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TV’s Frink said:

It’s heaven. You get to listen to whatever you want!

I can’t picture God allowing me to blare Black Sabbath music.

CatBus said:

yhwx said:

Anyone else think that it’s a bit ironic (and sad) that McCain receives some of the best medical care in the world but then rushes back to potentially remove it from millions of Americans?

Not ironic considering his record. He gives good speeches, then falls in line. Only his mouth was ever a maverick.

The real question is if McConnell is pushing this vote through without knowing it will pass, because Trump wants his enemies list.

He did vote in favor of the Senate background check gun-control bill. He was one of the only Republicans to do so.

The scene in the SE is horrible. It works well in the context of the novelization. I don’t believe for a second that Lucas was going to put a stop motion creature over the actor because there’s so much movement and Han is so close to him that there was no way to make it look anything other than horrible in any era of special effects, but especially terrible in 1977. The stand-in also is in costume and acts enough that he seemed to have had some direction for Lucas.

SilverWook said:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/company-to-install-microchips-in-employees/ar-AAoJT1s

Creepy

suspiciouscoffee said:

I sometimes wonder if my fear of hell is the only thing keeping me alive.

The answer is a firm maybe.

I personally think that heaven would be about as bad as hell. Eternity of bumbling around in heaven where the music no doubt sucks vs. an eternity of burning in hell in the company of some of history’s most wicked monsters as well as some of history’s most badass. It’s a tough choice.

That’s true, but Hillary and his primary opponents in the GOP also didn’t respond to it well. I think if any one of those Republicans would have called him out on stage and called him, “an incompetent fool with no working knowledge of government or global affairs that spews nonsense so incomprehensible that it’s capable of dropping the IQ of any sentient being, as well as a lying, serial-adulterer whose ungodly antics make anyone with a conscience vomit in their mouths,” then I don’t think he’d have been able to respond well, but they all took this weird, pseudo high road that looked pathetic and weak. Hillary also should have pressed the incompetence issue harder than she did, and campaigned in the rust belt a little bit instead of not at all. Keep in mind, Donald Trump lost the popular vote by three million votes. His victory was dependent on only about 100,000 votes spread across multiple states. People need to keep in mind that apathy on the part of Democratic voters, and stunning idiocy on the part of the Democratic Party (and Hillary) gave Trump one of the most narrow victories in the history of the American presidency. If his unfathomable incompetence continues like this for four years, I suspect he’ll lose in a landslide. There’ll never be a landslide like Reagan’s victories again, since California and New York, with some others, will always go Democrat and the South will always go Republican, but I think it’s fear-mongering to count on Trump winning again. That said, if it keeps people from being apathetic and choosing not to vote against him, then maybe it’s necessary.

I know it’s been beaten to death, but that scene is so horrible.

I think that the tacit support for Trump caused by the anti-Hillary tendencies of typically Democratic voters is what got Trump elected. If an election were held today of Trump vs. any Democrat but Hillary, he’d lose terribly I bet. Even Hillary’s loss was a total fluke. Trump didn’t do much better than McCain and Romney, and they each lost by a lot, so the blame largely falls on her for utterly failing to court the swing states.

Possessed said:

Sounds like textbook anxiety disorder, especially the physically feeling like you’re about to die despite being in good shape. I have it too. Usually at least once a day I have a panic attack thinking that I’m about to have a heart attack or stroke and die, despite the fact that I’m 23 years old and have never been diagnosed with a heart condition.

Maybe. I don’t think it’s straight up anxiety though, because I’m not really nervous about it, or even really panicking so much as just feeling like I’m about to die. In fact, my immediate response is confusion rather than nerves.

TV’s Frink said:

I don’t know if this belongs but…

http://originaltrilogy.com/user/green/id/33346

Maybe he’s a huge fan of the Matt Damon flop film Green Zone.

The feeling is usually a really strong suspicion that I’m about to get shot, or murdered, or die in some kind of sudden accident. When I physically feel like I’m about to die it’s usually that I can’t breathe well or feel really unable to stand for some reason, even though I’m in pretty good shape and get a lot of exercise and take fairly good care of myself. It’s pretty weird and I’m certain it’s all in my mind but it’s kind of freaky.

Obviously it’s all in my mind so I don’t need to see a real doctor. I don’t think I trust mental doctors.

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

which is a good reminder as to why I hate people.

I mean no offense by this, but this is what I first thought of when I read that comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEscJnV8whA

That would’ve been a pretty funny reference had you not preemptively apologized for it.

I feel really betrayed by these partisan hacks that convinced me that somehow people on the right aren’t as full of shit as people on the left. The final nail in the coffin for me was a video I saw from a popular conservative on Youtube claiming that the AIDS epidemic was a “hoax” because it primarily effected the gay. Obviously, that mindset is absurd, but what really got me is that the video was almost unanimously received positively, which is a good reminder as to why I hate people. Left-wingers may be nuts, but right-wingers are evil. Both can do equal damage though.

Also, keep in mind that I said “left-wingers” and “right-wingers”. I’m referring specifically to these agenda driven creeps, not normal liberals and conservatives.

