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I disagree on the grounds that Rogue One makes me, the viewer, feel feelings effectively. Is it a messy chop-job rescued in the edit that is often disjointed?
Yeah, but it works - for me, but also clearly for a lot of audiences. And that's all that matters.
Yeah, but it works - for me, but also clearly for a lot of audiences. And that's all that matters.
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I disagree on the grounds that Rogue One makes me, the viewer, feel feelings effectively. Is it a messy chop-job rescued in the edit that is often disjointed?
Yeah, but it works - for me, but also clearly for a lot of audiences. And that's all that matters.
Yeah, but it works - for me, but also clearly for a lot of audiences. And that's all that matters.
The real nerds know that Star Wars won the Star Trek vs Star Wars debate in 2002 with the AoTC Incredible Cross Sections, giving us the first canon energy output for SW ships, demonstrating that even a single ImpStar II would be a big threat to Starfleet.
Or was that not what we were discussing? 😀
Or was that not what we were discussing? 😀
You ever think about just how handily Star Trek has won the Star Wars/Star Trek war? Turns out making a lot of good content is really hard!
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The real nerds know that Star Wars won the Star Trek vs Star Wars debate in 2002 with the AoTC Incredible Cross Sections, giving us the first canon energy output for SW ships, demonstrating that even a single ImpStar II would be a big threat to Starfleet.
Or was that not what we were discussing? 😀
Or was that not what we were discussing? 😀
I do not understand the desire by some to defend a white terror by saying “the ancien regime was worse”.
Moreover, this is the worst corruption we have ever seen in a president. The brutality and racism is certainly on par with the last 30 years given the result of eliminating USAID.
Moreover, this is the worst corruption we have ever seen in a president. The brutality and racism is certainly on par with the last 30 years given the result of eliminating USAID.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I do not understand the desire by some to defend a white terror by saying “the ancien regime was worse”.
Moreover, this is the worst corruption we have ever seen in a president. The brutality and racism is certainly on par with the last 30 years given the result of eliminating USAID.
Moreover, this is the worst corruption we have ever seen in a president. The brutality and racism is certainly on par with the last 30 years given the result of eliminating USAID.
The fact that this meme survived the first Trump administration is shocking. The fact that anyone would use it today is completely mind boggling given that Trump II is currently murdering random people on the high seas.
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The fact that this meme survived the first Trump administration is shocking. The fact that anyone would use it today is completely mind boggling given that Trump II is currently murdering random people on the high seas.
Glad to know my sacrifice of listening to this song about a million times when my children were younger created real economic value.
My oldest loved that song so much that when my wife was pregnant with #2 and we asked him if he wanted a baby sister or baby brother, his answer was “baby shark.”
My oldest loved that song so much that when my wife was pregnant with #2 and we asked him if he wanted a baby sister or baby brother, his answer was “baby shark.”
*`BABY SHARK' CREATOR PINKFONG GAINS 55% FROM IPO PRICE IN DEBUT
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Glad to know my sacrifice of listening to this song about a million times when my children were younger created real economic value.
My oldest loved that song so much that when my wife was pregnant with #2 and we asked him if he wanted a baby sister or baby brother, his answer was “baby shark.”
My oldest loved that song so much that when my wife was pregnant with #2 and we asked him if he wanted a baby sister or baby brother, his answer was “baby shark.”
Can’t read the article, but the headline is hilarious. Hopefully they also lost their home and are living in their car.
Last year, the owner of a sawmill in North Carolina voted for Trump. This year, he’s closed down his mill and blames the squeeze from Trump’s tariffs. On the Big Take podcast, Bloomberg economics reporter Shawn Donnan visits the “Old North State” to understand the ripple effect of tariffs
They Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Took Down Their Family-Owned Sawmill
On today’s Big Take podcast: How Trump’s trade war led to the closure of a family-run sawmill in North Carolina.
bloom.bg
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Can’t read the article, but the headline is hilarious. Hopefully they also lost their home and are living in their car.
There’s a lot of demands about replacing Schumer or launching a primary against Warner. It seems like the easier and fully justifiable demand is to kick Durbin out of the whip position. Like, today. Right now. Make that wimp retire as a backbencher.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
There’s a lot of demands about replacing Schumer or launching a primary against Warner. It seems like the easier and fully justifiable demand is to kick Durbin out of the whip position. Like, today. Right now. Make that wimp retire as a backbencher.
