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Good talk.
Marco Rubio says that in the next few months, the U.S. government will use facial recognition to authenticate your photos for your passport, eliminating the need to go to Walgreens or CVS for a passport photo.
Rubio says this is being done for your own good and to save you time.
"Our security system will verify the facial ID."
@ApexSeeker_ Yes! I've been to Japan a couple of times in the last five years. I love the culture. I want one for myself and my wife. But I'm saving for an authentic katana first.
@ApexSeeker_ Don't they hate each other? I'd let one chase me to the other, then let them have at it with each other. Oh wait, first I'd call a time out, then go sell tickets to the event.
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@ApexSeeker_ Mondays: minor annoyance
Taxes: can be prepared for
Guns: like someone else said, it's the person holding it.
Day to day, for me, it's driving. Not driving itself but the other people driving. I see someone doing something stupid & dangerous every day, just as deadly as a gun.
@BamaSaltyMarine My granddad didn't. He worked in ship yards while my grandma rivited airplanes. My dad did in Vietnam and not just foxholes. In jungle mud, rice paddies, even in a river with the leeches. My son did it in the sand and other despicable places. I'll never forget and always honor.
@hokkori_buzz@R4IN64 The privilege of voting is a sacred honor and duty to one's country. Voter apathy is the root cause of the growth of election fraud. The fewer people that care, the easier it is to rig. Thanks to X, more citizens are becoming aware, and apathy is less, more cheaters being caught.
@tuuu28283 You won't get to ride a bull at a rodeo. It's a competition. Only competitors get to ride. You have to earn a ride in a rodeo. It's dangerous, can be lethal. There's a time after the rodeo called slack. Maybe you can befriend some cowboy into letting you ride a gental bull then.
@TomcatJunkie@NAFAtsugiJP My daughter and her husband live there. He's a civilian contractor & works on base. If you don't have any luck, let me know.
@ApexSeeker_ I suppose I'd do whatever the demon wanted. I mean, it possessed me, right? But I would be calling on Christ to help me.
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@ApexSeeker_ Polite? Very.
Quiet? Mostly
Hardworking? Mostly
NPCs? Fringe
Among Americans, I'm sure there is a wide range of what people think. However, I'm fairly certain most have a positive view.
@ApexSeeker_ American.
Each of those depends on your definition. I think the big dinos are probably gone, but gaters and others are still around.
If you're talking about land-line phones, yep, pretty close to gone.
"Affordable" housing depends on one's financial status and desire.
My $.02.
@infantrydort I'm a civilian, and I feel the same way. There's no way they will ever comply with a peace deal. There is no place for them on an otherwise civilized planet. Total annihilation is the only answer. It's the only way the Iranian people will ever be able to run their own country.
@billytex940@AlsupS I have found nothing quite like em. My buddies & I probably ate our weight in those damned things in our high-school years (late 70s). There are no Alsups around Midland/Odessa that I know of, but when I get over to NM or up to Lubbock, I have to grab one just for the nostalgia.
So, I watched Citizen Vigilante.
My thoughts:
1. It is a Uwe Boll film, with all that entails. Understand this going in.
2. It is low-budget. Uwe Boll paid for this film to be made out of his own pocket. And I applaud him for that.
3. There is no plot to speak of. No character development. The movie is 1.5 hours of cathartic release for all the pent-up anger and frustration most of us feel at the state of the world today. Unapologetically so.
4. It is very, sometimes too on-the-nose. But that's the point: this film is a blunt object. A cudgel, being wielded to beat the sleeping and the complicit over the head with what is going on, and how people feel about it. In that, it succeeds.
5. It's clear why it got banned in Europe: it's a direct, clear, and vicious indictment of the governments, courts, and law enforcement not just allowing, but enabling the moral and civil decay we see accelerating around us every day. It is also a call to action. In several instances, the main character states to his audience: "I do this for you, until you learn to do it for yourselves." It's a film that scares those in power. And it should.
Is it entertaining? No. It is not looking to amuse. There is no escape to be found in this film. It is not looking to pump you full of adrenaline. It's not there to take you on a thrill ride. You will not even sympathize with the main character. Hammer's acting is...well, average for him. And I don't consider him a particularly good actor to begin with. His delivery and presence is wooden. But that doesn't detract from the film. The main character is not angry; he's almost numb to the situation, and is doing what needs to be done. He is not there to be liked or rooted for, pitied or empathized with. He's there to express and act on what far too many people hold inside these days.
The film also jumps around in time a bit, without warning, which can make it hard to follow at times. But not in a confusing way; more in an unsettling manner, which I believe was the intent. You are not meant to be comfortable watching this film.
Should you watch it? Yes. And think about it. Think about what it's showing you, what it's telling you. Really think about it.