Anthony Damiani

First one was made on a shoestring, Raimi’d next project bombed, then Hollywood offered millions to make a sequel.
He pitched Army of Darkness (which eventually completed the trilogy), DeLaurentiis demanded more like the first one, so: this weird half-sequel/half-remake on like 9x the budget.

Well. The requel!

No, clearly there is not. But you could have imagined a different result among those who self identify as Trump’s supporters, which is why you ask the question.

How much of that is landfall? Especially on-landfall doublers like Tifa?

Hard to catapult us into recession when he pulls the plug on everything after two weeks and circles around in 90 days.

One modest hope would be for left leaning creators to produce more content (including advice) for young men who might otherwise be in danger of going down a Tate/Peterson rabbit hole.

It’s clearly insufficient to address the larger social alienation but it might help radicalization.
Is that naive?

Yeah. I admit I don’t have a good answer, but I still feel we need a constructive way to engage here— because there are a lot of predatory misogynists who are all too happy to sidle on up to frustrated young men and tell them who to blame. And that part is becoming a problem for the rest of us.

Of course! But they’re also not unrelated concepts. Decline in sex is one manifestation, along with declining marriage rates, people reporting fewer close friends, declining community and civic engagement. There are some real underlying phenomena here.

Part of the question is if there’s an actual social problem there. And the data seems to show an actual increase in lonely young folks.

I don’t know if it’s politics that needs to address this, but if isolation and alienation are reducing human connection it would be good to have a useful response.

Life comes at you fast!

It’s not, but when I was young and not getting laid, I felt something was wrong with me— I looked for other people having the same problem.

And what’s out there for young men doing that search is wildly misogynistic.

I’m glad I didn’t fall down that hole. But we’re losing too many people to it.

He won one time on ‘the economy, stupid’ and now the clock is stopped.

Because they were also frequently revised downwards under Biden. The annual estimate in March 2024 was trimmed after the fact by a million jobs.
If this were a new phenomenon, sure, immediate suspicion. But it seems like a continuation of an ongoing trend.

Yeah, but… everybody else follows that to the logical conclusion and we get no fun side episodes *anywhere*.

I’m ok with somebody erring on the side of the kind of wacky high-concept one-offs we used to get on episodic TV.

But, uh, a 12 or 18 ep season would be nice.

Picture from the NY Post shows the proposed new layout for the White House Ballroom Extension relative to the main structure.

In-line with the East Wing.

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in

Based on Israel's own data: "Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter... less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period. Even if every bag of UN flour had been... handed out... starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat."

Pathfinder?

Your audience, man.

Did the delay in impact have anything to do with having delaying them all several months?

It’s also depressing given that a lot of the appeal was being a wild and unfamiliar IP; Buffy, but a trio and a musical, but Korean, but it looks like Spiderverse.
Do fun original stuff!

It’s broadly pro-government with a vision of a hard working, well-intentioned civil servants trying to solve problems.

And now, instead, we have ICE and the measles.

It was once a move towards inclusivity at a time Italian immigrants faced discrimination— to date America’s history as a people back to the discovery of the continent rather than 1776 was thus to argue that Italian immigrants could be as wholly American as those descended from English colonists.

It’s Herman Melville. He thinks whaling is real macho, and his shipboard world almost exclusively male. As such, his image of the sea is rough and ‘masculine,’ which he contrasts with the ‘feminine’ air and its graceful creatures.

Exclusively? No, but that’s a bit misleading—you can find at least one guy from the left who will cheer anything. But groups like Collective Shout seem like classic right wing religious moral scolds calling for censorship.

I don’t think the general public is entirely familiar with this particular nickname…

Can you return to your original present?

It is the first comic where she does so on-panel in her She-Hulk form (though she did practice law as Jennifer Walters, after becoming She-Hulk, in her original run).

Per Brian Cronin:
www.cbr.com/jennifer-wal...

‘S cool. Trump doesn’t technically have the authority to set tariff rates. So it all works out.

The Catholic Church is such an interesting case study— because it has actual religious ideological commitments that aren’t designed around American political coalitions (for both better and worse).

It would be about three times as long as the current longest continuous bridge over water.

There are longer bridges, but they’re elevated viaducts covering, eg, a mix of rivers, gorges and swampy lowlands.