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  • I have collected so many of the movies I remember fondly as a Gen X’er. From the ‘70s to the ‘90s. Holy shit the stuff I’d forgotten that was in them. Rape-y stuff, comments about underage girls and basically leering at them with tbe camera, suicides, misogyny, women as sexual objects and nothing else, racism… It’s bad. I’d started a movie or two with my kids and had a “oh no” moment when a part started that I’d completely forgotten about. Some of that still exists, but it’s there as a narrative and plot point about the character doing the shitty things rather than the casual and institutional way it was played before. Just goes to show you how times and people (can; some don’t) change. Some of that stuff was not unusual in life for me back then, I wouldn’t dream of it today.

  • Ok, without effective resistance.

    Tell me what has changed due to the protests that is stopping trump and the rest of the regime. Be specific.

  • Wonder how it’s going to be laundered back to him.

  • It is without resistance. The citizens offer protest while the Democratic Party looks out for their retirement checks. The protest has been ineffective other than getting press and bringing out trump’s goon squad.

  • He’s insane.

  • Buying their gosdachas. Their socialism-bought luxury retreats.

  • That would seem like an awful idea that would be a dangerous security risk to the fighter.

    So they probably did it anyway.

  • This literally absurd take is compounded in stupidity with the fact they acknowledge they’re being pieces of shit and opt not to change.

  • IIRC from interviews that the uniforms remained generally uncomfortable. They were very stiff, and led to the famous “Picard Maneuver.” Sirtis’ uniform was changed to get rid of the dated “Cosmic Cheerleader” outfit. IMO her character’s early uniform was more in line with ToS’s making women on the Enterprise more “hot chick” than officer.

  • I have listened to several of his interviews. That’s why I even bother to indicate I appreciate his take. Pardon me if I treat someone with skepticism riding heavily on a platform that is at minimum rehotorically religious stating they believe in separation of church and State.

  • That’s not it.

    It’s how they’ll:

    Charge more for the service whenever they feel like it.

    You have to subscribe to each gaming service separately if you want access to their games. Just like Netflix or Prime Video, except there’s no way to sail the high seas for these games as they’ll all be cloud based.

    Unbundle your access – you now get unlimited hours for one game or pay more for all games with top tier, pay for every DLC unless you pay for top tier, etc.

    Pay for skins, upgrades, mods, your “own” server, the ability to record yourself playing for your social media, voice chat…

    Pay for top tier lobbies so you load in faster.

    Pay for the best maps.

    And of course the service will enshittify. Dropped and slow connections, shittier game quality, glitches and exploits go unpatched, etc.

    The ability to exploit and extort gamers is almost endless once they take away our PCs and consoles.

  • Ok, I see your point. It is a fine line. But I’m trying to make the distinction here that Talarico’s popularity is in a large part because of his vocal religious take. I firmly believe in separating church and State, and just because I agree with what one “church” is saying doesn’t mean we should invite the devil in the door yet again.

  • Wouldn’t that be something?

    But that’s not what I said. I said keep your religion outta my government. I didn’t say you couldn’t have religion.

  • Talarico seems to have his shit together. That said, keep your religion the fuck outta government. It’s fine pointing out the religious hypocrisy and charlatans in politics, but opening the door to religion, even if the individual is agreeable, is a bad idea.

  • These rich fucks would complain if you were left nothing but dirt to eat and got an extra grub in a mouthful.

  • A feature, not a bug. If you never find it you spend more time trying to find it and therefore see more of what they want you to see.

  • Extra mistakes in blue states I’m sure.

  • There will be parents that give a shit about how their kids learn to learn, and there will be others that dgaf, or at least bot enough of one, to keep their kids from just mashing the easy button and using “cheats” like AI. Unfortunately plenty of the latter will get management positions.

  • He’s not going to bite the hands that come to his expensive speaking event dinners.