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Tom Waits - Romeo is Bleeding

Thomas Kretschmann as Baley would be my suggestion. Or Idris Elba.

I'd argue the right thing to worry about is how the money is spent more than how much money is spent. http://federal-tax-rates.insidegov.com/l/40/1955 An age of prosperity, growth and conservative dreams! Somehow I don't think it's due to the taxes American conservatives long for the 50s. It has probably more to do with certain social conditions at the time. I think 40% is the lowest top federal tax bracket in the history of the US. Also don't confuse the top rate with the overall rate. The top bracket can be 95% and taxes can still be low.

I was under the impression that tax plan has a very low likelihood of passing the Senate.

It took me hundreds upon hundreds of hours to finish the first one. I don't need this in my life...

It was a typo. Volourn is famous for his typing skills.

One group openly denies established science, and aligns itself with fundamentalist christians. The other one doesn't. I have a problem with the message white supremacists get from a sitting US president's statements.

Thankfully I have the Daily Stormer on hand to explain why Trump's words were a massive problem:

^See? Normalizing.

Those 36,5 billion were approved yesterday. I wasn't aware. Trump can certainly be considered culpable in the normalizing of such behaviors. His words regarding the Charlottesville incidents are the most egregious example of this. Refusal to distinguish peaceful demonstrators from openly racist, violent white supremacists definitely carries a burden of guilt as far as normalization is concerned.

How about normalizing and legitimizing racism and white supremacy? Also that leaving people alone sure is working wonders in Puerto Rico.

Not really, no. Perhaps inadvertently, I guess.

No you don't. That's the point. There are plenty of situations where a person's body, brain included, can and will be uncontrollable. It can be anxiety attacks, a chemical imbalance in the brain, arousal due to sexual stimulus, the fight or flight response, Tourette's or a bunch of other things I can't recall right now. Trigger warnings help towards managing some of these. For instance, if someone is a Vietnam vet who suffers from severe PTSD, that person should be aware of anything that might unexpectedly trigger the disorder, like descriptions of the war in a book.

A part of the modern moral standard is a lot about pulling yourself by your bootstraps, being your own person, in control of yourself, and having the power to control your body and everything around it. It's an illusion that is very nice and romantic, partly stepped in the good ol' protestant/puritan work ethic and sexist notions of manhood but it has not a lot of basis in reality. For many people this belief is essential not only to their worldview but also to their sense of personal worth. Trigger warnings challenge that mindset and so are seen by many as a personal and societal attack.

I predict the Backer Beta will begin some time in January or February. I don't really know, though. "Upcoming" can be as vague as one wants.

Nah, we should look right in the eyes of the man behind the curtain until he mumbles uncomfortably and breaks into a cold sweat.

It would explain economic advancement if they would sell it, but from what was shown in MCU they don't. So how a resource that is not sold to anyone translate to economic advancement? I would posit that it is sold only under the most stringent of conditions. I would assume that all or most of the great technical breakthroughs in the MCU are enabled by Vibranium. I imagine some hefty government agreements were made between the US and Wakanda in order to get the materials required by stuff like the helicarriers and whatnot.

Well, the magical enlightened society is kind of pushing it, but there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for the economic and scientific advancement of Wakanda: Vibranium. It's an insanely valuable super hero metal that solves all sorts of technological problems, which exists exclusively in Wakanda. The existence of the metal is of course comic book silliness, but if that existence is taken at face value, then the economic and tech level of Wakanda is perfectly reasonable.

Dental care for everyone under 24 or 25, is completely free here in Sweden. My oldest has missing teeth and two teeth yet to come down that are currently horizontal, (her mouth X-ray looks like it was made by Dalí) and it's a gigantic boon that I won't have to pay anything for that.

Have to? Not really, no. In Portugal it's not very uncommon for employers to offer private insurance, but that's a voluntary perk, not an obligation. In Sweden, I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it's possible for a company to provide health insurance as part of the collective workers agreement. That doesn't happen with my employer, though.

Sometimes I feel people actually live by this... Sometimes? Everyone hates themselves, and one another. Hate makes the world go round. #Hallmarkmoment

That's just utterly insane.

Gumball and Dungeons is pretty good but very addictive. Puzzle & Dragons is also great.