CatBus

dahmage said:

Then I felt like most of the posters here were jerks. Then I became one.

Indefinite antecedents are the best.

dahmage said:

CatBus said:

…aaaaand we’re shutting down again. Congress seems willing to give Trump whatever he wants whenever he wants it, and this week they’re giving him the shutdown he didn’t want last week. Will it be a yoojer shutdown to show who’s got the bigger shutdown button?

Seriously? Damnit.

Yep, the Senate is in recess until 12:01 AM, so assuming some sort of speed-of-light midnight laser vote, that’s a one minute shutdown at the minimum. I’m guessing it’ll drag quite a bit longer, as laser votes have not yet been invented, and even if they were, we would only use them for evil.

…aaaaand we’re shutting down again. Congress seems willing to give Trump whatever he wants whenever he wants it, and this week they’re giving him the shutdown he didn’t want last week. Will it be a yoojer shutdown to show who’s got the bigger shutdown button?

yhwx said:

And that’s the start of the story of how I met Vanilla Ice.

Yeah, thanks for just totally outing me… err, I mean, my friend Frink!

I dunno, but SPOILER ALERT:

We have a sighting of the four-eyed stormtrooper, the early years.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/08/583993705/a-white-supremacist-may-be-the-only-republican-running-for-a-seat-in-congress

Arthur Jones is a racist, denies the Holocaust happened, and will likely be the only Republican on the ballot for a Chicago-area congressional seat in November.

The state GOP has denounced Jones and his candidacy, but says it had no way to stop him.

“We’ve tried to do everything we possibly could to prevent this person from getting on the ballot,” Illinois GOP Chairman Tim Schneider said.

please tell me this guy has no chance of winning.

Illinois was one of the states Russia successfully breached, so maybe there’s people who can tell you right now that he’ll win.

Yep, both parties do it. The only reason Republicans get more flak for it is 1) gerrymandering to favor urban areas over rural areas is much harder, more obvious, and has less electoral payoff than vice-versa, and 2) they’ve run most state governments since the last round of redistricting. Also, after the Voting Rights Act was gutted, politicians have felt freer to gerrymander along racial lines than they had been when the VRA was more restrictive.

I wish I could say Dems wouldn’t, for example, gerrymander Virginia in the opposite direction if they had the chance, but they probably would. You can argue a bit about what constitutes a fair map, but the truth is a computer can whip out a map that’s pretty close to everyone’s idea of fair in a matter of minutes.

Well, I’m sure in the right circles, people are shaking their heads and wishing Justice Alito could get replaced with a real conservative.

I was just trying to google how to make an anamorphic version of the GOUT (anticipating that my son, now 10, might want to see Star Wars one day), and bam, there goes a few years of my life.

Mrebo said:

dahmage said:

CatBus said:

That settles it then. They’re invertebrates.

APPROVED. EVERYONE MUST REFER TO POTATOES AS INVERTEBRATES FROM NOW ON. DEBATE SETTLED FOR ALL TIME.

If I find a bone in a potato, you’re going to hear about it.

If I knew it was going to that kind of party…

But… soda crackers and Ovaltine are just different aspects of the potato. If you look closely enough, everything becomes potato.

Mercator Projection said:

But Brazil is only about as big as Alaska!

Cartography humor.

That settles it then. They’re invertebrates.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Is there an individual release of the Lester cut on Blu-Ray? I can only seem to find Donner’s outside of the box sets.

I haven’t seen it. Same thing with the theatrical Superman release, which I prefer. You want the theatrical cuts, you gotta buy Superman IV along with it.

Bluto said:

Just some observations from an interested reader:

The slightly dimmer white and increased transparency of the new subtitles look great to me.
However, I’m not as keen on the narrower font. It looks somewhat squashed to me.

Bluto

Just to update you on the progress on this: This may be addressed in the final version after all. After repeating the size testing, it looks like the increased weight at the same height makes the subtitles look too big even in my crappy small screen/big distance worst-case test scenario. So, keeping the weight the same, you don’t have to reduce the font size very much before the “lines get too wide” problem goes away, and then you don’t need a semicondensed font to work around that anymore.

Small adjustments make a big difference here. Consider the subtitles a long skinny rectangle near the bottom of the screen. If you reduce the font size, say, 10%, that doesn’t change the height of the box very much in absolute terms, but it dramatically reduces the width of the box. That’s kinda what I’m tinkering with here.

Collipso said:

CatBus said:

Collipso said:

Ok so I’ve gotten to the very well thought out conclusion that Trump is not a decent man at all.

It’s once that unpleasantness crosses the line into demonstrating that you are disconnected from any sort of ethical foundation that it becomes a problem IMO.

To me, that line has already been crossed by President Trump a while ago.

Oh sure, I agree absolutely. It was crossed before he even won the primary. The problem is that lots of valid criticisms of his unsuitability for the office are mixed in with things that merely make him thoroughly unpleasant, and they’re not always the same thing.

Collipso said:

Ok so I’ve gotten to the very well thought out conclusion that Trump is not a decent man at all.

I think to be fair, I should point out that many people who are equally horrible human beings understand enough about decency to appear to be decent in public. What’s so unusual about Trump is that he showcases his awfulness as if it were a badge of honor. Remember when they caught Dahmer et al, people were always saying “He seemed nice, kinda quiet”. If Trump eventually gets convicted of anything, people will say, “Well, sure, we knew that all along, that’s why we voted for him”.

Also, personal likeability is overrated for elected officials. I remember the old media standard “Sure, Gore’s smart and all, but people would rather have a beer with Bush”. To some degree, being a cold fish or even kinda gloomy and unpleasant doesn’t matter. It’s once that unpleasantness crosses the line into demonstrating that you are disconnected from any sort of ethical foundation that it becomes a problem IMO.

oojason said:

We’re gonna need a smaller runway.

TV’s Frink said:

Possessed said:

DAMNIT FRINK.

Now I’m upset again!

Yo Frink, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but AntcuFaalb had one of the best socks of all time. One of the best socks of all time!

I couldn’t help it. It just popped in there.

I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us:

Rick Gates has now flipped, re: Russian money laundering with Manafort.

What can you do with a Potato?

Do you mean “what can you do?” as in “what are you able to do?” or “what are you legally permitted to do?” My answer kinda hinges on that.

dahmage said:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/01/582414052/trump-claims-his-sotu-had-the-highest-ratings-in-history-it-didnt

Déjà vu

Yeah, but every time he re-watches it, the number goes up by one. It’ll get there.

CatBus said:

Mrebo said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

CatBus said:

Mrebo said:

The Democrats would be a more liberal party if the electorate were more liberal.

IMO the positions of both parties have drifted right to attract donors, which are unfortunately worth quite a bit more than voters.

This. Since “Citizens United”, it’s getting harder to distinguish when a politician is trying to attract voters, and when they are trying to attract funding. You’re right it’s more usually the latter, since that generally leads to the former (sadly).

Hasn’t it always been practically impossible to tell?

In many cases, yes. But there’s some “They Live glasses”-style giveaways. Like every time Mr. Environmentalist Al Gore said the words “Clean Coal” during the Presidential debates, he was very clearly angling for Energy Sector funding.

I guess Trump’s embellishment on this term was to aid those unfortunates without glasses.