I actually think that the high prices make it pointless to see movies unless you either think that you know they’ll be great, or if you’ve been anticipating it for a while. Twenty years ago it was affordable to just go to the movies and see what sounded fun.
Yeah I only go when it’s something I’m actually interested in and know I’ll like.
But it’s not about actually saving lives or preventing abortions, it’s about punishing people for being people.
I disagree with you on this opinion. I don’t remember anyone ever saying it was being done to punish people for being people. If I’m wrong, please direct me to who said it and where so that I may correct myself.
Of course it’s not explicitly stated because that would look awful. No party is going to come out and say “we’re doing this to be mean” because that’s fucking stupid.
But realistically, it’s either that or they’re more dense than osmium because the way they’re going about it (cut funding and preach abstinence-only) is not only unrealistic and entirely out of touch with reality, but incredibly stupid.
Nobody goes out to have an abortion because it’s a rip-roarin’ good time. People do it because they have no other option. You give them options before it comes to that and the worst-case scenario will decline.
#1. I never said abortion is a rip-roaring good time.
#2. Even when all options are on the table it is never guaranteed that it reaches all the same people that need options.
#3. I didn’t see anything about an “abstinence only” policy anywhere. I also never suggested it.
I don’t know why you’re making this into a person attack, because it isn’t. I’m talking about why the policy is bad and why the current administration is wrong.
But it’s not about actually saving lives or preventing abortions, it’s about punishing people for being people.
I disagree with you on this opinion. I don’t remember anyone ever saying it was being done to punish people for being people. If I’m wrong, please direct me to who said it and where so that I may correct myself.
Of course it’s not explicitly stated because that would look awful. No party is going to come out and say “we’re doing this to be mean” because that’s fucking stupid.
But realistically, it’s either that or they’re more dense than osmium because the way they’re going about it (cut funding and preach abstinence-only) is not only unrealistic and entirely out of touch with reality, but incredibly stupid.
Nobody goes out to have an abortion because it’s a rip-roarin’ good time. People do it because they have no other option. You give them options before it comes to that and the worst-case scenario will decline.
Bit much there, bud.
In this modern world of progress, education is the key to all things and yet we continue to defund it every chance we get, then wonder why things go wrong.
People don’t have babies willy-nilly because it’s fun to have a kid. People don’t have abortions willy-nilly because it’s fun to have an abortion. They do it because they don’t know better, or don’t have access to contraception, or because of accidental pregnancy/pregnancy through malicious intent. Why we feel the need to punish people for the above and then propagate the problem by continuing to cut funding is not logical or intelligent.
You wanna see fewer people on welfare funded by your tax dollar having a million kids? Prevent it by education (and not abstinence-only because that’s a farce and will never work), providing contraception, and allowing abortion. Funny thing is that when you do the first two (educate and provide contraceptives), I guarantee that the third option (abortion) will fall rapidly. You wanna solve abortion with me? Then lean on the first two. Don’t just defund the whole thing and shove it under the rug and pretend it doesn’t exist for inane puritanical ideological reasons. I don’t like the idea of abortion as much as anybody, but you damn well better believe that I want them available and happening in a well-funded controlled and clinical environment, and not some back alley with a rusty coathanger.
I dunno about anyone else here, but I’d rather my tax dollars go to paying for a box of condoms and an IUD for a teenage couple than go to paying them and their five kids to stay on welfare for the next fifty years. And then pay for those five kids’ twenty-five kids to stay on welfare for another fifty years. And so on. You wanna treat the disease? Treat the cause, not the symptoms. It’s the same thing in “underdeveloped” countries, too, you wanna stop spending billions in aid on these countries? Teach them to fish, so to speak. Don’t cut the “learn fishing” programs and then complain about refugees. Christ almighty the disconnect in that “logic,” and yet it prevails nation- and world-wide.
But it’s not about actually saving lives or preventing abortions, it’s about punishing people for being people.
I used to lick the connectors now and then. It always worked.
Hahaha, yeah that game was a shitshow. I dunno if you followed the development at all, but here’s a comparison of what we were promised at E3 versus what we got. They released a couple multi-gig patches which did help the visuals a bit, but boy did they lie through their teeth when promoting it.
Plus the AI was terrible in the vanilla version. The xenos were useless and annoying, and half the game is basically normal FPS just shooting humanoids anyway. They just completely and utterly failed.
