Our educational system is royally fucked. What pisses me off is not just the lack of vocabulary skills, but the decline in elocution and phonetics. The way to really learn vocabulary like this is to verbalize the answers as you think of them. But that pedagogic theory fell out of favor. No wonder we're a nation of dumb-asses.
The racists who are shitting on Rings of Power for the casting, and not the fact that it's an awful show, are proving that they have no fucking clue about the multiculturalism that is at the heart of Tolkien's work. Do I hate the portrayal of the Harfoots because their leader has dark brown skin? No. I hate the portrayal of the Harfoots because their
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"Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’…til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then…ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite...
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Let's set aside the profound apparent unhealthiness of the man in the foreground. Mar-a-Largo is supposed to be a classy joint. But these asshole members are paying 200K upfront (!!!) and 16K a year (14K renewal fee, 2K dining fee) to eat at a table with fucking squeeze bottles. It's so petty and ugly. If I put that in a novel, no editor would let...
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OK, this has been bugging me for ages, but it has to be said. _Jurassic World Dominion's_ Dimetrodon is NOT a dinosaur. It's a fucking pelycosaur. They went extinct 272 million years ago. The mosquito didn't appear until 79 Million years ago. Where'd the DNA to clone the fuckers come from? And for that matter, the oldest trees that produce amber are only 100 million
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Yep!! Driving back from my doctor's. Went over a bunch of issues my nearly 60-year-old body is dealing with. Blasted Nine Inch Nails' "March of the Pigs" on the way home, as if to assert that the ravages of time have not occurred. Headbanged the whole time without pinching a nerve in my neck.
I count that as a victory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnw_UbJmmbY
To everyone bitching about work, and how hard their Mondays are.... Maybe you should stop your self-absorbed whining and take a look at the plight of my kitty Siggi, who just had to move an _ entire 180 degrees _ to get more comfortable on the pillow from which he won't move today, except to eat and poo? I'm sick of everyone saying how tough
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Musk's fortune is built on the fascist, apartheid exploitation of human beings in his daddy's jade mine. He was insulated from the fascism that made him rich. If he allows Twitter to be a vector of fascism, he will still make money off that fascism while being protected from it.
