I’m not making excuses for the dems complete lack of backbone, or their complicity in all the current horrors, but I do think this conversation should always acknowledge that many millions of (poor, undocumented, disabled) people would be utterly fucked during a total shutdown.

For dinner, anything from Alison Roman. For dessert, anything from Claire Saffitz. It’s a pretty basic take but their recipes are simple and incredibly tasty.

Wow this is great info! Thank you. I’ve had Pixels for years, so I’m familiar with some of the hardware limitations. When you say there’s no manual focus on the camera, do you mean I can’t tap on the screen to spot focus, or there’s no linear focus adjustment like on an SLR?

They have not increased their activity in Minneapolis since they announced the drawdown. They weren’t gone right away, and they’re still using the Whipple building for detention and outfitting vehicles, but most of the abductions are happening in the greater metro area and even then they’ve decreased.

What’s your budget exactly? I haven’t tried them, but Consumer Reports has high ratings for the DustBuster CHV1410L and the ION HHVI315JO42. You can get either one for under $50.

It’s for women to wear in their vaginas when they believe sexual assault is unavoidable. It has spines pointing inward that will hook onto a penis to stop the assault and punish the assaulter.

Oh, I fully believe community is the most important resource. I wouldn’t be driving off somewhere to fend for myself, I would just want my car to be functional.

I’m so sorry you had to experience that. I wasn’t there, but I think about that night a lot. I go to a lot of shows and festivals, and it’s therapeutic to be able to take drugs and dance in the dark with my friends. The idea of a tragedy happening during such a joyful time is just unspeakable. I’m glad you’re safe and I wish you all the healing in the world.

My last car was an EV. I loved how it drove, I loved charging at home and never having to stop at the gas station, and I told everyone around me, “If you can afford it, you have an ethical obligation to buy a hybrid or an EV.” Since Trump 2.0 I’ve been concerned about some form of collapse that would make me flee my home - natural disaster, violent military occupation, etc. I started to wonder, “What’s stopping Elon from limiting access to all these superchargers?” Public chargers are much slower than gas, and they’re easily vandalized. The whole thing just seems like a liability at this point. At least in a Mad Max scenario I could barter for a can of guzzoline.

I hate that I’m even considering any of this.

I should clarify that I only read half the book, so I haven’t read that scene. It sounds like the movie didn’t capture something special about his relationship with the worm. What I got from only seeing the movie is that there’s a skyscraper-sized being that behaves more like a force of nature than a creature. So the vibe I got was more like Paul learning to surf than taming an animal.

That aside, visually I was impressed and thought afterwards, “Well, that could have looked a lot dumber than it did.”

I was blown away by the Paul taming Shai Hulud scene. The VFX were perfect and the camera work showed the massive scale of the worms.

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie was hilarious and ambitious. I saw it in theaters twice and I think about it all the time.

Thank you for writing this.

I love The Barkley Marathons! I rewatch it at least once a year.

I’ll add a few.

American Movie (1999) - An amateur filmmaker has spent years trying to finish his magnum opus. It’s a hilarious and endearing portrait of a distracted visionary. The most Milwaukee movie you’ll ever see.

Gates of Heaven (1978) - Errol Morris’s first feature about a small town’s relationship with a pet cemetery. It’s under 90 minutes and full of characters.

Into the Abyss (2011) - Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide in Texas and its two perpetrators - one sentenced to life, the other sentenced to death. Conversations with everyone involved in the execution process - the killers, the victim’s families, investigators, the chaplain, and the executioner.

The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) - Alex Gibney’s story about Theranos, who scammed investors out of billions of dollars for a medical device that didn’t exist.

Roxy: The Movie (2015) - A 1973 concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. I know almost nothing about Zappa and his music, but it’s a marvel to watch everyone’s musicianship.

The Summit (2012) - 11 climbers on K2 die within about 24 hours. A mix of interviews with survivors and very well-produced dramatizations.

Tim’s Vermeer (2013) - A software engineer tries to recreate the famously mysterious painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer. A movie about technology, tinkering, and obsession.

I got a TCL last year and it wouldn’t let me use the TV until I set up the internet. After 4 factory resets I figured out how to put it in store demo mode, and plugged in a separate streaming device that connects to the internet. Now I realize I could have connected the TV to the internet and then blocked it at the network level.

I remember trying to run Spider-Man on my 1080p monitor and wondering why it looked like complete shit even at 30fps. You’re right that the strength is limited, and lots of AAA games will need the settings lowered quite a bit to run smoothly.

In 2020 Bernie and Biden were the front-runners, and then all the other candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden. So it wasn’t ratfucked in an illegal way, but in a “torpedo a popular leftist in favor of a right-of-center establishment neolib” way.

I believe you need a separate Google account for the separate space, just FYI.

This would have been my top line comment. I wish anime wasn’t such a glaring blind spot for me, because it’s something so many people connect on. But I see it like reality TV. There’s 1000 shows with 1000 episodes each, and some shows are probably great, but I’ve never been interested.