hollowmines

keep it general not to dox yourself and whatnot, just wondering if there's anyone else adopting the fielder method. and also what's the worst thing you have had to pick up and carry somewhere? for me it is a toss up between upright piano, heavy treadmill and slab of granite.

I see there's a lincoln project diaper trump thing but idk if there's a connection. just wondering if it's actual chuds or (more likely) a bit

The full take is paywalled, anyone got the rest?

fantastic punk album if you like such things

keep some in a glass or vase in yr kitchen and just keep waterin. chop some up and fry em in neutral oil, provides a crispy topping and leaves you with some very useful oil (for salad dressing, sauces, etc). or just munch on em. or just look at them if you like

I like watching tom cruise and not a cgi thing actually defy death in the name of shameless entertainment what can I say

they are less self-serious, MUCH less h*rny and generally less bloodthirsty than the bond movies. the politics are too incoherent and vague to get offended by and there's no top gun/bond style displays of patriotism or military hardware cause the heroes are essentially stateless and use goofy almost-scifi gadgets that only sometimes work correctly.

instead of "they've got lasers now??" type quips they mostly just make goofy faces while performing acts of physical daring

really the only thing you have to reckon with is that only through the power of sc*entology can these movies exist at all

lastly I love it when ving rhames says things

Seven episode season, watched over 3-4 days.

I was really excited for this as a big Coup/StBY fan, but I have to say this was a pretty deflating watch by the end.

Politically you are not ever going to find a more openly left-wing scripted show, period, at least not produced in America. That's cool and all, but by the midway point we literally have the Boots surrogate character explaining capitalist exploitation, the need for a movement of workers etc via actual presentations that stop the thing dead in its tracks. My guess is Boots felt like he had one shot at this massive platform and felt the need to be as explicit and didactic as possible.

I won't drill into it all here but so many plot elements and little beats feel like prescriptive messages aimed at the predominantly young male audience that will end up watching...at times it drifts into outright edutainment

And some of you will say that's a good thing, and I the fairly online leftist is not the target audience....but hoo lord I have to imagine that anyone who is not already onboard with Boots' vision of a world where (spoiler alert)

is gonna turn this off fast.

The jolts of humanity (mostly via the performances which are great across the board) and occasional amazing bits of surreal humor got me to the end (I will say there is one sequence in the last episode that justifies my viewing time) but yeah, real letdown for me personally. I really thought StBY nailed the mix of elements whereas here I just felt pandered and preached to... Hope it works better for yalls, big love to boots if you're reading :/

been skimming thru some essays and whatnot by David Smail, who was a practising clinical psychologist in Britain - I really like his breakdowns of the suspect incentives and broken assumptions underlying a lot of the practices and his overall takes largely resonate with me, since he passed in the 90s, has there been anyone else of note working in this kind of direction?