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Extremely excellent movie. I prefer it to the book, too.

I will not believe in the idea of A Consequence for Trump until he is physically inside a jail cell. That said

My prediction: a great deal of very damning evidence, for a total of: 0 (zero) consequences

My condolences to your nieces on having to watch such a fantastic movie with someone with such appalling taste.

Prey is extremely good, yeah. Probs my second fave movie of the year, after Everything Everywhere.

Perhaps a little, yeah? If the word 'racist' is a sticking point, (which I get, because there are different degrees of this stuff and we here in the richer, whiter and culturally similar countries have been ignoring that continent for a while so I guess it's become the norm) I'm happy to rephrase it to 'There is almost certainly a racial component to which other countries our media focusses on.'

Some would suggest that it is good to care about the lives of black people, too. You may have heard slogans to that effect, recently. Most of that doesn't really seem to actually be remotely relevant to what I was actually saying. I'll just highlight this one bit, though. "But if malaria became mainstream in the US I can guarantee you the US media would highlight this" Here's what I'm saying: not just the US media, but also the Australian media, the UK media, etc. As I believe you've already noted, monkeypox has been observed in Africa since the 70s. When the current monkeypox 'outbreak' occurred, it was already all over Nigeria. Then it got to the UK, and suddenly news sources in the USA and Australia (not just the UK) cared enough to report on it. If Australian and US media don't care about diseases that are all over Africa, they don't really have much additional incentive to care about diseases that have hopped the ditch over to Europe. Except, of course, that the UK is a wealthier country, with white, English speaking people in it. Maybe it wouldn't hurt our media to also care when it's Africa being ravaged by disease. "So in summary the suggestion that monkeypox is a racist name is uninformed and ignores the history of this disease and how its spreading throughout the world" Cool. I wasn't talking about that, though.

It's not just 'things which affect them', it's also 'things that affect other well off white people in a completely different country or state.'

As has been noted, he got sacked because he refused to work, not because he protested. And while people have a right to peacefully protest, what they choose to protest about can tell you about the kind of person they are, and whether they have the kind of values you'd want in someone teaching children. And so, while we can defend his right to peacefully protest, we can also be quietly happy about the fact that his garbage ideology is out of schools. Additionally, what people have the right to do, legally, doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the rights of their employer. As an extreme example: I have the legal right to publicly criticise my employer, but they then have the right to determine that my continued employment is not in their best interests. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. Well that's the point, isn't it? If malaria comes in force to the USA or some other overwhelmingly white and rich country, suddenly people will care about it. Not sure what bit this is replying to. Is it the bit where I said that the 'Spanish Flu' was first observed in Kansas, or the bit where I implied that monkeypox has been in Africa for ages but didn't really make the news until it went to other, (richer, whiter) continents? Either way, it doesn't make sense as a response.

I watched the movie The Princess over the weekend. Starring Joey King of The Kissing Booth (I haven't seen it, apparently it is bad cheesy fun) fame, it is basically Die Hard in a castle tower with Joey King playing the role of The Princess, who is the John McClane stand in and makes her way down the tower, killing guards with swords and stuff. It received fairly middling reviews, which may have been a bit generous. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The article doesn't provide a lot of details; the gentleman claims that the board fed the community lies. I found a separate article where he accuses the board of calling him an 'active participant in the riots'. If this is true and they did that, he might have a defamation case, but probs not a wrongful termination case since they eventually determined that he was in fact in breach of their social media policy, and had also declined to return to work, even though they indicated he would be reassigned elsewhere. I guess part of me also is glad someone dumb enough to participate in a 'stop the steal' rally is no longer teaching kids, too. (Although maybe, as suggested, he'll land a job in Florida or Texas or some other bastion of wilful ignorance.)

As I understand it, yes, it was racist, and Spain probably was a bit annoyed that they were scapegoated for a strain of influenza that was first observed in Kansas. With regards to monkeypox, I have seen it suggested that the actual racist thing about it is that it got very little media attention when it was largely confined to Africa.

Well, those are opinions you're legally allowed to have. I guess. For now.

Wow, China has completely solved rape? Impressive, what's their secret?

The only one I really like is Aliens.

I will be disappointed in any and all GOP victories, yes.

I'll take either 'destroyed' or 'irrevocably changed so they stop having the kinds of policies that appeal to the type of demographic who also thinks voting in a white supremacist is a good idea'. They consistently have policy aimed at oppressing LGBTQ+ people, making it harder for poor people to live, opposing climate change legislation, making it harder for people of colour to vote, opposing any kind of gun control, maintaining a facade of being 'pro life' while opposing policies that actually reduce the rate of abortion, like availability of contraception and welfare for single mothers... And the GOP as it stands right now is buying pretty hard into Trump's lies to the extent that every single GOP politician who tried to point out that Trump was in fact a lying sentient garbage dump has faced ostracisation from the GOP, with Liz Cheney for example being removed from her role as conference chair for correctly criticising Trump. They are a corrupt institution full of corrupt vultures.

Whichever is most likely to destroy the GOP, which is probs any 'not Trump' with Trump running as an independent.

Marvel Studios announced the release dates for a few MCU TV shows. What if? Season 2: early 23 Secret Invasion: Spring 23 Echo - Summer 23 Loki Season 2 - Summer 23 X-Men '97 Season 1 - Autumn 23 Ironheart - Autumn 23 Agatha: Coven of Chaos - Winter 23 (Probably too much to hope for that it'll be Christmassy) Daredevil: Born Again - Spring 24 Marvel Zombies - 24 Spider-Man: Freshman Year - 24 Honestly not sure which ones were just announced and which ones we've known about for ages

Marvel Studios just announced release dates for about a billion new MCU movies GotG V 3 - 05 May 23 (Wonder if there will also be a Star Wars thing the day before?) Blade - 03 Nov 23 Captain America: New World Order - 03 May 24 (Another one right next to Star Wars day) Thunderbolts - 26 Jul 24 Fantastic 4 - 08 Nov 24 Avengers: The Kang Dynasty - 02 May 25 (They can't stop releasing around that date, huh?) Avengers: Secret Wars - 07 Nov 25 I will watch every single one of them, but might wait for some to come to streaming.

The new D&D movie looks like maybe it won't suck like every other one has, but also it's a D&D movie so I won't get my hopes up.

I can only assume you read it when you were much younger, and now you've matured and have more discerning taste.

Depends. If there is a God and an infinite afterlife, it may end up being of infinite importance. If not, probs no importance.

There's passages about people being thrown into a lake of fire or something along those lines.

Is calling someone 'Californian' an insult now?