This was the game that finally made me stop preordering things. It is sincerely and without a doubt one of the biggest disappointments of my gaming career.
Yeah, it’s a shame a lot of the score got buried in the mix.
If the last Jedi is Luke we will defo see an ESB rehash with Luke training Rey ffs!
No doubt Luke will be killed by kylo ren yawn. And Rey will watch him get killed!
So… uh… should Luke not train anyone? Should Rey not become a Jedi? Or are you just trolling?
I don’t know if I think so much about others reactions so much during, but to me it is very much more a shared experience when you go with others. Going by yourself, in contrast, feels a lot more personal and intimate.
I guess that’s more what I was trying to get at.
Going to the movies alone is one of the best things ever.
Would you believe that I never went to the movies alone until once a couple months ago? Not that I specifically avoided it, I just never felt compelled to go all by myself, or ever had much reason. I can say, full heartedly, that I agree. I definitely plan on going alone again, there is a whole other dimension that goes with it.
Yeah, I was the same way. Always went with friends or family or whatever until I was in a sorry state in Canada having just been dumped and being so poor that a friend bought me a ticket from the States (the Internet!) to see Age of Ultron because he felt bad that I wasn’t able to see it.
And it was such a nice experience! Maybe it was because of what was going on in my life at the time, but there was just something about it. Usually when I go with other people, I always spend a lot of the time wondering about the other person’s reactions or thoughts or whatever, so I never really get to immerse myself. But going alone you can just lean back and pay full attention to the movie and just enjoy it. Definitely recommend it.
I agree about the feedback, haha. Dave and Jimmy are really nice on Twitter, so send away.
I feel like if ROTS was intended as a goodbye to the series, TFA is like a “hello, old friend” stretching of the legs in a new world. Very good credits.
Going to the movies alone is one of the best things ever.
I really appreciate how John Williams just took on a whole new sound for the film, while still obviously working in the same general parameters. It’s definitely SW, but it sounds very different from any of the previous scores.
And of course there’s some of his best leitmotivic work in years (which is showcased in possibly one of his all-time best end credit suites).
Yeah, I’ve come to appreciate the new scores the more I listen to them on shuffle with the OT scores.
Oxygen turned me onto the end credit suite for Revenge of the Sith. Wow. That is just an incredible farewell to the franchise from him (considering at the time that was the last movie). It’s so incredible.
How can I refer to ROTJ as simply Jedi in passing conversation now?
It’s still Jedi. This one will be Jedi 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Motion Passed.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has postponed the vote on Trump’s education pick Betsy DeVos, hours after receiving the completed ethics review for the Michigan billionaire.
The committee vote, originally scheduled to take place Tuesday has been rescheduled for Jan. 31 at 10 a.m., according to a statement from the HELP committee chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). The announcement arrived after the Office of Government Ethics, an agency that examines nominees’ financial disclosures and resolves potential conflicts of interest, released its long-awaited report Friday. Alexander said he wants to give each Senator on the committee time to review the documents.
Ethics Director Walter M. Shaub Jr. had said a full vetting of extremely wealthy individuals, such as DeVos, could take weeks, if not months, much to the chagrin of Senate Democrats who wanted to review it before DeVos’s confirmation hearing, which took place Tuesday evening.
Good. America needs an educated populace that can take the jobs that are replacing jobs lost to automation and progress, and DeVos is very likely not the one to deliver that America.
It would be nice to see some more of these ethics reports done on the rest of the insanely rich cabinet, most of which have ties to large corporations in conflict with their interests concerning the country.
These ethics reports you’re so happy about should be mandatory for ALL in lead government positions, not just the ones we may not like.
Obviously.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has postponed the vote on Trump’s education pick Betsy DeVos, hours after receiving the completed ethics review for the Michigan billionaire.
The committee vote, originally scheduled to take place Tuesday has been rescheduled for Jan. 31 at 10 a.m., according to a statement from the HELP committee chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). The announcement arrived after the Office of Government Ethics, an agency that examines nominees’ financial disclosures and resolves potential conflicts of interest, released its long-awaited report Friday. Alexander said he wants to give each Senator on the committee time to review the documents.
Ethics Director Walter M. Shaub Jr. had said a full vetting of extremely wealthy individuals, such as DeVos, could take weeks, if not months, much to the chagrin of Senate Democrats who wanted to review it before DeVos’s confirmation hearing, which took place Tuesday evening.
