I haven't watched it yet but I loved the graphic novels so I had high hopes. Not sure I'll bother after reading what you all have to say.

Shame, much like Kings "Dark Tower" some books just don't seem to work well on the big screen.

How the heck do right wingers keep up with the daily outrage? Is there like an advent calendar for outrage they use? I know they get confused often as Bellringer foolishly brings up 1619 which is a two month old outrage and CRT which is a waning outrage.

Seriously man it's gay Superman today get with the program. Did you forget to open your advent calendar this morning?

#6

My dog is one of the wolf killer breeds so if he kills a wolf who's the apex predator?

I'm not a hunter myself and I live safely in a big city so I have no need to kill a wolf but if I were a rancher or shepherd and it was kill a wolf or lose my herd that would be one dead wolf. If you want to protect wolves become a vegan, if there were no need for herds of animals humans would mostly leave wolves alone.

#45

I am represented by him despite not having voted for him. Fortunately in NC the Lt. Gov. is basically a dress position so he can't really do much harm.

#2

#12

I agree the subs are way too confined for me, hence why I didn't follow my fathers footsteps. Apparently the Ohio class is a bit better I have a friend who was a sonar operator on one and he said they weren't that bad. Then again he also likes hiking 10 miles to go sleep in a 6x4 tent on the ground so his opinion is suspect.

#12

Coma of course not comma. I doubt there will be much of a pause before you are beaten unconscious.

#11

Calling for him to resign is not threatening freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences just freedom from government sanction.

Tell you what if you think freedom of speech means freedom from consequence why don't you go to a construction site and shout "Why are a bunch of illiterate -------- working in America, go back home you -------."

When you get out of the comma come back and explain the difference between freedom of speech and freedom from consequence.

#5

Wait did I miss where he was sentenced to a reeducation camp? Is he in jail for his comments? OMG was he executed for his comments? No? None of the above? So where was his freedom of speech or religion threatened?

My dad did one voyage on a Los Angeles class but he retired only one year after they started service. His primary sub for most of his career was a Sturgeon class that preceded the Los Angeles class.

What happens when the line at the "skip the line" line gets too long?

...In order to skip the skip the lines, visitors will need to sign up for Disney Genie + pro, the company said in a press release. The service costs $15 $25 a day at Walt Disney World Resort and $20 $30 a day at Disneyland Resort. The service will allow visitors to choose the next available time to arrive at rides, thereby shortening waiting times, the company said....

The fact that only 32% blame R's for popular bills being stalled in congress is a total failure of messaging by the D's

Never much enjoyed audio books and even if I did there is no aux port, tape deck or CD player in my work vehicle. Trying to listen on my phone is a fools errand given background noise so I just drive and think my thoughts.

My wife and I listen to audio books to fall asleep at night but we only do books we have read so we don't stay up listening to the story.

In theory I am supposed to get an hour lunch each day and I carry around a book for when I do but 9 days out of 10 it doesn't happen.

Just ordered all three so I don't forget it since it's my busy season. Probably won't get to start reading them till March but who knows when I have a pile of books on my nightstand they tend to have a siren call that makes me find time, even if it's traded for sleep.

'The First Law' trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.

Never heard of it but with three here recommending it sounds like a winner.

Thanks always good to catch a new series. Now if I just had time to read.

#8

The casting of the show was phenomenal. When re-reading the books I have a hard time picturing the characters any way other than the characters in the show. That is really rare for me mostly the bad casting makes me try and picture the characters as described by the book in place of the actors when watching an adaptation.

#14

As a kid raised in the 80's I gotta say you are just wrong. A kid coming out in the 80's was a big deal. It just wouldn't happen kids would hide it till 18 because for most kids it meant the total loss of social and very likely familial support, including economic support.

Gay on TV and movies was at best a gag.

Getting beaten was not rare and bullied was a given.

Homoerotic a bit, and that probably helped pave the way for progress but it was like the purloined letter hidden in plain sight. It was there but you didn't see it unless you were in on it.

#23

My retirement is in about 2 decades so bitcoin seems pretty perfect by that measure :)

I'm not heavy in Bitcoin I think last I checked it was about 1.5% of my portfolio which is a pretty small portfolio to start with. Yes it's volatile but the long term trend has been up, a lot, which is why it is in my portfolio.

If you say that it's killing the planet so you don't want to invest that makes sense ethical investing is a thing, however to say not to invest because it is a scam is to not understand the technology or the goal. Crypto certainly can be a scam (Cardano anyone) but bitcoin is not.

Of course the shared delusion that a piece of a block chain is worth 42k could evaporate at any moment but a meteor could hit Cupertino at any moment also life is not without risk.

State charges in GA against Trump? Is this the onion? It ain't gonna happen.

#7

Up 400% in a year is a heck of a crash I don't know how I will ever recover my retirement money. Maybe I'll get lucky and all my investments will "crash" the way bitcoin has over the past 12 months.

My big question however is if unrealized looses (or a percentage of unrealized losses) could be deducted from a household's tax bill.

If you are going to tax unrealized gains that would make sense.

Overall, the value of my investments has decreased in 2021.

Ouch, if you want a new investment advisor I'm available. I'm up 23% in 2021.

Read an interesting article that looked at the rates of increase and duration of the various waves so far. It predicted the current decline and if I remember it correctly even predicted the time frame. If they are right we won't see another rise in caseloads until the next wave begins.

It did not make any suggestions as to when that might be.

I guess we will see if that article is correct or this one predicting an increase.

#11

Of course microchips aren't as unstable as mRNA.

#8

Most of the people I know who are anti-vaccine are meat and potatoes people anyway so the only way they would eat a vaccine salad is after it was eaten by a cow then the cow killed and chopped up into steaks.

"I think it's great because many doctors are refusing to sign it, and this is one doctor that is actually volunteering his time with no pay to sign all of these forms,"

You mean a medical doctor who you have trusted with your kids health their entire life won't sign it? Shocking

Rather than listen to the doctor who you have trusted with your kids health about everything else, now you think it's smart to get a chiropractor involved in a respiratory decision.

8 billion chickens consumed by Americans a year. About 2lbs of meat per chicken so over a decade 160 billion pounds of chicken gives us about .11 cent per pound of chicken.

BTW Dan with the number of Americans that puts the average at 50lbs a year over 10 years nails right at 55 cents per American so not sure where you got your 55 cents number but almost dead on the average. Of course that's not counting the lawyers fees.