My dad (b 1954) grew up in a 1,000 sq ft 2 bed/1 bath house with 3 siblings. There was more room than you would think though, because 1 sibling died at age 2 from something in the childhood vaccine schedule today. A neighborhood kid died from drinking water from the drainage pond behind the house.
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My dad (b 1954) grew up in a 1,000 sq ft 2 bed/1 bath house with 3 siblings. There was more room than you would think though, because 1 sibling died at age 2 from something in the childhood vaccine schedule today. A neighborhood kid died from drinking water from the drainage pond behind the house.
There’s a lot of people who think the GFC was caused by the word “tranche” rather than excessive leverage in an asset with declining prices that represented a huge percentage of net worth for most people in the country and a large piece of GDP.
quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
There’s a lot of people who think the GFC was caused by the word “tranche” rather than excessive leverage in an asset with declining prices that represented a huge percentage of net worth for most people in the country and a large piece of GDP.
Tapper’s only response to this will be to start wall-to-wall coverage about why AOC won’t take an IQ test with a counter of how many minutes has passed since she’s refused to do it.
[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Tapper’s only response to this will be to start wall-to-wall coverage about why AOC won’t take an IQ test with a counter of how many minutes has passed since she’s refused to do it.
I keep coming back to his comments on the NECEC. He strikes me as a guy who is going to have weird views that will kill legislation.
We had 1 Sinema. We don’t need another.
We had 1 Sinema. We don’t need another.
The more evidence mounts that Platner is lying, the more convinced I become that he is lying not only about his past but also about his current views.
CNN confirms that multiple sources suggest Graham Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol years prior to launching his campaign — and is now blatantly lying about it.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I keep coming back to his comments on the NECEC. He strikes me as a guy who is going to have weird views that will kill legislation.
We had 1 Sinema. We don’t need another.
We had 1 Sinema. We don’t need another.
Which is why we really need a movie about the Battle off Samar.
This is because Earth naval combat is extremely cinematic and realistic space combat would be dreadfully boring
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Which is why we really need a movie about the Battle off Samar.
This is the cost of fighting Trump: slashing research/education and laying off people. I’m not going to pretend that every university surrendering was solely motivated by that element, but it was a factor.
It’s also fair to argue that admins had the moral duty to pay that cost for academic freedom.
It’s also fair to argue that admins had the moral duty to pay that cost for academic freedom.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is the cost of fighting Trump: slashing research/education and laying off people. I’m not going to pretend that every university surrendering was solely motivated by that element, but it was a factor.
It’s also fair to argue that admins had the moral duty to pay that cost for academic freedom.
It’s also fair to argue that admins had the moral duty to pay that cost for academic freedom.
These numbers are honestly awful for Dems. Despite everything Trump has done, Dems are matching their 2017 numbers in VA and massively underperforming in NJ.
Dems are up 6 and 10 points, respectively, in our new polling averages for the New Jersey and Virginia gov races. This is generally higher than competing args , which don't account for pollster house effects or poll partisanship (lots of GOP polls out there) www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats up 6, 10 points in new averages of New Jersey and Virginia governor polls
Aggregators take note: We found that many polls in these contests are sponsored by or affiliated with GOP campaigns, increasing potential bias of unadjusted polling averages
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
These numbers are honestly awful for Dems. Despite everything Trump has done, Dems are matching their 2017 numbers in VA and massively underperforming in NJ.
Bluesky consensus has way too high a probability on two things in particular: (1) AI and the associated capex is a money pit that will create no value and (2) the economy is going to crash.
BLK, DPZ, JNJ, WFC, JPM, and GS reported so far this morning. Broadly speaking everyone has beat.
- BLK record iShares quarter
- DPZ second-highest YoY comps since 2021
- JNJ spinning off its orthopedics biz
- WFC CEO Scharf "strong" customers
- JPM raised NII guide
- GS beat IB revenues by 20%
- BLK record iShares quarter
- DPZ second-highest YoY comps since 2021
- JNJ spinning off its orthopedics biz
- WFC CEO Scharf "strong" customers
- JPM raised NII guide
- GS beat IB revenues by 20%
October 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Bluesky consensus has way too high a probability on two things in particular: (1) AI and the associated capex is a money pit that will create no value and (2) the economy is going to crash.
