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Orange and teal is back!

Kiss fandom is pretty weird... it's like, everyone kinda knows it's all just a big novelty act designed to sell merchandise, and it's all pretty silly and dumb, but no one cares and everyone is in on it and buys all the merchandise anyway...

Well, it took forever, but I finally finished this up. I thought the movie wrapped things up about as well as you can expect something like this to get wrapped up. I feel like a lot of characters fell to the wayside at the end, but I’m not sure if they could really have had a satisfying ending for everyone. It would have been like the ending of Return of the King times 10…

Anyway, I’m not sure I really have that much to say… great show, watched it for 20 years, glad to see it go out while still being high quality. The last few seasons were great. I remember not really feeling em when I first watched,  it the second time it all flowed better. I feel like the show peaked around season 2-3, fell off a bit in 4-5 and rebounded again with 6 and 7. The movie felt more like the season 7 finale than some sort of epic standalone event… and that’s just fine.

On 3/30/2024 at 7:02 AM, Reputator said:

 

There's at least one other image circulating without the license plate obscured.

 

That's a good way of getting on the FBI's naughty list.

The right wing retort to these is to show images of Kathy Griffin or Snoop Dogg when they did fictional acts of violence against Trump... the key difference of course being that (double checks notes) neither of them were president nor are running to be president.

Wou;dn't it be funny if it turns out that chat GPT and all this shit AI artwork was just being hastily made by tens of thousands of Indians in a warehouse somewhere?

Sometimes I think people sort of forget that the richest man on the planet bitching and moaning all the time like he's some sort of persecuted victim is a really fucking pathetic. Like, what are you even on about you dumb fucking loser? Things weren't stacked in your favor enough you dumb fucking idiot? Being in a better life position than pretty much every human to ever exist isn't good enough for you you ridiculous fuck?

JUST FUCKING KILL YOURSELF because it's not going to get any better. Go cry somewhere else. OD on ketamine and shut the fuck up.

They need to invent a combo bomb that explodes like normal but also sends out food and medical supplies as a form of humanitarian shrapnel for the victims.

There's this new thing that's going around where everyone is dunking on Jon Stewart because he sold a condo for more than the state said it was worth and the dumb stupid idiot moron dipshit loser squad are all tugging each others semi hard micro penises in a collaborative celebratory online dunking party saying he did the exact same thing Trump did. #arrestjonstewart is trending... and all of it just total nonsense and you have to think that many of them know that but they do not care. They don't give a shit that it doesn't hold up to even a second of critical thought, fact checking or scrutiny... none of that matters... it's all about getting the win right now in the moment... and when it's debunked they just drop it and move on, or just double down on the idiocy and ignore facts... either way, they don't care. Nothing matters. Facts and logic don't matter. It's just a ever ending slurry tube of pure nonsense and vibes from these brain dead insufferable losers.

Yeah, that price is off. Would make me leery... Printing and mailing a magazine alone costs way more what they are charging. There is no way they are making it back with ads and then also paying a staff of writers and designers? It just doesn't ad up.

That said, I do miss the age of magazines. I remember as a kid knowing when the new EGm was supposed to arrive and waiting by the mailbox for it to arrive.... and how annoying it was when it didn't... a very different era. It's kind of crazy to think about how slowly information travelled back then compared to now.

At some point it just becomes plainly obvious that the vast majority of these people are just playing some sort of game.

Twitter is full of chortling moronic dipshit losers acting like this is some big coverup, posting gifs of Biden steering a boat, etc…

How much of a worthless mush brained turd goblin do you have to be to blame everything that happens on the president? Honestly, the worst thing about Trumps era of politics is that it has illuminated just how staggeringly stupid so many of my fellow Americans are and it’s really fucking depressing to share a planet with these worthless fuck faced fuckers. Like, what in the actual fuck is wrong with these people?

People are really THAT dumb? They’re really this fucking dumb? How is that even possible? How DOES THE WORLD EVEN FUNCTION WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID?

I've always hated this "victimless" angle. No, fuck that, we're all victims. Everyone following the rules is a victim. The legitimate people who don't get loans because they don't lie are victims. The people who pay the proper amount of taxes are victims.

Egregiously and repeatedly lying on financial documents for decades is a crime.

If I'm sloppy drunk and driving 100 mph hour and get pulled over, is my crime victimless? I mean, I didn't hit anyone, who got hurt? It's victimless!

