Usenet.

I imagine it’ll be pretty ballpark after they bargain it down. You start higher than you need to in these negotiations.

What argument? The article appears to claim that the reason there’s more bad CGI now is studio leadership changing stuff in post and failing to plan.

Nope, they really don’t. You may have to engineer a cooling station.

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And nothing of value was lost.

A powerful entity backs the USD is the point. Military might provides a certain level of stability. It’s not about forcing the use of the dollar; you don’t have to.

Bitcoin is hot air and a poor use of electricity.

The only thing that guarantees Bitcoin’s worth is thoughts and prayers.

The US government has aircraft carriers.

This is an eminently reasonable ruling and I’s appreciates yous

Not a meme, just an opinion over a picture.

Oooh, I think I can explain this. Conservatism demands adherence to a an extremely homogeneous model of living. They’ve constructed this giant house of cards that relies on it. Accepting deviations from these norms calls into question a variety of foundational conservative beliefs. They effectively can’t question the status quo else everything falls apart.

The only option for them is to make LGBTQ people an unacceptable, dangerous other. Because if queer folk are normal people who just want to be allowed to exist, if there is no sweeping gay agenda, if maybe they read their holy book wrong … they’ve been behaving like assholes, for decades, for no good reason.

Their core identities would take an unacceptably heavy blow, so they have no choice but to double down. Well, that’s the case for the ones that care about internal consistency.

Some of them just want an excuse to be cruel to a group too small to fight back.

We have a self inflicted real estate speculation problem. Housing can be a good investment or it can be affordable, but not both.

We evolved anxiety and they evolved flight. I’d be smug too.

They don’t have a meaningful level of free will from what I understand. That’s part of the process of creating them. They only act within certain boundaries or else resort to raiding and eating… everything. And everyone. Occasionally each other.

Their entire species was created as a magical weapon. The funny thing they’re really supposed to represent the cruelties of industrialization. Tolkien was not a fan of what England did with technology.

I have a psych undergrad degree and I never heard anything like this. It’s one theory, not the zeitgeist of an entire discipline.

Yes, the lack of humor is the issue. It’s banter OP, chill.

Are you ok? Because I wouldn’t be mainlining that much doom.

MOMMA MIA

God I hate “screen time” discourse. Not all activity that happens on a screen is of equivalent value.