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Discussion
The Bear season 4 is literally a love letter to John Hughes.
I’m not mad about it
The Last of Us Part II Remastered got an update where you play through the game in chronological order, perfect way to do a new playthrough for me!
Also goddamn this game looks gorgeous on my PC, can’t wait till I can use my 1440p monitor!
This will get long lost in the mix but my dad died a year and half ago and I still haven't really processed it. We weren't close unfortunately but I always held hope that we could reconcile. Not that we had a horrible relationship but it was just kinda lukewarm I suppose as we only spoke every couple months. Anyway he's gone and idk it just feels weird to lose a parent I guess.
I understand and I hear you. Losing your parents is life altering and brings up so many emotions. I'm really sorry you lost your dad.
I'm not usually a conspiracy guy and always assumed that the Epstien thing was just what we all assumed, some backroom fuckery and all that, but... looks like there is some real smoke there.
It is definitely a cover-up right from the top, huh? He is 100% on that list right?
I thought we had it confirmed ages ago, but his whining certainly gives credit to it
One of my most anticipated animes of 2025
Panty & Stocking are back!
I find it annoying that when you download a Google file from someone else and you want to delete it, it doesn't actually get deleted. You can only truly delete it if you block the email address of the person who created it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/shielding-my-kids-from-ai-would-be-a-mistake-2025-7
top 10 worst article titles I've ever read
Shielding my kids from AI would be a mistake but not sending them to an actual school isn't. Offloading actual parts of parenting feels a bit dystopian too.
Anyone else peruse fb/craigslist/thrift stores irl for weird and obscure jerseys for their team? It's become a recent hobby of mine to see what sort of "who the fuck is that" jerseys I can find secondhand. My deepest pull as of yet has by far been an Erasmus James jersey, but today I picked up a Vikings Greg Jennings jersey lol.
I used revo uninstaller to completely remove Microsoft Office 365 from my PC. Disk usage went from 100% down to 1-5%.
Won't it just come back when Windows updates again?
Not if he uninstalls the updater
Flip7 is gonn have the same mediocre camera as the flip6. Hard pass then. It's my only complaint about my Flip6.
Ah well, NEXT!
Girlfriend got me into watching Destination X. It's a fun show, but what a shitty season to start. Ally and Shayne are absolutely groan worthy TV
Words cannot express how nice it is to go from studying Pashto and having media like this to actual good stuff with Chinese. https://youtu.be/Np66cihoiz0?si=ZnrkHm9rEZVfKaB-
I did hear that egg punk bands don’t make albums, but I didn’t remember them making under 2 min songs!
Oh so the egg council got to you too, huh?
What is egg punk?
Punk but with everything under a lofi recording style
hmm I'll have to check that out, thanks
Please do, almost every song I’m listening to I’m adding to my playlist
I find it very soothing building furniture that you get from IKEA. Probably goes back to when I was a kid playing with Lincoln Logs.
A bit like full scale lego
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I think it's so vegetarians don’t have to hunt around
Just got a tornado warning on my phone. Thought I left that behind me when I left Kansas
Where you live now?
DC area
It's still storming over here on the Eastern Shore. I love a good thunderstorm, though.
Stay safe.
I don't think you're in Kansas anymore.
I haven’t been doing too well mentally lately, and would actually like to talk to someone (preferably with a military background)
988 then press 1
Not military but have been dealing a lot with mental health over the last year-ish, always here if you need
(former) Military here
I can't help with the Military part but I'm here
It is bittersweet that the horror genre in the film world is the only genre that seems to be doing well. It appears that a lot of filmmakers and actors have been given the green light to explore and expand. Real talent being used.
The rest of Hollywood is stuck settling for producing safe slop. People WANT to go to the movies. They just don't want to spend a fuckton of money to see a movie they have seen a thousand times.
Music biopics had a nice little renaissance (Give me a fucking Fleetwood Mac movie with Miley Cyrus as Stevie Nicks!). My wish for films is that studios would try to emulate the success of Oppenheimer and make really good historical movies.
Impossible
I'm skeptical that we'll be able to get all the new pieces on the same page immediately, so I'd put us somewhere near the middle of the pack. With that said, Braxton Jones rated decently last year, and considering how LG was an unending string of injured and/or inefficient players, he could surprise everyone and take a decent step forward, now that Thuney has LG locked down. Plus, Caleb should be a lot better about situational awareness with a meticulous HC.
