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Robot2600 posted...

bret easton ellis is bisexual, not gay

He literally stated that he claims different sexualities in interviews to prevent being placed in a box. Fact of the matter is that he is gay with his lifelong partner, so it's 90% likely that he's gay.

BlueTigerLion posted...

Probably Poe's law. I will admit I didn't know it was satire.

What exactly did you think the movie was doing when Bateman was discussing business card typefonts and cardstocks with his bros?

darkace77450 posted...

I know there are some really obtuse dudes walking among us, but how could even the densest viewer not pick up the satire?

Most money bros and MAGAites are as dense as you can imagine.

The novel was written by a gay man, and the screenplay was created and directed by feminist women in order to mock toxic masculinity and the shallow, vicious aspects of postmodern capitalism.

And yet, the very people that the author and director/writer mocks are the ones that love the film the most.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2024/04/10/john-stockton-vaccines-covid-19-lawsuit-utah-jazz-nba/73269310007/

Excerpt:

NBA legend John Stockton has submitted a declaration in federal court that details the reasons for his recent rebellion against vaccines and COVID-19 restrictions reasons that are at odds with science and instead rooted in personal experiences or misconceptions. Stockton, 62, said in the declaration filed Tuesday that he noticed a pattern after he contracted the flu decades ago despite getting the flu vaccine. He said one of his children was harmed by vaccines, though he didnt say how. He also said he listened to the advice of a chiropractor who told him to consider not vaccinating my children.

It should be noted that chiropractors arent epidemiologists trained in investigating patterns and causes of illnesses such as the flu and COVID. Also, flu vaccines arent 100% effective because there are different strains of the flu, a virus that changes over time. Vaccines instead can reduce the risk and severity of the illness, according to the Mayo Clinic and other scientific sources. A pattern was emerging, Stockton said in the declaration filed in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash. I contracted the flu despite the vaccine. My child was hurt because of the vaccine. Maybe there was some truth in our Chiropractors words. I spent a lot of time over the next 30 years reading books, paying attention, and asking questions.

To find the truth, I used a mosaic approach seeking data, anecdotal information, personal experience, common-sense and contrary indicators. Stockton submitted the declaration in support of his lawsuit against Washington state officials who cracked down on COVID-19 misinformation from doctors. The lawsuit claims that some doctors free-speech rights were violated because they spoke against the mainstream Covid narrative. He and other plaintiffs also filed a motion Tuesday that seeks a preliminary injunction to stop the defendants from investigating or sanctioning physicians for speaking out in any public forum against the government endorsed Covid narrative.

Stockton, a basketball Hall of Famer, has a street named after him in Salt Lake City and a statute of his likeness outside his former NBA arena there. He noted his mother and sister were nurses and that he grew up in an environment "where we trusted our doctors, took medications as prescribed and followed the vaccine schedule at the time." He then apparently changed his mind, citing his NBA career and all the medical professionals he worked with, including the chiropractor who worked with his team, the Utah Jazz. Stockton recalled how he didnt miss a game in 17 seasons but missed 18 games one season because of surgery (1997) and four more games another season (1989-90). Two of those games were because I got the flu and spent a night or two in a Charlotte NC hospital, he said in the declaration. That season, I had received the flu vaccine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8GH3XtadZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM1ORokdlpA

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/10/arizona-republicans-block-repeal-state-abortion-ban

Five people in custody is connection to the shooting so far,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzAz8gcAaLY

since college .

https://www.gq.com/story/jalen-brunson-real-life-diet

1. no beef since freshman year of college,
2. no pork
3. hires a personal chef to cook his meals
4. sushi and fish for meat and protein
5. no dairy. drinks almond or oatmilk with cereal

IdiotMachine posted...

From this picture, he went left and ran while the soldiers ran towards the enemy (also on the left), with the Germans shooting at them (on the left). Why didn't he just go on the right, so that no one will be in his way while he makes that run for it?

Do you not remember the whole point of the movie? He was trying to cut through to STOP those soldiers from charging, not lag behind and let them all run to their deaths.

Arcanine2009 posted...

Sometimes he would ask me if this was the street we would turn into driving back from a relative's place. It was subtle and not super obvious. I passed it off as '"old age."

That is definitely an early warning sign.

Arcanine2009 posted...

taking an hour though to find it?. wtf.

How long do you think a 74 year old needs to walk the entire area of a multi-level parking lot?

Dakimakura posted...

Forgetting where you parked is normal.
Forgetting that you have a car is dementia.

