barneypiccolo
@barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
- Comment on Please, guys. Call the staff. 4 days ago:
How you doin’?
- Comment on Dick Van Dyke Wants to Make Cameo on 'A Man on the Inside' with Ted Danson 4 days ago:
Great show. Better start shooting season 2 right away!
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 5 days ago:
Biden was a couple of rows behind him, and I was really hoping he’d reach forward and flick HitlerPig’s ear and then sit up straight and look innocent.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 5 days ago:
Ever hear people say they don’t trust atheists because without God, they have no moral compass?
Well, I don’t trust people whose only reason to not rape, pillage, and plunder is because they believe in a fairy tale that says they’ll burn in Hell if they submit to their dark fantasies. That’s a person who is inherently bad, but resisting it, and ine day, they may stop resisting. I prefer people who are inherently good, and dont need fear motivation to behave properly in society.
- Comment on Minecraft confuses me 1 week ago:
Hey! Get those cows out of your brother’s Minehouse, okay buddy? And tell your brother you’re sorry! And don’t do it again! Leave your brother’s Minehouse alone, got it?
Yeah, Minecraft, whatever, just knock it off.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I help my elderly parents fill out their mail-in ballots, but they are always sitting with me, and I read off each vote, and we discuss it, and I check it off for them. If any of us don’t understand something (like the issues and judge votes), I Google it and we figure it out.
We dont always agree, but I always out down the vote they want, because I have ethics, and respect the voting process.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If he is filling out her mail-in ballot, then when she signs it, it should indicate that she’s voting with her own free will, under penalty of perjury and ballot fraud.
Later, if it’s determined that he coerced her into signing a ballot that he filled out, he can be charged with fraud, and she can be charged with perjury.
And then prosecute every single instance of it. The real problem in America is that too many people think that everything is legal unless they arrest you for it. It is the core philosophy of MAGA.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah he’s making great progress on 10 years of working on the greatest, most perfect health care plan of all time. Last I heard, he actually had progressed to having “concepts of a plan.”
From what I understand, according to an ex-congressman Alan Grayson, the concept of the Republican health care plan is:
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Don’t get sick
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If you get sick, die quickly.
The hang up now is working on ways to make #2 more efficient.
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- Comment on At last we know all his answers 1 week ago:
She’s a beard. He’s really Peter Theil’s fuckboy, and everybody knows it, but they pretend they don’t, so nobody wants to ask too many questions.
- Comment on Six Men Are Charged After Woman Was Dragged From Idaho Town Hall 1 week ago:
In Idaho? The crowd probably kicked her as the goons dragged her by.
- Comment on Sagan, you look high. 1 week ago:
I keep hearing that it’s supposed to be much stronger these days, but my experience is just the opposite.
I was a heavy weed smoker in my young years, smoking standard generic pressbud, and it got me nicely stoned. I even had a couple of years where I was growing my own, so I’m very experienced with fresh homegrown weed, which was beautiful. Tasted great, with a very satisfying intense high. Then I quit smoking for a few decades.
I recently started smoking again in my retirement, and was looking forward to trying this stronger weed I was hearing about. I’ve tried legal weed from various states, and none of it gets me nearly as stoned as the cheap pressbud of my youth.
This is just anecdotal, but that’s been my experience.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 week ago:
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 week ago:
I’m not wrong, it’s on their website:
At Uber, it’s our mission to reimagine the way the world moves for the better—and it’s clear that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will play a part in our future. With that in mind, we have been building Uber for the road ahead.
Then they go onto describe how they are going to use driverless vehicles for personal mobility, delivery, and freight.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 week ago:
Uber’s true business model isn’t in place yet. Eventually, all cars will be self-driving, and they can ditch the drivers. The ultimate objective is to replace personal car ownership with a driving service.
Once they don’t have to pay drivers, and they have monthly fees coming in from millions of subscribers, they’ll clean up.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 week ago:
I found out in my senior year, that my campus had been plagued by a serial rapist for several years, going back to before i was a freshman, and the school had covered it up. I only found out about it when i learned that my roommate’s girlfriend had a sorority sister on a full-ride scholarship to keep her quiet about being raped in her freshman year.
Suddenly, the pressure to use their chaperone service became clear.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 week ago:
And some men pay hookers “just to talk.” Sure they do.
- Comment on Favorite B-Movies? 1 week ago:
Babylon was a massive bomb, and i dont understand why. I think it’s a masterpiece.
Pig was another underappreciated masterpiece. When Nic Cage did his AMA on Reddit (one of the best ever), he said it was one of the acting jobs that he’s most proud of. He deserved an Oscar for it, but wasn’t even nominated. The screenplay, too.
- Comment on Favorite B-Movies? 1 week ago:
Buckaroo Banzai is one of my all-time favorites. It is the quintessential New Wave film, featuring John Lithgow’s most unhinged performance - “Laugh while you can, monkey boy!”
Also “No matter where you go, there you are.”
- Comment on Hear The Good News 1 week ago:
He went into the bank and started flipping tables, so he got the death penalty.
- Comment on I will not go quietly 1 week ago:
Eat the note while making eye contact with the manager, and then ask for more of those tasty notes because you haven’t had all of them that you can eat.
