Saudi, so… Probably not, in this case.
Indirectly? Arguable, but unfortunately the Saudis are supposedly a fucking ally, so… Yeah.
Seriously though, perhaps this does raise some questions about erm, car hire, given that he allegedly hired the “weapon” only a short time beforehand…
Though I’m not entirely sure if “background checks for car hire” is the best idea either…
Islam is incompatible with modern Western civilization, change my mind, lol…
But seriously though, how many fucking times can this happen, or specifically be allowed to occur..?
Absolute fucking madness.
News here just said that they found explosives in his car, too, so… Yeah.
All sounds highly planned, unfortunately.
Fucking again!
There’s always been a contradiction, I feel, between supporting Israel on one hand, and condemning Russia on the other, when they are doing almost the exact same things, and broadcasting much of the same rhetoric…
I think (or I hope, at least) that a lot of people realize this by now, but it is certainly one of the things that makes Matthew Miller and Jake Sullivan so fucking slimy and disingenuous, lol…
Parts of Lebanon are still being occupied, post the “ceasefire” with Hezb, so they are, unironically, already up to step two…
Sinai when, tho?
They are still, in Aus (with the exception of SBS, perhaps), unfortunately…
Glad to see the tide turning over there, though, if so.
The same way they justify that bombing anti-aircraft guns is somehow “defending Israel”, I imagine…
As in, “Fuck you, we can do whatever we want, and we don’t even have to justify it anymore,” in short.
Actual psychopath behaviour, lol…
Though I have to admit, “Lebensraum but for Jews” really is the funniest timeline…
I read elsewhere that some of the complainants were female staffers who were arguing that they were being coerced into serving as surrogates for the fags, lol…
So not only men, somehow…
Though I would question whether being coerced into surrogacy is “sexual misconduct” or not, obviously…
We (in Australia) already had something along those lines, during Covid, with "check in" apps. Especially in South Australia, where those on lockdown were actively monitored, and required to answer random calls from the state gestapo if their location tracking was ever turned off...
Covid was a dry run for all of this...
For those who are unaware, Australia is very close to mandating a government-controlled digital ID to access government services (you already need one if you have a registered business, or to collect lottery winnings, for example), and to becoming fully cashless. This is very much a part of all that.
"Won't someone think of the children" has always been the playbook of authoritarians, left and right. I can't believe how quickly people here (i.e. in Straya) have forgotten, or have willfully chosen to ignore, that fact...
I think McGuire, who wrote the original book, also wrote revisionist stories in the worlds of Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella. But he specifically also intended Wicked as an Iraq War analogy...
Paraphrasing, but he said something like, "I originally wanted to write a novel about Hitler, but decided not to do that, so I thought I would write a novel about the second-most hated character in American popular culture: the Wicked Witch of the West". Which is... Interesting, to say the least.
OG book is considerably darker in tone than the musical (and with less romance), too...
Me specifically?
I ain't paying to go see this movie, bruh.
I saw Wicked when I was like, 13. With my family.
"Musical theatre" was briefly my thing, to some extent, but I am definitely not some Wicked fanatic, lol...
For me, it's not necessarily that she's black in the movie that I hate (although, spoiler alert - that, in itself, doesn't fit with the story at all), but how fucking ugly she is. Elphaba is meant to be sort of "nebbish" or geeky, initially, and then get "glammed up" by Glinda. Otherwise it makes no damn sense for Fiyero to be attracted to her at any point...
She was never supposed to be ugly as a shoe, which Erivo is, lol.
And also, if they were determined to go with a black actress, why not one who was actually born and grew up in a Western country, and so actually understood the context (if you read any of Erivo's tweets, or watch the interviews, she pretty clearly does not)..? Or, for that matter, why not choose someone younger than their late 30s..??
Nothing about that casting makes sense, and her very personality makes her a liability. Either this is an elaborate "gotcha", or she sucked a fair bit of dick to get to where she is... Or both. Both makes sense.
Edit: Why didn't they just cast the other chick featured in that article? She is literally orders of magnitude more attractive, had already played the role and is very possibly less insane than the woman they chose... I mean, come on now.
Also, apparently she won something called the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Musical...
I just... This isn't even worth parodying at this point. These people are completely nuts.
I mean, the fact that this quote is taken (almost word for word) from a comment on the Youtube video it links to, and not even from anything from or related to the video itself, suggests that you may not be too far off...
Because Youtube comments (and Reddit, which this AI apparently also uses as a source) are notoriously dry, factual and unbiased, right?
Man, we really do live in the dumbest timeline, hey...
So I figured it out: someone, jokingly, commented on that video (8 years ago!!) that the lyrebird "Can't speak kookaburra properly, and so is unaware he is using racial slurs" (i.e. the nigga/nigger thing), and that single comment is what the AI is using as the source for this...
Jfc, we are doomed as a species.
It claims that this clip, from Attenborough of all things, is the source of that line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
Which makes... Zero sense.
I watched that damn series at the time it came out. I have zero idea how anyone could come to the conclusion the AI apparently has, having watched it...
True that. Which I think worked, when she was playing Salander (as, from what I can tell, the whole "fierce, battered woman" schtick lines up with the original books), vis a vis the other two actresses who have played the role without the same "toughness".
But it doesn't work so well when almost all of her subsequent roles have been pretty much the antithesis of that, lol.
The "toughest" role I've seen her in, in the last 15 years, is almost certainly Lamb, and even then, I'm pretty sure she's a housewife, lol. And I think they only made her vaguely "independent and tough" because it's also a sort of Nordic noir...
In English-speaking roles, she's seemingly pretty much incapable of being any of what she claims to be in this article, which is... Amusing.
Then again I've rarely met a Swedish girl speaking English who sounded "tough". Grating? Sure. But rarely "tough"...
Danes, on the other hand...
Edit: Apparently she's half-Spanish. I always assumed she was second-gen immigrant Swede (there seem to be a lot with chips on their shoulders, especially women), but I assumed something more "exotic" than Spanish, lol...
True, but she's more "European arthouse" than Hollywood.
Still the film industry, of course, but the vast majority of her work has been on the other side of the Atlantic, rather than in Hollywood stuff.
This is true, at least if in the scenes I'm thinking of, lol.
Though it's been like 15 years. I would assume she has probably "matured", by now, at least physically, if not mentally/emotionally...
I didn't even recognize her in Lamb, at first!
In that role, yeh. Though I have to admit to not finding her particularly attractive generally, most of the time. She just comes across as sort of "plain", to me. Though in her "real life" she seems to look better than in most of her roles, imo.
But anyway, as Lisbeth Salander specifically, she just looked... Weird. As did Rooney Mara, to a greater or lesser extent. I don't think anyone pulled, or could pull off, that role like Rapace did...
No love for Age of Mythology, anyone?
I admit it wasn't the best, but I still enjoyed what I played of it, at the time...
In like, 2006 or something, that is, lol...
3 was fun, on single player. As allurus said, I'm not sure how well the multiplayer worked. But I didn't mind the plot/storyline of single player.
It was a bit... Odd (incongruous?), in comparison to the first two, but I still enjoyed it for what it was, personally. And the story has stuck with me more than most of AoE2, at this point, tbh...
The second posh twit interviewed in that video (aside from sounding like a stereotype straight out of the Gap Yah videos. Or some minor Royal with “Received Pronunciation”) **didn’t even get the location of Magdeburg right, within Germany…
“Security expert”, and yet he doesn’t even know where “MAaark-Da-Barg*, as he said it, is, lol…