Regardless, #4 is crazy & I hope I'm wrong
its 85f in our store bc the AC broke
Fuuuuck that
Not saying that they’re great movies but since I’m bed ridden because of my knee I think I’m gonna rewatch the Fear Street trilogy tonight. Has anyone watched the newest one? Think it’s called Prom Queen or something?
Have not but I'll defend the original trilogy, they're a great love letter to different eras of horror. Definitely a good rewatch.
Yeah that’s exactly why I’m rewatching them, didn’t wanna go back to the same ol horror movies I’ve been watching a lot of recently so I’d rather watch the homages to them
I've only seen the Kill Counts of them on YouTube by DeadMeat
Why can I never find what’s stuck in my teeth? Am I stupid?
The gaps in teeth are quite tight and good at locking things in
Get a bag of those floss stick things. Game changer.
Yes - use floss
No baseball stat update today, instead something much more niche and significantly nerdier. A recap of the World Cube Association’s 2025 World Championship, which took place in Seattle this past weekend.
Held every two years, the World Championship is the most prestigious event in the speedcubing world and this year nearly 1900 competitors from roughly three dozen countries made their way to Seattle to compete in a variety of events ranging from the relatively simple 2x2x2 to the imposing 7x7 to the 5x5 but oh yeah, you’re blindfolded.
The flagship event is of course the 3x3 cube, and there was a lot of excitement for that this year. Back at the 2023 worlds in Incheon, Korea things came down to the wire between the two favorites, Max Park of the US and Yiheng Wang of China. When the dust settled, Max edged out Yiheng by .01 seconds to become the second ever two-time world champ (having won back in Paris 2017). Since that heartbreaking silver medal finish, Yiheng has been on an absolutely Mahomesian run of dominance and came into Seattle as the presumptive favorite.
It is honestly tough to wrap your head around just how ridiculous Yiheng has been these past two years. After setting the 3x3 world record average (of 5 solves) back in March of 2023 with a 4.69, Yiheng has lowered his own record another 8 consecutive times to its current 3.91 point. He is so far ahead of the pack right now that world number two and rising star Xuanyi Geng’s 4.32 average lags behind 5 of Yiheng’s old records. It’s a demonstration of excellence we haven’t seen in a decade and while he doesn’t yet have the longevity to challenge the Brady of cubing, Yiheng is well on his way to making it a serious debate.
Xuanyi might not be quite at Yiheng’s level, but he’s certainly no slouch. In fact, he currently holds the world record for fastest single solve with a blistering yet oddly nonchalant 3.05 solve. This budding rivalry features a cool contrast of styles, with Yiheng relying on ridiculous turn speeds while Xuanyi prioritizes efficiency and low move count. Past these two, the Chinese delegation also featured Bofan Zhang and Qixian Cao, the world numbers 10 and 12 respectively. Other competitors with a decent shot at the throne included the aforementioned Max Park along with fellow Americans Luke Garrett, Matty Hiroto Inaba, and Luke Griesser plush Polish phenoms Tymon Kolasiński and Teodor Zajder.
Day one featured the “Nations Cup”, a head-to-head relay race where country delegations competed in teams of three. The event was pretty chalk with a final four of (1) China, (2) USA, (3) Poland, (4) Australia. I think it’s a cool event in theory but the decision to just have everyone do 3x3 is kind of boring to me. I think it would be better if each team member did a different puzzle.
Because of the heightened pressure and massive audience, World Championships tend not to feature a ton of world record performances and that held true this year. Over the course of the weekend we got just one new world record, Tymon Kolasiński in 5x5 average with a 34.31 average. We also got 6 new continental records and a solid 87 national records. The results for all events can be found here.
Taking place on the final day, the stacked 3x3 main event came down to quite literally the final solve. To up the drama, the 16 finalists were paired up in twos based on their semi-final times such that the one seed went up against the 2 seed, the 3 against the 4 and so on, with each pair alternating solves. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the top two were Yiheng and Xuanyi, so when it came time for their showdown all the other competitors’ times were locked. Tymon had guaranteed himself at worst third with a 4.98 average, the first time anyone had ever averaged sub-5 at the finals of a world championship. After trading haymakers, including multiple sub-4 second solves, Xuanyi locked in time of 4.49 with Yiheng’s fifth and final solve still to come. The way the average works is you drop the fastest and slowest times and take the mean of the remaining three. Heading into that final scramble, Yiheng’s best possible average was a 4.02 which would blow Xuanyi out of the water, but his worst possible was a 4.57, leaving him in danger of finishing second again. Needing a 5.23 or better to clinch, Yiheng made it look easy with a 4.43 to become World Champion at just 11 years old. If you have 12-15 minutes to spare, I highly recommend checking out the final showdown between these two youngsters. When Max Park won worlds in 2023, he did so with a 5.31 average and as I said, we’d never had a sub-5 performance before. This year all three guys on the podium went sub-5 and they are still improving.
