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Somebody kill Josh Hawley please.

No bullets. No tear gas. No batons. No chokeholds.

Dekalb county official misread his thing, it really is 170k outstanding. Not 130k. Haha

If either of these Republicans make up the ground I'm crying foul. Stop the count!

Damn. He was an incredible guitar player even if I haven't loved their output since 2005 or so. I still spin Hatebreeder, Follow the Reaper, and Hate Crew Deathroll regularly. RIP

Now it's even more meaningless. Picked the only two cunts that might be worse than Rush Limbaugh.

Gross

Thought it was somewhat well known that he's a cooky con.

This is true. She did have to cry a couple of times and that's more than she usually does. She did it well.

Good Lord this movie is a steaming pile of shit. Where to start? The script, I suppose. First draft written by some high schoolers apparently. And they stuck with the first draft. It can't even stay consistent with its own fucking rules. Everybody gets one wish, until the story needs them to have another one. Barbara: "I wish I could be like Diana." Becomes like Diana. Now you get another wish! "Make me a fuckin' cat." Done! These wishes also have a monkey's paw so that you lose what's most valuable to you. It's instantaneous for some (everybody who is not a main character) and evolves slowly over time for everybody else. And it didn't even affect Barbara. "Barbara you just beat the shit out of me. Therefore you've lost your niceness. That must be what you've lost! The light in your eyes is gone." Fuck you. People said the same shit to me when I left a cult. The movie just completely falls apart in the third act. What a giant unintelligible mess. You know what would have made this story more interesting and impactful? If they didn't fucking clone the Steve Trevor shit from the first movie. Literally the same thing happens. "Diana you need to let me go to save the world." Done. It would have been a lot more impactful if Steve wanted to stay and Diana had to make a hard choice. It would have been a nice mirror to the first movie instead of a clone of it. Also, very convenient that the super armor was just sitting in her closet. You know what would have made that more awesome? If she had to go on some sort of quest to get that armor and it helped her because she had lost a portion (or all!) of her powers. And Asteria is still alive! You know that thanks to the fucking end credit sequence. Wouldn't it have been cool to have Wonder Woman go on a quest to find Asteria to get the armor and have new Wonder Woman meet old Wonder Woman (who looks fucking incredible, btw)? This is fucking Writing 101 people! Good god. Now let's talk about the politics of this garbage heap. Let's ignore the problematic portrayal of the Middle East. Let's ignore that a movie that primarily takes place in Washington DC has like two black people in it. In the background. How fucking hilarious is it that a movie starring somebody formerly in the IDF creates a wall to contain/block off Arabs? How creepy is it that we're taking over and touching people's bodies without making a note on how wrong and gross that is? Side note: I love how Maxwell Lord learned of a super top secret thing that can touch everybody at once from a display on an easel in the President's office. Very convenient. "What's this?" It's the solution to all your problems! How convenient that you didn't really have to work for that one! The effects work in this movie wasn't that great. I'm not as down on it as most but agree that it's on the poorer side of recent effects work. I can't believe a movie that has been delayed for however fucking long still has this many visual and editing problems. Now, let's talk about the good that keeps this stool from becoming diarrhea soup. Chris Pine has some comedic chops and he gets to flex them in this movie. And it works great. 1 point for Gryffindor. Pedro Pascal fucking brings it. He is hamming it up to great effect. He is great at everything he's done and this is no exception. 1 point for Gryffindor.

I was going to say that I wouldn't count on them paying you.

Seems his motive was to take out some AT&T infrastructure. The fact that it was on Christmas day when people are least likely to be around and that a recording was played telling people to get away makes me think he wasn't out to hurt people per se. Doesn't mean I'm saying he's not an insane asshole terrorist, though.

And turn my 25 minute trip--already long enough--into a 26 minute trip? No thanks.

In N Out. I can't say that their burgers are terrible, but they're certainly not worth the wait or price. I've never been to an In N Out where I was in and out in a reasonable time. Way too popular and crowded for mediocre food. Also hands down the worst fries of any place.

What's the context here?

I tend to agree with @Joe that having gone to an ivy league in and of itself isn't bad. I mean I'd absolutely jump on the opportunity if it were granted to me. But I also agree with this sentiment. The last company I worked for had a team that required you to have graduated from Harvard or Stanford to apply. It specifically said those two schools on the job description. I liked a few people on that team and I worked with it all the time. But most seemed like overpaid morons who brought no actual value to the table. One time on a trip a group of us were presenting our product to this company. They had already purchased, but now we needed buy-in from the end users to get adoption of the product. So we were speaking with a group of mid managers. We introduced ourselves the typical way. People from this group I'm talking about were always instructed to give their god damned credentials at the start of these kinds of things. "Hi I'm Jodi and I've been with this company for X time. I graduated from Stanford with honors and got an MBA from somewhere." "Hi I'm John and I went to University of Utah and then got an MBA from Stanford." "Hi I'm Braden and I graduated from Harvard blah blah blah." Of course, I just went to some lowly non-ivy league so when it was my turn I always made some joke that wasn't actually a joke like "Hi I'm Dan and I'm the technical person of this group so I'll be doing all the work while these assholes dick around on their laptops in some corner." Anyways, this one trip after we introduced ourselves it was this management group's turn. First guy goes, "I... I think I'm in the wrong room. I just went to Washington State." In my head I'm giving the Jack Nicholson nod to this guy while my colleagues were turning a little red. It seems like all I did sometimes was field questions from these ivy leaguers about how to configure shit so it would fit into the sales process of whoever we were working with. They were supposed to be business consultants but most of the time just ended up asking me what worked at previous companies. One guy was also a terrible writer. I'd edit his emails before he sent them so we wouldn't look like fucking idiots. He couldn't spell and always made fucking amateur grammar mistakes. Like... This dude is earning four times my salary and all he does is ask me what to do and write shitty emails? Fuck. Anyways, the company went through some layoffs. Guess who got the axe? Mostly the overpaid people who weren't actually doing anything. The entire team was dissolved. Some moved to different roles and were good at what they did. But anybody could have done what these guys did when they were hired. I'm not saying they suck or are (all) dumb or won't be of value somewhere. But they did get in the door and made bank for a while strictly because of what schools were on their resumes.

I'd respond to this but it's a holiday today and I have it off.

Games are flying from Wade like anti-communists fleeing Vietnam circa 1946.

Yeah I know. But I'd rather listen to a FLAC rip than Spotify's stream.

Me too. Much more accurate representation of what I listen to since I spend so much time at home now. Not really using Spotify a whole lot.

I did this a couple days ago. I was about to do it again and post mine but you can actually just read @SimpleG's. Swap out his death metal artists for my death metal artists and one comment was different. I got something about converse shoes instead of divas.

Jeff Bezos. I don't think those franchises are worth $5 billion when looking at sales of other studios or franchises.

I see they chose the year where he didn't wear blackface. Convenient.