That’s the idea.

lol. No, nothing like that. I went back to my hotel, called the consulate like a regular nobody. Apparently since I was (at the time) young and in good shape with my hair cut short (Shanghai summers are murder because of the humidity) I looked like ex-military, which automatically made me suspicious. Basically the…

I have a better solution:

Which doesn’t have anything to do with the central problem with blockchain: the blockchain gets ever larger, requiring increased processing and storage. In order to fix this, you would need to “prune” old transactions and other information, but that means loss of data, meaning that fraud becomes even easier than it…

Video games based on crypto currency is...a really bad idea.  Most video games need to process data fairly quickly, blockchain is explicitly against quick processing of data as all data needs to be verified.  What’s worse, the larger the game data becomes, the slower the processing becomes as the blockchain becomes…

My dad never strangled (or hit or anything like that) my mom. I’ve never hit a woman, strangled a woman or raped a woman.  I don’t get why so many men say “these things happen” when a man does something terrible.  Motherfuckers, stop giving our gender a bad name!

He is not the wealthiest man that ever existed. I agree with a lot of what you say, but Bezos is not even close. Jakob Fugger or Mansa Musa (depending on exactly how you measure it) were the wealthiest in history. At his height Jakob Fugger controlled roughly 2% of Europe’s GDP all on his own, Mansa Musa meanwhile…

It’s a thing!

So fun story from when I was in China. I was doing some tech work I was walking around Shanghai back in the mid 2000's. I was at a bar talking to some of the locals and I mentioned concerns about crime in the area they said “oh you don’t need to worry about that, secret police are following you, they’re scaring away…

I suspect Netflix would have been fine sharing content with Disney+, they already do it with pretty much all of their movies.  My bet is that it’s Disney that killed the shows by upping the price for the rights.

Because historical dress is difficult and you need to take care and time with your costuming; if you’re trying to make a quick buck historical accuracy is your enemy and every Robin Hood movie for the last thirty years has been trying to make a quick buck.

Holy fuck you’re right, very first picture is Ivanka and Trump when she was a preteen, that’s hilarious.

It’s like someone saw gang initiations and said “how can we make this even dumber”?

Observations like this sort of make that seem more likely, don’t they?  You’d think that if things were as nice and neat as we like to believe, we’d see a pretty uniform universal expansion...but here we are.  There’s all sorts of observations of the universe that don’t seem to fit typical modelling in which the math…

Sure, but if we’re talking about realism (like the OP was) and what people would/should fight in in such a situation then lots of uncovered skin and spandex is significantly less than ideal. Realistically, if you’re going into a street fight, you probably want something a lot like this alternative Cammy skin: tennis…

Given that one of the lyrics is explicitly about cunnilingus, I’d say so.

So...as always when some of this stuff comes up I have to ask...what if physics isn’t a constant? We’re always trying to tie things up into a neat little knot; say “this is how the universe works, no exceptions” but...what if things aren’t as neat and nice as we like to think? What if there are eddies and currents…

At least the team didn’t fall upon their sword once they played the match.

It’s like “Born in the USA”, people only pay attention to the chorus and don’t actually listen to the full song. Pretty much everything outside of the chorus for both songs is just fucking depressing. I mean this:

Okay, never heard of them before today but I’m really digging Stranger Fruit from Zeal and Ardor.