Overall, it was a very fun event to follow, and I think cubing is in a great spot right now.
An old snake hunting buddy of mine lives downstream of Kerrvile along the the river. He and his neighbors have been taking turns watching the river during daylight hours and walking along the property. No bodies so far but he’s posted photos of a damn RV trailer and appliances that washed up along their stretch.
I’m going to need Derrick He Ty to wear giant 1980s shoulder pads next year. The aesthetic would be incredible
My wife and I have spent the last 8 months or so getting a property in the mountains of Colorado up to snuff - added septic, fixed some electrical stuff, fixed some plumbing stuff (like, changing compost toilet to a regular flush one), fixing some well issues, etc. We also bought new furniture and everything needed to use the place. It's very small - about 200 square feet - but it's nice and honestly feels roomy.
We spent the weekend of the 4th up there doing a test run and getting the last things in place for it to be used regularly. It was an awesome time - it's close to a little town, lots of hiking, and some good fly fishing spots.
On Monday night, we sent out an email to like 40 of our family and friends, opening up the place as a free Airbnb for any of them that wants to use it. I am super pumped for some of them to start getting up there and spending time in the place. My wife and I can probably only get up there a few weeks out of the year, so we're hoping that between everyone else, we can get it in use for at least a couple months every year.
If your family or a close friend offered you something like that, would you use it?
Definitely. That sounds like a lot of fun.
This doesn’t answer your question but good on you for offering this to them especially with no strings attached
Thanks! One of our ways of giving back to people who have given to us over the years, even if they've just given friendship.
That’s very refreshing to read it feels like this type of sentiment is becoming less common these days so always nice to see when people are in it for the goodness of their heart
Absolutely. My friends are currently getting a small cabin fixed up on some land and planning on doing the same thing, and I fully intend to stay out there when they offer. We've gone out with them a few times just to I hike and all that before it's ready for overnight stays
Watching the new “Quarterback.” All of Kirk’s scenes are “I like this song” and then it plays over a montage of game/practice tape
I’m having such a hard time getting through the Kirk parts lol.
Two episodes in — Joe seems so cool, really want to hear all about him, but I gotta hear about Kirk going to Cookout
As a guy, very few things in life are as refreshing as that 2-3 minute pee.
There's no way in hell you pee for three consecutive minutes?
I think I did that after my flight to Seattle from Chicago because I was not going to use an airplane bathroom unless I absolutely have to. 😂
When I got out of Return of the King in theaters, I think I peed for a full minute. You’re somewhere else
I've been drinking water all day. Had the usual throughout the day, but that last one was a couple minutes.
so uhhh have you had the ol prostate checked recently
I think he just means those ones where you’ve been holding it for an hour lol
Two of my dogs tandem shit on this walk. Two poops, one bag. Great success!
I really like Alex Bregman as a trade candidate. But the Red Sox are in such a weird spot right now.
Red Sox just traded Devers, if they turn into buyers before the deadline, I feel like it would make absolutely zero sense.
Well tbh, I do think the Devers trade was more so about them not getting along rather than their contention status.
With that said I do think it makes a lil more sense to commit to the young talent.
It amazes me that some people do not understand the concept that an estate tax is, conceptually, an income tax. It is money that the beneficiaries are paying an income tax on. They are receiving money for the first time. Therefore - income.
That a former consultant now marketing person making around $300k/yr does not understand this concept and believes he is being taxed twice on anything he leaves to his kids - despite him not being taxed at all, his kids are being taxed! - is just further proof in my own mind that consultants and marketing folks are useless and overpaid.
It's already a massive tax dodge by the cost basis of every asset getting moved up.
I don't even mind the concept of step up in basis, as long as the estate tax is paid.
Only one of those two should be paid - otherwise you have overlapping taxes. $100 basis stocks becomes $1 MM, person dies, kid inherits. Kid pays income taxes (say 37% just to make it simple), and thus has to sell $370k in stock to pay the taxes. But the basis of that stock is $37 (effectively $0), so they would also have to pay at least 20% of that, and probably 23.2% because of their high income that year, meaning they'll pay an additional ~$85k in taxes, which they need to sell stock to cover, incurring another ~$20k in taxes, which they'll need to sell stock to cover, incurring another $4k in taxes, and again for another $1k in taxes. In all, to cover their total taxes, they'd need to sell $480k in stock, an effective tax rate of 48%.
