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I think they're sliding that in as part of anti-abortion measures, personhood begining at conception is one of the main arguments used to argue for bans. I'm sure there are a handful of people shocked that banning abortion is something Trump and his gang will try for.

Damn, and here I am mad that it's set to hit 24 F tomorrow. Though I guess when your infrastructure isn't designed to handle cold (ie no insulation in the walls for pipes) and is crumbling anyways than it's going to hit different.

The Substance (2024) More than I should, I think of my younger self as a different person. Often with a jealous lens, like I could do better if I was 10-15 years younger and would have made different and better choices with who I am now. But that's all bull****. I'm still the same guy as 18 year old KP: prone to staying up later than I should because I got really into this or that, somehow both underthinking and overthinking everything, restarting every ****ing thing I do because I changed my mind or get annoyed by some insignificant nonsense so no progress is actually made, etc. I may be older and it materializes in different ways and through different lenses (ie "pruhsteege movees" instead of ****ty anime), but none of that has fundamentally changed despite that now I work out more, sometimes meditate (thanks David Lynch), and maybe have developed a modicum of discipline. What right do I have to look down on my past self? He may be a crazy ****up who should have worked harder and indulged less, but ultimately he got me to where I am today. All of that is still me, it's taken a lot of work to realize that and I think this film did help me in doing so. Lizzy Sparkle shoots herself up with god knows what to be able to live as an idealized version of herself for a week before going back to her "real" body. But Sue is Lizzy Sparkle, the separation of them is an illusion imposed by herself. Piloting the Sue body she doesn't do anything different than she did before, she just gains more interest because she's now back to being hawt (even though Elisabeth Sparkle looks much better than Dennis Quaid, which I believe is a point, if not THE point) in a society/industry where that is THE currency, especially for the ladies. Which causes her to develop a body dysmorphia when piloting the Elisabeth body, beautifully communicated with that makeup scene. This dysmorphia and her addiction to being "perfect" shatters her mind, creating the illusion of two people when in fact she's just one person riding the highs and withdrawals. As Sue she can't help but take more and more and more, as Elisabeth she keeps enduring the ravages on her body because it's worth it to chase that high, both are fundamentally addicts. The end sequence is how it ends, with your body being ravaged and your mind lost in the high. Easily one of the best movies of 2024 and the decade. The People's Joker (2022?) I remember @majestic and I once talking about how the irl version of Darmok would be stuff like anime and superheroes. This film is pretty much that concept come to life, hijacking Batman to communicate gender dysphoria via a shoestring budget multimedia cluster**** that comes together beautifully. Frankly I do not see why WB tied to sue over this, not only would no one believe that WB would actually make something that feels handmade like this, but it actually does a better job of generating interest than the vast majority of content sludge being pumped out by the 600-pound sisterwives company. It just feels really genuine, like beneath the audacity of portraying Batman as a guy who became Elon Musk after he who failed to get on a legally distinct SNL there's an emotional core to this film that hits well, because it is someone's real story.

Sadly I don't think that's gonna happen, Trump is letting all the neocons run foreign policy for him and those folks aren't really known for being conflict adverse. But maybe they'll get caught up trying to bring back nfts or something and forget to bomb the middle east for a month or so.

Yeah it can, but it's different kinds of damage and if we're lucky Trump and his gaggle of grifters get sidetracked enough by corruption and scams that harm their own people to prevent at least a little of their most malicious impulses aimed at more vulnerable targets. It certainly has a better chance than anything or anyone in government manging to do something.

I think Trump and his entourage being shameless grifters is a good thing, in that the relentless urge to make a quick buck sabotages them getting as dangerous as they could otherwise. Trump administration 2.0 is obviously gonna be pretty evil, but it's also gonna be laughably corrupt and incompetent where the people running it spend more time feuding with streamers or peddling "vaccine removal pills" (Kash Patel was hawking these along with any wine brand) to pursue the worst. Too perfect tbh.

Out of everything Trump will be doing over the next four years, constantly scamming his supporters like this is probably the most benign.

Less than 1 minute in and I already hate everyone involved.

It's got me real ****ed up, emphysema is also what got my dad.

Will it be finished before Berserk?????????

I believe the netflix algorithm is a malevolent psychic entity that feeds on suffering, which explains its recs better than it learning based on what I watch.

Nah, uuuhhii's got way different politics and never uses caps at all. Besides, saying nothing at all with weird spacing is on brand for Bruce.

