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Published: July 27, 2024 05:48

It used to seem strange to me that in GHOSTBUSTERS 2, basically everyone in New York City had memory-holed that the dead rose from the grave all over the city only five years earlier. It makes more sense to me now.

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Published: July 27, 2024 02:41

GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE is bad in every way a bloated nostalgia fest pretending to be a movie can be bad. The only aspect of this movie that isn't a tired rehash is the moral of the story: a child who wants to work in a very dangerous industry should…

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Published: July 26, 2024 23:48

I honestly don't know how they're gonna tell a new story in this universe unless it's a prequel taking place on Old Earth or Kobol, or a sequel that takes place in our future. But none of those would really connect to BSG, other than Old Earth having…

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Published: July 26, 2024 22:28

The Olympics should be for true amateur athletes. Every country's team should consist of competitors picked randomly (like jury duty) who are flown across the world, handed a snowboard or a javelin and told to do their best.

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Published: July 26, 2024 19:59

The generations least likely to ever be able to buy a home or have a steady, life long career are worried about money? Wow, they're nuts, let's definitely pathologize them for that.

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Published: July 26, 2024 18:01

These women were at work. They are professionals just trying to do their jobs. Being a female extra is already hard enough (we often have to wear really uncomfortable shoes, flimsier outfits, and put in extra, unpaid time doing our own makeup & hair)…

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Published: July 26, 2024 17:31

This is so profoundly stupid. People who refuse to be vaccinated against common, highly infectious diseases have no business being health care workers. This is like announcing BC health care workers never have to wash their hands. Vaccination is a basic…

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Published: July 26, 2024 15:12

I knew TWISTERS doesn't mention climate change, but I didn't know the plot is about a scientist magically coming up with a technology to make tornadoes less intense. It really is a right wing movie. What a waste. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: July 26, 2024 05:52

Zoot suits could enhance almost two-thirds of British jobs, claims zoot suit manufacturer https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/25/ai-could-enhance-almost-two-thirds-of-british-jobs-claims-google

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Published: July 26, 2024 04:27

Musk is a thieving little shit. Automatically signing everyone up to the "steal my work" setting, not notifying users, and hiding the opt-out so you can't even do it on the app. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 25, 2024 22:40

Danielle Smith: The loss of Jasper is tragic, but we can all take comfort in how much money the oil industry is still making…

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Published: July 25, 2024 17:36

Everything else aside, Musk's daughter is funny! She's relating this awful story with so much style and panache. It must kill him that she's such a charming writer and he can't even tell a joke. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 25, 2024 05:07

But surely all of my tulips will retain their value. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 25, 2024 03:23

Am I the only one who can't stop thinking about the Dril tweet about everyone wanting to fuck the flag at the Betsy Ross museum?

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Published: July 25, 2024 03:02

I would bet money his own wife checked the book because she wasn't sure whether or not the couch fucking was in there.

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Published: July 25, 2024 01:42

Twitter is such a shadow of its former self. "Couch" isn't even trending there. Smh.

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Published: July 24, 2024 23:53

All kidding aside, this is a bad fact check. Unless the AP has had someone watch JD Vance every single time he's had access to a couch, they can't claim this.

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Published: July 24, 2024 22:27

This genAI nonsense might've been avoided if we had more movies & shows about AI being terrible. Not evil, just sucky. Like digital assistants constantly mis-scheduling appointments, robot doctors attaching toes to the wrong foot, the TNG computer only…

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Published: July 24, 2024 21:14

Technological progress is using a ton of energy and water to create a search result that's like a Wikipedia page, but weirdly written, badly sourced and full of errors. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: July 24, 2024 16:34

I love living in a city where the mayor & city council are firmly in the pocket of industry and can always be relied upon to choose the option that's worse for the environment. It's relaxing, not having to guess what they'll do in a given situation,…

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Published: July 24, 2024 02:14

Kinda disappointed even Al Jazeera does "day at the beach" photos for stories about how the planet is being made less habitable for our species. It's like, c'mon guys, forest fire photos are very cool to look at and convey the proper message for stories…

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Published: July 23, 2024 20:31

Tech billionaires are obsessed with creating robots that can tell jokes because one of the few things all the money in the world can't buy you is a sense of humour. https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-thinks-ai-can-save-comedy-2024-7

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Published: July 23, 2024 18:39

Sometimes I'll be watching a movie review on YouTube and I'll make assumptions about the age of the reviewer because he's got a beard and a wife and 3 kids and 2 grandkids and then he'll say something like "this movie scared me a lot when it came out,…

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Published: July 23, 2024 15:21

Nothing in this story is as interesting as the couple of paragraphs about how she got the job, which, reading through the lines, was because she left to work for Pepsi when Trump took office and therefore Biden knew she wasn't involved in the attempted…

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Published: July 22, 2024 18:45

I have no respect for people who argue it's ok for people to choose not to vote. Why is it ok? Because voting doesn't matter? Clearly it does, that's why the right tries to suppress it. Elections can & do come down to a handful of votes. Not voting has…

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Published: July 22, 2024 15:09

Re LRT: Here's a much more in-depth examination of stalking being portrayed positively in media. And I love that the healthy yet entertaining consensual romantic relationship that's shown in contrast to all the unhealthy stalking, is, of course, Gomez and…

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Published: July 22, 2024 05:33

I'm sure his reaction was utter shock at witnessing a leader put his country first rather than clinging to power. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/justin-trudeau-reacts-to-joe-biden-announcing-he-won-t-run-for-re-election-1.6972241

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Published: July 21, 2024 22:42

Is there anything in the American constitution that says a dog can't be vice-president?

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Published: July 21, 2024 17:41

It's ironic that centrists believe there is a mythical reservoir of reasonable conservatives & if they just keep inching right, they'll reach them. It's ironic because the reason there are no reasonable conservatives for the centrists to reach is that…

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Published: July 21, 2024 02:10

The MCU needs to return to its roots. The first IRON MAN focused on welding, forging and soldering, and they need to go back to that. It's time for the M in MCU to stand for metallurgy again.

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Published: July 20, 2024 22:00

It's so depressing that rather than simply meeting with students, most Canadian universities immediately resorted to lying about them and calling in violent, armed forces, usually on the basis of those lies.…

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Published: July 20, 2024 19:44

New voluntary code of conduct ensures Canada’s grocers are finally answerable to Canada’s grocers https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/07/new-voluntary-code-of-conduct-ensures-canadas-grocers-are-finally-answerable-to-canadas-grocers/

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Published: July 20, 2024 17:03

Whenever an industry does something voluntarily, you know it's useless. This is a meaningless PR move for both the grocery industry and the Liberals. If it actually moderated their conduct, the companies would never have agreed to it.…

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Published: July 20, 2024 05:20

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is an awesome show, but every ep starts with an "Immortal Universe" title card and all I can think about when I see that is the Dark Universe. It instantly makes me roll my eyes and then it takes the show (which, again, is…