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Chris
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I like the subtle implication in the response that actually the illegitimate behavior was the agencies enforcing unclear laws, and they should never have been enforcing anything basically.
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Chris
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"if you're going to embezzle money, at least make sure to spend the money on yourself" is not covered heavily enough in professional responsibility classes.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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this illustration is a real rorschach test
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Chris
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Frente!'s cover of "Bizarre Love Triangle" was pretty amazing. And A3's cover of "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" is actually surprisingly straightforward considering the genre shift, but still great.
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Chris
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Nice avatar! :D
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Chris
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Yeah, that's why you've got to use the popcorn bowl - it's big enough that it will just slosh up the sides but not actually escape. But - spoiler - you really hope that no one is actually going to barf in the popcorn bowl. You really just give it to them so you can feel like you did SOMETHING.
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Chris
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And a Supreme Court that was specially built over the course of decades to (among other things) let states disenfranchise voters they don't like. And the fact that states are still trying things that even THIS court won't condone says a lot.
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Chris
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Yeah, I use my birthday as my "time to throw out all the socks" reminder. Just the daily drivers, obviously, and I need to make sure to buy enough pairs that they won't wear out in a year.
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DrunkGrunkle 🗡️Guts Arc
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Pacific Rimmer has been on my mind all day
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Chris
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It's funny how Trump's mental decline began exactly when he shifted from scripted, edited television to live appearances.
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Chris
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I really try to be charitable when other people like something I find unappealing, but also the only way I know a picture is by Jim Lee and not an honorable mention in a high school art show is if someone puts his name above it.
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Chris
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And after about a year, my gums were in great shape, and even though I made 0 changes to my personal tooth care routine, I started getting compliments instead of lectures from the hygienist. Turns out it had nothing to do with my habits at all.
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Chris
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I definitely have never had it that bad, but I've had a lot of lectures. Then I switched to a new dentist, and the dentist was like "wow, you have a lot of buildup on your lower teeth, your saliva must have a really high mineral content. Let's do cleanings once every 3 months"...
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Chris
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I told my kid's dentist that he responds better to positive motivation than negative, they put a note in his file, and I have not heard a single complaint about going to the dentist since.
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Chris
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It's weird how people manage to believe BOTH that they won't being the one holding the screwdriver AND that they won't let the screwdriver slip.
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Chris
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I have to admit, it wasn't until the past few years that I came to believe that news organizations actively, intentionally work to make elections as close as possible. It's just normally more subtle because most races used to have two nominally qualified candidates.
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Chris
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Please enjoy the best image I have seen today.
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Chris
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You're basically the only reason I remember what a Chris Gaines is.
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Chris
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Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films BUT MAKE SURE THEY ARE ALL VIBES MOVIES. My picks: M - Mr Right O - The Old Guard V - Vampire Hunter D I - In Time E - Equilibrium
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Chris
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The only nonprofit board I've served on, the assumption was that everything would be public. (We had an hour-long discussion on what to do when someone requested to submit something to the board confidentially.) It was a huge surprise to learn that there are non-profits where that's not the case.
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Chris
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One more to add:
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Chris
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Every "time the child's glasses change shape" you see is making a script supervisor question their life choices.
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Chris
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In the skeet you're replying to, I think you've misunderstood this bit: "bristle or gasp at the use of real words in real life." This demonstrates that they do understand the belief that something happens on platforms, but they believe those platforms cannot punish in person behavior.
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Chris
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Yeah, I'd never heard of it either, but it makes so much sense that now I'm like, wow, what a gift he gave to all the other actors by insisting on that, so everyone could go into filming the first scenes totally confident in their characters.
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Chris
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I recently learned that that's how Donald Sutherland filmed his movies - shooting started with the middle scenes, so he could figure out the character, and if he made bad decisions in the middle scenes, the first impressions would carry people past that.
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My hero!
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Chris
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There are SO many drawings of dinosaurs that DEFINITELY had feathers with absolutely zero feathers that I think to balance it out we should just spend a few years drawing every single dinosaur with WAY TOO MANY FEATHERS, as a treat.
