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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • On the one hand, I hope that this all leads to an electoral “death by a thousand cuts”, bleeding support with each senile and ignorant outburst, those who were “I dunno… I may go and vote against the libruls this November” dial it down a notch to “Fuck it. Why bother?”

    On the other hand, it doesn’t matter what this orange parasite says and does, it never totally torpedoes his chances, this is all still a real and present danger because there are so many who fall for the divide-and-conquer propaganda, into the comfy lazy bitterness of “both parties are the same”.

    Add to that the twisted battleground dynamics of the electoral college, both internal and foreign interests intent on weakening democracy, republican “soft fraud” like purging voters from the rolls, and one cannot let one guard’s down.

    Fortunately, you don’t have to follow any toxic political news or fabricated outrages or bullshit peddlers, you already have ALL the information you need to do the correct and healthy thing:

    SPEAK SOFTLY
    TUNE OUT
    VOTE DEMOCRAT THIS NOVEMBER

    It really is that simple.





  • There’s a Monty Python sketch where someone handles a large glass container with a liquid that looked like rosé wine, no context provided.

    Out of the blue, some BBC executive or execs wanted to censor the sketch because of “its’ visual depiction of menstrual urine”.

    It truly takes some twisted, fucked-up minds to find obscenity everywhere they look, projecting Satan onto everything around them, carrying Satan piggyback even into neutral zones.



  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzLet me at 'em!!
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    5 days ago

    It’s a movie about physics, with characters like Niels Bohr featured prominently, which just so happened to be made for general audiences and it was a hit, by a director whose other historical film was about Dunkirk.

    Before these movies were made, the subjects were pretty much obscure to the mainstream. Films like these are regarded as risky for large studios, and it’s widely acknowledged that Christopher Nolan is on the very short list of directors with the blessing to do absolutely whatever they want at large studio scale and budget and that is not part of a franchise. And by “very short list” I mean people like Stanley Kubrick.

    The “mainstream” label on Oppenheimer is incidental, after the fact.



  • As a baseball history buff, for a long time my way of “counting sheep” in bed was:
    5 baseball players whose last name begins with the letter “A”,
    then “B”, “C”, etc.

    When after a few nights I worked my way up to “Z”, I started over, but with a twist:
    5 baseball players, whose last name begins with the letter “A”, and who played before 1950.

    Then when I made it to “Z”,
    5 baseball players, whose last name begins with the letter “A”, and who played after 1950.