Stealth and Jurassic Park 3 are the only ones I can think of that I immediately regretted seeing in theaters

I think Mass Effect 3 is the worst example of this I have seen. The quests marked “Priority” are the only ones *not* time-sensitive

One way that our political landscape has changed is that there is no way that Nixon would have been forced from office today. Fox News would have rallied around the idea that, yes he did those crimes, but that was good actually, and 90% of Republicans would still support him

Pet peeve: when people claim to be “boycotting” something that they had no intention of ever buying. I’ve seen both liberals and conservatives do this. It’s often a one-time purchase like a book or a ticket to a live event

I can imagine 5-6 possible ways for the future to go, including things getting better or worse slowly or quickly, or staying about the same.
One thing that makes me think that things getting better quickly is possible is looking at how quickly the Soviet Union fell, and only about 6 people died.

It’s weird how many public figures come forth to say “I have a unique third way ideology that neither the left or right understand” and then you look into it and they’re just a centrist Democrat. There’s a whole party for just that

One thing that I don’t understand about Trump supporters is that they seem to be stuck in a mindset that 9/11 happened a few days ago

The decline of our civilization began with Reagan, when people claiming that the government couldn’t do any good were allowed to take over the government

I have a post that I’ve been wanting to make for weeks. When I find the exact right wording, it’s going to be an all time great…

WRT “Tilly Norwood”: DAE remember when they tried this with Final Fantasy Spirits Within back in 2001?

Traditional insurance (like fire or life) is betting that something rare will never happen to you. How does that match up with using “insurance” to pay for routine checkups with your doctor, dentist, etc.?

One of the problems with the health insurance model is that it doesn’t really work like insurance. Ideally, everyone should be using routine services every year. There’s no way to economically fund that using the same model as fire insurance

Perhaps they could still go this direction, and neatly explain how in this continuity Iron Man and Dr Doom could be the same person.

Back in 2008 when I saw Iron Man in theaters, I thought the plot of the movie was going to follow the Ozzie Osbourne song.

One thing that I don’t see commented on enough is that Palestine is in a completely unique situation as the only populated place that isn’t (officially) part of a UN country. Its legal status is basically like Antarctica in terms of sovereignty

important thread. the idea of gearing an entire political party towards appealing to like 2% of voters with incoherent ideology, low engagement, in a handful of states and houses districts is both wildly myopic as a strategy and frankly offensive to democracy as a concept

i keep thinking about how easily the democrats could have kept trump out. they wouldn't even have had to follow through on a few popular policies, they could have just lied, won and done nothing

Using the Holocaust to justify the actions of Israel would be like using the fact that the Armenian genocide happened to defend any and all decisions of the present day government of Armenia

That’s one small step for man, one very, very small step for Godzilla.

One of the many problem with US politics is a failure to have any litmus test for people remaining in office. When we have a generation defining mistake, the people in favor of it need to leave. It should have happened after the Iraq War, segregation, slavery, etc.

Segregationist Strom Thurmond continued to serve in Republican leadership until his death in 2003.

One of my hottest takes is that leftists that hate Gorbachev basically think that he was the same person as Boris Yeltsin, when in reality those two were enemies for effectively all of their careers

I think it would have been funny if they had kept the name Washington Football Team and made their logo just an orange football.

For some reason, I think about the Fermi paradox a lot these days. Perhaps intelligent life is doomed to destroy itself before it spreads out into the galaxy. I don’t know which technology (nuclear weapons, AI deepfakes, etc) is usually the culprit

Again: The center-right voters that the Democratic Party has been trying to win over do not exist. They might have existed in the 90s, but they have all been radicalized to be pro-Trump now and will never vote for a centrist Dem again

Many of Obama’s reforms would have been between reasonable and good if they had been implemented in the 1970s, such as the ACA or making the US mostly oil independent, but instead they came 40 years too late and wound up being regressive

Back when Obama was elected, he made tons of promises that he didn’t keep. The Democratic Party of today doesn’t even bother lying to its base. They don’t say that they’ll do M4A or Green New Deal and then not do it. They actively don’t try to win left-leaning votes

Kamala lost because the Democratic party spent 100% of its energy trying to win over center-right voters who turned out not to exist, while intentionally alienating the left side of their base
Part of the reason they were so tonedeaf was because they went to absurd lengths to prevent an open primary

I think that if Jimmy Carter had run for a non consecutive term in 2004 he could have won.
There’s a lot of discourse about him now but I think he was at least better than anyone who came after him

I still have a mental block where movies and other media that came out post lockdown don’t feel “real” to me in some way