It's just all so stupid. And yeah, they're going after him. Maybe if Donald Trump didn't want this kind of attention he should have gotten up on a soap box and started insulting every oppositional power structure he could find. Maybe don't do that.

It's like when your entire political ethos is centered around putting up two middle fingers and wildly insulting everyone who opposes your ideas, you don't get to clutch your pearls and act all put out when that same energy comes back your way.

The sad thing is that people like MTG would absolutely love to find out this was a terror attack. She was probably glued to the initial news hoping and praying it was not an accident so she could use the tragedy as a political cudgel.

I think the boat is owned by a company in Hong Kong but operated and maintained by a different company based out of Singapore which is a shell company (actually it's multiple shell companies, like a shell company inception) that's been setup specifically to shield the parent companies involved from things just like this.

I'm no expert on international law, but I think it's going to be complicated.

18 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

Sounds like the crew did everything they could in the circumstances, and the city as well:

• Notified authorities within minutes of power trouble
• Port/city got in touch with the construction crew on either end of the bridge, they managed to stop traffic before the ship hit (unfortunately one crew was in the middle of the bridge and did not escape in time)
• Crew dropped anchors in desperate attempt to slow

The real root causes here are:

• Infrastructure not meeting modern safety requirements
• Ships being allowed under their own power rather than by multiple tugs

I saw an interesting take from a guy who works on ships like these. This is some sort of modern super ship that's designed to be as big as possible while still fitting through the Panama Canal. There aren't actually many of these ships in service. Margins are so tight in the international shipping industry that most of them are run by overworked skeleton crews and are poorly maintained. Stopping to properly service things costs time and money so they do the bare minimum.

It possible the crew didn't do anything egregiously wrong, but were victims of circumstance, tight budget and poor training.

Can the world stop paying attention to this idiotic dipshit already?

He should be selling gold colored bibles.

These people are deranged. I don't understand how anyone who considers themselves to be a Christian can support Trump in any capacity. Truth is they can't, so if you voted for Trump and call yourself a Christian, you are not a Christian and you do not understand your own religion. You are most likely a dumb stupid idiot garbage person.

Also, who is asking for super apps? That has always seemed like the worst idea ever. Talk about lock-in.

For a country that is so concerned about everything involving China, shitting all over the most successful American company and saying the stated purpose of said shitting is to actively encourage a flood of cheap Chinese competitors seems a little weird to me.

When they say they want force apple to make it easier for cheaper option to thrive, who are they envisioning will create these cheap options? When they say they want to encourage super apps, who do they envision creating these super apps? Amazon, Google, Meta, X? Does anyone think the world would be a better place if all anyone did on their phones was launch a google or amazon super app? Because that's what will happen.

Anyway, Apple has no one to blame for this but themselves. They should have read the tea leaves a decade ago and started loosening up some of the dumber crap they were pulling... loosen up the App Store rules and adopting RCS into iMessage like 5 years ago would have probably gone a long way toward avoiding this and now they are going to end up with who knows what rules dropped on them.

I just don't see how this will actually help the market be more open. This isn't going to create new competition, it's just going to strengthen all of their competitors... all of whom I trust way less than Apple.

Apple will be allowing streaming apps and iMessage will also soon have full support for RCS.

Marrick Garland presented some email exchanges in 2012 and a joke Tim Cook made during a Q&A session as evidence they are acting maliciously. I'm not sure I hold them in that much confidence either.

It's kind of funny, because I do want apple to change their stance on most of these things, but I do not want the government to decide how they should do it.

I think I'm just confused about when and how incredible common business tactics and strategies suddenly became anti-competitive. Where is the line?

My main concern is that the our elected officials have proven time and time again that they have absolutely no fucking clue about any of this stuff.

Apple's locked down system is as much of a selling point as it is a hindrance. That's kind of their whole deal. If you don't like it, you have plenty of other very viable options.

I find a lot of rules in the App Store to be pretty shitty, but this really feels like they are kinda reaching on a lot of these points. Are they really a monopoly? They have half the market in the US and like 30% or something like that globally?

Are they going to go after Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo for selling closed systems?

This reminds me of when they went after Apple for the book store price fixing when Amazon had like 95% of the market.

I find Googles stranglehold over search, advertising and web standards to be a million times more concerning personally...

If (shudder) Trump wins the election, the Democrats should vote to impeach him for this exact offense (accepting money from foreign countries) on the very first day.

Didn't even now this was coming... looking forward to probably not watching it...