Good. America needs an educated populace that can take the jobs that are replacing jobs lost to automation and progress, and DeVos is very likely not the one to deliver that America.
It would be nice to see some more of these ethics reports done on the rest of the insanely rich cabinet, most of which have ties to large corporations in conflict with their interests concerning the country.
Daisy Ridley did day that she didn’t think Rey was a Jedi…Perhaps Luke trains her to become something different and she eventually starts a new Order of Force Wielders. That would be pretty ballsy imo
I don’t believe anything that anyone says about a movie they are creating until I’ve seen it.
Reasonable, especially with a franchise this secretive.
I don’t believe you.
Good.
I mean it’s fine when there’s no other posts in between, but when it’s like ten posts how are we supposed to know!
I’M NOT A MIND READER TV’S FRINK
IM NOT A TVS FRINK AT ALL
GET BACK TO WORK
You 2 work together? That can’t be good for business if you’re on here a good part of your day.
LOL
This is business, and business is good.
Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.
and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.
It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.
It’s a legally, democratically-elected Republican President that will have his own Congressional issues.
That is matter of opinion. Sure, he was legally elected. But is it really a democratically-elected when the majority of the voters didn’t vote for him?
Besides, it never stopped Obama from using Executive Privellege to get what he wanted so I am unsure as to why it’s even a topic of dicsussion.
But that is my point. Whenever Obama used executive privilege to get what he wanted, the Republicans were outraged. But now a Republican President seems to be doing the same thing.
I’m not arguing the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency, but I find a hilarious irony in the Republican outrage that Obama was basically forced to sign the executive orders he did by an uncooperative and useless Republican congress (remember when our government shut down for no reason than whiny Republicans?), but nobody’s saying anything about Trump’s non-stop executive orders since day one of his presidency.
Daisy Ridley did day that she didn’t think Rey was a Jedi…Perhaps Luke trains her to become something different and she eventually starts a new Order of Force Wielders. That would be pretty ballsy imo
I don’t believe anything that anyone says about a movie they are creating until I’ve seen it.
Reasonable, especially with a franchise this secretive.
Dear God, they’re arguing about attendance numbers again.
Amazing.
I saw this on Twitter the other day, where it was billed as supposedly coming from inside the press corps. or something, but since I can’t verify that I’m not going to attribute it to anything. Regardless, it seems very accurate.
How did you get ahold of the alternative DNC Presedential Race agenda? I thought Donna B. shredded all this stuff. 😉
I mean, that would be funnier if it wasn’t apparently the actual agenda of the current administration.
I don’t know how something posted on twitter could be considered anything less than hearsay. I mean, can it actually be verified, that it is what it says it is?
I saw this on Twitter the other day, where it was billed as supposedly coming from inside the press corps. or something, but since I can’t verify that I’m not going to attribute it to anything. Regardless, it seems very accurate.
Trump seems to be signing an absolute shitload of executive orders despite having the entire government mostly in agreement with his policies.
and here I thought Republicans didn’t like rule by executive orders. I thought they wanted Congress to have a say in these things.
It’s okay when it’s their guy, but not when it’s a legally, democratically-elected President who’s being gaslit by the republican majority who openly vowed to gaslight him at every turn.
Dear God, they’re arguing about attendance numbers again.
Amazing.
I saw this on Twitter the other day, where it was billed as supposedly coming from inside the press corps. or something, but since I can’t verify that I’m not going to attribute it to anything. Regardless, it seems very accurate.
How did you get ahold of the alternative DNC Presedential Race agenda? I thought Donna B. shredded all this stuff. 😉
I mean, that would be funnier if it wasn’t apparently the actual agenda of the current administration.
Solar energy in the US employs more people than traditional coal, gas and oil combined, a report has found, in a revelation that could undermine Donald Trump’s argument that green energy isn’t good for the economy.
The latest report from the US Department of Energy (DOE) reveals solar energy accounts for the largest proportion of employers in the Electric Power Generation sector, with wind energy the third largest, while the coal industries have declined in the past 10 years.
Solar energy employed 374,000 people over the year 2015-2016, making up 43 per cent of the sector’s workforce, while the traditional fossil fuels combined employed 187,117, making up just 22 per cent of the workforce, according to the report.
But… muh coal jobs…