Only having either the estate tax or the capital gains tax apply means that the income from an inheritance is truly treated as an income, and not something more than an income.
And the goddamn exemption is north of 10 million now for a single person. I mean, I have a hard time feeling super bad for the inheritors there
Yeah. I'm fine with making the estate tax rate the same as personal income, since it makes sense, given that it's income. Exemptions don't make sense to me, though. Either it is income or it isn't, and it most certainly is income.
Across all fandoms what community is the most gatekeep-y?
Techno music
sports fans.. God forbid someone from another state as the team or someone new to the sport start rooting for a team thats good. See: the average sports fans reaction to women following the Chiefs as a result of Taylor Swift
european football fans can be quite annoying about this, shit on americans who want to follow a quality league just because it’s not ours.
I mean I know, but I'm not telling you
the ones on the internet
Ding ding ding
Starting to think my wife is a lizard person.
Even when it's been peaking into the mid to high 80s, she still sleeps with her heated blanket turned on.
Would you still love her if she was?
Ask her indirectly if she knows who Robert California is. If she says yes, u just confirmed she is a lizard person
that girl needs some iron
Sometimes a big ol' homemade chef's salad for lunch just hits the spot. Also made my own Greek yogurt-based ranch dressing for it that was pretty good.
Do you have a recipe that you could share for that greek yogurt-based ranch? That sounds like it would slap.
It was pretty simple. I just did 1 cup Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup light mayo, 1/2 cup water, maybe a tablespoon of lemon juice, and a packet of Hidden Valley ranch seasoning. We had the seasoning handy 'cause I got like a three pack of it last time we made Mississippi pot roast.
Before I found the ranch seasoning packet, this is what I found online for seasonings I would've added myself:
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill*
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives*
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika (optional)
*I would've converted these to dry.
Kind of wish I'd tried doing the seasonings myself. This is good, but it's definitely got a distinct, y'know, Hidden Valley flavor. My wife usually gets Ken's.
Got the X-ray done on my knee and they said that nothing is broken which is clearly obvious but referred me to some clinic that I have to wait on to call me and set up an appointment which will most likely be an ultrasound. Time to play the waiting game. At least I got some decent pain killers
Yall think madden but with anime women would be popular?
Considering that I too, am getting addicted to anime women horse racing
Absolutely
Unironically, yes. That Mutant Football League game did alright. Think you could slap a gimmick on any sport and make a fun, niche video game.
Wish we'd get a Mario Football someday. I usually pick up the Mario sports games.
rip NFL Street
id rather have simpsons madden. Like that one time the did a night game with them.
I still think that Dr. Cox, John C. McGinley, would have made a good Lex Luther. Bulk him up a bit and he's got the charm / Anger nailed.
Not that this new one looks bad. I just think it was a missed opportunity from 20 years ago in the Superman Returns era.
I've started dad sneezing the past few years, and I really hate it.
Do you also have hayfever?
I always sneeze as dramatically as possible.
Tan across that Guga Foods and Mike (Matt/Mark?) the Meat Guy channels
Digging the chill vibe for food
Max the Meat Guy? Lol. I watch both and love their content.
I could not remember what the M was lol. I just started watching his stuff a couple nights ago after stumbling on Guga.
Check out Binging With Babish, and Nick Digiovanni if you haven't already. Babish is my favorite Foodtuber.
I saw Babish on one of their videos where they talk to other foodtubers. Seems like a tight group
Babish makes food from different shows/movies/video games like Jake's sandwich from Adventure Time, sweet rolls from Skyrim/Fallout, bear stew from Red Dead 2, etc... plus he goes to different places and tries the foods there, and will recreate the viewer's favorite foods and shit. I fucking love his channel. He's hilarious.
this neat thing in July: my town is on the route that the fighter jets take on Bastille day before flyover and they were rehearsing this afternoon when i was walking back to my apartment.
I stg Mario Kart World is making me hate Daisy, every single time I get screwed over by an item or cheating 150cc AI right before the finish line on the last lap it's always her
I have 2 pairs of (more casual) socks that match a wedding outfit I'm using this weekend, and I somehow lost both of them in a way I did not think possible. And a separate times because I got the second pair out after the first one vanished. Since then, we have done all of the laundry, cleaned our entire house for a friend that will be petsitting, and repacked the suitcase. No fucking idea what I did with them.
