JKane

Anything I'm missing on the site to tell you whether a guy bottoms or not? Ah, just saw it's on the IS site but not the CE one...

Torn on this, Israel was going ever more to the right, more settlers, more oppression, no sign it might ever get better, I can understand seeing no other option than something violent. If this topples Netanyahu maybe it did accomplish something...? But the atrocities committed by Hamas will have the effect of making everything so very much worse for Palestinians. And Hamas doesn't care. In fact their hope is for unchecked atrocities to be returned in kind. Keep the cycle going, more grist for the mill.

+1 on a HP

Summary of subsiquent coverage and response: But. Her. Fucking. Emails.

Maybe because there are no words to express how fucking idiotic your views are? That every single claim by MAGAs is painfully obvious PROJECTION and that for a gay man to support them in any way will end exactly as it has for every other group/person in the "Can't believe leopards ate MY face" party? All Trump has ever done for you is give you permission to be your worst self. Meanwhile, by just about every measurement tracked, he was the worst president and Biden's been the best, at least in my lifetime. Oh, and... @Mavica @EmmetK

So, just like the trailer portends, the VFX in the movie are fucking gorgeous. (Except maybe that the size/altitude/position of NOMAD seems random.) But so much else about the movie is just fucking dumb. The worst is that it really has nothing to say about AI or anything in general. It's just a big popcorn war movie and the AI may as well be Vietnamese or anybody else. Alison Janney (CJ Craig in West Wing) is horribly miscast as a tough-as-nails colonel. I mean, she wasn't believable as chief of staff in WW certainly not as a KILL THEM ALL badass soldier! TWICE in the movie random animals do exactly what the protagonist needs, once against the AI once for it. Why? The cutesy ice cream scene in the trailer and movie... they NEVER establish that the simulants eat. TWICE in the movie a US soldier is shot in the back with something substantial. Oh well, may as well ignore it... (20 seconds later) starts beeping... OH SHIT OH SHIT GET IT OFF GET IT OFF (fails, 'splodes). It's just not very good, which is a shame because it had all the building blocks to be amazing. I may still see it a second time, the visuals are that good. But I'll have a couple drinks first and A LOT of drinks after so I don't try to think about it any more!

It was better than Death on the Nile, but that's saying little.

Agreed but the pointless hand-wringing about a decision that is *all but made* based on... "he's 3 whole years older than Trump!" when he's also been surprisingly effective seems pointless. Hell, Mitch is over here "beachballing" and they aren't replacing him! Can something happen before August to change my mind? Of course. Is it likely and even if it did would the Democratic establishment change everything in favor of... nobody particularly compelling at this stage? Nope. If Democrats had a Barack Obama or even Howard Dean on the bench I could get passionate about, it still wouldn't change anything. But I stand by that it doesn't actually matter, because they can't run a candidate worse than Trump, and I am one of tens of millions who will walk over burning broken glass barefoot to vote against Trump or his bootlicks.

There is by definition a plan B in place in case of Biden's incapacitation. It's almost nobody's *first* choice but that doesn't change it. Would Kamala have a harder time than a "spry" Biden, yes. Would a LOT of people line up to vote for a ebola-laced ham sandwich on fire over Trump? Also, yes (inclusive). Biden's the nominee. Kamala is the VP nominee. A vote against them (including the bullshit "no-labels" shills) is a vote against the continued existence of our democracy, as shown January 6th and by the bloviators saying right now "Trump or Death" and actively promoting further armed insurrection. I'd fucking vote for Diane Feinstein over that (only thing worse than an ebola-laced ham sandwich I could think of). More likely is Trump not being the nominee on the Republican side as his health is, as mentioned, clearly worse plus his legal entanglements and the possibility of the 14th amendment keeping him off ballots... but I find the possibility of a smarter, more capable person who's learned from Trump following in his footsteps the most terrifying of these potentialities. Which is why hope is for Biden's continued good heath and actual accomplishments continue long enough to have a definitive "blue wave" that breaks the back of the MAGA fascist wing of the Republican party and either restores the party to sanity or makes it irrelevant forever.

Tell me what the alternative is, the rapist under four (so far) indictments who's clearly less physically (not to mention mentally) fit with an extensive record of lying about everything including his health? Or one of the sycophants who find his record of constant reaching of new lows to be inspiring?