RicOlie_2: I’m really sorry to hear about your friend. Try to spread the joy she gave you to others, and in a way she’ll live on.

I’ve been having these regularly occurring feelings that I’m about to die. Sometimes it’s just a hunch and sometimes I actually feel like I’m physically and I’m not sure what to do about it.

The Voyager “plothole” (if you can call it that) that always got me was that Janeway was violating the Prime Directive by destroying the Caretaker to save that random underground city. It dragged them to the Delta Quadrant, died, and its remains were about to be scavenged by other Delta Quadrant aliens. Voyager should’ve gotten the hell out instead of staying and f#$%ing around for seven seasons. Then we wouldn’t have had the show though so why am I complaining about it?

Warbler said:

btw, I noticed a plot hole in an episode of Voyager on tv the other day. It was the one where they find that very small wormwhole. They discover it leads back to the alpha quadrant. They make contact with a Romulan. They come up with a plan to beam everyone through the wormhole. Yoyager would be lost, but the crew would be back home. Only one problem, they find out at the end of the episode that the wormhole not only travels to the Alpha quadrant, but 20 years into the past. So they give up again.

Just one problem: the writers of this episode must have forgotten about TOS Episodes “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” and “Assignment: Earth” Star Trek IV, and Star Trek First Contract". All the crew would have needed to do is beam through the wormhole and find a warp capable ship and slingshot around a sun using the correct calculations and they could travel 20 years into the future.

Being in the heart of the Romulan Empire might have been problematic. They also might’ve ruined the timeline.

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

Yeah, things sadly got pretty goofy towards the end with him. I liked him better with shades of gray. Would have been more poetic if Kira had been able to kill him though.

Worf should have killed him, for Jadzia.

What would you have thought about him being tried and executed for crimes against Bajor? I think that would’ve been the best and most just way to end him.

Warbler said:

I assure you, I was not Bible bashing.

I wasn’t either.

No one mentioned Chester Bennington of Linkin Park? I can’t say I’ve ever heard one of their songs, but it’s sad news.

Warbler said:

my opinion is that the electoral college needs changing*, and gerrymandering needs to be fixed.

*I would change from votes to points, the eliminate the faithless elector problem.

You were very much in favor of faithless electors a few months ago.

bkev said:

Know the thread’s moved into Discovery territory again but wanted to comment on the recent DS9 talk. I’m a little surprised to see people not be fans of Dukat’s S7 antics. He clearly had a Savior complex, and it seemed logical for him to take the recent Bajoran strife as a personal opportunity. It’s obvious he’s not 100% back to normal, especially given how mad he goes in “Waltz” again.

I admit him disguising himself as Bajoran is is a bit of a stretch, but the rest of the plotline makes up for it. I loved seeing him manipulate a certain Kai.

Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion of course, but of all the sloppiness there is in S7, Dukat is not where my complaints lie.

Sure. I just didn’t care much for that angle and I don’t think it fit his character. I also felt like they couldn’t decide if they wanted him to be a devout believer or just an exploitative asshole, but they insisted on the former and it didn’t totally line up with his antics. I also thought the whole thing with Kira’s mother developing Stockholm Syndrome for Dukat with her husband’s permission (which I know predates Season 7) along with Dukat getting his disciple pregnant in Season 7 was pretty sloppy and just plain weird.

SilverWook said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

SilverWook said:

Warbler said:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oj-simpson-parole-board-20170720-story.html

fuck the parole board.

I was having early 90’s flashbacks watching the coverage on CNN today. I’m no legal expert, but they probably can’t consider his murder trial in their decision process, especially as he was acquitted.

They definitely can’t. He’s in prison now for armed robbery in which no one was injured, which is all they can consider.

I know technically they can’t consider it, but the law allowed them to keep him behind bars on the armed robbery charge much longer than they did. Under the law, they could have kept him in prison from a maximum of 30 years. Instead, they give him the minimum, 9 years. They could have given him more time.

I know, but I doubt that’s too uncommon in these cases. Keep in mind, I’m not happy about OJ being out of prison.

His cushy celebrity life is pretty much over. I imagine his legal fees have piled up the past decade. No sports memorabilia shows will touch him with a ten foot pole for all the bad press they’d get.

That’s true. And that all ended for him the second his first murder trial started, hence the armed robbery.

FanFiltration said:

Can’t put it down!

Is it stuck to your hand or do you just like using it as a conversation starter?

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

SilverWook said:

Warbler said:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oj-simpson-parole-board-20170720-story.html

fuck the parole board.

I was having early 90’s flashbacks watching the coverage on CNN today. I’m no legal expert, but they probably can’t consider his murder trial in their decision process, especially as he was acquitted.

They definitely can’t. He’s in prison now for armed robbery in which no one was injured, which is all they can consider.

I know technically they can’t consider it, but the law allowed them to keep him behind bars on the armed robbery charge much longer than they did. Under the law, they could have kept him in prison from a maximum of 30 years. Instead, they give him the minimum, 9 years. They could have given him more time.

I know, but I doubt that’s too uncommon in these cases. Keep in mind, I’m not happy about OJ being out of prison.