I'm sorry, I like you, but respectfully, this is exactly backwards. Things like the space program cannot happen without public spending, for exactly the reason you keep bringing up - speculative returns. Returns that are in essence public goods no less. A large body controlled (ostensibly, anyway) by citizens with no…

Wait so this is a stealth Fried Green Tomatoes remake?

Tbh "cursing, and there's sex too! Starring Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza" sounds like the perfect movie.

"Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny and the Minions"

I thought "Dom King" was Lobsters.

I mean… they're not wrong about the figurehead bit, but they're not-wrong in a way I'd guess most of them don't like, or wouldn't if they actually realized it.

All the girlies say I'm pretty fly (for a White Star Line guy)

I'm convinced they've got an actuarial table that has every director's average profit/expense ratio and metacritic score, and then they just mix and match with whatever trend they're chasing based on how much they've budgeted for a director. There's no way a real human being came up with "$150 million dollar Bible…

There's a very real, fairly famous American football player named Fletcher Cox.

Split the difference: he loses the Falcon in a hip space rap battle.

Oh that's definitely a legitimate peeve. I guess the one thing I'd say though is that sometimes, even if you have the right-of-way, it's hard to tell if someone pulling out actually sees you, or gives a shit even if they do. So, sometimes, it's defensive driving.

Drafts have always been first and foremost about deflating salaries for amateurs by limiting bargaining rights - the history of the MLB draft lays that pretty bare.

Joni Mitchell - This Flight Tonight
System Of A Down - Boom!
Andrés Segovia - Debussy: Préludes, Livre 1 - 8. La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Fahr Zur Hölle
Nobuo Uematsu - 砂の流刑地
The Crickets - Not Fade Away
Frederick Delius - Brigg Fair: An English Rhapsody
Loreena McKennitt - Bonny Swans
Cream -…

Just started a playthrough of the original Fallout for the first time - I'd played a bit of both 1 and 2 at a friend's house back in the day but this will be my first real sit-down experience with either - and oh the wonders of not-quite-fully-tested mid-'90s mechanics:

I remember that it taught me the word "spic", so… is that real enough for ya?

Right? Honestly if anything I was pleasantly surprised… well, not "pleasantly" but… whatever… less-soul-crushed-than-expected, by the fact that it wasn't just an outright acquittal.

Conceded.

Well this excellent (as always) piece sent me on my own Wiki Wormhole journey, to the list of films based on Titanic to Dorothy Gibson, and holy moly she is worthy of a feature herself. She was an actress of apparently some renown - was a star on the level of her contemporary Mary Pickford for a time - and was on the…

Icebergs are strong as hell!

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