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@kunley_drukpa “the very Minions-esque spiritually Indonesian parts of the character” outstanding

WATCHING ‘RYAN GOSLING STARS AS RYAN GOSLING’ ‘I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE’ REVIVALISM FILM ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ (2026) WITH A LATINA WOMAN Noticed ‘Project Hail Mary’ (called derisively by some ‘Project Reddit’) was available on streaming. Saw it described as a Neo-‘Scientism’ film in the sense of it is thematically very ‘I Fucking Love Science’ but where the ‘Scientism’ here is ‘Scientism’ in a not massively woke way. Andy Weir Hard Science ‘Scientism’ where the author is too much of a sperg about making sure all ‘The Science’ is correct to care about properly getting into the weeds of social commentary and where the mostly upbeat plot is basically just the main character ‘doing science’ to ‘solve science puzzles’. I’m a big sucker for this kind of techno-optimism, I’m not embarrassed to admit I do actually ‘Fucking Love Science’ Suggested to Latina ‘friend’ and she perked up and said “yeah of course let’s watch it, actually I’ve seen it at the cinema twice already I really liked it I want to watch it again”. Thought ‘huh’? No offence to her she is sweet if a little ditzy but did wonder what was wrong with either her or ‘Project Hail Mary’ that she went to the cinema to see it twice. TLDR enjoyed the film but wouldn’t pay to see it twice, also I don’t have a vagina either. Strange Film stars Ryan Gosling as himself which is great casting because Gosling does borderline Reddit but not full-on Reddit really well, you know he has enough charisma to float above ‘Reddit-ness’ even if a lot of his mannerisms are Reddit-coded. This casting prevents the film - despite Weir’s Reddit tendencies - from ever becoming properly Reddit, it has a lot of Reddit moments but Gosling as himself means it escapes full ‘Reddit-dom’. Contrast vs if Ryan Reynolds had been cast instead With ‘Scientism’ in general it’s easy to descend into ‘Reddit-ness’, to get too excited and prematurely ejaculate a load of insipid moralisms into it. This is a shame because I am very pro pro-science messaging. I mean science here in the proper hard empiricism sense - Bacon, Kuhn, Feyerabend etc. Basically Fine Carl Sagan ‘Scientism’ descended into New Atheism ‘Scientism’ descended into the mess that was popular culture in the 2010s, then the COVID debacle too… ended up tarnishing ‘Science’ as a brand. ‘Science’ has been in need of a proper revival since Plot is the sun and every other star within a few hundred light years is being eaten by space bacteria so Gosling has to go into space to the one star nearby that isn’t being eaten by space bacteria in order to find out why. When Gosling arrives he discovers spooky aliens have also traveled there for the same reason; their home star is being eaten by space bacteria too. Build-up to the alien reveal has a dash of cosmic horror about it, the interior of their ship is aesthetically a bit ‘I Fucking Love Science’ “uh actually intelligent life probably isn’t going to be humanoid it’s probably going to be Truly Alien” (fractals made of xenon, the air is ammonia etc) but it still manages to be tasteful ‘Alien’ alien Single surviving occupant is revealed to be a rock alien Gosling names ‘Rocky’. Unfortunately it turns out Rocky’s species is a Reddit species - he talks and acts like a Redditor, is unambiguously Reddit in conception. Latina found the Rocky character hilarious, kept laughing out loud at him. Not even at the sometimes bordering Reddit-escape velocity quite sweet funny dialogue bits, at like the bits where he would be walking around and slip on a banana skin, at the very Minions-esque spiritually Indonesian parts of the character. Rocky is kind of cute to be sure but he isn’t laugh out loud funny - that and all the parts where she didn’t really seem to understand the ‘Space Is Really Fucking Big Science 101 Science’ to be honest I was starting to get the ick Overall, some Reddit moments (esp. Rocky) but on balance a mostly not-Reddit film. Promising move towards a post-Reddit ‘I Fucking Love Science’ ‘Science’

