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.
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.
But Brazil is only about as big as Alaska!
Cartography humor.
That settles it then. They’re invertebrates.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We’re gonna need a smaller runway.
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.
Déjà vu
Yeah, but every time he re-watches it, the number goes up by one. It’ll get there.
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.
I barely get it, but it’s still kinda weedy for me too. Basically, what’s the purpose of the state of the union? Does it inform anyone? No, they have other, better channels for that. It’s basically a pomp & circumstance event where people can have the honor of sitting still and having the President talk near them, which is kinda sorta monarchical I suppose. Yeah, okay, but there’s lots of useless traditions.
But no, it must be “either you’re racist or you’re fine with a racist.”
If you voted for him, then yes, racism wasn’t a big enough factor for you to stop voting for him. Thus, you’re fine with voting for a racist. Sorry.
That’s like saying, “If you voted for Hillary, than you share her views that half the country is deplorable.”
Sorry, you missed again. Firstly, that was something Clinton said once, while Trump’s racism has been confirmed by every second of his existence.
I am sorry, but Hillary has revealed her arrogance and contempt for conservatives more than once.
True, but nowhere the number of times that Trump has revealed his arrogance and contempt for anyone that disagrees with him(especially liberals and the media).
Remember, I am not actually defending Trump. I almost voted for Hillary. In the end, I voted for McMullin.
I don’t recall him being on the ballot? Was he on the ballot in your state or did you write him in? Just curious.
He made the ballot in a few states, including d_e’s if I remember correctly.
When Chris Christie is among the most reasonable, principled voices in the room…
I liked Kasich.
I’m from Ohio. He’s Christie without the charisma, which made him look good in that crowd 😉
I didn’t know that his wife had a half-sister
Yes, Sally Hemings was originally the slave (and daughter via slave rape) of Jefferson’s father-in-law. She was then transferred to Jefferson.
The more you learn about Jefferson/Hemings, the more ick.
The Churchill bit makes a good trivia question. “Which WWII leader’s diary featured long diatribes about Jewish conspiracies?” Very few will guess Churchill, but there it is.
It still baffles me how Trump managed to rise to the top among all the other better Republican candidates.
The field he bested in the primary was a mile wide and an inch deep. While he was clearly the worst of the bunch, the first time he had credible competition was in the general. Mainstream Republicans couldn’t rally around a Romney/McCain candidate simply because there wasn’t anyone present of that caliber. When Chris Christie is among the most reasonable, principled voices in the room…
-Blacks gaining the right to eat in any restaurant they want
Oh, you mean those laws that were limited to the Southern states and were first introduced by the Democrat Party, and even when Republicans later began to support those laws, it was still isolated to the South.
It irks me when people conflate the Democratic party of the late 20th - 21st century and the pre-realignment Democratic party that originally represented rural America and the South. In short, the Democratic party was socially conservative until Roosevelt, and even then it took until the civil rights movement for conservative southern Democrats to abandon the party for the Republican ticket.
Not to mention conflating the old Republican party with the present-day Republican party. The Republican party ended slavery? Yay! That Republican party no longer exists.
Now all Republicans are racists! It’s so simple to put them all in a box instead of using my head a bit! Yay!
The vast majority of Republicans supported a racist for the head of their party. If you do that, you’re either a racist or someone who’s fine with racism. At some point, there’s no difference.
Either/or fallacy. Nice.
Well many Republicans did support Trump, and I think he is a scumbag.
I think he’s a scumbag too, and for that reason, I left the party. But is it really down to exactly those two items? No, the reality of the situation is that many Republicans do not like him, but they felt he at least was better aligned with their views than Hillary on issues that were important to them, abortion being a fine example.
And many people are ignorant and do not believe that Trump really says or does the things he says and does. They believe that the media is actually portraying the president in a negative light simply to make him look bad. We were given a terrible choice in our last presidential election cycle, and some people falsely saw him as the lesser of two evils. When you have an electoral system that only gives two parties a reasonable chance of winning, it makes it difficult to choose someone who really stands for the same things you do.
But no, it must be “either you’re racist or you’re fine with a racist.”
It doesn’t take much tweaking to turn that statement true, however. Either you support him because he’s a racist or you support him because you believe the issues he’ll advance are important enough that his racism is an acceptable risk. Winston Churchill was a raving anti-Semite, Susan B Anthony was racist as shit, Thomas Jefferson owned and raped his wife’s half-sister. But people supported their causes and history still treats these people kindly because we still do.
I think the problem people on the Left have with Trump is that we thought society moved on a little bit further on racial issues than we really had, so we thought these historical examples didn’t apply to the present. Turns out, not so much.
There are slight differences, though. Trump made racism the centerpiece of his political campaign, and had no other coherent policy positions other than racism, so supporting him to advance a policy position that wasn’t inherently racist was an act of faith, rather than weighing the relative values of concrete ideals.
Also, looking further back, we can largely thank Orrin Hatch for CHIP, and George H. W. Bush for the ADA.
To avoid muddying the waters too much, I’m only considering ideas from conservative Republicans. So Nixon and Clinton are both out, for not clearly being one or the other.
