I used to love going to the theater. I would go almost every weekend, and often during the week. I watched almost everything. Then cell phones came along. At one point, many, many years ago, I swore if some mother fucker took out their fucking phone during the movie I was seeing, I would never set foot in a theater again. Some piece of shit mother fucker did, and I haven’t. It’s been all the open seas for me since. It also helped that affordable larger screens became available for home. I haven’t been to a movie in a theater in probably a decade, and I doubt I’ll ever go again.

Slow Horses is so freaking good.

(1/3) +(1/2)(1/3) = 1/2

Math checks out from this end.

Modern fruit isn’t especially healthy:

At the Melbourne Zoo, the monkeys are no longer allowed to eat bananas. And the pandas are getting pellets instead of plums. In fact, fruit has been phased out completely. That’s because the fruit that humans have selectively bred over the years has become so full of sugar the zoo’s fruitarian animals were becoming obese and losing teeth. -source

I blame Israel for the death of its civilians due to palastinian terrorism.

I return to my original statement, and we have now completed the circle and neither of us has changed. Much like the violence and depravity of religious wars in the Middle East.

My dad wouldn’t let me get one with 2 speakers. Only one speaker. I still don’t understand that reasoning.

Like this:

So very similar to the history of countries in the area kicking out/killing Jewish people. I don’t even have a side in this bullshit. I just see a bunch of bad faith actors surrounded by howler monkeys hanging on to one side or the other. And the weird one-sided idiot rhetoric thrown around on this site. I would like to know if you think Oct 7th, or Hezbollah launching rockets into Israel on Oct 8th (or any of the many other dates) is terrorism as well. Or if using civilians as human shields is a legitimate tactic. Again, I 100% agree that Israel has gone way too fucking far, but I don’t agree that one side is assholes and the other side is saints. It’s that scene in Spaceballs, I’m surrounded by assholes.

Keep it coming. You are cracking me up. Nazi comparisons now, and I’m the unhinged one?

So reductive, inflamatory, and ill-informed. It’s kind of sad.

Simplistic rhetoric and superficial understanding.

You sound like a terrorist.

LOL, nice headline. These people are freaking nuts.

Yeah, we knew that before Snowden. Story made me think of my uncle, RIP, who’s friend told him to “buy Cisco, trust me” back in the early '90s. So my uncle bought Sysco. He was pissed at himself until the day he died.

Isn’t that a Dodge?

We already have the 14th amendment, but Republicans don’t seem to like The Constitution.

I think the most important context is minimum wage.

In 1982 a full-time job making $3.35 an hour is pulling in approx $6,700 a year. Or 14% of the price of a house.

In 2022, that same worker, working the same number of hours at minimum wage $7.25 an hour is bringing in $14,500 a year. Or 3.5% the price of a house.

The same for groceries. THAT is the fucked up part. It’s what happens when people seem OK with 50 trillion dollars going from the bottom 90% to the top 1% over the past several decades.

Oh goodness.

I wish people would explain their downvotes for this post. It has more information and nuance than 99% of the posts on lemmy. I guess because it doesn’t fit whatever rage they are currently entertaining.

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I had to laugh at an earlier observation of a homeless guy being kicked out of the UCI encampment by the protestors.

EDIT: Hal Holbrook wasn’t wrong when he said the change in the audience over the years for his Mark Twain show was a quickly dwindling ability to appreciate satire.