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The battle request was great, but for me the ice rink scene topped it. That friggin’ song and the insanity that occurred during the chase sequence were great.
The battle request was great, but for me the ice rink scene topped it. That friggin’ song and the insanity that occurred during the chase sequence were great.
I can see them surviving in the wild in Vancouver, but here in MB it regularly gets to -30 to -40 for several months in the winter. I’m not sure they’d like that too much.
That said, maybe your dad’s house is a supermarket. Does he have lots of food in it?
Good to know. Nevertheless, I hope to never be in a situation where I get to find out. I’m guessing they’re suuuuper rare here. I checked the iNaturalist app and there were no observed sightings of either type mentioned in that article.
There’s probably just a colony in the back of a supermarket somewhere.
Well, crap. Now I’m going to be irrationally afraid of a run-in with an illusive grape-riding Black Widow.
I did know about foreign spiders hitching a ride on produce. I just didn’t know that these dudes could take root in our cold wasteland. Nonetheless, thanks for the link!
I was going to make a joke about this costing $6000/hit, then I read this:
Activists have urged Gilead to ensure that people in countries where low- and middle-incomes predominate can get access to lenacapavir. The company has long faced criticism over the price of its HIV medicines. Descovy usage carries a list price of $26,000 a year.
So based on their current HIV medicine, my joke answer was less than half of what it’ll likely actually cost (as you need two hits a year).
What a ridiculous world we live in.
I don’t know if they can thread the needle again but I’ll give the sequel a shot
At least with the premise of the sequel being about a sex-bot it opens the doors for all sorts of different madness.
Yeah. I used to watch a lot of horror/thrillers and most left me underwhelmed. As such, I had low expectations for M3GAN but it left me pleasantly surprised. Definitely campy, but that’s obviously what it was going for.
Now I’m thinking I might have to watch it again this weekend.
I was pleasantly surprised with M3GAN, so I’m looking forward to this. It’s got a different writer/director whose work I’m not familiar with, but looking at her IMDB it seems like a good fit for her.
With our current handling of the planet, probably not much.
Yeah, it’s a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine.
Hey now, AI transformed him into a tool who goes onstage to talk about AI. That’s transformative.
Don’t worry - there’s a documentary about when this happened last time. We can fix it again.
But if all dogs are as big as dinosaurs, then Clifford is no longer special. He’s no longer Clifford the Big Red Dog. He’s then just Clifford the Normal Sized Red Dog. I just don’t think he’d be as big of a deal in that universe.
I guess he’s still got the red thing going for him?
Suuuuure, just a quick little adjustment. Nothing more. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I can’t read any of the text, but the one on the left has the vibe of something that would get someone investigated for posting on the War Thunder forums to win an argument.
I’d go as far as to argue that running a nation has almost nothing in common with running a business.
A business literally exists to make a profit for its shareholders. The owners can try to do good things like pay high wages or give back to their community, but at the end of the day their goal is to make more money than they spend.
A government, on the other hand, should exist to protect and provide opportunities for its citizens to thrive. Generating a profit is largely at odds with that goal. People should have the same access to opportunities regardless of where in the country they live, and that’s going to sometimes mean that functions of the government are never profitable. That should be seen as okay, but people have been brainwashed to think that taxes are inherently bad, and that businesses are somehow naturally more efficient. I can say, as someone who has worked in business all his life, that that last bit is particularly a giant crock of shit. Businesses are no more naturally streamlined than any other organization. Hell, I’m currently personally leading a task force at my work to try to reduce all the egregious inefficiencies I’ve uncovered when trying to figure out why we’re not making nearly as much money as we should be.
The point is, providing government services doesn’t need to be “efficient”. If you can make that happen and save the taxpayers money, that’s great and you should do it. If that means letting any member of your society slip through the cracks, then efficiency be damned. The government shouldn’t be in the business of making money.
And, no, privatizing “inefficient” government services is never the answer. All you’re doing there is introducing new inefficiencies - the need for the business entity to make a profit, and the corners they’ll inevitably cut to make that happen.
Anyway, I hope I don’t come across as jumping on your comment. It sounds like I agree with you - just wanted to tack on this wall of thoughts.
God, this is so infuriatingly true. A few months ago I searched for info on types of spiders in my province, because I wanted to learn more about my many housemates. All of the top links were SEO blog spam that were clearly duplicate pages rebranded for different keywords (something that Google’s algorithm used to penalize but apparently no longer gives a shit about). I know this because, no, black widows are not fucking native to Manitoba, Canada.
Not to mention that goddamn annoying way of writing that SEO blog spam uses where they are so obviously reaching for long tail keywords. My job used to involve some of this stuff back when the search engines pretended to care about good content - when you were at least nominally rewarded with page rank for content that read like it was written by a person with a soul. Now it’s just a wasteland of mechanical prose. There’s still good stuff being said out there, but good like finding it with a search engine.
✓ Okay, boomer.
Absolute poetry:
I know you want to be the next Steve Jobs, and this requires you to get on stages and talk about your innovative prowess, but none of this will allow you to pull off a turtle neck, and even if it did, you would need to replace your sweaters with fullplate to survive my onslaught.
Anyone pick up what the camera panned to in the scene where The Deep and Sage were making out? I couldn’t tell if it was a needle or something else.
I’m still not sure what she’s up to, but now I’m less convinced she’s planning to take down Vought from the inside, and beginning to think she’s trying to take it over for herself.