Yeah, but there are intermediate signs that you can look for so we don't have to wait until full-blown dementia to prepare for it.

Darkinsanity1 posted...

Sure it's normal to forget exactly where you parked sometimes...but for an hour?

Odds are, it takes an hour for a 74 year old just to walk around the entire area of a multi-level parking lot.

The_Sock posted...

commonly park in?

Cause that's what happened to my dad yesterday. He forgot where he parked in a Walmart he commonly goes to and spent like an hour finding the car. He found it eventually though by himself.

Is this common aging?

By itself, this isn't an issue to be concerned about. However, if there is a pattern of forgetfulness or memory loss, then you should start broaching the subject of going in for testing.

SicSlayer posted...

The black girl drove me so irrationally angry with the way she talks I stopped watching.
"Could we...um.... like....ummm could we like not do that?"
just fuckin SAY WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SAY

I love it for its realism. I know plenty of people who talk like that in real life. Not everyone is eloquent or speaks in a way that's attractive for television.

Aloc posted...

What is the target audience for these movies

Casual audiences. You don't get to have billion-dollar movies by catering to hardcore nerds.
Guardians of the Galaxy succeeded because the writing was funny, the use of talented actors, and the tone was unique. It definitely wasn't because comic books nerds loved the original source material.

FortuneCookie posted...

They're doing it to virtue signal and to generate nerd rage -- which turns into viral marketing. They couldn't get that from using an existing female character unless she was already controversial (i.e. "Captain Marvel to replace Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four movie").

Silver Surfer has been female before in prior source material. Please stop spewing ignorance.

LightHawKnight posted...

But why though?

Because Julia Garner is a good actor.

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No income tax and supposedly lower cost of living was the hype.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/leaving-florida-rcna142316

They came for Florida's sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.
Florida has seen a population boom in recent years, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing the Sunshine State.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5fe2f83d.jpg

into making abortion a Constitutional right. The vote was 780 yay, 72 nays.

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/france-becomes-first-nation-to-make-abortion-a-constitutional-right-in-50-years

France became the first nation in 50 years to make abortion a constitutional right on Monday. The 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson U.S Supreme Court ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade in the United States, was the inspiration for a bill to enshrine reproductive healthcare freedom in that nation's constitution. The introduction to the bill reads: "Unfortunately, this event [in the US] is not isolated: in many countries, even in Europe, there are currents of opinion that seek to hinder at any cost the freedom of women to terminate their pregnancy if they wish."

"We're sending a message to all women: your body belongs to you and no one can decide for you," Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said in a speech to parliament. The bill passed overwhelmingly with a 780-72 vote in a joint session of parliament on Monday after being approved in the French Senate last week. French President Emmanuel Macron had promised to deliver constitutional protection for abortion since that right was removed in the United States in 2022.

The only other nation to make abortion a constitutional right since the United States in 1973 was the former Yugoslavia in 1974. France decriminalized abortion in 1975, largely inspired by the Roe ruling. "This right [to abortion] has retreated in the United States. And so nothing [permitted] us to think that France was exempt from this risk," said Laura Slimani, from the abortion rights organization Fondation des Femmes. Celebrations erupted throughout Paris when news of the vote was reported. Abortion has an 80% approval rating in France.

JoeDangIt posted...

Why can't I just buy my own debt for pennies on the dollar?

Technically, you often can. Many collection agencies are often willing to take 20-70% off if you work with them.

ClayGuida posted...

They're buying the debt for pennies on the dollar. John Oliver did this a few years back, he bought a few million in debt for like 20k or something.

Nice, that's fucking awesome.

Does buying up debt mean that the government is paying full price from health providers?
I have concerns that canceling debt is only putting more tax money into the hands of service providers who over-charge for basically anything medically related.

If however, we are getting a deal on the debt -- such as buying up debt at 50 cents off the dollar, then this is something that's worth supporting as cost-efficient.

Zikten posted...

I think if we could shed ourselves of religion, it would greatly increase our survival chances

I honestly don't think religion is the worst problem. I think that this human drive to compete and conquer is what might end us. I view humankind as a game of prisoners' dilemma. Would we rather sacrifice personal desire and triumph for mutual benefit, or betray each other and kill ourselves for the sake of personal glory?

Or do you think we become the functional equivalent of a virus and just spread ourselves to the point of self-destruction?

a) I order from local family-owned restaurants once every week or two now.
b) I cook for myself 5-6 days out of the week now.
c) I drink soda once or twice out of the month now.

LSGW_Zephyra posted...

There were other ways as well that never needed police or prisons.

