I’d consider myself a Star Wars fan, and one of the things that gets me about the current state of fandom is how opposed to nuance it is. Having measured opinions about things is right out; you need to decide if you’re going to LOVE or HATE a thing, and if you don’t then you’re not welcome.
Don’t forget the bedbugs!
They would have to have shut down the contest after the SR-71 was introduced.
I fuckin hate that Playstation 4 and 5 do this for taking screenshots from movies. I just want to get a good screen grab for meme purposes! Do you think I’m going to screen shot every goddamn frame of a movie, one at a time, paste those back together as a video, then somehow rip the audio too, and then share this necromantically-assembled abomination with all my pirate buddies? Fuck you!
Similar in the sense that one has an estimated net worth of three hundred times as much as the other.
More despicable than running for re-election in the first place?
Yes, and so are The Long Kiss Goodnight and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to shit in the street.
Awesome. Can we get a new Bushido Blade, while we’re at it?
Not a lamp, but I developed cold urticaria in my 30s; my skin gets rashy if it’s exposed to cold air. I get really bad hives if I’m in cold water, and I need to wear full ankle-to-wrist pajamas or else I get itchy while I’m trying to sleep, just from the cold of the sheets. I’m seriously considering adding an electric heating pad to my bedtime routine.
I passed a Lamborghini SUV on the road the other day. I checked and it retails for about $250,000. Motherfucker really dropped a quarter of a million dollars for a RAV4-looking vehicle to haul the kids to soccer in.
EDIT: Lamborghini Urus
<Stares blankly into the middle distance for thirty seconds in Mitch McConnell>
Citizens United and Regulatory Capture.
It’s not a matter of “nobody should be allowed to be ultra wealthy,” it’s a matter of “nobody should be allowed to be unacceptably poor.”
If our civilization can generate wealth at an astronomical rate, then there is no morally defensible reason for anyone to be homeless, hungry, poorly educated, lacking medical care, drinking unsafe water, worked to death, or any of a number of other baseline metrics of civilization. All of those ills exist because wealth is funneled upwards at an unbelievable rate, leading to the existence of billionaires. All of that wealth should be used to raise everyone’s standard of living, rather than give a handful of people more power and luxury than ever appeared in Caligula’s wet dreams.
Of course the way that you accomplish that is by an exponentially progressive taxation system, and that will… probably make it impractical to be a billionaire, but frankly I think that focusing on helping the bottom end of the economic ladder is more productive than just talking about how it should be illegal to have more than a given amount of wealth.
"Stop trying to forgive your father and forgive your father!"