They don't use obviously Jewish names and all look (or looked) like macho Anglo guys. I think that's it.

For them "the right thing" is serving their interests and ambitions and damn the consequences. It's even rational if you change the priorities. If you think your personal enrichment is of greater importance than the continuance of democratic government why not peddle election fraud lies? Hell it's Fox that's getting…

I remember that “Exalted Cyclops” is a rank. Too damn weird to forget. Must have been a hell of a batch of moonshine the night they thought all the names up.

The article described the justices as unelected, both in the headline and the body of the text. Is that just something to throw at them when you don’t like their decisions? Fair enough but if you really want elected Supreme Court Justices just say that instead. But first consider how big of an idiot your average…

I don’t see how this is a problem. Theoretically at least if they have less repos because the car convinces people to pay they get more cash flow and stop paying repo companies to do the work. So they could keep the same profit margin and offer lower interest rates. Will they? Who knows. But we do know how they…

If you’re talking about the giant dragon laying in Caelid that takes like ten minutes to kill and never wakes up it’s not a boss. In fact I saw a YouTube video where a modder tried to get the dragon to activate but every time just after it started moving the game would crash.

No one calls Dark Souls or Elden Ring a JRPG yet Fromsoft is definitely a Japanese company. People causally refer to plenty of games as JRPGs regardless of where the people who develop them come from or live currently. Perhaps people used it as an insult at one point but the term seems to denote a particular style of…

I think that’s true most of the time but every once in a while you run into a group of people who have some toxic dynamic where they’re all jerks to each other and they all think it’s perfectly normal. Dysfunctional families, codependent friend groups, some professions seem to damn near encourage it.

There’s a Hank Williams Jr song called “If Heaven Ain’t A Lot Like Dixie” that includes the line “Send me to Hell or New York City, it’d be about the same to me”. Alabaman, I believe, so your thesis stands up.

Yes. In SC it's capped at $300 a year, not sure about NC. Our roads are terrible, especially in rural areas. On the bright side we have really low gas prices. I'm not sure it's worth the trade-off but they don't ask me.

I’m thinking it’s more like the lawsuit over the song “Blurred Lines”. The estate of Marvin Gaye sued Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, the performer and producer, for copyright infringement of Gaye’s song “Got To Give It Up”. Despite the newer work containing no coherent musical elements of the older one the Gaye…

Clearly it’s a Russian company and whether or not someone wants to do business with them in spite of that country’s unprovoked aggression is a matter of individual principle. No need to really look deeper into it than that.

The one true thing about this story that’s actually somewhat interesting is that the bear, after dying and being taxidermied, was owned by country music legend and cocaine aficionado Waylon Jennings.

For some reason I read Devin Booker as David Brooks and wondered why that asshole cared and why anyone else cares who he follows. This makes a lot more sense.

According to a six year old discussion on stackexhange it is an older Chinese term for white people used predominantly in the northeast, originally describing Russians and definitely pejorative. Nothing about Jews specifically.

I wonder how human made art that contains ai generated content would be considered. Say someone wants to make a drawn or animated work about a robots/AI vs humans scenario and wants to use AI art for the robot characters to reinforce the sense of otherness. I could see that working because if AI does one thing right…

It was a creative decision, like the cut to black in the final episode of The Sopranos. Did it win a Nobel for literature, a Pulitzer after branching out into science reporting? We'll never know.

Yes, exactly, they’re the dollar store version of Jolie and Thornton back in the day. The weird try-hard couple “we have at home”.

This is pretty informative but I think you missed the big question: Are they jerking off to these fucking things or what?

I live 30-45 minutes away from Graniteville. I am a construction contractor, specifically flooring, so I got called down there to look at a job and give them an estimate. This was months after the accident. The chlorine had rotted everything. You could push your hand through the metal cladding on the outside of…