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Apparently abusive partners will often make small gestures of kindness, such as buying their victims nice things, to keep them from realising the overall relationship is toxic.

I am seeing a few people throw out statistics along the lines of "If the shutdown lasts two more weeks, it will cost the government more money than the budget to build the wall."

When you get feedback from a job interview "It's a no. You showed great depth of knowledge and understanding in the data space and the work, but we just didn't feel that you were that behind working for our company."

Back in the day (2000), Bowie was spot on.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbeXIMhf8sI

Also, quote for the day: "Christianity, that left-wing religion that right-wingers seem to love. Islam, that right-wing religion that left-wingers seem to love."

Okay, worth a few chuckles Tor - Highway to the Danger Zone; The heterosexual tragedy of Top Gun

If you ask them, the answer is yes. Even the porn industry was created by aliens. It's the watch it to be entertained, see what can be great visuals of rather obscure parts of the world, want to scream out that a hypothesis is not proof, and ponder on if they just have a massive inferiority complex because humanity has apparently achieved nothing on its own, merely by the aid of something else.

Now This - Sen. Jon Tester asks colleagues to stand up to Trump on the shutdown

Okay, this had me sniggering like a 12 year old... Lessons from animated films:

Well, for those interested in the subject... The History of Philosophy

What, the Prophecy isn't a good christian movie?

Huh, jokes that I apparently missed in the Mass Effect games... The Quarian talking about the more respectably named ships "Iktomi" and "Dehfranz" - Which, if you start using Quarian naming conventions equals the "Vas Iktomi" and "Vas Dehfranz". - Seeing as the vas deferens is the duct in the male genitals that gets cut during a vasectomy. And while i knew that one of the first characters you meet and who dies in the original Mass Effect was Jenkins, I hadn't noticed he was the only character with a middle initial.. and that initial was L.

To be fair, it does seem that Irons played that role as if it were a British panto on stage. Hm, of course, it's very hard to explain British panto to people outside the UK....