I think when they were released, everybody brought the expectations they had from tLotR, which kinda doomed it from the start. That was lightning in a bottle, you can do EVERYTHING right and not get that same kind of success.

The Hobbit Trilogy is good when you remove those expectations.

So like, the ad didn’t even say anything about the genocide in Palestine? It just starred a half-Palestinian model?

The music accompanying the Night King scene is absolutely top-tier. Shame the storytelling failed to live up to it.

Disjointed

No idea on numbers, but considering IRL cowboys were poor folks doing hard work nobody else wanted to do…probably quite a few black men 0-3 generations removed from slavery.

End of the party of Trump, maybe. They’d still probably invoke his name at every opportunity.

End of the party of fascism and nihilistic corruption? No way, he’s a figurehead there.

Conservative politicians and calling the popular arts satanic: a tradition going back centuries.

I mean, ideally we avoid fascism BEFORE the point of civil war.

Pyrite: best known for “could be a conductor of electricity” and totally not “could be gold”

I mean, few things in life can be graded objectively so that’s not really the best standard to hold education to. There’s a lot of value in learning and practicing the skill of taking in information and then rearranging it into your own words, creating and supporting arguments from the knowledge you’ve gained.

But the subjectivity of it DOES mean that occasionally teachers will need to set aside their egos. Those who legitimately want to educate the next generation usually can do that, but some just enjoy having power over children and absolutely will not units forced to do so (and doing so will just create a new grudge against that student).

I once got a C- on an essay, but for extra credit we could submit that paper to a state essay contest. I was a state finalist in that contest, with my only revision from the class-submitted version being spell checking Britan->Britain.

Fuck you, Mrs Wickham.

Powerful words offering no solution, or even recommendation.

Wait until you see the Nepalese flag. It’s not even a rectangle!

(It’s also the only flag in the world to be mathematically defined by its country’s constitution)

That could realistically be around 1/3 yearly profit in a reasonable company (18% operating margin is common). No idea whether Twitter is currently profitable (it wasn’t when he bought it).

I got a call from this woman in Boston, out was just a product activation call so I had to read her a 20-character activation string. We use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for those, to reduce confusion over the phone.

The last character was Y-Yankee. I followed that up with “but I guess that’s a politically incorrect word around Boston, huh?” And she goes on an absolute tirade about how people are way to sensitive, throwing out a few racist dogwhistles along the way.

I just said “Ma’am, I was making a joke about the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.”

She went silent for a few seconds and hung up on me.

Blue MAGA

It’s not even 8am and I’ve already read the dumbest shit I’ll see all day

Ooh, and they’re deficit deadlifts too. Nice.

Radiating milk equally in all directions, of course.

At this point, I think the best thing would be for Biden to run, get re-elected, and then die early in his term to make Kamala Harris the President. I’m not super thrilled about her but I think she’s better than just about any other option we’ve got at the moment.

I just don’t trust this fucking electorate to vote for a Black, Indian, Woman for president.

I mean, that just kinda proves the point further?

Anybody that’s gonna vote for Trump is gonna vote for him regardless of who his VP is. The VP is only TeChNiCaLlY an elected office, because 99.99% of people are voting for the president and not the VP.