@PassagePress @TJ_Harker lmao

Today we are proud to announce the release of American Scapegoat: How a Corrupt Justice System Sacrificed Derek Chauvin to the Mob by former federal prosecutor T.J. Harker (@TJ_Harker). Six years ago today, George Floyd died while in custody of Minneapolis beat cop Derek Chauvin, sparking the most destructive riots in our nation's history and becoming the pretext for an era of mass political hysteria that threatened to rip apart the very fabric of American life. Cities burned. Floyd's body was paraded around in a gold casket. Every institution was made to bend the knee to BLM. Ordinary white Americans, represented by the person of Derek Chauvin, were called to account for three centuries of racial grievance. All most Americans saw of that day was the grainy cellphone footage of Officer Chauvin's knee restraining the back of George Floyd's neck. Few bothered to learn any other details about the case, and by the time the trial rolled around, the verdict was a foregone conclusion. An innocent black man had been killed by a racist white cop, they were told. And for America to atone for its original sins, that racist white cop had to pay the price. What they didn't know was that Chauvin's knee did not prevent Floyd from breathing. They didn't know Chauvin was following procedure by the book. They didn't know Floyd had taken lethal amounts of fentanyl minutes before being restrained. They didn't know Floyd had a pre-existing heart condition. They didn't know the autopsy report had been revised under threat of professional harm. They didn't know the original prosecutor removed herself from the case after seeing all of the evidence. They didn't know the subsequent prosecutors had to abandon their theory of the case just days into the trial. They didn't know the prosecution never established a cause of death, let alone that Derek Chauvin was responsible. In American Scapegoat, author T.J. Harker breaks down what happened on that fateful day six years ago, analyzes the thousands of court documents manipulated and recontextualized to achieve the trial result Minnesota politicians demanded, and relives the trial itself in thorough, painstaking detail to definitively show that Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd. Never in modern American history has our justice system been so corrupted by public mass hysteria than in the case of Derek Chauvin. This is the story of that trial. This is the story of how a man was sacrificed to the mob. American Scapegoat is available for pre-order now. Coming Fall '26.

@uncledoomer infinity plus one coming up

if she has a bra with weezer on it thats infinity bodies

@HEAVYWASH_ The giant gibbet viewing window really tires it together

@psychotronica_ @RezClay I have a weird recollection of him turning around and saying ‘oh no’ in that whiny voice before he hits the overpass

🚨RAIMI DOUBLE DUMMY ALERT🚨 Crimewave 1985 / United States / Sam Raimi shout out to @RezClay for this awesome dummy sighting. keep ‘em coming #dummysquad 🐀 💥🚙sound on🚙💥🐀

@MythoYookay The browns are calling brown gays gay!

SEARCHING FOR PYRAMIDS IN THE DARIEN GAP FULL DOCUMENTARY

We’re Cavemanmaxxing

@nypost You gotta drag them by the hair or they get full of sand

Runway model dragging 'lifeless' woman sparks fierce debate: 'Stupidity' trib.al/rm10yz9

@AP TALLY HO NIGGA

A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second. Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it’s exempt from gun regulations. Many antique or replica guns aren’t considered firearms and even convicted felons can own them.

@DingusKingus @bumbadum14 A famous seattle meth head violently took it over then killed his girlfriend and dissolved himself in a vat of bleach

@bumbadum14 There were some fun bits

40 people died. I saw a man get beat to death in Dallas trying to protect his friend’s bar. The first night of the riots I saw a Snapchat story of a woman being shoved into a stolen car.

@Cthulhu_Cal @Paul_Heron_ So was Monte Cristo

@Paul_Heron_ Dickens was published in local serials to be read by shop clerks and maids.

What fresh hell is this

@TheLittleDrinka As Drinka failed again and again to pronounce the name of the sauce, he began to mock the idea that it was even possible. I could see beginnings of despair in his eyes as he realized his lips would never be capable of producing such commonplace syllables.

how white people look at you when you can’t pronounce worcestershire sauce

@neofob Don’t you see how the cat swallow people

@uMarhobane A decades long project since wwii to show that people in societies pre-capitalism were peaceful, sharing, and just.

lmao what Like, how do you get to a postgrad position without learning that history was full of violent conquest

@Howlingmutant0 @nypost Gotta admit I find these catastrophic man vs nature deaths amusing—space, ocean, deep sea, arctic, magma, caves, etc.

@nypost Remember when liberals were really happy about this for some weird reason

Titan submarine victims' bodies were returned as 'slush' in 'shoeboxes' trib.al/qcJWI2o

@ElonBachman I used to pick these up when I was little. They try to dig out of your hands, between your fingers. Feels freaky

Saw an alarming insect today that looked like it was half cricket, half mole, pointed my phone at it and it turned out to be a "mole cricket"

To be honest, I don’t care if illegals have dignity.

This possibly supports hypothesis re the West African roots of the Romanian people

@Delicious_Tacos Vaginx

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