It reminds me of MoviePass. My wife and I got it and loved it, but we knew it wouldn't last. "If rich idiots want to buy us movie tickets, why not take advantage?" A significant number of voters got used to "rich idiots buy us free stuff" as the norm and are raging mad that it went away.

It always felt like a comic entirely built on in-jokes, that there was some essential context I was missing that would make it legible.

Stay gwoke.

It's kind of bonkers that he started his pundit career with an admonishment to "be a fox, not a hedgehog," and has now gone full hedgehog on "everything is about gambling, gambling is the only thing that matters, and being an excellent gambler (like me!) makes you a Master of the Universe."

The thing I love about bluesky is that it's a perfect simulation of being in a college town's anarchist bookstore. Just constant rhetorical games and bs. "Oh you think it's a happy holiday? Well I haven't been happy since I found out about Rosa Luxemburg's death" awesome no notes

This is how I feel when I heard people wringing their hands about Elon Musk funding the Wisconsin Supreme Court race earlier this year. "But Elon won Trump Pennsylvania in 2024!"
Actually, PA and other swing states moved less than any other states; Elon nearly lost Trump PA.

It literally used to crash my old computer if I left a page open for kore than about 5 minutes.

Oh, I absolutely love it! I have forced MULTIPLE siblings to watch my blu-ray copy so that I can surreptitiously watch their faces when they learn What Happened.

For a brief moment, we all wondered, "Has this movie gotten so boring that the characters themselves are now just conversationally idling, asking what we think of Local Sports Team?" The confusion only lasted a few more lines of dialogue, but it distinctly caused a dam to burst with the audience.

And then Anakin says a very specific line that caused stunned confusion in our theater and, I assume, every San Diego-area cineplex:"Have you seen the pod race?" What you must understand is that this is the first mention of pod racing in the film. So what we all heard was "Have you seen the Padres?"

So the movie plods along as we're desperately trying to salvage the sense of excitement we walked in with. Now we're on Tatooine, for some reason, and we've had some plot contrivances to strand our heroes and they've met Anakin and are hanging around in his mom's kitchen.

Everyone was obviously extremely hyped for the movie. We all were convinced it would blow us away. And everyone who saw it recalls this same feeling. The uninspired opening text crawl, the awkward space station escape. The introduction of Jar-Jar, just an escalating sense of "Is this... bad?": dread

Okay, this next one is a very, VERY specific experience. It was watching The Phantom Menace for the first time. And, this is important, I saw it in a movie theater in suburban San Diego.

I felt like there was going to be a riot. A little six-person riot, storming out of theaters to light it on fire for presenting this mediocre little rom com with a terrible twist.

This is how I feel about the fancy chair I bought for remote work. Spending $600 for a gamer chair is a waste of money because you're overpaying for a bad chair. Sending $1600 for a good chair makes sense because it's comfortable, adaptable, will last a lifetime and won't fuck your back up.