I lost my the dress socks I was going to wear for my wedding and only realized it the night before. I went out and bought some more, so no big deal, but when we went home I found them in the suit case that I completely emptied looking for them the day before lol.
I’d take it at this point. I’m about to look through my folded towels and see if the somehow got sandwiched in there
Have an interview on Friday to cook for one of the best fine dining places in my area. Always wanted to be a chef so taking a shot. Super nervous tho.
Retired Chef here.
Keep it simple. Use minimal ingredients and present them well
Clean constantly. Make sure your station is impeccably clean and you clean as you go.
Timing. I was impressed with anyone coming to work for me that already knew how to prepare different parts of the dish at the same time. This is one of the most important parts of working on the line and being a chef. You can't stand around and watch the meat cook and not do anything else.
Mise En Place as much as possible. I.E. pre prep anything you might need at the start and lay it out in front of you. It'll save time and save clean up immensely.
Good luck and report back!!!
Thank you so much man honestly love you for this. I’m going through a rough period in my life at the moment and I’m gonna have to bus and walk to work so this helps with some of the anxiety.
You got this. Don't over stress yourself. Just clear your head on the way there. I'm betting you're going to nail it.
One more question the place seems really organized and has quality chefs/cooks there. I’m just starting out so if I get the job I would probably get good training before I’m just thrown into the fire no?
Yes you will probably start at Prep (prepping and cutting everything prior to service) and then slowly get moved to other stations. If the head chef is good then he will have his sous chef work with you until you're up to speed.
Hired cleaners and groundskeepers to come while on vacation so I came home to a perfectly manicured lawn and an immaculate house. 10/10 would recommend.
How much did that setcha back?
Like 350
Way less than I would've thought. I'll have to remember this next time we go on vacation.
Yeah brother. The house isn’t too big so it’s normally ~300. Plus $50 to the kid down the block to do the lawn+edgework
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Was talking to my best friend last night about books or series that we ended up loving, but that we almost DNF'ed because we really didn't love the start. Like, the intro of Red Rising fell pretty flat to me. I almost DNF'ed it but kept going a few more chapters and now I'm about 100 pages from finishing the third book of the series and have been loving it since Darrow got to the institute. The Black Company wasn't much to me, but since I bought the omnibus I decided to give the 2nd book a try and it was absolutely glorious, one of my favorite books of all time. I can pick out examples from TV shows and other forms of entertainment, too. Just leaves me thinking a lot about what sort of things I might have loved, but didn't because they didn't hold my interest quite long enough for me to get to the part I'd have truly loved.
It took me a long time to finish the first book of the Expanse series. It really picks up steam partway through book 2 and ended up being one of my favorite series
So Ohio recently passed a law that requires age verification to access corn online, similar to the ones in Texas and Florida. I'm not here to discuss the merits of the law or anything like that but instead share a story about my brother accessing online cornography in his youth.
You see he went to a website which claimed you needed to input your credit card and billing info in order to verify your age. They would not charge it and it wouldn't show up on a statement. My entrepreneurial brother was 13 at the time, snuck down and took my dad's credit card, and input all the information to the website. Needless to say my father was less than happy when he saw the credit card statement that month. And perhaps even worse was my brother allegedly still wasn't able to access the cornographic content, you see the next page prompted you to input your checking routing and account numbers and he didn't have access to a checkbook.
In case anyone is curious, my brother's ruse was uncovered when my father went through everyone's email accounts and found a bunch of emails to his account about providing additional banking information to access online cornography.
What the fuck do they have against Iowa?
Iowa scoring 50 points? Maybe in a video game, but that would never happen in real life
Are we not allowed to say porn here?
I have no idea. I had my account suspended once for "bullying" and "promoting misogyny" after posting on a thread that with sexually monomorphic birds the male birds were more brightly colored and beautiful than the female birds.
Maybe you upset the "birds aren't real" people unknowingly
Seems like nearly every platform has given up on human moderation, now if you upset the right people and they report you enough, that's all it takes
Let's not kink shame the produce erotica lovers here
Mmm yeah, what that carrot do?
Imma beat that turnipussy up.
We are, but TikTok or whatever is infecting everything.
It really is crazy how these massive tech companies have enough power to literally redefine our damn language.
It's enough to drive someone to committing sewer slide
Just signed my lease for another year.
