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Speaking of the Moskva (Russian flagship told then made to go fuck itself), great news, they released a model kit! 🤣 Though seriously, I bet Russia is wishing there was a real model kit since it turns out so much was engineered and built in Ukraine which they now can't replace, like the Moskva and the Myra. Both destroyed by Putin's arrogance and greed. It may be dangerous, the degree to which the Ukrainian forces are embarrassing Russia. Though all they have left are nukes and they may well not work any better than any of their other horribly maintained crap.

Watched the first four episodes of She Hulk... Meh. Not nearly as funny as it should/could be. Now THIS may be an example of what happens with "too much wokeness", or maybe it's just not made for me? That'd be fine, IF there is indeed a substantial audience that's loving it. I doubt it though.

I enjoyed the movie, too long since I've been to a Baz Luhrmann experience. The way they transition the singing from the actor to Elvis to the final performance is great too. Hanks is a bit cartoonish but then so was the real-life "colonel".

Yeah, better than I had expected, so far.

Me too, and even more so with Idris! But it kinda felt like they cast the two actors on hand with the oddest first names instead of ones who had the chemistry that would've really carried this. They're both good in it, just... Meh.

Well, it's... At times enthralling... But by the end, kinda meh. The way it suddenly turns to Tilda DEMANDING the BBC... and than kinda peters out... Glad I saw it, enjoyed 2/3rds of it.

The nature of science is to be wrong but work towards being less wrong. Of medicine to move towards the least harm. They are not the infallible god-emperors, nor do THEY claim THEY are. But they're a HELL of a lot less wrong than your average Alex Jones or Joe Rogan, and more accountable-which is how we're openly discussing their past mistakes.

The couple problematic Dr. Seuss books weren't banned. They were removed from publication BY THE SEUSS ESTATE/FAMILY. So fucking tired of the right wing-nut taking points being abjectly wrong and even opposite (WHICH SIDE IS CURRENTLY BANNING BOOKS?) while people just let that fly by without thought or challenge. And Song of the South, should it be featured on Disney Streaming? Or should the company be ashamed of it while University media programs use it to teach with? But wait, no, THAT'S Critical Race Theory!!!! You can't discus abject pervasive racism in the past, even though it's demonstrable!

The clusterfuck Chinese real estate market has been overdue to tank China's economy for a while now. And I'm sure it'll be bad. But maybe there's a bright light to Covid in that it's already given us supply chain shocks, encouraged diversification of important supplies, and put us all in the mindset "everything sucks now and apparently forevermore, keep slogging ahead" so maybe it'll have less impact than it would've in the before times. I mean most Chinese will lose the majority of their investments, and their banking system will probably faceplant... but... The West isn't invested in their bubble much, right? And we have been warned strongly against their no-oversite stocks. Meanwhile, they'll need work and money more than ever... And they're still more economically important to the West as an exporter/producer than a consumer. China as a whole will be less able to buy our debt or invest in our projects, but any Chinese people who can manage individually will be desperate to invest anywhere but at home, and the rest of the world will go from flirting with changing their reserve currency and increasing their sovereign-fund investments in China to running full-tilt back to US. Places that were encouraged to economically rely on China might be fucked. But the West... might be better off after some brief shocks? We'll go from being unable to compete with China to them desperately trying to get whatever they can from us. Buy back all those ports and other projects they put so much into for pennies on the dollar? Am I too optimistic? Entirely idiotic?

Eh, sometimes it's good and overdue representation, sometimes it goes too far. If you thing something goes too far, don't see it.

I agree, CNN has always felt like corporate centrism with any bias being towards getting viewership more than a firm political leaning. I think Trump's crybaby fits against something most people thought was innocuously centrist helped some people to see how dishonest he was. I HATE the false equivalency conservatives love to draw between Fox and MSNBC. MSNBC is a journalistic enterprise and while there's a liberal bias... there's a lot of good journalism too. NOBODY SCREAMING "KILL THEIR MIKE" when an alternative viewpoint is being discussed-hell it's one of the few places to still seek an alternative viewpoint! Fox "News" is nothing but billionaires paying millionaires to tell the middle class to blame the poor. The ONLY goal is tax cuts for the corpocracy and top 1%, everything else they destroy along the way is collateral damage. There is exactly as much "journalism" as their legal department tells them is REQUIRED. Personally, I prefer to be the consumer rather than the product (what advertisers are purchasing) so I get most of my news from National Public Radio, specifically never miss the weekly wrap up (also widely available as a podcast) Left, Right, and Center. Believe it comes out Thursday evenings, should be able to get the latest episode Friday at the least. "Alexa, play podcast Left, Right and Center, latest" works for me!

And the tax returns?

Hahahahahaha: Too bad Rudy's license is suspended. He really should look into hiring Alex Jones' lawyers (please god!).

Greta probably agrees this isn't worth talking about as it has approximately 0.05% chance of happening. A great Reddit thread described it as "powered by hopes and dreams; powered by Photoshop until the free trial expires". They have no engine. Their "flying prototype" hasn't... These vaunted contracts are minor fees upfront and a whole lot of stipulations and easy exits. The Concord had 18+ airlines signed and ended up ever delivering to... two. And there was a hell of a lot more behind the Concord than this fantasy. Given that no airline is putting real money in at this stage the only way this could ever get off the ground is people investing, I doubt there are enough stupid people in the whole world to get near what they'd need--assuming they're fully serious and competent. Far easier to Photoshop up a nice pamphlet and press release, wait for the idiotic press to go way overboard about it, and cash in on whatever stupid money you can grab for as long as you can keep pushing back the promised dates than to seriously try--either way the results are almost guaranteed to be the same!

Fascinating, and they had it built for themselves, it's not second-hand. Though they can't afford to operate Harriers from it anymore, now it's just a helicopter carrier with an inconvenient bow and questionable air defense.