wqnm
21d ago
Yeah, honestly one of the less surprising crashouts I've seen to the ICE situation. I like his stuff, but he's always strongly given off that very particular nerd vibe I became super well aquatinted with in college, of the intelligent guy who bases his identity on being the "smartest guy in the room", and in so fully embodies the Freddie deBoer "politics is obviously solved" aspect of wokeness.
wqnm
1mo ago
Spiderman 2 is great, came right before the big deluge of Mavel movies, and none of them really topped it.
wqnm
2mo ago
That's just something made up by the suit companies to sell suits. Like the spending 3 months salary on a ring; you really expect me to spend 450k on just a ring?
wqnm
2mo ago
This is correct, it's really a very open not-so-secret secret. A buddy of mine from college works as a volunteer fireman/emt, he told me that they get calls pretty frequently about dead babies, most commonly parents who fell asleep with the kid on their stomach, in bed with them, etc and got smothered. Standard Operating Procedure is generally to just file it all as SIDS to avoid any legal ramifications, unless the negligence was exceedingly egregious (eg they were stoned and accidentally left their infant in the tub to drown). As he said, being sentenced to live with the fact that you killed your kid is enough.
wqnm
2mo ago
We still fire off the ol' "What would you say...ya do here?" line pretty frequently around my office.
Actually, last time it happened, our zoomer new hire immediately got the reference and continued on with a "So you physically..." riff. So all is not lost.
The fact that Everything Everywhere All at Once won a bunch of Oscars is a fun little time capsule from that short lived time period after "Stop Asian Hate" became the new progressive virtue check, but before it became too clear where most of the Asian hate was coming from, and they had to rapidly deploy a collective update patch to memory hole the whole thing.
wqnm
4mo ago
their conquest is repeatedly thwarted by a mighty wizard armed with terrifying magic, AKA the gun nut whose land the portal opens on to. This movie is like if Sauron got a portal to the ranch of some guntuber and the host of Mordor got its ass blown off by a grumpy army vet.
I'd point out that this general concept has in fact already been done before, to cinematic perfection, in the film Tremors.
The pan to the back wall may be one of the greatest comedy shots in movie history.
wqnm
5mo ago
Oh damn, had no idea that was the same artist. I've been listening to synthwave compilations as my go to background noise at work for years now, instantly recognized his stuff.
I have to say, We’re Finally Landing gives the MST3K credits song a run for coziest theme. I’ve woken up to both after nodding off many a time.
So yeah, love me some Summoning Salt videos; his stuff is, for my money, some of the best “videos to fall asleep to” content out there. Really nails that sweet spot of engaging enough to prevent your mind from racing/wandering (which I struggle with), but low stakes and “cozy” enough that it doesn’t really keep you up. Video melatonin, like lazy afternoon Golf broadcasts for the YouTube generation.
That said, on the occasion that I am watching not before bed and/or legitimately interested in the game being discussed, I will admit I generally watch his videos at 1.5x speed. He has a very, say, deliberate, delivery.
wqnm
7mo ago
Reminds me of the old Moldbug quip about socialism working in Iceland because anything would work in Iceland.
wqnm
9mo ago
I can't speak for every one, but my local volunteer fire department also has a small dormitory for the on call firefighters, and they heavily advertise it as free room and board for students attending local colleges. I think you only need to be on call something like 3/4 nights a week to be allowed to live there for the semester. I actually kind of wish I knew about it when I was in college.
Patriots were the most successful / most hated team for the better part of the millennium until their HOF QB and coach that got them there both left and they started to suck. Everyone had gotten tired of them being good for so long, and so kind of hoped they would stay bad for awhile, but now they are annoyingly good again with a new star QB and coach and back in the SB (with a few lucky breaks along the way; they had the easiest schedule in the league this year and their biggest competition in the conference lost their starting QB the playoff game before they played, so people will say they had sort of a cake walk to the title game). People will probably be rooting against them for this reason.
The Seahawks have been a consistently solid team over the same time period, having a brief dominant run about a decade and a half ago. They now have a new coach who has kind of made a name for himself as a defensive whiz kid and taken the league by storm, similar to how Sean McVay did a few years ago on the offensive side with the Rams. McVay lost his first Super Bowl to the old Patriots dynasty, so now we'll see if "defensive McVay" will lose to the Patriots in his first appearance as well.
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