Everything posted by Amentep
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The Best Musical or Comedy Drama Action Film thread (THIS IS THE GENERAL MOVIE STUFF THREAD)
I'm looking forward to watching Star Trek Discovery when I get through rewatching TNG for the first time since it aired in first run syndication. I've expressed my opinion of modern Trek vs Roddenberry's intention here before, but even though I think Trek has been irrevocably changed (in better and worse ways), I think there's still room to enjoy the series and movies.
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Weird - Random - Interesting
Most police departments that I am aware of have rigorous screening processes to screen out hotheads or people who want a license to be a thug. The bigger problem (IMO) with police is the increasing fetishistic militarization going on in police departments combined with the traditional institutionalizing that the workforce endures (and also creates and fosters in itself in some cases) that develops an "us vs them" perception of police work. This is furthered by the fact that most police don't live where they police, which helps to dehumanize the population where they do police. And indeed it is also furthered by the fact that the collective common sense of humanity is lower than ever, as are critical thinking skills, which combine to make bad judgement de rigueur instead of anomalistic.
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The Best Musical or Comedy Drama Action Film thread (THIS IS THE GENERAL MOVIE STUFF THREAD)
Battle Beyond the Stars wasnt Star Wars but it was a fun riff on THE SEVEN SAMURAI, but in Space (with Robert Vaughan playing more or less the same character he played in that other THE SEVEN SAMURAI remake, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN...)
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Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
There's logistical reasons why parties were useful. But the parties are also an impediment, imo, to elected officials representing their constituents.
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Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
If you can't have a partiless system, than the more parties the better.
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Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
Ben Franklin, wasn't it?
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Politics XXXV (Life in the Vault is about to change)
Seatbelt laws as well, IIRC.
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What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
I don't know if our organization has security issues or if its a cost issue given that they already have licenses to other tools.
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What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
We can't use Zoom either, but a vendor used WebEx to show us how to do something virtually the way they'd approve us to do it with the ability to extrapolate that to our preferred platform (in this case it'd be WebEx).
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What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
My favorite MS Teams meeting was the one that was a live demonstration of how to do something in Zoom. EDIT: Wait strike that, it was a WebEx to show us how to use Zoom.
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Funny Stuff: A New Hope
Clancy Brown was the voice of Lex Luthor in SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES
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Funny Stuff: A New Hope
You do realize those are all actors who played Lex Luthor...?
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Funny Stuff: A New Hope
But...aren't most people taught at government run schools, so wouldn't trusting the history teacher's version of events be to trust the governments? 🤔
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Funny Stuff: A New Hope
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It looks like currently it is.- New Scientific Discoveries, Part Drei
Is there some new update? The linked webMD article is 20 years old.- What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread
Clearly he's a dogcat.- General Celebrity deaths
RIP. HAUSU (House) was a fun horror film. I hear some of his other films were good but I don't know if I've seen them.- What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
Deep.- General Celebrity deaths
Mort Drucker, MAD magazine artist.- Coronavirus: Continuing Vigilance
Even if there aren't any shenanigans, they wouldn't be able to confirm cause of death until after the autopsy test results returned, so a confirmed COVID-19 case wouldn't immediately reflect in the statistics anyhow. There's no way a death at home on Sunday would reflect in the numbers reported on Monday even with a government that honestly reports the numbers.- Today - what you've done
New thread -- What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
Other than sheltering in place, that is. Old thread - - R@nd0m V1d30 G@m3 N3w5