Not going to quote the post because the tankie idiot is getting a ton of replies, but it’s hilarious when people claim the US entered WW2 for money given that the catalyst for Pearl Harbor was the US refusal to sell oil to Japan…
October 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Not going to quote the post because the tankie idiot is getting a ton of replies, but it’s hilarious when people claim the US entered WW2 for money given that the catalyst for Pearl Harbor was the US refusal to sell oil to Japan…
There’s a lot of comments and QTs responding to this with “fuck society”. While one should never have kids for societal benefit, it’s true that kids are indeed a benefit to society because most people will reach a point where they are elderly and need the support of the young.
I think the thing with the debate about ‘Pro-Natalism’ is that everyone kind of dances around saying explicitly is that revealed preferences show lots of people think having kids of sort of sucks for the parent but is clearly necessary for society.
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There’s a lot of comments and QTs responding to this with “fuck society”. While one should never have kids for societal benefit, it’s true that kids are indeed a benefit to society because most people will reach a point where they are elderly and need the support of the young.
Yes, if only one law had not been passed, then the president who has been openly breaking the law with the support of his co-partisan majority in Congress and the Supreme Court would have been stopped by the law. 🙄
When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now
Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways
Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways
October 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Yes, if only one law had not been passed, then the president who has been openly breaking the law with the support of his co-partisan majority in Congress and the Supreme Court would have been stopped by the law. 🙄
Finally, someone willing to make betrayal come at a cost. Next on the list to threaten: the mega cap tech companies.
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Finally, someone willing to make betrayal come at a cost. Next on the list to threaten: the mega cap tech companies.
At some point, I have to assume the degenerate gambling we’ve seen across many areas of the economy comes to a bad end. The big problem is I have no idea what would be a catalyst to actually get it to stop so it’s way too easy to bleed money being early to that theme.
This pretty much sums up where we are in this market:
Through 2024 they were exactly 4 days in the market's history with total call volume greater than 40 million contracts.
There were 12 such days in the month of September alone and another yesterday.
Through 2024 they were exactly 4 days in the market's history with total call volume greater than 40 million contracts.
There were 12 such days in the month of September alone and another yesterday.
October 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
At some point, I have to assume the degenerate gambling we’ve seen across many areas of the economy comes to a bad end. The big problem is I have no idea what would be a catalyst to actually get it to stop so it’s way too easy to bleed money being early to that theme.
The schadenfreude part of me that says the 3 liberal justices should have joined with the “Trump is God” wing of Alito and Thomas to let Trump fire Cook now just to fuck with Roberts and the respectable authoritarian wing of the court. Roberts made this mess, let him clean it up.
NEW: The Supreme Court *refuses* to let Trump fire the Fed's Lisa Cook—for now. Instead, the court agrees to hear the case in January. Cook may continue to serve in the meantime.
October 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The schadenfreude part of me that says the 3 liberal justices should have joined with the “Trump is God” wing of Alito and Thomas to let Trump fire Cook now just to fuck with Roberts and the respectable authoritarian wing of the court. Roberts made this mess, let him clean it up.
The US military in WW2 intentionally limited the number of frontline riflemen to ensure it had enough aircraft, ships, trucks, tanks, and artillery pieces to be the most mechanized and most lethal military in that conflict. This was a deliberate, methodically calculated choice!
this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
September 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The US military in WW2 intentionally limited the number of frontline riflemen to ensure it had enough aircraft, ships, trucks, tanks, and artillery pieces to be the most mechanized and most lethal military in that conflict. This was a deliberate, methodically calculated choice!
I hate the focus on “X country did more to defeat Y country because they inflicted Z% of casualties”. Material and logistics mattered. The Luftwaffe had fewer aircraft on the Eastern Front when Bagration launched than the 5th Fleet had for Forager. That fundamentally mattered!
communism never did anything useful
not even defeat the Nazis, they needed capitalism to give them loans to do that
not even defeat the Nazis, they needed capitalism to give them loans to do that
September 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I hate the focus on “X country did more to defeat Y country because they inflicted Z% of casualties”. Material and logistics mattered. The Luftwaffe had fewer aircraft on the Eastern Front when Bagration launched than the 5th Fleet had for Forager. That fundamentally mattered!
Seeing a lot of people complain about LBOs and EA. People blame buyouts but their real issue is with the amount of leverage. If EA the public company took out $20B of debt and paid shareholders a dividend, how is that any different from the transaction that just occurred?
September 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Seeing a lot of people complain about LBOs and EA. People blame buyouts but their real issue is with the amount of leverage. If EA the public company took out $20B of debt and paid shareholders a dividend, how is that any different from the transaction that just occurred?