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“Are you two trying for a baby yet?”

“Not that it’s your business, but I prefer facials to creampies.”

I’ve been using WefWef and I dig it.

My main complaint with crypto is not the underlying idea of a digital currency, is that people used it as a straight investment like it was a normal stock, they traded it like it was a different currency without understanding currency trading fundamentals, or they used it as a hedge against the USD/Pound/Euro collapsing as though that would gain without taking down the complete grid which is how crypto transactions get tracked against the public ledger. Yes, P2P crypto rejections are possible, but in a collapse scenario they’re effectively useless, even more so than gold and silver, and I’m a big believer that the only true precious metals in a grid down scenario are lead, steel, and brass in the forms of tools and weapons to defend communities.

Gold has value as a transaction medium in some scenarios, but they depend on being able to accurately assay the quality and weight, neither of which lend themselves to quick transactions in small purchases. It’s also super heavy, and since the mined coins are a full or half ounce, in a collapse scenario they’re too valuable for little things, which means massively overpaying and therefore spending the hedge at an accelerated rate.

Crypto and NFTs are money-laundering scams with a lot of technobabble thrown in to hide the truth from normies. I knew it was a scam when one of my friends, who is a smart guy but not a tech guy, bought into BTC because he thought it was clearly the future. I think he made money on his first BTC, and I’m pretty sure he lost on his second and third BTC, and I feel terrible for him because it was with some of his retirement. He’s going to have to work a trade job for years longer than if he’d just put that same money in an index fund, because he got sucked in by the allure of crypto.

I’m not huge on governmental regulation of people’s decisions with their money, but I have a personal rule. If you can’t explain it in a sentence to the average 10 year old or they understand it and it sounds like it should be illegal to said ten year old, it’s not a good idea. It’s easy to explain how a basic investment in a company that makes physical goods can be profitable. Try to explain NFTs to a fifth grader without using words like “profit from nothing” and see what they think.

If the stock market is already artificially high for a few reasons, crypto and NFTs were/are even a step higher in artificial pricing and being a tool for rich people to get richer and hide their money from the few governments powerful enough to dare tax them.

Jordan is absolutely amazing, truly, but the only GOAT I acknowledge is Wilt Chamberlain. The guy put up the only unofficial ~~quadruple~~ quintuple double in NBA history, and only because the league didn’t track blocks and steals at that point in time. Because of him, they changed the rule for free throws to not allow slam dunks. GOAT.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

Anatole France

There used to be a stylized “Mid Atlantic” accent that many actors developed and the news at the time would use the same accent. With more modern movies, there was a move to actors with regional accents of their own, as well as a change in the way acting stopped emphasizing “projecting” their voices so the people in the back of the theater could hear them. Since movie audio is all recorded and mixed digitally, any lines that didn’t record well just get ADRed.

The MCU didn’t start with the movies from Fox or Sony because Iron Man was one of the characters Marvel the company didn’t license off back when it had money problems before Disney bought it. The MCU is specifically stuff put out by Marvel Studios after the acquisition by Disney. It’s why Scarlet Witch gets her powers from the Infinity Stone and not from being Magneto’s daughter as written in the comics.

For your other comments, I agree, the studios have gotten lazy. They have gotten used to an investment of $200 MM plus another $150 MM in advertising yielding $1.25 BN in theaters for the major franchises. Even as superhero fatigue has set in from oversaturation, they still keep pushing out boring movies, with DC bring even worse than Marvel in this regard. I liked Wonder Woman, but the sequel was unwatchably bad.

There’s a problem of trying to make “safe” movies and keeping a PG-13 rating when the stakes necessary to challenge a lead character with superpowers necessitate death and destruction on a large scale. Transformers has a problem that in fights it gets really hard to track which cybernetic organism is the “good guy”, and when the fight is destroying apartment buildings, can there be a true good guy? Blade at least is killing vampires to save normies, and also steered into the R rating. There’s a lot of blood in the Blade movies, unlike pretty much everything from Marvel and DC.

Can you give an example? Done you mean the dialogue, soundtrack, foley…?

Ugh, the gerentocracy continues. Can they both just go on a submersible ride?

You don’t live in dark mode permanently? What kind of self-respecting Internet denizen are you? Anytime I find somebody on light mode I assume they’re permanently wearing sunglasses or have cataracts.

Biden was responsible for the law making student debt much harder to discharge under bankruptcy proceedings. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-defends-vote-on-2005-law-that-made-it-harder-to-escape-student-debt-143102760.html Senator Orrin Hatch introduced the bill and thanked Biden for years of tireless support for helping write and advance the legislation.

If Trump doesn’t run in 2024, I think Biden might be a one term president; he benefited greatly from a lot of votes against Trump and not for Biden/Harris and their political histories. And if the DNC is reading this, please, do yourselves a favor, don’t run Biden, Harris, or Newsom. They’re everything wrong with the Democratic Party and offer nothing new while embodying exactly what the GOP accuses the Dems of, pandering to urban elites and at best ignoring the working class. They’re neoliberal ghouls in skin suits.