Do like I do and just change the channel/move the cursor along during the rough parts.

In the first two episodes, all of the violence is either obscured by something in the foreground (the sword-neck interactions) or is onscreen for less than half a second (boiling guy) and out of focus.

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Sorry. I didn’t watch the show and don’t know the actor. To be honest, not sure why I even read the article other than that I take in useless cultural information like some sort of object of an absorbent-type material. 

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comment/username synergy.

I feel like Morgan Wallen still didn’t get that much fame, really?

Has there ever been a face better suited to opening a door, panic-shrieking at what’s on the other side, and slamming it shut?

My take is Herbert used that as shorthand for desert culture, not that Arrakis is populated by the descendants of Arabic/Middle Eastern Earthlings.

Very frustrating that he still says “I hope there was nothing else but that” when caught lying about the reason he didn’t get a part. Just accept defeat gracefully instead of trying to pretend it was about something else to get yourself hired!

Someone on Bluesky pointed out that at long last a Kirby will make some money from the Fantastic Four.

I can’t recall anyone asking for self checkout. I would rather interact with a human being who is being paid for their labor, which with self checkout, I am doing for free, and being yelled at by the checkout stand into the bargain whether or not I’ve done everything correctly.  The respective “merits” of Aldi and…

AI and technology displacing more and more workers...they slip this in when unemployment is low...and we are stuck with it when unemployment is high and people need jobs.  

Turns out it wasn’t the aliens that wiped out most of society, but deeply-entrenched Catholic guilt.

I’m so excited I’m going to go get 30 Lashes as a Boy.

Oh fuck yeah, more Loot! More Big Door Prize!

Now, please...please renew Hello, Tomorrow! Please. God I fucking loved that show. I need at least ONE MORE SEASON, Apple. You’ve got the money! You’ve got every single money, I think!

I know you’re trolling, but the majority of Israeli Jews are of Mizrahi/Middle Eastern descent, ethnically cleansed from Arab countries and Iran.

that Nolan would see through any attempt to lie to him about being late to set if you were (hypothetically) on “the loo” for a long time that morning because he would’ve already studied every actor’s call time and how the traffic looked on whatever route they needed to take in any given morning