Makeitstop

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[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

And Toto has Africa pretty well covered.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 29 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't also naked.

Also, they have interstellar travel but need to use crop circles to communicate. I know that's just part of the premise but it's still stupid.

But not nearly as stupid as flying all the way here and trying win a land war completely unarmed. If your battle plan can be beaten by a baseball bat and asthma, you should maybe rethink your invasion.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I get 3 in 1 but only use it as face and bodywash. I have long hair that doesn't play nice if I don't use decent shampoo and conditioner. But the 3 in 1 stuff isn't any more expensive than other bodywashes and there's enough fuzz everywhere else that I like a little conditioner in my soap.

[Happy Chewbacca Noises]

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 68 points 4 days ago (3 children)

From what little I have seen, right wing outlets were interpreting the video as proof the officer was hit by the car because of the way the phone gets jostled at the end. You also can't see in this video exactly when he draws his gun, or how the shooter is positioned. It's damning when combined with the other videos, but on its own it's a lot less clear.

And they also see it as proof that these were "agitators" obstructing "law enforcement" based on the confrontational tone with the woman outside the vehicle. They want to frame the issue as law enforcement vs criminals, rioters and radical domestic terrorists. They want to blame the victim and undercut the narrative that this was an innocent bystander.

Obviously a sane person would recognize that it doesn't matter if the victim was politically active or even obstructing police, it's still murder. But these aren't moral, rational people and they aren't trying to persuade an audience with legal arguments, just feeding the US vs them mentality.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Trump isn't personally running the entire federal government and showing up to court to file his own motions and answer questions from judges. Trump and his inner circle may act like they're above the law, but the people who have to carry out their instructions aren't immune to consequences.

This is especially true in court. Lawyers aren't eager to throw their careers away by lying to judges, filing false statements, or openly defying court orders. That's why the administration has lost so many lawyers and says things in court that are wildly different than what they say everywhere else.

Suing this administration has been a much more effective strategy than most people seem to realize. It's often a long, drawn out process that wastes time and money, and they drag things out as much as possible. And yes the Supreme Court has been blatantly corrupt in the ways they've bailed out the Trump administration. But still, they only take on a small fraction of the total number of cases (and even then, they mostly help them stall cases with temporary orders rather than deciding actual cases).

When the Supreme Court doesn't intervene, the Trump administration loses or backs down the vast majority of the time.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The 25th amendment is invoked by the cabinet and the vice president. Those are the people supporting this shit, they aren't going to get rid of him. He's doing what they want and giving them cover.

I would say that the only thing that could convince them to remove him is if he became such a liability that they felt the need to get rid of him out of self-preservation. But honestly, I don't think they have the necessary level of awareness. If anything, I suspect most of them would be more likely to double down on being cartoonishly evil and try to do whatever it takes to cling to power.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Does this mean humans are the same species as vulcans, klingons, romulans, betazoids, trill, ocampa, and ktarians?

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

She also tried to claim that someone inserted the puppy murdering bit in her book to make her look bad, even though she was familiar enough with the story to answer questions about it before it got backlash. In other words, she's a psychopath who never seems to get better at lying despite the constant practice.

She's the kind of liar that would shit herself and immediately claim someone else did it.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago

There is no statute of limitations on murder.

The feds will protect him, but that's only guaranteed for as long as the current regime is in power. Even if the next administration (or the one after that, or the one after that, etc) isn't inclined to make a federal case out of it, they could easily decide to just not obstruct justice and cooperate, handing everything over to the state.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago

She was clearly performing a Y turn to steer around him. You can see him pull his gun out as she's switching from reverse to drive, and he fires the first shot while she's barely moving. She continues to accelerate after getting shot and yet he doesn't get hit, but he does continue firing.

Her intent was obviously to escape, not to inflict harm. His intent was obviously to inflict harm, not to escape.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Real people don't have scripts to read from.

But seriously, listen to the way people talk. It's chaotic, messy, often unclear and very inefficient. Conversations meander wildly, with dangling threads that are never concluded and often times with people talking past each other as much as to each other. If you wrote dialogue that way it would just be harder for audiences to follow and waste precious screentime.

Realistic sounding dialogue is about writing what a real person would say if they stopped to think for a minute between each statement.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In some states you have to be registered as a member of a party to vote in their primaries. In states with open primaries you can vote in primaries without registering as a party member, but they still typically have party affiliation as an option on the form.

 

Over 200 American outlets under USA Today parent company Gannett will not back candidates “in presidential or national races,” according to USA Today.

“None of the USA TODAY Network publications are endorsing in presidential or national races,” a spokesperson for USA Today, Lark-Marie Antón, said in an email to The Hill on Monday.

 

My SO and I are always looking for good movies, shows, etc. to fill the month of October. We like things that are atmospheric, cerebral, or just fun. But a lot of the standard recommendations are your typical slasher movies and the like, disgusting body horror, kids movies that we have no interest in, and things that are just plain miserable.


Here's some things we've liked to one degree or another from previous years.

Action Horror / Horror That's Actually Enjoyable

  • Aliens
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • Fright Night
  • Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
  • The Mummy (1999)
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • Sleepy Hollow (Great? No. Fun? Yes.)
  • Termors 1 & 2
  • Various Stephen King Mini series (IT, The Stand, Rose Red)

Funny and Spooky

  • Army of Darkness
  • BeetleJuice
  • Bubba Ho-Tep
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)
  • The Burbs (didn't love it, but a good fit)
  • Death Becomes Her
  • The Frighteners
  • Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  • Ghostbusters 1 & 2
  • Gremlins 1 & 2
  • High Anxiety
  • Little Shop of Horrors (not really into musicals, but still a good fit)
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • What We Do in the Shadows (movie)
  • Various MST3K horror movie episodes
  • Young Frankenstein

Anthology Shows (inherently hit or miss)

  • The Twilight Zone (60s)
  • The Outer Limits (90s)
  • Tales From the Crypt

Old Timey Classics

  • Dracula
  • Frankenstein (actually underwhelming, but it was a good fit)
  • The Haunting (1963)
  • The Haunting of Hill House (with Rifftrax, but still counts)
  • The Last Man on Earth
  • Psycho
  • The Invisible Man

Barely Qualifies as spooky but still good:

  • Dark Man
  • The Dead Zone (movie)
  • Men in Black
  • Pacific Rim
  • The Shadow
  • They Live
 

A new poll shows former President Trump leading Vice President Harris by only 2 points in Florida ahead of what could be a tighter-than-expected race in the red state in November.

Trump leads Harris with 49 to her 47 percent support in the Sunshine State, according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus two points.

 

And don't get me started on modern conveniences.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Makeitstop@lemmy.world to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca
 

It seems like all the other markdown stuff works, but we're missing ^superscript^ and ~subscript~ in connect. As a frequent user of footnotes,^1^ I would greatly appreciate support for these tags.


^1^ Great for citations, explanations, or really stupid tangents

 

Amazing how one little letter can make such a big difference.

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