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Since the rest of it is high-key racist, my money is on it being an abbreviation of “subcontinent”, a term sometimes used to describe India.
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Guinea pig. Porg. Egg?
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Since the rest of it is high-key racist, my money is on it being an abbreviation of “subcontinent”, a term sometimes used to describe India.
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Too many people seem to think “be gay, do crimes” is just a catchy slogan.
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Convincing billionaires to fund your White House run: Get ready to live out your “Most Dangerous Game” fantasies, but with an exciting twist!
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I just keep asking myself: If it’s real, why is there no arms race? People act like The Algorithm is etched in stone, instead of something infinitely malleable. If all the various conjugations of “kill” can be punished, why can’t it similarly punish “unalive” years after the term was coined?
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Combine them by bringing back CRT televisions.
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It feels like a music nerd’s thinly-veiled excuse to hobnob with their heroes. When it can even be bothered to let the living legends take center stage, it’s delightful. The rest is… fine.
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I can appreciate it’s largely composed of homages to Old Hollywood, but it’s all too slapdash: part screwball comedy, part film noir, part shaggy-dog tale, etc. It does none of them well, and pieces them together in such a way that they often clash with each other. Of course film bros love it.
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Too many leftists think they can achieve their utopian vision by doing no actual work, but instead simply waiting patiently for all The Bad People™ to die of old age, at which point the Innately Left Youth will put in the necessary effort to fix everything.
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Big “when everyone’s consumption under capitalism is unethical, no one’s is” Energy coming from The Halliburton Caterer over here.
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As someone already old when it came out, I just assumed it was intentional, another form of commentary on Hollywood. All the characters’ wisdom comes from TV or movies, from consuming their own product. It’s an ouroboros trying to understand the outside world by focusing its attention ever inward.
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Just straight taking their cues from The Onion: youtu.be/u547JLbcKT4?...
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> the two big ballers It’s often overlooked because of the sci-fi trappings, but The Matrix came out the same year as Fight Club and Office Space; and it, too, can be fairly described as “the story of a corporate cog trapped in a cubicle, desperate for something — anything — to shake things up.”
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Aww, thanks!
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This is exactly how I feel about Tenet.
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Starting the graph *after* the Great Recession is incredibly sus. Wouldn’t want to include any economic downturns in the analysis. “Well, there’s 2020—” which is when things became uncoupled. Show me a version of this going back to 1980 with no prior deviations and I’ll agree this is inexplicable.
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30 years later, and The Evil Overlord List remains as relevant as ever. www.worldconquer.org/evil_overlor...
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Love & Thunder being cringe (or whatever) didn’t help things, but the backlash felt minor until he (or his social media manager) liked an Instagram post on Johnny Depp’s account that celebrated his court victory over Amber Heard. It was construed as Taika taking sides (specifically, the wrong side).
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I mean, they “get away” in the sense that they are filmed exiting the house, and then never appear on camera again.
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Me: “It’s a struggle just to drag myself out of bed, and last night I ate an entire large pizza in one sitting.” Google:
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The moment that radicalized me was the reaction to Trump saying he loved the uneducated: liberals just openly guffawing at the idea of their “lessers” having a say in anything. (Hillary more-or-less joining in, rather than turning it into a talking point about education, was when I knew she’d lost.)
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That implant was installed in *January*. It hasn’t even been four months.
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> 188 democrats voted yes, only 46 republicans voted yes. Not to mention the one independent in Congress at the time, who also voted yes: Bernie Sanders.
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Suborbital Ballistic-Propulsion Engineer Not Exactly A Rocket Scientist
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Honestly, that’s the smart move. Shorting is expensive af if you do it too far in advance of the bubble bursting. There’s even an old saying about it: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
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Wow, that takes me back. “All major rivers flow toward the equator” was something I was *repeatedly* told in elementary school. I guess maybe they still teach that? But also: one of the first ancient civilizations we learned about was Egypt, and the Nile is a very obvious exception to that “rule”.
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It’s sort of like how the Trump Administration showed us there’s nothing but an elaborate set of pinkie-swears to keep the country from becoming a dictatorship.
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Same energy
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Wasn’t “Charlie X” about a normal human kid who learned psychic powers from aliens, or whatever? I swear, half of those scripts would’ve wound up on The Twilight Zone if that show hadn’t already been canceled.
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“I’m something of a raconteur myself…”
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It is endlessly fascinating to me that a deliberate choice was made to give psychic powers to the cold, rational scientist. In a modern show that would be social commentary about a kind of tunnel vision induced by the fear of embracing your emotions, but nope! It was done completely without irony.
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I think Napster was the turning point. Illicit file-sharing wasn’t new, but this was different. People wanted internet access *just* to use Napster. That’s when Corporate America stopped looking at the internet as a weird place full of potential, and started looking at it as a Problem to Be Solved.
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