Used to walk like this from the handicapped stall straight back into the bar before getting kicked out. This is the “ok tighten up. Tighten the fuck up now or you’re fucked” walk.
"Hate Trump, love war on Iran" gotta be an ideological combo held by no more than 1% of the general population and yet it's like 90% of liberal pundits and at least half of liberal politicians
Incredible post. Lynchian. The uncanny hyperreal sheen of Dubai, but every detail of the video radiating its own emptiness. The friend's vacant stare, the smiling but robotic dance of the guest workers, Ian's sunken posture and glazed over expression. It's so profoundly hollow.
Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.
Clear skies today provided our first good satellite view of the area since our snowfall and deep freeze. Sentinel-2 imagery shows a mostly iced-over Allegheny, but still open channel on the Mon and Ohio Rivers.
Layer Cake is a top 3 movie for me and I the “Ordinary World” sequence may be may favorite part. I always laugh at how Morty paralyzes this scumbag in front of 80 witnesses and then tells the world’s most risk-averse drug trafficker “Whoopsie! See ya!”
Chomsky has talked at length about the brilliance of the American system of propaganda lying in its subtlety, its sophistication, and the way that it relies on unspoken incentives and disincentives to produce the desired outcomes softly, rather than with the hammer of some blunt censor. That era is fading and being replaced with this kind of blunt force. That's probably a good thing, easier for people to see through.