RoidingOldMan

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The Drama (2026) was okay. I came into it hating Zendaya. I came out of it sympathizing with school schooters I guess.

It Takes Two (1995) is a surprisingly decent family comedy. It's a borderline remake of earlier films (Thirty Day Princess (1934), and plenty more).

Breakdown (1997) is a well executed but terribly unrealistic story. Had some fun moments.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

"This goes too far. It crosses the line," wrote David Brody, a journalist with the Christian Broadcasting Network. "A supporter can back the mission and reject this."

If you still back the mission then you're not rejecting this.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

DMX got his name from one of these.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

OP said 1800-present. If you're talking about the 1899 split, then that's the colonial powers. What am I missing?

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Tiny island nations that were largely the victim of colonization by others. Trinidad and Tobago. Samoa.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Within reason, yes. Not looking for anything complicated.

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

People weren't lining up to watch Michael Jackson when he was pale white, missing a nose, almost dropping his kid off a balcony, plus the sexual accusations. He was a cautionary tale at that point.

His music got a boost after he died. Now that he's dead people like to gloss over the final decade of his life. But they weren't ignoring it when he was alive.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

We're removing Cesar Chavez from street signs, but this biopic won't even mention the allegations?

I find it strange the way people are willing to ignore inconvenient details about Michael Jackson and still celebrate him. If Jackson were alive right now he'd be blackballed in Hollywood surely, but because he's dead we celebrate? It's a strange inconsistency.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hate vertical filmed shorts.

 

Guess the Episode

  • 1 point for the episode/main plot.

  • 1 point for the joke/scene.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sure. You've never been?

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Gas is up about $1/gal in the last month or so. It was up 10 cents a day for a bit.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

including 80-something-year-old Bob Heironimus, who confessed to being the individual wearing the fake Bigfoot suit in the film.

I saw a doc at least 10+ years ago with this same guy saying the same thing. I believe him. But somehow people who believe in Bigfoot don't care.

 

Long but well written article. It's hard to disagree with any of the specific points. Warning that it's pretty long, and reads like a sci-fi novel.

Curious for opinions. This seems alarming? But also doomsday predictions tend to be wrong.

 

Here's the process as I understand it (please correct my errors):

  1. USA likes Israel, a lot for some reason
  2. "Israel" attacks Iran. This whole thing is being done with the USA's airplanes though.
  • Why does the USA love Israel so much?
  • What's the logic here? Not just the conspiracy. But why now? Why at all? Is Israel gaining something that I'm not seeing? Destabilization the main goal? What's the USA gaining here?
 

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee in the closing minutes of Sunday's 16-13 loss to the Chargers, a result that ended Kansas City's playoff hopes.

 

I remember doing this at the Embassy Suits probably around 2002.

 

As I understand it, birth defects are like 99.999% of the time unhelpful. But that 0.0001% of the time the genetic freak is a huge advantage and that gets passed down in the gene pool and thus, over many many generations, evolution.

Alcohol, which is known to increase birth defects, should increase the speed at which that happens. Right? Like playing the lottery with more tickets.

 

Since we're using El Salvador like it's a new Gitmo. Like yes, it would still suck for the people from El Salvador.

But at least people from other countries would go back to their home country. Presumably to be treated far better than El Salvador.

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