I know, I would have felt better if it was animated.

Sony live action marvel stuff makes me sad. Nicholas Cage gives me hope, though.

I agree RFK is a dangerous moron. But shouldn’t the takeaway be that we ought to clean up the sewage?

Wow, you’ve never worked a job before, huh?

You’ve never worked a tipped job, have you? Estimate the percentage of employers who pay minimum wage if tips are too low. Throw out any number.

Weird how anytime we deprioritize profits under almost anything, it results in improved quality of life.

Expensive vaporware

Bullshit, and that’s a dangerously naive perspective. If everyone stopped tipping tomorrow, the only people that would be hurting are the people who serve.

All labor regulations exist because there will always be someone desperate enough to do anything for a paycheck. Child laborers. Prostututes. Dallas Cowboys. People will do anything for money, and the only way to prevent exploitation is with regulation. The “free market” will turn your bones into paste before it provides a living wage to laborers.

Capitalism is an unbalanced power dynamic that relies on an excess of desperation. If people didn’t need to sell their time, they’d never sell it for less than it is worth to employers. So if everyone agreed to just stop tipping, service would get much worse, and servers would be working for $2.10 an hour plus kitchen scraps.

At least we agree on uour last point.

3d, Tom Cruise Star Power, yeah I’m glad this got delayed. Hopefully they realize how shitty that would have been.

This exists purely to put the opponents of the bill on the side defending porn.

… Also, they all have to wear their shoes on the wrong feet and their fingernails must be trimmed just a tiny bit too short, because being homeless isn’t punishment enough without regulating arbitrary inconveniences.

How, exactly, would that work? Because this sounds like the ramblings of someone who doesn’t understand what a microchip is. Like 7 perpendicular lines level of comprehension.

The article paints a different picture than the headline. She doesn’t regret doing the show and isn’t holding a grudge. She’s mad that they used kids for the show, giving them false hope, which is one of the larger points of the show.

When the fuck did “nasty” become a political insult?

Is. Is going on.

I would be holding onto the pole, especially if it meant I could cast firebolt and not have it catch fire.

I don’t know where you live, but start local. And in the meantime, stop going to restaurants.

Republicans telling on themselves again.

That’s also a relative thing. His “stunts” are likely jumping around in a wire harness doing martial arts. He’s not doing Tom Cruise shit, like free-climbing skyscrapers or hanging out of airplanes. Nobody expects Boris Grishenko to be Jackie Chan.

Acrobatic fighting and swordplay choreography is hard to do well, which is why actors will often use stunt doubles. It’s not just “this is dangerous, bring in the person that nobody loves.” It’s more like “This guy playing the teleporting swordmonkey qualifies for Medicare, so let’s get someone who can rise from an Adirondack chair without grunting to do the blue demon crawly-bamfy-fencing bits.” If he’s able to do it, it’s going to look better in the movie.

It is a bit insane, because the world is a bit insane right now, and frankly I think it’s your fault.

Well, not you specifically, and it’s not entirely your fault. But part of the reason tyranny and fascism have gripped power across the globe is that political discussion is considered impolite. It’s offensive to point out how absurd or dangerous a political policy is, so we just avoid the subject. Wouldn’t want to offend a conservative bigot by pointing out other people exist.

And because polite people avoid the subject, only extremists engage in the debate. Nuance is lost, and the crazies take charge of the nuthouse whilst “normal” people, like yourself, fret about people talking about the problem.

It would be fucking fantastic to look at a picture of the sky and not think of how air pollution is being deregulated, how Qatar is buying influence with the President by gifting him an airplane, how space is being monetized by a South African Nazi, or how we’re all likely to die of an airborne virus because the person in charge of coordinating our healthcare response has a brain that’s mostly worm poo.

It would be wonderful to stop talking about politics, but not talking about it has led us, inexorably, to this point. We have a duty to discuss ideas when they affect all of us. We have a responsibility to point out stupidity and ignorance and make conservatives feel ashamed of it. It’s not fun for us, either, but if we were to follow your lead, we will end up murdering children in death camps. Which is exactly where we are.