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Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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Principled Conservative Michigan outdoorsy-dad.
شامل ہوئے Mayıs 2007
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@Smith_WessonInc Compare the number of people who die because they don't have time to rack the slide to the number of people who have accidental discharge. Carrying one in the chamber is dumb.
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@washghost1 Maillard reaction. That dark brown is pure flavor.
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This isn’t a burger. This is the stuff you clean off of the grill before you make a burger
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@owroot Nice job getting a retweet from Douthat. As a Michigander I considered you a local account, I am impressed. 😂
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People fail to grasp how powerful and great this machine of America is. It's like they think it is some tiny country in Eastern Europe with a population of 2 million and a GDP less than that of Dallas.
People don't understand what it is that they are even living in. They don't know how powerful these gears are, how long the game is, how big the purpose is, how great the ship is.
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@vanikehuman @xwanyex It's ridiculous! Literally premised on the arguments of their opponents being wrong.
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This is what I mean when I say that a lot of Christian apologetics are embarrassingly bad. “The resurrection must be true, because the apostles were willing to die for it and nobody dies for a lie” is an argument that’s beneath thinking people.
Ana Mostarac@anammostarac
“Who gets back up three days later after he gets murdered in public? Who gets back up under his own power? Buddha didn't do that shit.”
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@gorgeous0017 @Variety And you're the reason we don't have any funny sitcoms.
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@Variety She's not wrong but context matters. Some jokes were retired because they were genuinely harmful not just uncomfortable. The challenge is distinguishing between discomfort that create insight and discomfort the just hurts people.
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"Friends" star Lisa Kudrow says new sitcoms are “too afraid” to make jokes that make audiences “uncomfortable”:
"But I’m not drawn to new sitcoms that are multi-camera in front of an audience because I’m not buying it. I don’t know if that’s just because I’ve seen too many single-camera sitcoms—I think we need to get back to being able to tell jokes. I feel like we’ve been too afraid to make jokes that might make people uncomfortable.”
variety.com/2026/tv/news/l…
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The Babylon Bee is almost always really good, but about once every two weeks or so it achieves perfection.
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You don't understand. Tucker Carlson thinks demons run America, we took Maduro to make Venezuela gay, we attacked Iran to rape their women, Russia is prettier than America, Qatar is better in virtually every aspect, shariah law is preferable to American law, people who chant "death to America" are the good guys, we were the bad guys in WWII, and terrorists aren't really terrorists, but he's really America First.
You don't get it? Well neither do I, but who are we to question the guy who so bravely and singlehandedly fought off a demon in his sleep.
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@SteveSkojec Those authors just released the second book in their new series.
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FWIW, I think the prose in The Expanse books is infinitely better than anything in Weir's novels, but I still think Weir tells a great story.
It's OK to have solid, quotidian prose if your Hero's Journey is solid and your narrative arc is compelling.
Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec
Andy Weir is one of the most successful novelists of our generation. Both The Martian and Project Hail Mary have gone on to be successful Hollywood films at a time where new stories aren’t getting a lot of play in cinema. PHM is already one of the most successful films of all time. So it fascinates me to see a bunch of amateur writers or those with a fraction of his success taking pot shots at his prose. He’s a master storyteller. You don’t reach that level of breakout success if you’re not. Stop criticizing the people who have already proven their skill and work on your own!
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@EWErickson Bro, you're getting decimated in the replies.
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I’m gonna need to call a moratorium on using the word “decimated” until people understand how to use it and stop using it as a substitute for “destroyed.”
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Depending on your criteria for "American Tolkien" you have a few choices:
ER Burroughs, for foundational influence and epic storytelling
Frank Herbert, for thoroughness of worldbuilding and doing a political fantasy with American sensibilities (suspicion of authority, depth of irony, etc.)
Mark Twain or James Fennimore Cooper, for the first quintessentially American quest tales.
Robert A. Heinlein or Ray Bradbury, for translating the American epic (the Western) into fantasy settings in a definitive fashion.
HP Lovecraft, for giving a uniquely American voice to fantasy metaphysics.
George Lucas, for combining all of the above into a tale that influences the American storytelling consciousness for generations in the same way Tolkien influenced the English storytelling consciousness.
Brain Leakage@BrainLeakage03
My contention is that the “American Tolkien” isn’t someone like GRRM or Robert Jordan. They’re essentially telling European stories, dealing with matters of rightful kings and chosen ones. The American Tolkien is Burroughs, and his LOTR is the Mars series. A Confederate veteran travels to a savage world that resembles a fantastical version of the Arizona desert. He must learn the ways of the locals, master the wilderness, and carve out a prosperous life for himself through grit, bravery, and sheer exceptionalism. It doesn’t get more American than that.
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HBO's Carnivàle creator and Blacklist EP and writer Daniel Knauf on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy:
"They really have no idea why people watch Star Trek. If they did, this show never would have progressed past the pitch phase."
Why was this show greenlit?
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I can't think of a single instance where cheddar would be my preference. I don't mind it, but I prefer Swiss on sandwiches, blue or aged Gouda for snacking. It's good mixed in Mac and cheese with gruyere, I guess that's the only occasion it would be hard to replace.
Carl@HistoryBoomer
Best cheese
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I learned a LONG time ago that if Ebert hated something I’d be bound to like it. Ebert was a milquetoast bland-as-unsalted-crackers stick-in-the-mud with muddled pedantic rarely good critiques on pretty much anything. But, hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day...
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
In the last years of his life, Roger Ebert famously claimed that games were not art (he was talking about computer games, but it applies elsewhere). He gave these three reasons to back up his opinion: 1) He himself didn't play games 2) You can win a game 3) Art must have a single visionary. This seemed odd as an objection, because films are famously collective projects. Penny Arcade skewered Ebert with the single comment: "If a hundred artists make art for two years, how is the end product NOT ART?" 1/3
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@HistoryBoomer This occasion calls for The Cheese Shop sketch.
youtu.be/Hz1JWzyvv8A?si…
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@HistoryBoomer On a cheese board the blue paired with something sweet is always the star.
If I could only keep one though, it would be mozzarella.
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The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact.
Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more.
Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined.
None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily.
This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.
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@HistoryBoomer English Teacher might be intermittently amusing, but it's not a top tier sitcom. Comedy movies fell off a cliff around the same time, while Hollywood also started shitting on the built-in fandoms of the whatever sci-fi/fantasy IPs they were subverting. It adds up.
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Woke did not crater the job market.
The problem with thinking "all bad things are caused by stuff I already hate" is it blinds you to reality.
The article says it's a mix of it's cheaper to make movies overseas—wages, taxes—and folks watching more TikTok etc
It's not wokeness!
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@hermannkarlovic @TheCinesthetic When they stop making it woke
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@TheCinesthetic God no more art sucks now cause it’s woke, please
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Quentin Tarantino says the issue with Hollywood awards shows is that “ideology trumps art.”
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