Most underrated Pixar film, IMO.

The same way porn sites have worked since the 90s. Honor system.

MTG is about the top end of Republican Sexy.

Sucks to be them. We got AOC.

ChatGPT.

I, too, cry at the end of Coco.

They call his son Tater Tot.

I have a newfound love for community theater.

I just saw The Little Mermaid musical at one last night.

For starters, Ursula was incredibly talented. If she was a slightly better dancer she’dve been on Broadway, but she sure as hell didn’t need Ariel’s voice. Not that Ariel wasn’t a talented singer. I guess the same could be said of the source material too though.

But then the costumes and props and even set designs were well done but obviously low-budget. Most of the sea life was on roller blades or heelys…they made no attempt to hide Flounder’s. Floatsam’s and Jetsam’s lit up.

Most the performers playing the daughters were in High School. Flounder’s was in middle school…which made his crush on Ariel all the cuter. And he was pretty talented, too.

But they didn’t take themselves to seriously. There was a seagull tapdance number led by Scuttle and I nearly pissed myself silent-laughing at the absurdity of it. Tritans crown fall off. There were two ensemble members in (off the shelf) sea turtle costumes that were totally phoning it in but they were absolutely my spirit animals. Like, I would love to be understudy to Second Sea Tortoise.

Just that these are all local real people who do this for fun, in addition to (most of them) having full-time jobs or being full-time students. That, to me, is pretty damn impressive.

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

– Vice President-Elect JD Vance.

(Translation: the false flags will continue until approval ratings improve.)

Literally in response to a rumor from Facebook that our now president-elect blew up to a national news story on live television. A rumor that was already debunked by the time he did so. Whether that was from malice or ignorance doesn’t matter, each one has its own terrifying end.

That will be the moment that defines the next 4 years (at least). Much like Kellyanne Conway telling Chuck Todd about Alternative Facts right after Trump’s first inauguration.

I haven’t come across an error message that didn’t bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google.

Yeah that’s more effort than like 95% of people out there can exert.

Thinking about googling a computer problem is what separates the sheep from the goats.

Ehh…I’d rather a progressive tax system. I.e. tax rate increases with number of units.

Both of my landlords have been small private operators. First one owned a multi-family right behind his house and rented out the whole thing below market rate to friends and family.

Second one was closer to market rate but was the only property he had and landlording was supplementing fixed income.

I’ve got friends planning a long-distance move and renting when they arrive and for the foreseeable future. They own a home here (in a much higher COL area), and know eventually they will probably have to move back (aging relatives).

They recognize that if they sell now, they’ll never be able to buy another house when that time comes, but also think market rate for rent is insane compared to what they pay for mortgage now or rent in their new location.

I don’t think people in either situation should be excessively taxed. There will always be a need for people to rent a home. As such there will always be a need for someone to rent them. But it shouldn’t be a high-profit enterprise.

People who gobble up property and treat landlording as an enterprise or even as a primary source of income, are garbage, and should be punished. People who are trying to keep their house ‘in the family’ but don’t need it for an indefinite period shouldn’t be published.

Bonus Panel: do the rising sea levels from anthropogenic climate change give us a bit of an advantage?

Badwater Basin? Lower.

Lake Assal? Lower.

Dead Sea? Lower.

The canyon under the Denman Glacier? Lower.

Challenger Deep? Lower.

TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL‽

Lower.

You have the same worldview and understanding of human sexuality of an 8 year old.

Either your ridiculously naive or just straight up an idiot. Possibly both.

Jesus fucking Christ. I’ve never read anything so dumb on the internet. And I saw Trump get elected. Twice.

I had an early PDA (think it was an IPAQ, not to be confused with ipad) that had a 56k modem that connected via CF slot.

Why do you think Microsoft left the Russian market?

Good comrades run Astra.

This is what happens when you loosen up regulations. Bunch of really shoddy sub-par balconies. They practically throw you off them.

You just know that once Trump takes office, a bunch of balconies are just gonna become death traps. Particularly balconies owned by Mexicans, Democrats, members of the “fake news”, and transgender people.

This cisgender male Republican-owned balconies will still be safe. Miraculously.

Big pharma will love it. All the drugs they made with expired patents are now illegal. Good thing they’ve got a very, very, very similar drug that meets all the necessary criteria, all lined up and ready to replace it (with a brand new patent, of course).

There has been some controversy about AstraZeneca’s behaviour in creating, patenting, and marketing the drug. Esomeprazole’s successful predecessor, omeprazole, is a mixture of two mirror-imaged molecules (esomeprazole which is the S-enantiomer, and R-omeprazole); critics said the company was trying to “evergreen” its omeprazole patent by patenting the pure esomeprazole and aggressively marketing to doctors that it is more effective than the mixture.[50]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esomeprazole

While the impact of CFCs from inhalers on the ozone layer had been minuscule (dwarfed by industrial processes using CFCs), the FDA in its interpretation of the Montreal Protocol mandated the switch in propellants.[17] Patients expressed concern about the high price of the HFA inhalers as there were initially no generic versions, whereas generic CFC inhalers had been available.[18]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhaler

Only to be replaced by a much more advanced species, because these two totally did the nasty in the pasty with some lady apes.

Have you ever heard of an analogy before? Because that’s like…the Stretch-Armstrong of analogies.

Stop. Just stop.

It’s a post-truth world. Just…give up. We’re all yelling into the void. These people are being force-fed “facts” consisting of cherry picked data and sound bites from every angle imaginable. It’s their news. It’s their friends. It’s their family, and their neighbors. Their community leaders, and their social leaders, and their religious leaders. It’s in their face, constantly, everywhere they go.

You can’t compete with that. That’s brainwashing on a societal level.

You can’t both be right, and be victorious, in that environment. Simply because for the same amount of effort you put out expelling one falsehood, they can be exposed to a thousand more.

I give up. I have no more faith in humanity. People are proudly digging their heads into the sand to avoid hard truths and then act shocked when “I told you so”. Fuck them, and fuck me for having to go down with them. Fucking children. Fucking ostrich children fucks. Pitiful. Repugnant. Deplorable.