- Comment on Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Deal ‘Could End the Studio System’ 2 weeks ago:
My worry is that these rights reversion deals are going to the top tier film-makers for their top-tier films. In 25 years they’ll revert to the film-maker, and who knows what will happen to them?
What if the director has died? Now the film is in the hands of the estate, who might not know what to do with it, or even care. Some will handle it properly, others wont. Some will be greedy, some may be ashamed of it, some will neglect it, etc.
It’s inevitable that some of these classics will become innaccessible, and even lost.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 weeks ago:
Ok, maybe not all, but the countries we tend to equate ourselves with recognize it.
How many countries isn’t the point, anyway. It’s in the Constitution, in any case.
- Comment on welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now 2 weeks ago:
Back in 2004/5 there was nobody to speak with. It was all by email, and the only response was just a form letter.
And no, there was no place else to go, I just stopped doing that business, and started an entirely different, off line, business.
- Comment on welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now 2 weeks ago:
Years ago I tried to make a living on eBay, making up to $5K a month with an eBay store. The only problem was that they would randomly shut me down for a few days, a week, even a month, with little to no information as to why. Whenever there was information, it simply wasn’t true. There was nobody to appeal to, and any contact was met with a canned email.
Worse, they didn’t just suspend my store, they would delete it entirely, so when the suspension ended, I would have to rebuild my entire store from scratch (over 200 different items). To compound the issue, any transactions that were processing at the time of the suspension kept going without being able to make contact with them, causing lost sales and bad customer service, resulting in poor reviews that dragged my rating down. I was busting my ass to operate professionally, and my only problem was eBay itself.
Eventually, compounded with issues with PayPal, I concluded that I could never make a living using those sketchy platforms. Occasionally, I’ll buy something on eBay, but I’ve never used it to sell anything since.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 weeks ago:
I have a close friend who was born in Venzuela, and became a citizen in January. She feels much safer now, and thinks she’s in the clear. I’m still worried about her, but i don’t want to scare her with my own anxiety.
These MAGA Nazis want to get rid of Birthright Citizenship, which every nation in the world recognizes. If they won’t even respect that, they aren’t going to respect anything else - including Green Cards or Naturalization.
Bottom line - if you were born in another country, you are an enemy, and they want you out.
- Comment on ‘Mythic Quest’ Canceled After Four Seasons, Apple TV+ to Air Updated Finale Episode With New Ending 3 weeks ago:
I agree. It started strong, but slipped steadily after the first season. It was great while it lasted. Not every show can be 6 seasons and a movie.
- Comment on The Academy officially announces new Oscar category for stunts 3 weeks ago:
I really think Tom Cruise is a weird and creepy guy, but i can’t help it, his movies are nearly always great. I’ll watch anything he does, and at least 9 times out of 10, I’m blown away.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 3 weeks ago:
I watched it multiple times because in a democratic household, I occasionally lose the vote for what we watch, and in the interest of family unity, i accept my fate.
I don’t think you know what condescension is. I am not trying to show my superiority in undetstanding art, i would like people who are afraid of art because of the sense of being judged to ignore the snooty gatekeepers, and learn how wonderful it is - while not dumbing it down at the same time.
Over my lifetime, i have helped many people learn to see art without fear of humiliation. I didn’t do that by being condescending and pretentious, and insisting they see art my a specific way. I did it by being welcoming and encouraging them to embrace their own opinions as valid, and not tell them that they have “a strange view of films.” That’s gate-keeping behavior, and i always push back against it. That doesn’t make me condescending, just the opposite.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 3 weeks ago:
Being dismissive of my contradictory opinion, and characterizing the way i view films in general as “strange,” just because i dont see them the same as you, is pretentious. I noticed you didnt question the word “condescension” though.
I was asked to defend my opinion of a specific film, and i did, and was called “strange” for it. I didn’t knock anyone else for having an alternative opinion, they are perfectly entitled to it.
Pretention/ condescension is a common occurence in films, and all other art forms. My son, a very knowledgable cinephile, is guilty of it all the time, and i call him out on it regularly (he LOVES Phantom Thread). I have a degree in music history, and have fought against pretention/ condescension in the classical music world as well, where it is rampant. I think non-classical music should be held to the same standards as classical music, and embraced by the classical community when it succeeds. Progress has been made in the last 50-60 years, with acceptance of jazz and Broadway composition, but still has a long way to go for rock and pop music.
I dont like snootiness in any form. One the reasons i appreciate artist Roy Lichtenstein so much is because he elevated the use of comic book art techniques to be “high art.”
I’m old now, but when i was young, i deliberately made the decision to not be dogmatic about art, and support democratizing it for everyone without compromising the quality. The main thing that keeps most people from exploring higher forms of art, is the chance that their perfectly valid opinion on something will be criticized by some pretentious gatekeeper, and make them feel humiliated.
Eh, maybe you’re right, maybe the way I view the entire art world is strange. If it is, I find it liberating. More people should try it.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 3 weeks ago:
Its not how i “view films,” it’s how i view THAT film. I am under no obligation to view films in the same way you, or anyone else does. I am allowed to have my own opinion about them, without seeking anyone else’s approval.
Take your pretentious condescension some where else.