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Tell my wife, “hello”…

So they…entered the neutral zone?

Kirk vibe intensifies.

Cold War II: Lunar Nuclear Boogaloo

…halting aircraft production

That’s probably for the best…

slick dark hair

50s greaser gang?

I think Lord of War and Anon were his best post Gattaca. In Time was pretty “meh” in my opinion, but watchable, and the rest were forgettable.

I misspoke a bit. I don’t mean that his other works are garbage by any means. In fact I quite liked Lord of War and Anon. Just meant that they never really hit the same depth of messaging that Gattaca seemed to hit.

My father was right. It didn’t matter how much I lied on my resume. My real C.V. was in my cells. Why should anyone invest all that money to train me when there are a thousand other applicants with far cleaner profiles.

Of course it’s illegal to discriminate; “Genoism” they call it. But no one takes the laws seriously. If you refuse to disclose, they can always take a sample from a doorhandle, or a handshake. Even the saliva off your application form. And if all else fails, a perfectly legal drug test can just as easily become an illegal peek at your future in the company.

This movie stands as one of the most prescient I’ve ever watched. It’s a shame that Nicols later works never matched it, and that this movie itself is somewhat forgotten.

Reading the article and reaching the part about the extortion is just so heartbreakingly familiar for anyone who remembers the Amanda Todd case here in Canada.

There is no punishment strong enough for people like this.

I’m from a Portuguese family, and have been back to the Acores a number of times to visit family, etc… Even when I was very very young I remember going into the local church to look around and seeing how much gold was wasted on its interior while the village around it was still very much in a semi-poverty state. It was mind-blowing that that ever seemed “okay”.

When my folks were growing up (dad was born in 49, mom in 52) there were people on the island that didn’t have access to indoor plumbing, and yet every village’s local church was laced in gold.

Shameful.

If I read it correctly, Ukraine is facing a very large force to the north and struggling to repel it. If you open up another front, you force Putin to hopefully take troops from there to use on the defence in Kursk, thereby lessening the load on the soldiers defending in the North.

No shit?! Ya think, dummy? It’s almost as if that’s how war works…

Edited to add: Referring to Putin as a dummy, not the OP.

insert currently popular shocked meme here.

Good. A period of prosperity usually follows a global conflict (Roaring twenties, 1950s American Dream, etc…)

We’ve been heading down this road for a few years already, all over the world nothing but hatred and bigotry and selfishness seemingly on the rise. Mini conflicts all over the place, and the only super power literally on the verge of electing a fucking dictator. If the eventual result is a global conflict (it is), then let’s just get it the fuck over with so the political systems that remain afterwards can recover like they did post-ww2.