I read it as an awareness of his prognosis, which given Stage 3/4 colon cancer could not have been great, but a belief on Boseman's part that he could beat the odds.

Also don’t sleep on Winston Duke.  In the comics his character is a villain, but they’ve already established a more nuanced take on that character and I’d be interested to see a version of him as a hero, perhaps alongside Shuri as the new Black Panther.

Oh hell yeah. Better yet, give me a remaster/redux with more of that ship to ship combat. God I loved that game. One of the very few games I basically 100% completed, gotta be Vyse the Legend!

I love the idea that Germany’s inspection requirements are “absurdly” strict. I’d argue that a nation with areas of unrestricted speed limits has an interest in making sure people with bad minivan fetishes have adequate tires and functional wheel bearings.

It think that Dolly Parton is one of those artists who has put out some really timeless tracks. I like jazz, so I like Louis Armstrong, but even if you don’t like jazz Louis Armstrong’s “Over the Rainbow” is iconic. I think "Jolene" (for example) has that same quality.

“Make sure to tell your friends when you’re running through The Vault the first time. I’m sure they’ll have some advice for you.”

*shakes fist in direction of Bloomberg*

Agreed, it’s vastly preferable that the youths of our under-educated and poverty-stricken underclass sacrifice themselves to the altar of perpetual war.  Otherwise we might have to better their circumstances ourselves, like some kind of functioning, compassionate society.

That’s really the cruel irony of beating kids, isn’t it? Children learn from modeled behavior, and when they’re hit the lesson they really learn is that violence is an acceptable, even expedient method of behavior modification. And parents are so shocked when their children act like jerks.

And it’s hardly a ringing endorsement of corporal punishment. Surely if it worked they would have turned out better than kids who were never beaten?

I just want to talk about Lamorne Morris, who is fucking great, and super funny.  That's all I got.

This is the kind of thing you do and then return to the future and jump out of your time machine only to discover that the United Iroquois Confederation’s version of the Monroe Doctrine did not go great for significant portions of Central and South America.

I agree that there’s no substitute for a scratch made salsa, but beans are a pain in the ass, and by God there is just no way that I'm scratch cooking some dried fucking beans so that I can then cook them a second time to make refried beans.  I won't do it and no one's abuelitas or tias can make me.  I've bee hit with…

Seems inevitable, despite the fact that, so far as I read, there was no plan for a general increase in taxes to fund the program?  It’s social welfare programs all over again.  White Americans are such nosy assholes, always desperate to know what’s being done with “their” money, as though it would be given back to…

Except that there’s no evidence that traffic stops, whether they result in warnings or tickets, do anything significant to modify the behavior of individual drivers.

There are permanent cameras, but I’ve really only seen them in larger municipalities. They’re used in areas where the prevailing speed might be higher than the posted limit, but they want the limit more strictly obeyed due to heavy pedestrian traffic, a nearby school, or high accident rates, etc.

Bears are awesome.  Like, did you folks know that you can’t use some brands of “bearproof” food containers if you camp in the Adirondacks?  There’s a bear there who figured out how to open the containers, then evidently taught other bears how to do it.

Why bother with traffic stops at all. Most traffic enforcement in Germany is done by speed camera. You get a note in the mail, pay your 20 euros, and continue on about your business.

Why would it be bad to have 18500 available to me? Let’s say I don’t put it in an index fund, but there’s a sudden significant expense. A medical issue, death of a family member, whatever. Now I have liquid funds to meet that need.

Sure, but in this scenario someone apparently has enough ready cash to buy a car and not be concerned with the risk that a lack of ready cash will be damaging.