Makeitstop

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[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Starbug from Red Dwarf is top left. The Milano from Guardians of the Galaxy is beneath that. Slave 1 (Boba Fett's ship) is the top right. Not sure about the bottom right, my best guess is Samus Aran's gunship from Metroid.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And let's not forget the student loans that are being forced onto worse repayment plans, and brutal collections for anyone who can't keep up. Because the only thing the department of education does that they actually support is keep people weighed down by crippling debts.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, if I was some admiral trying to protect a bunch of R&D projects in development from Trump, I'd probably wrap as many of them as I could into a pitch for a big battleship with his name on it then spend the entire budget on the technologies that are supposedly going into the ship. Put basically no effort into the ship itself, just show him concept art and maybe send him a model or something to make him think progress is being made.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And that's how the party ends up on the run for counterfeiting.

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

He's almost too charismatic. You can't help but be like "yeah, he's right, maybe Christmas is a humbug..."

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Does he live in the mall then?

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even his handpicked board didn't all go along with it. One of them is suing over this, and said their mic was muted so that there couldn't be any objections.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The only thing that should be named after Trump is a maximum security prison that houses every scumbag in this administration along with their accomplices.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Our rule was always that if you bought 50 of something like food or ammo, you don't have to track how many you've used, we'll just assume you're well stocked and resupplying offscreen. The limit only comes back if the party is overtly cut off from resupply, like if they are shipwrecked on an uninhabited island.

This means you can easily have a limitless supply of normal arrows but still have to track your silver arrows, smoke bomb arrows, etc. Or you can invest the money to just have a limitless supply of whatever specialty item you think is worth the cost.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really hate how many people resent the idea of any kind of student loan forgiveness.

Billionaires set up vast financial systems for the sole purpose of dodging taxes. No bid contracts get handed out like candy to politically connected scumbags. An obscene amount of money gets dumped into insurance companies that only make your healthcare worse. Giant corporations violate laws and rob both workers and customers, and if anything is done at all it will be a tiny fine that's smaller than the profit from their crimes.

All those things that actually harm the rest of us? No big deal. But you suggest that maybe it's a bad idea to keep generations ensnared in crippling debt? THAT'S A FUCKING OUTRAGE!

I mean obviously it wouldn't be fair to have a policy that directly benefits some people but not others. Why should student loan borrowers get special treatment? Sure, I'll fucking riot if anyone touches my tax credits for having kids and a mortgage, but that's different, that's good for society... unlike education. Besides, it's not my fault your generation don't buy houses and start families. Oh don't bitch to me about how you can't afford it, maybe you shouldn't have taken those loans out then...

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

They didn't rule on the case, they just decided not to immediately lift the lower court's order blocking the deployment. Still better than 95% of their other rulings, but not a final decision.

 

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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