Beastars - The End of Beastars - Part 1 of ???? So first of all this bull**** with split seasons can go **** itself. Just make two seasons and save us all the confusion. More importantly it's pretty funny, there's just something about doing a show about anthropomorphic animals while also doubling down on them being animals that is hilarious. We're introduced to the Beastar, a horse who is pretty much Batman in a wifebeater, that hunts down criminals and turns carnivores into fertilizer to grow his carrots. That alone had me laughing for quite a bit. But then there's some stuff that can be read interestingly (both good and very bad), like the difficulties of interspecies relationships, discrimination against carnivores, and the difference between land and sea. Anyways the show is full of stuff like that with uncanny cgi that doesn't grate as bad when it's not humans.

Honestly I think we're dealing with an addiction to anger/outrage that's reached a place where the real non-issue things they'd get in a frenzy over don't do it for them anymore, so they're having to make unhinged **** up like immigrants eating pets or whatever trans conspiracy is big this week to keep up their high. I'm not sure if there is a real solution here because the places they go to get their fixes are reinforcing and most of their other circle end up getting too turned off by whatever weird **** they're on about now to stay around. The trans stuff specifically is weird because chances are the biggest interaction they've had with a transperson is online, either fighting on socials or viewing videos of a.....sexual nature*. It's not a good time to be talking to a guy about work stuff only to have them derail the conversation with some **** about the gubbermint paying for transgender operations or whatever. *please read this in the voice of Matt Berry's Laszlo Cravensworth

Whenever people start talking about "biological women" I feel bummed out because I'm expecting to see a non-biological woman, by which I mean a lady robot, and that's never the case. If only the AI people put in work for that instead of an aggregated plagiarism generator that does everything bad and wrong then maybe we could be dealing with robots instead of whatever has the brain wormed mad this week. Would be refreshing.

I mean in retrospect I have to say that Utena does hit great.....though the black rose stuff is still not the best. Kinda feel like rewatching it now. I think all of us itt should enter a pact where we will all work to destroy any doublegangers of said pact members.

At least it's coming back soon....still waiting on Chainsaw Man, Hell's Paradise, Dorohedoro, and One Punch Man. @Bartimaeus First of all, you have a doppelganger here under the name "Bartimeus". If you want help defeating him you've got my sword. Less importantly.....I got to say I watched the magic emi credits again and maybe it's the more Lynchian vibe of the OVA but I don't like the first one very much. Based on what you've written about the show I can read a lot of stuff into it, but I think it does communicate Emi's sadness at not having gotten good at "fake" magic and struggling to do it instead of effortlessly doing it in her BRACK RADY slightly older magical girl form. On a more technical level, the OVA also seems to be more on beat with the song to me if that makes sense.

Taken solely as the 2 minute clip you posted, I like it. It seems like the magician girl is realizing that she's just a dream of a young(er) child, one that disappears as the kid becomes a teenager in a much different reality than what she dreamed of. And then haunting refrain at the end of the girl at her desk invokes the kind of longing for her childhood dreams in the face of the reality of (young) adulthood. For me it hits like a more wholesome speedrun of Mulholland Drive, but I didn't watch the anime or OVA. What I did watch was the most recent Dandadan. Boy howdy I wish other shows paid their animators better because it's nice to not see PS2 era CGI. Also the idea of an anatomical model from a science class coming to life to search a dump for a discarded anatomical model that it's in love with is honestly not anything I would have put on a bingo card but here we are. Not the worst surprise of 2024.

Yes, is that a bad thing though?

I have to say that everything I've heard about United Healthcare since someone shot the CEO honestly made me curious why it took this long for someone to try to kill him. Sort of a weird curiosity in the US where the rampant violence doesn't trickle up to bizness guys, politicians, and other members of the ruling class. And while I would never condone murder.....I can say that it's not as gut wrenching to see a cartoonishly evil company man get shot than a bunch of school kids.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-syria-rebels-stars-aligned-assads-ouster-2024-12-08/ So the first picture in the article features a guy with an ISIS flag and yet there's no mention of ISIS in the article at all? Huh, that's a little weird.

Well Israel helped Hamas to undercut the PLO so probably ok.

Rhonda Sanctimonious has been running for president since he was in middle school and anything he does is purely based on what at the time seems to be the best way to get there. I think being a Trump loyalist is a requirement to getting anywhere in the Republican party and being able to shift the blame for losing Florida in a hypothetical anti-Trump blue wave would be better than sticking it out in a job he's already tried to get out of. My bet is that if it's offered he takes it.

I don't think anyone but perhaps the most braindead rules based law and order guy is surprised that Biden pardoned his son. There's no way in hell Biden is going to do anything but retire after the start of the year and he may as well flex the benefits while he has them. And while I don't think he cares about political consequences, and neither do the dems generally or else they maybe wouldn't have spent the last 4 months hanging out with Liz Cheney, by the time the next election season hits Hunter Biden will have evaporated from the collective consciousness.