Cliff Pervocracy

an enormous gorilla dangles a dramatically flouncing Fay Wray over Manhattan

my dad's movie is the original King Kong from 1933

incredibly good special effects for the time, bombastic orchestral score, Hanscom AFB mentioned, big gorilla

it's very important, as an adult, to still set aside a few minutes between getting in bed and falling asleep to imagine that you are on a spaceship

they got some calls from the big name studios, huh

I checked if Piers Anthony had allegations and I didn't see any!?!? Honestly shocked.

it's sick but it's hilarious how every time press asks Trump about Epstein, his head catches fire and steam shoots out of his ears as he screams NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS and abruptly ends the interview

like he's so not subtle about it

it's straight out of the Art Of War - one year into a four-year campaign, your most loyal foot soldiers should already be resentful and burnt out

Space! ROVs can give you a lot of the deep water experience without the risk, but microgravity is something you can only really experience* by feeling it

*for more than a few seconds

we are also all Ozymandias in the sense that he had ~90 children 3200 years ago, so do the math on that

(but it's not like his descendants share any particular trait so your point stands)

not technically, but I worked as a technician in an ER for several years and am now a nurse

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I think there's also a bit of the Y2K Problem Effect here, where something being fixed through behind-the-scenes effort creates the illusion it was never a real problem so that effort wasn't justified

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

maybe this will work if I put a little conspiracy spin on it:

the FBI included outlandish crank calls in the Epstein files to muddy the waters and make the whole thing look like a hoax! but we won't fall for that! nice try, Drumpf!

it's a terrible week to have "thinks it is important whether things are real or not" as a character trait

Post-it with a drawing of a confused-looking cartoon mouse

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sadly it's a joke but I am currently reading this indictment of the people who built the world's tallest water slide despite knowing nothing about engineering and it decapitated a child:

drive.google.com/file/d/19Z6P...

To say nothing of: oops, an important bit of hardware shook loose in transit. Just need a tech to go and give it a little nudge back into place. Two minute job.

You also need to ignore the vacuum! This is the one physics problem that gets easier if you assume all objects are immersed in fluid

post-it with sloppy handwriting saying "WARRENT: go arrest whoever u want sweetie ❤️"

this is literally as legally valid as an administrative warrant

They share 99.9% of your genes. 25% would be, like, a starfish.

(I'm being a little obtuse and I know what you mean, but I think it's important to keep in mind the other 75% is mostly still identical to you anyway, and the survival of ANY other human preserves many genes that you also have.)

it's as stressful as you want it to be, no one is *stopping* you from just hanging out tending a few patches of blueberries, but it gives you so many opportunities to do more that they start feeling like obligations

Has anyone even given a vague answer to the cooling problem or do they just pretend they didn't hear anyone who brings it up

They ask me for multiples of $18 because apparently I tripped a Jew Filter somewhere

(18 is numerology for "life" so it's a thing in Judaism to give gifts of $36, $54, etc. But it's very uncomfortable to have a spam email try and leverage this fact.)

And it's never ever EVER "I want to pass on my genes, so I babysit my sister's kids and buy clothes and diapers for them"

and I bet most of these Genetics Experts wouldn't even understand what that has to do with anything

oh that's pointless, if the bodies are otherwise identical but subjects feel like they have to give different scores to play along with the study, then of course you'll get this result

mostly it's a measure of how awkward people feel about saying "nope, don't feel anything" three times in a row

The instant you start to think that more people should read your posts, it's over.

A true poster doesn't really understand why anyone would want to read their posts.

It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.

might be dangerous if [redacted], but assuming natural causes I kinda doubt it. there'll be a lot of "why I oughta" grumbling and maybe some small incidents, but at the end of the day, does anyone really want to go to war for JD Vance

I have him blocked now but I just ran across a guy whose entire account as far back as I can scroll was "Neil Gaiman is the victim of a TERF conspiracy"

featuring evidence like "he's neurodivergent so he wouldn't be able to keep a secret"

no, that's not a thing, it would be a fire hazard, they don't sell more tickets than seats and there isn't a place to stand