fincher Giving ‘Fight Club’ a 4K Remaster for the Film’s 25th Anniversary 3 weeks ago:
Ah that’s interesting. There’s something about the lighting and color that really ramps up the seedy and grubbiness things, seems crucial to the movie.
- Comment on David Fincher Giving ‘Fight Club’ a 4K Remaster for the Film’s 25th Anniversary 3 weeks ago:
I hope he doesn’t drastically fuck with the color grading. He has a distinctive look he does since digital everything, and it’s fine, but Fight Club uses it to highlight the anodyne normal life parts, and then has a more organic and vibrant palette for the Tyler durden side.
- Comment on David Fincher Giving ‘Fight Club’ a 4K Remaster for the Film’s 25th Anniversary 3 weeks ago:
Man I’d like that so much. Nothing else has come close to Silence of the Lambs vibes like that show does.
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 4 weeks ago:
Well said-I feel the same.
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 4 weeks ago:
I mean the real comparison is just: did she get enough votes, in states that Clinton lost, where if those people had all voted for Clinton, then Clinton would have won that state. I don’t know the answer, but even if the numbers did cover the margin, I think saying Stein is therefore a spoiler is problematic for a few reasons:
- It ignores the very real number of voters who chose not to vote democratic or vote at all simply because of Clinton as candidate.
- it ignores massive mistakes made by a hubristic campaign that couldn’t fathom losing to trump.
- it supposes that people that voted green, would have gritted their teeth and instead voted Clinton, which is not a safe assumption.
Regarding OP’s argument: if Stein is a spoiler, than the libertarians are also spoilers. Since her being a spoiler assumes a majority of her votes would have gone democratic, we can take the same liberty and assume the libertarians would have instead opted for trump. If they had larger vote numbers than the Green Party got, as OP is saying above, then they cancel out greens spoiler-ness, and in fact represent a slight spoiler in favor of the democrats. I don’t really buy this read for the reasons I mentioned above, but OP’s point still kinda stands.
I’m not personally interested in voting for stein, I’ve heard enough weird stuff about her over the years that I’m not comfortable with her as a candidate. But I don’t buy the constant messaging that “third party votes are wasted votes”. My assumption with people that post these things is that they’re not suggesting it’s OK to not vote. And assumably, they also don’t want you to vote, but vote for the opposition. So it’s just the same old thing: vote the way I want you to.
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 3 months ago:
This is what peak performance looks like.
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 3 months ago:
Yeah I like the spirit, but BMI is such a stupid and flawed measure. It’s ok as like a population level heuristic to say things are trending one way or another, but like athletes that have lots of muscle and are tall look the same as morbidly obese people to BMI, which is obviously silly.
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 3 months ago:
Hahaha
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 3 months ago:
It reminds me of an interview I saw with Alan Richardson (?), the guy playing reacher on the Amazon series. It was in support of the new season, but basically the conversation revolved around how exhausting it was to maintain the required physique for the role, and how it meant he couldn’t do some of the things he normally enjoyed—he was too heavy to run without impact injury, and flexibility and reach was an issue.
I’d imagine transitioning between these physiques can probably be challenging and taxing on the body as well.
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 3 months ago:
Ugh so annoying. So like both in movies and body building, what they’re selling is actually not a healthy or strong physique—but someone who could be on the verge of organ failure.
I like the idea of fitness, and being in functionally good shape, so this sort of exaggeration is something I find uniquely distasteful—portraying a a goal state that is actually just a grift/scam, and that is dangerous to partake in.
- Comment on On Bears 3 months ago:
Gotcha so the idea is they’re just gonna give it a shot and try to eat you, regardless, because the stakes, they are high?
To be fair, in a moral sense, they should absolutely try and eat every human they can get their claws on; we have done a bang up job on making their habitat and food sources disappear.
- Comment on On Bears 3 months ago:
So are polar bears considered more dangerous and aggro than grizzlies? I mean it wouldn’t be too crazy, particularly since it’s probably rare to encounter one, compare to grizzlies. But just had never really heard that.
- Comment on Why is it so easy to avoid nettles as an adult? 3 months ago:
This is it, I’m pretty sure. I had plenty of brushes with nettles as a kid, but I’m not super aware of them to be able to avoid them as an adult. However I spend less time in high grass and forests, since I need to be present in the spreadsheet factory, and when I do make it into the wild, I usually wear pants and the like to avoid scratches, ticks and poison ivy; so less likely to get nettles.
Side note: we bought some nettles from a local farm last year and made a couple dishes with them. Pretty tasty, if you already like tho ha like spinach or mustard greens (think saag paneer)
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 months ago:
Hahaha came here to say: this is some serious warhammer shit
- Comment on Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog 6 months ago:
“It’d be a real shame if something happened to your work file. If you pay us monthly, we can make sure your work is protected”