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Megan Fox
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My shirt isn't raising the questions I expected to obviously be answered by my T-shirt, and this is raising further more concerning questions beyond that which can be reasonably posed by t-shirts
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Chris
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I was very fortunate in that I got shin splints from overtraining as a teenager, so that was a brutally tangible demonstration of how 4 weeks of great progress plus 6 weeks of couch doesn't net out anywhere close to 10 weeks of good progress.
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Chris
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(And of course I'm going to have the Nick Lowe song stuck in my head all day.)
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Chris
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I went ahead and pulled up the article because I just wanted to see if the author didn't understand that "kind" and "nice" have different meanings, or if he was actually celebrating pointless cruelty, and I was surprised to learn that the answer was "both"!
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Chris
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my top ten TV as I think about it quickly, right now, with no backtracking: NewsRadio Life on Mars (UK) Robotech The Magicians Bluey Being Human (US) Twilight Zone Severance (tentative) WKRP Wiseguy Those last two are much more about my response at the time, just be thankful I left out Manimal.
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Chris
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Like, "how do you build a two-party system that does a good job of handling it when one of the parties wants to permanently destroy the two-party system and will spend 50 years slowly working toward that goal" is a terrible question to have to answer, especially at the END of those 50 years.
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Chris
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Yeah, I think the imbalance is just built in to the ideologies. "We should accumulate power and use it to enrich ourselves" will generally speaking win out over "we should maintain a system where no one can get all the power" once the former gets control of the system...
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Chris
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I did it, and I _only_ stopped to refill the drinks in the fridge, reheat some leftover rice, and take out the trash before remembering that the reason I was in the kitchen was to take my medicine.
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Chris
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On the plus side, you have reminded me that I need to stop everything and take my "morning" medication right now.
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Tom Bihn are incredible, but the allure of the custom Timbuk2 bags is too strong for me - I was at an after-work happy hour and dropping my purple and gold messenger bag into the sea of indistinguishable black backpacks was the greatest bag-related thrill of my life.
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For a movie I've only seen once, I'm amazed at how much some of the visuals have stuck with me. It's obviously not the best movie directed by Fincher, but in terms of the technical work of direction, it's spectacular.
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Chris
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quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn’t a huge hit let’s get to know each other a bit more 👀 📽️ (I tried to pick one that I DON'T go on about all the time, which was a challenge)
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Chris
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So the only one of my favorite films that IS eliminated by "not a huge hit" is It Happened One Night, I think.
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This is where I really get burnt by my policy of "when you're asked for a favorite, pick the least popular option." I love The Matrix but it can never be my favorite unless the criteria are so tight that you eliminate both Johnny Mnemonic and Equilibrium...
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Chris
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It's just exhausting at this point. SO many "never again" bands have done reunion tours at this point that nothing short of a resurrected Syd Barrett is going to get me off the couch. 2004 me would be AGHAST that I am not currently finding out when I can buy tickets for this reunion tour.
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Chris
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It's funny because the thread you're replying to is about refuting the claim that shitty attitudes like yours don't actually exist.
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Chris
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The really pushy people are the people who want to GIVE you drugs FOR FREE because they are themselves WASTED.
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Chris
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Or even just "what's up, you need anything" / "no", like, it is amazingly easy to have no idea that a person just offered to sell you drugs if you do not in fact want drugs.
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The "Homelander is an icon" people are the most bizarre, like, they even do the work to make him not at all cool. Like, there is nothing at all a person should want to emulate there.
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Chris
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Haha, yes! So important to challenge and contradict people who likely agree with you. What better use of a skeet?
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This does not impact me because growing up I knew people who had served in World War II *and* people who had seen Star Wars.
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Chris
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I feel like "stretch the definition of cute by rather a lot" could be a square in its own right. :D
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Chris
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It's like saying "painting my house makes it prettier." Well, it could, but there are other ways to make your house prettier, and there are ways to paint your house that don't make it prettier.
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