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1. The need to "subvert expectations," for no other reason than to subvert them. Can be political, gender/race-oriented, or just to be "edgy" - see all of the above in most of the new Star Wars trilogy. Most modern "remakes" and sequels to nostalgic films, most female-empowerment films, etc.


Then in second place:

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1. Middle-aged woman shuns her old life and becomes a whore in some beautiful location.

I really do hope it touches on some of the ridiculous double speak - protests not being super spreader events, but church service was.

There's a reason conspiracy and distrust ran rampant. It was an insane time.


If it targets the anti-vaccine crowd - that won't look good though. That's at least proven to be a sane position in retrospect.

re: Rothschild family worth

Posted by Freauxzen on 5/14/25 at 4:14 pm
Bad use of AI you could get closer if you prompt it to estimate on something tangible:

"Take the Estimated wealth of the Rothschild family as far back as you are comfortable and analyze that with average global rates of return to location where individual family members lived, and double those returns for corruption assumptions, compound that across the known family tree....."

Not sure that would look like in full, but it's more than a billion for sure.
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"Lunch time! The longer you animals bark, the colder your lunch gets."


Goonies


Everyone should watch this show. Two seasons - and doesn't seem like it aligns here but the post-apocalyptic future in it totally does.

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Good morning Scott.



It's actually "Mornin' Scott" and it's Top Gun
Brah. Was on a delta flight last week out of MSY and my wife pointed the Gulf of America out to me on the tracker.

It did say "Gulf of America(Gulf of Mexico)"

It's either an old plane with no update, or just hasn't been updated. No need for outrage here.
Your concern is duly noted.

Now, kindly go turn in your man card for caring about this.


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It's the right choice.

While Yeti was maybe technically better, it was more complicated.

Mammoth is great. Logo is pretty good for modern logos.


NHL knocking it out of the park lately. Kraken was also a great name.
Anyone judging now is just tossing darts blind.

Let's give the guy a chance.
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Is this the correct James Bond actor ranking?


No. In no universe is Craig the best Bond. He's too brooding.

1. Connery
2. Dalton
3. Brosnan
4. Lazenby/Craig
5. Moore

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Students and counselors will be permitted to sleep in cabins based on their gender identities


W T F

re: Anyone been to Coquette lately?

Posted by Freauxzen on 5/6/25 at 6:27 pm
Went last week,snapper on point
Use a 12 or 15 length, and keep it basically the same length all over.

Barber does a trim every 2 weeks as well, but I don't like it looking too homelessy so I run clippers maybe every 4-5 days otherwise.

Used to use beard balm, but I honestly don't notice a difference, so I quit


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Unarmed people aren’t beating a gorilla.



How much do humans want the win?

See - this is where AI isn't creative enough. 30-40 guys as the first wave, focus on suffocation and wearing the Gorilla down in the first 3 min. Really, you're throwing as many guys at the thing and trying to weight him down, maybe it takes more.

Here's where it gets bad 2 Guys have to be sacrificed - if there aren't any weapons on the ground..... doesn't mean there aren't some weapons. I'm thinking you need a broken femur or two or three.

Second wave of 30-40 and find enough space to get a weapon made of bone and just stab away. You just need a couple of good hits in a soft area. Take an eye out. Or both. Stab a foot so he loses mobility.

Victory.
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I agree, but what if you do things to prohibit them in a legal sense which is what pascals family portrays rowling as doing for financially backing the new bill.



That wasn't your point. Your point was belief.

I mean sure you can argue belief is then built into law, which is fine. But that is the whole problem with this issue.... they are asking for reality to be reconfigured for them.

And again, not wanting reality to be reconfigured... is not anti trans. Because trans is not real in the first place.
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If someone believes in God and someone else denies his existence, that can be seen as Anti-religion


No it doesn't. We have actual words for that. Atheist. You aren't attacking anyone or anti anyone for not believing in God.

And you aren't attacking or anti trans because you don't think trans is real outside of actual scientific transgender conditions - which yes do exist.

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If someone denies the holocausts existence it is seen as Anti-jew.


I mean that's a whole other ball of wax. Not really comparable.
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I dont agree with Pedro, i already said that. But this is personal to him due to his trans family member.



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Pascal’s sibling is trans. While I didn’t see him call for a boycott, is it really shocking that he’d speak out against someone who is widely considered anti-trans?


Probably, shouldn't be obtuse about this point. Most people don't really believe that that person would be considered "Trans." There's really no such thing. And 90% of the population would never actually act like a trans person is actually trans - but many of those same 90% will play make believe with them to not hurt their feelings, and.....

Rowling won't play make believe. That's her problem. She's explicitly not anti-trans - at all - but because she refuses to play make believe - hence her strict belief in women - they are going to paint her that way. She's still an extreme leftist and well, deserves whatever dumb argument she gets into. She's wrong on the issue, but right in how she plays it - there's no such thing as a man becoming a women and she refuses to play the game.