I think I need a Publix sub. 😂
Hold up - weren't you the Bengals fan that hates living in TN? Why'd you renew?
Maybe that is me
I get annoyed at times with Knoxville but I have a lot of family here and my 6 year old nephew really needs me at times.
I promise not to trash Tennessee too much going forward
I promise not to trash Tennessee too much going forward
It do be deservin it sometimes tbh
Yes
early seasons of Archer have some of the best lines
Mallory: "I don't want to sound racist, but .."
Lana: "but you're gonna power through it"
I love Mallory as a character
Skytanic is unmatched in the one liners it produced
Captain Lanners?
Nice read, Velma
What aren't you understanding?
Well obviously the core concept Lana....
Mallory: A black.......ops field agent?!
Pam: Thought she was going somewhere toootallly different there.
Loved that show
Am I nuts for thinking Antoine Walker would be sick as a stretch 5 in today's NBA? Feel like he was just in the wrong era. He took 8 3's a game in 2002 - way ahead of his time!
Not at all, guy couldn't defend a traffic cone and bigs just went right up over him.
Take Marcus Smart, make him six inches taller, take away all of his ability and willingness to play defense, but keep both his propensity to take ill-timed three-point shots and his atrocious percentage of making them, and you have Antoine Walker.
Off the bench, that could have worked... but given how awful he was at defense only in that type of situation as a microwave guy off the bench if he wasn't starting as a stretch 4 as opposed to 5, I remember there were James Harden "ball-watching" style youtubes to show how bad of a defender he was.
Guys like KAT or Jokic would have eaten him up
Yeah D would be an issue but as a small ball 5 for like, the Pacers? I think he could have had a way different career in today's league.
Been hanging around the local Masonic Lodge the past few months.
Last night they gave me a petition. Now just need to get signatures. Unfortunately 2 of the people I was going to ask already said no because they'll probably be part of the investigation committee so they can't sign.
Oh well, many more I can ask.
Excited to start the journey.
Congrats soon to be brother. Enjoy the process.
Best of luck
Does the active user count say “Happy for Hulkenberg” for anyone else?
Can’t tell if r/nfl mods are secret Formula 1 fans or if my Reddit app is bugging lol
Hulkenberg on the podium broke the very fabric of the universe.
I still wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Got some Audible credits to burn. Thinking I'd like to grab a US president or other founding father biography. Any recommendations?
Jon Meacham on The Art of Power for Thomas Jefferson
Truman by David McCullough is excellent (though it's quite long)
If you specifically want a Founding Father, his John Adams one is also great
Peskin's on James Garfield is a good one.
The Path to Power by Robert Caro, about LBJ
I really liked Michelle Obamas memoire. Not quite a us president but adjacent. "Becoming".
I'm usually strictly a fantasy / sci fi reader but I liked it.
I finally watched Sinners last night. Really enjoyed it, Ryan Coogler killed it again.
i hate when people say “uncredible” instead of “incredible”. uncredible is not a word and never has been
it just shows they don’t actually know what the word incredible means, since the positive connotation that word has gotten forever now made its original meaning lost
The problem is that definitions can basically die and become inaccessible. Using words in dated senses can sometimes create difficult communication gaps. Then we need a new term to carry the old meaning (like how we got "awe-inspiring" when we lost that sense in "awesome"). Language evolves in really inconsistent ways. It happens faster as we communicate more, but this has been happening in English for centuries. The word "apron" used to be "napron." At some point "a napron" became "an apron." This is how the game works. The game is sometimes annoying
Also non-credible has a more common enough use now and can plug in if you need it to
the biggest non-spelling mistake I see people make are dangling modifiers.
Almost didn't watch a movie last night, but I managed to watch Burn After Reading. I kept falling asleep during it, so I didn't end up liking it that much, but I am still counting it for keeping my movie watching streak alive.
So what did we learn, Palmer?
Ah bummer, that's my second favorite Coen brothers movie behind The Big Lebowski. Definitely a dry movie and low stakes overall, but I love how everything just amounts to "Wha Happun?" at the end of it all.
I was definitely in the wrong headspace to enjoy it. JK Simmons' reaction to everything was my favorite part honestly. Pulling back the veil about how unimportant and petty it all was was really funny to me. That and the phone call scene where they try to get a reward from Ozzy.
Rewatching The Wire
At one point Carcetti says as an offhand sarcastic response he is “announcing his presence with authority,” which is a deep cut Bull Durham reference and I love it