I just realized that Anakin committed a mass murder in each prequel movie.

I have no problems being a dick.

The craziest thing you’ve seen is people behaving the same as a photographer who came before then? You sound mad about other people being excited that they finally saved enough and took an opportunity to enjoy themselves. People go to places to see things because that’s what tourism is. Do you not try to do things yourself because others have done it before you? Did you know that tour groups are a business formed to do exactly what you think is crazy?

There is a remarkable detachment between you and the people who are trying to have fun.

You’re taking issue that the commercial was accurate but left the roaches their dignity?

That’s overkill. I only need a mile and his shoes.

“Based on” and what people associate with now are vastly different. Most people don’t even know if Saint Nick is based on a real person.

I’m from Australia and snowflakes during December is hemispherist and offensive to us down under.

Imagine that the hug changed the family, made them loving and supportive, and Hitler was just a recidivist incel who was destined to be hateful. Sometimes things can’t be changed, some people don’t want to be fixed, and some shitheads need to be rejected for who they are.

You forgot you are in the community for asking these kinds of questions. You don’t seem so smart. Is that why you’re hanging around the community for learning? Good on you for trying to improve! Don’t listen to what literally everyone else who knows you says, you have a chance!

You should see it. It has one of the best fight scenes ever and it’s when one guy tells the other to try on the glasses.

Buddhism teaches that wanting causes suffering. Happiness can be achieved when we stop wanting and start existing as we are.

The comic punchline is that by getting rid of “want” then all we are left with is happiness.

How unkind to not rewind.

What the fuck is wrong with that article author? The blanket admonishment of celebrities hides the lack of critical thinking or analysis the author was required to do for the story. Such lazy “news” is just a polarization vector to hate on celebrities and is not worth the time or energy to read.

My daily driver is Lipton Orange Pekoe. It’s fantastic and priced right for what it is. My rainy day sipping tea is a Taiwanese Fujian black tea.

A regular Johnson can get AIDS. He got cured. He’s a Magic Johnson.

Dimensional equality is a joke. Some dimensions are clearly better than others. Dreamland, anyone?

A D326 with one face a reroll.

As we get older, our perception of time speeds up. An immortal would easily lose track of time after just two human lifetimes, causing an immortal to suffer from dementia-like symptoms where they expect one date but find themselves habitually late. And since time doesn’t mean the same thing as us to an immortal, they would eventually become disconnected from the world around them and be unable to reintegrate. They wouldn’t be able to maintain friendships, relationships, mortgages, payments, etc. They would be surrounded by people but forever alone.

This is one of my favorite underrated gems of a cowboy movie.

The rich use a multiparty trick to stay rich:

1. Put their money in an offshore account that doesn’t tax them based on wealth in the country. Typically the deal is the managers get some very small amounts, single digit percentages, to charge the customer for moving money in or out of the country. Then they never touch this money again unless it is an emergency.

2. The rich then use their bank account full of money as collateral for a loan that is much smaller, like a few million borrowed with a secured loan linked to the millions/billions in the account. The banks easily accept the terms because they can’t lose - if the loan defaults the amount is pulled from the account. But the rich usually try to make their payments so that account money isn’t touched.

3. The rich spend their loaned money and make payments from the dividends, annuities, funds, and/or interest on their principal amount. This way the bank gave the person money that they can spend and it’s not income so they aren’t taxed on it, unless there is a sales tax. It’s basically free money.

As they spend this free money, the government for the country that they live in doesn’t know how much money the rich person actually has so they are unable to create an accurate amount to tax them. This is partially why folks like Bezos and Buffet pay a few hundred thousand dollars on hundreds of billions in actual wealth. Stock valuations are an entirely other beast but functions roughly the same way as having wealth to borrow money against.

The rich stays rich and get free money because the banking system was made by them and they are educated by their accountants and financial advisors on how to pay the least amount of money they can to get the most out of each cent.