"I'm so glad to be here, thank you for hiring me! By the way I'll be out starting next week on maternity leave. Sorry I won't get to meet some of you until next year, tee-hee!"
I forgot which critically acclaimed movie it was, but when the director was interviewed, they said that they had to be creative with the limited budget they had and the execution of that creativity is a reason it did so well.
be July 4, 2026
live in an apartment with four other guys cause rent is so high
didn't get any sleep because Pedro and his extended family lit fireworks all night
walk to the store for some ramen because it's all i can afford and no car
wait 40 minutes behind boomers buying 30 pounds of beef and SNAP recipients with full carts
almost step in human shit and almost get mugged on the way home
try to catch up on sleep but neighbor is playing hip-hop at max volume
doomscroll through posts of immigrants complaining about everything
dad reposts an independence day e-card on facebook while at his summer home that he won't let me crash at
decide to start my evening shift at the convenience store early because the A/C isn't working again and I can't handle the heat anymore
president comes on TV in the back of the store talking about how great everything is for ninety minutes
fireworks everywhere
happy birthday america
Now we're talkin'. I'd also like to see a lot of time set aside to salute our founding fathers, the patriots in Washington's army, and those who gave their lives for this country through its existence believing they fought for the people. All gave some, some gave all; including the founding fathers.
Also a reflection on the real values of this country, including that it was founded on the premise that power is derived from the people.
That made me applaud with tears in my eyes! The dialogue is truly inspired and makes Shakespeare look like the wanna-be hack that he is!
It's a dumpster fire but still preferable over a democrat doing it and succeeding.
"Celebrate in our Diversity 250 concert featuring hit artists including D.J. Autotune, Pimpmaster E and the ghetto all-stars, Rosaline and the Mexicalis, Kenyan Drums Incorporated and Bollywood stars Sangri and Muhammed singing the greatest hits that South and West Asia have to offer; with special guests from Ru Paul's Drag Racing and NAMBLA!"
They're going to be very disappointed to find out that homelessness is not a problem that wants to be solved. For some it's transitory, for some it's a lifestyle, for some it's a trap they have no self-control to get out of, and for some it's a political issue to exploit in the pursuit of power.
That's akin to pressing the "Fix Everything" button. We can't press the button. Pressing the button is racist. Pressing it will destroy our country. The biggest threat to the world is pressing the button. Pressing the button is also antisemitic. Nobody wants to press the button anyway. Only a fool would press the button.
Just like the story from the other day about a push to make seniors exempt from property tax.
Boomers don't even want to pull the proverbial ladder up behind them -- they want the younger generations to push it up instead!
Sounds like a big incentive for seniors to buy more properties for themselves that the younger generations need. Must be sweet to be retired and have a vacation home.
confusing patchwork of frenetic edits
They need to take lessons from sensei Steven Seagal, like: Using a body double for all the action scenes, using a body double for standing still so the hero looks more fit, taking shots of the hero ducking in a random place in the room and then playing them forwards, backwards and mirrored at least ten times total, overloading the viewer with a string of half-second cuts that only show limbs moving and replaying some of them more than twice...and my favorite, using CGI over a motorcyclist's helmet to make it look like the hero is wearing it.
They should have at least invited you to Wing Wednesday. In my last interview after running some Q&A/problem solving gauntlets, the team I would later work with took me out to lunch so everyone could form first impressions and just banter in a casual atmosphere.
That said, everyone around me were at least seasoned professionals who knew their industry and had a passion and a competence for it.
"I was devastated to learn that I was creating something instead of destroying. But I can fix that real quick..."
Was there a chapter about eco-terrorists setting forest fires like in real life?
I've never been more sus of graphs in general. I've seen too many average temperature graphs that only run ten years yet try to forecast the next hundred years; not to mention they forecast on trend lines only and not actual planetary conditions and events. I've seen graphs of stocks "nosediving" where the Y-axis bounds are between 90 and 120 points.
Far too much stock is taken in "normal" temperature anyway. The local news said today's high temp would be "almost normal." That would still make it abnormal, so I should panic. And if it's 80 degrees in Podunk on May 25 2000, why should it have to be 80 degrees on May 25 2030?
Reading the comments in Dr. Roy Spencer's blog, I'm convinced climatologists aren't anywhere near as capable of predicting climate as people give them credit for. Put a dozen in a room and you won't find any two who agree on everything.
/vent
For some reason this popped into my head: "Welcome to cooking class! For our honey mustard chicken recipe we require 200 cubic centimeters of chicken and 2.365 deciliters of water...."
Remember being allowed to stay out til the streetlight came on with your friends?
I heard that before the welfare state, people often slept outside in places like Harlem or Chicago because it was too hot to be indoors. And getting waken up by violence was not a normal thing.
Good point. User: "A Nazi in my channel used the N-word!" Admin: "Horrible! We need ID verification to associate real people with what users write so we can permaban them and shame them!" Predator: "Wait uh....let's not...let's not do anything implusive here....let's uh...think this through..."
I can't finish The Creature from Jekyll Island book. I get angry reading it and then I put it down.
Studios ought to be asking themselves "What are we doing here? Are we here to share inspired visions of fun and exciting worlds that millions of gamers enjoy while we profit from our hard work? Are we here to just separate gamers from their money with the least effort possible to get rich? Are we here to be social influencers that pushes messages through games?"
Any studio doing the second or third needs to gtfo.
That would have made me move out if I lived next door. Which is probably what she wants.
Also this comment on X:
The irony of jews having multiple "jewish only" communities....and they're tax exempt....
The second part is a real thing!?!?!?
He escaped American justice but he's not escaping God's justice.
The CIA had a hand in crippling a number of nations. The CIA would send someone to persuade the nation's top elites to take a billion dollar loan from the U.S. so they could build lavish infrastructure for themselves. In return, they'd be indebted to the U.S. for pretty much ever, meaning the U.S. controlled them. If the president/top elites refused, the CIA would send "Jackals" to assassinate or coup them. Then rinse and repeat for the new elites.
Normie seeing a farming simulator where mutant alien gatherers are enhanced to be more effective by a master robotic drone: (Wishlists)
Normie seeing a farming simulator where black gatherers are enhanced to be more effective by a master white guy: (Clutches pearls)
"Boomers vs Millennials" sounds like the name of the next Steam clickbait game.
Any indies out there? You could make it in days. Claude ain't gonna prompt itself!