Pitchforks, exile, and stonings.

Doe posted...

The old Wild West actually wasnt a crazy violent place,

Yeah, because marshals and sheriffs had to come around.

willythemailboy posted...

Pretty sure Somalia exists without police as we know them.

The non-gangster part of Somalia has police. The bad part of Somalia does not.
So no, society in Somalia does not survive without police. Just random gangs and warlords vying for power. Whichever gang comes out on top, then becomes the police.

Ooooooranges posted...

The South is hardly in there at all. Maybe Google what the South is before making dumb topics.

By South, I meant Texas OKC, but also Tennessee, etc. SORRRYRYRYRYRYR

Puglia77 posted...

Arizona is the southwest. The south always refers to the southeast below the Mason Dixon line. Different cultures, Arizona was not a part of the US during the time of the southern culture.

I'm sorry dude. I didn't have enough space in the title.
Midwest, South, and Southwest. HAPPPY????

legendary_zell posted...

The typical argument is that we don't provide for people's needs, and have shrunken the public sphere/social services/social relationships of care in favor of "the economy" and private property so that we now need police to clean up the aftermath through force. The idea would be to take care of people's needs to the point where armed force is no longer necessary to keep things running.

Yeah, when people say 'Defund the Police'. They actually mean, defund this particular department of the police, and replace it with a combination of peace officers, criminal investigations, social services, and first responders. Defund the Police actually means, "Reforming hasn't worked. We must completely REORGANIZE law enforcement and start fresh."

The problem with Five Guys is that they have a standardized economic system.

Our food prices fluctuate. We do not base our price on anything but margins. We raise our prices to reflect whatever our food costs are. So if the mayonnaise guy triples his price, we pay triple for the mayonnaise! And then we'll increase the price of our product. About five years ago, hurricanes killed the tomato crop in Florida, and prices went from $17 to $50 a case. So a few of my franchisees called and said, "We're not using tomatoes. The prices are too high." I suggested using one slice instead of two. My kids were furious: "It should be two! Always!" They were right -- it's too easy to start slipping down that slope. We stuck with two slices, and so did our franchisees.

So, the past 10 year trend of price inflation on food costs, transportation costs, and real estate affected Five Guys much more than other franchises.

Tyranthraxus posted...

"Go subjugate the next fief over and bring me back 15 slaves" is not law.

If people were enforcing it, then it's fucking law, dude.

"Do what I say, or you will face certain consequences."

Tyranthraxus posted...

That's not what law is.

In practicality, yeah, it is. Otherwise, why would vassals, fiefs exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism
a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Knights and related shit in a feudal society didn't enforce laws.

I apologize, I don't mean knights. I mean guards, and sheriffs, or whatever they had.

Tyranthraxus posted...

They enforced their liege lord's will.

AKA, the law.

Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

So Arizona is in the South as far as you're concerned?

Yeah, pretty much. At least, culturally.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I'm talking about regular ass town watches but they've existed for far longer than knights and samurai and they can coexist with Knights and feudalism regardless.

They still didn't always exist.

In that case, they've existed since villages and settlements started existing, which is pretty much most of human recorded history. Before that, we were just cavemen and nomads -- might as well be animals.

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's an economic system

Just to be clear, in human history, an economic system is pretty much synonymous with the socio-political system, and how we view property rights is intrinsically tied with how we enforce laws.

Tyranthraxus posted...

You can have police and feudalism at the same time.

If Knights and Samurai, etc. count as police, then the concept of police has existed since before the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. Even tribal justice had some form of 'police'. You'd have to go all the way back to Caveman, Nomadic tribes then.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

Doesn't look like any in the south east

Marijuana use is more spread out everywhere, that's why I didn't include it.

Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

Certainly it's notable that the Northeast is completely absent from the list, but why pick on the South and not the West?

Midwest 'culture' typically extends all the way to the mountains, imo. If I am referring something as West, I will mean that it's mostly just west coast.
Arizona / rural Nevada culture is more similar to Texas than it is to the West Coast.

Heineken14 posted...

I think if you are shitting it down the drain then that's one way to NOT become a parent.

I'm sure there are many parents who believe that their experiences with children is metaphorically just shitting money down the drain.

Tyranthraxus posted...

You need "a" way to enforce laws. In absence of the police, we generally get mob justice. It's up to you if you want to decide that's preferable. Society did survive with it for thousands of years so it's not impossible but I don't think people in those times lived that well compared to today.

No. Society survived without police by using a feudal system during the middle ages. When it wasn't a feudal system, then it was imperialistic / military.