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😂 hah, it's been a long time. Very popular with kids, I remember.

I remember more all the usual stuff like Beregis' Avtomobilya, Obyknovennoye Chudo and various Tarkovsky (Nostalgia made a big impression on me as a teenager).

Cane is always amazing. I saw him for the first time in Cider House Rules, I think. Also not a movie people remember these days, alas.

And sorry, now I see it's an important movie for you. Of the list below, I think Dark City has been seriously underrated.

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Glad it worked for you. I think the decade before that wasn't short on good prescient films (even if some in hyperbole). I was just disappointed. It didn't help that Moore dies kind of early on (speaking of those who can act).

Children of Men was hyped a lot when it came out and was ... a bit meh, we thought. How did you find it?

I just experienced an acute sense of second-hand embarrassed for the Economist. And then realized that they are probably in some kind of game to manufacture consensus about the next dem leaders, to avoid it being someone like AOC or Mamdani or even Van Hollen.

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I completely agree with you, actually. I asked an Iranian friend about this, and they thought people have historical amnesia about this - of sorts.

I can't for the life of me understand why Marc Thiessen thinks that opposing a war which violates the US Constitution and international law constitutes support for the regime in Tehran. But then creating deceitful straw men is how Neocons think and reason.

He's not but he's Swedish and Sweden has a fairly substantial Iranian community here, from several immigration waves.

It would be great if the US showed the same level of determination against Russia that it shows toward Iran.

Sadly, that doesn’t happen because Trump is compromised by Russia, as shown in the Epstein files

He's not a bot, but there's a serious split among the Swedish Iranian diaspora at least on whether they support Pahlavi or not. I know people on both sides and there are strong feelings.

a chef is standing in a kitchen with a bowl of food and the words `` winners '' written on the table . Alt: emeril lagasse is standing in a kitchen with a bowl of food and the words `` winners '' written on the table as he throws seasoning on a dish and yells "BAM" .

Today, to take a writing break and to prevent myself from doomscrolling, I'll be caramelizing onions. It's a process which those who know understand it's not a 15-20 minutes and that recipes who claim that are lying.

Dubai and Ukrainian city of Kharkiv are being bombed by same Iranian Shahed drones today.

The sentence I never thought I would ever need to say

🚨 BREAKING: Iranian ballistic missiles have struck Dubai International Airport, with photos and videos from inside the terminal showing smoke and visible damage.

The airport is now evacuating. UAE authorities have not yet issued an official statement on casualties or the full extent of the strike.

During the work trip to Dubai in January, we were across the beach from this place. This is a purely touristy area.

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

The medical AI influencers are an order of magnitude worse botlickers than then "we solved coding with AI" crowd.

This week’s main story is about Twitter. Or “X” if you’re a hall monitor. How it went from bad to worse under Elon Musk, how it’s impacting us all, and why there’s exactly one account there that we’re still fine with.

Those who live in glass concentration camps shouldn’t throw stones.

Yeah and one big benefit of Las Vegas is that one can rent a car after a day and drive off to Grand Canyon or Zion or one of the other great national parks.

I was in Dubai for work last month, and it is basically Las Vegas on steroids. A fake fake place, with haves and have nots, service sector imported from south India, living in dorms. I was told that you get ticketed for having a dirty car. The place is a massive Potyomkin village.

Are they using Grok to generate campaign names?

Preemptively bombing every country with brown people into peace.

I like to distract myself from the terrifying political news by reading the ridiculous political news.

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😂🤣 Brilliant. Medieval helpdesk to the enshitificators www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX...

Propaganda is definitely more automated these days

This is amazing.

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Glad Cory Doctorow's verbiage caught on in the mainstream.

What did Trump officials tell the Netflix CEO today at the White House?

Looks like crony capitalism with the President corrupting the merger process in favor of the billionaire Ellison family.