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12 hours agoIt’s like any other skill. If you keep it up you’ll remain proficient and if you don’t it’ll eventually fade away.
DagwoodIII
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2·12 hours agoDon’t try to make me feel better!
Let me wallow in my shame!
[jk]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir
I should do my own research!
How do we know that the guy who wrote the letter is telling the whole story?
I want to hear both sides!
Silly me!
What are you talking about? Inaction?? These things don’t cover themselves up, you know!
2·17 hours agoWhile we’re on the subject.
I could have put in a plug for “Penny Dreadful” on Paramount and Showtime.
Eva Green as a psychic and Timothy Dalton as a big game hunter searching for a lost girl in London, circa 1890.
What platform did you see it on?
I’ve rewatched it before, but I could do another round.
I mean, there are literally dozens of people he hired and praised as geniuses, and then fired and labelled idiots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dismissals_and_resignations_in_the_first_Trump_administration
I never saw ‘Goliath’ but Billy Bob is always worth a watch.
He’s the ‘landman’ for a medium sized independent oil company. He deals with drug cartels who use his equipment to smuggle across the border, bureaucrats, lawyers, his crazy family, and a host of Texas locals.
I read one of the books, second or third in the series. It was okay. I liked the show much better, especially when they showed bits of “Sanctuary Moon.”
I’d suggest you check out some of her earlier stuff. “The Death Of The Necromancer” is set in [sorta] 1880s Vienna with a jewel thief and his actress partner getting caught up in a magic war. It’s fun having the heroes get on a train to go visit a witch.
“The Wizard Hunters” follows the couples now adult daughter as she deals with an airship invasion.
“Murderbot” is the perfect combination of smart and silly.
“Landman” is Billy Bob Thornton at his best. And yes, he pooh poohs the environmental impact of oil, because he’s playing an oil man in Texas.
11·22 hours agoPretty sure that it’s a ploy to get the public to pressure the lawmakers.
8·2 days agoThat’s the amazing thing about Trump.
No matter how low the bar is, he always manages to be worse than you could imagine.
I’ve been hoping for his people to see the light since 2015.
They stuck with him when he admitted that Trump University was a scam…
They stuck with him when Mexico didn’t pay for the Wall…
They stuck with him when a million people died of Covid…
I hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
I was living in New York when the Tower first went up. When I was in the area I decided to stroll in and see what the controversy was about. At street level it’s just black glass. Inside it’s all gold with a waterfall. I thought it looked like a big golden toilet.
Trump went on Howard Stern and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms at the Miss Teen USA pageant. He famously perved on his own daughter. This is nothing new
Back when Trump put up his tower, Jackie Kennedy Onassis was famously fighting to preserve New York landmarks like Grand Central Station. Trump’s own architect told him to leave the façade of the building alone, but Trump overruled him. Trump blew the perfect opportunity to get in good with elites because he was too greedy and arrogant.
Bonus- there’s a guest apperance by John Barron!!
Historical context.
Inflation started becoming a problem in the late 1960s. LBJ wanted to have a massive Vietnam War without raising taxes, so he printed money. Nixon ran as a ‘peace candidate’ and then tripled down on Johnson’s policies. For a while, running the steel mills 24/7 to make bombs was popular with the Unions and Wall Street, but when the Arab Oil boycott hit everything went off the rails.
Jimmy Carter hire Paul Volker to run the Fed; Volker’s plan worked but Carter lost in 1980 and Reagan got the credit. Worse, Reagan let the banks print money to fund the ‘go-go’ 1980s.
In 1968, middle class was one income supporting a family of four. In 1992, when Bush Sr. was done, ‘middle class’ was two incomes. During the same time, $1 million went from being a vast fortune to what a rich guy paid for a party.
Sorry, for these Gen Z kids, that box is unTicked.
Get it? Box? Tick?
You gotta keep up, boy!
In terms of clichés, I’d go with ‘they see the glass as half empty.’
Not exact, but close enough