Ok but how does the climax play out with grampa dead? How can they not have the greatest final line in cinema history?

As I understand it they had to go through a bunch of legal hurdles to insure that Microsoft was definitely not going to be able to see or otherwise access the data we were using in any way. The college might be suddenly realizing “oh shit we have to go through this process!”

I know the county government I work for has an institutional version that processes data privately but it took a while before it was vetted for use because they had to make sure that it was complying with the various data security laws we operate under. I don’t use it myself.

A Soviet propaganda poster featuring Lenin pointing angrily into the distance. It has been altered. Lenin now has Trump's hair and his skin in orange. The hammer/sickle logo behind him has been replaced with a cross.

There aren't a lot of things I agree with Mark Carney about, but there's one area where he and I are in *total* accord: the old, US-dominated, "rules-based international order" was total bullshit:

www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

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Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings YouTube video by The Onion

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On the bright side you heal a lot slower from injuries.

Wait, shit that’s not a bright side is it?

“From the pedophile-in-chief Donald J Trump.” Just don’t tell him that anything other than his name will be on the checks.

Corporate democrats after the party has despite all their efforts, won every single seat in both the Senate and House and the presidency, explaining why they still can’t prevent the GOP from furthering their agenda.

Same duck? I think so, the brickwork looks the same.

All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.

You misunderstand. The CEOs mean that *They* will have AI avatars to go to meetings in their place. The peasants who are still useful will of course have to submit to implanted chips that continually verify their identity and presence in each and every meeting.

there was one guy who went there to film, wore body armor, stayed in the car, and acted like he was in a particularly bad part of the Mad Max universe. It’s been awhile but I’m pretty sure there was a guy on Reddit who was there at the same time and filmed all the absolutely nothing going on.

Look, Flash solves every problem by running really fast, so logically his rogues can solve any problem by using their particular power. It’s just science.

Guess what Derek Chauvin was doing when he killed George Floyd. Training new recruits. We’ve known since the Knapp commission in the 70s that the way to continue to have bad cops is to allow the older ones who are bent or brutal to train the next generation and yet here we are decades later.

It took a shockingly long time for everyone to come to grips with the idea that these were potentially world ending devices and needed to be treated far more carefully in every aspect than normal weapons.

I remember reading in the excellent book Command and Control that early on the military largely regarded The Bomb as simply another weapon in the arsenal. More powerful tbs but not fundamentally different from other weapons that were there to be used.

Oxford being like “As a favor to your Alma Mater can you maybe just… Not speak, write or otherwise communicate your thoughts and opinions to any member of the human race ever again for the rest of your life?”

They were only 4 thousand miles away, if they had LED headlights the photo would have been overexposed.

This is why consistency in the enforcement of the rules is so important. When some people get used to being able to get away with something, it becomes an entitlement to them and when someone decides to enforce that rule they act like it’s unfair that they’re not allowed to break the law anymore.

“I’ve been used to being able to park illegally in the bike lanes for my own convenience because the rules were never enforced by the previous administration and now that I’m being asked to follow the law I’m big mad about it.”

It’s almost like oil is a commodity that’s sold on a global market by corporations that want to maximize their profits, and anyone who’s not a drooling idiot could have predicted that this would happen when 20% of the global supply was cut off.

Realistically we may be past that point already because as always, those in power never think they’ll be the ones in the Tumbrel. That’s the past and they’re smarter, those contemptible peasants are easily manipulated and controlled. And then the dam breaks and the blood runs in the streets again.

The guillotine is what happens when the people are pushed too far and and forced to endure too much by powerful leaders who hold them in contempt. A big reason why we need to strive for justice and plenty for all is so we don’t reach the point where we’re sharpening the blades.

It was either this or seeing a cereal commercial with a mixed race family, sooo…

Probably in a bunker in New Zealand with 20 years supply of food and water prepared to wait until the radiation levels have gone down and civilization is crawling from the wreckage so she can emerge and split the liberal vote again.

“Extremely broad ranging and lengthy Special Military Operation.”

The “Frat Boys” gang from the 1999 movie Mystery Men, finally off probation for fatal hazing.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Back in the day our first apartment was in a building owned by the worst slumlord in the city, and that place was being run better than this, with an on-site building manager who knew everyone in the building and a management company that tried to keep things running.

Sure you can, you just can’t fit 8 billion *live* people into the Rift Valley. Granted the undifferentiated biological slurry I’m envisioning would likely have some significant downstream ecological impact on the area but you know what they say about omelettes and eggs.