JKane

People need to pay more attention to this.

Enjoyed Superintelligence, charming and witty exactly opposite of most McCarthy movies.

Pretty much all of these are gold: https://www.boredpanda.com/stimulus-check-usa-pandemic-memes/

Reviews of the M1 laptop and mini have been pretty stellar, main problem so far being lack of I/O. Pretty substantial performance gains, of course first in Apple's own software but I haven't heard widespread complaints of incompatibility with software not yet updated. And I think MS just updated Office. Pretty much the nail in the coffin of ever "owning" software again, but if you have an active subscription you'll have a substantial update soon. But, on the other hand, I haven't heard any announcement of a new iMac yet. Still, at this point, I'd definitely wait.

Holy shit, how far he fell! And my new favorite Christmas song, Rudolph the Leaky Lawyer:

And waiting for him in hell...

Watched Ma Rainey's Black Bottom yesterday. It's something, especially knowing that Chadwick is dying as you watch, which is hard to separate from the content. His acting is stunning but it just seems like too much in this short a space to me. Everything about it is just unpleasant. Everybody is sweaty and pissed off, the amount of drama during a quick recording session is ridiculous. It just keeps beating you over the head with the message that these bad old times were bad. Kinda knew that. The music is interesting but less than you'd expect.

Me too, but shit's gotten real serious in LA/California this month, so even if I could, I wouldn't be doing anything.

I kind of see it as tacit admission Scientology is BS. At "clear" you're supposed to be immune to disease and at his high level (OT3 or more) you're supposed to have superpowers. This is the same man that whished he'd been there on 9/11 because he could have done something... His wearing two masks and freaking out over Covid is good, don't get me wrong, especially for all the people working on the production, but it is interesting as a Scientology watcher.

Well, I would start with the massive increase in deaths and hospitalizations and then possibly the continued behavior of the President of the United States--and even more concerning the millions of idiots backing him, PLUS the complicity of his party... Hell, pretty sure I could come up with at least a dozen more things off the top of my head... Or I could cry because the character creation screen in a $60 game that runs like crap on even the latest and most expensive hardware doesn't *yet* have a they/their pronoun choice despite a 45GB day-one patch download. Especially knowing that game has been in development for so long it probably didn't occur to anybody to script a third option for all the voice acting years ago. Basically it annoys me for two reasons: 1) So little realization of how far things have come and improved that a video-game menu is the concern... 2) How petty and ridiculous it makes everybody on "our side" seem.

I think Biden should restore the norm of a President not weighing in on court cases (especially via tweet after a misinformed Fox News segment) but do think that professionals should investigate and proceed as they see fit, especially at the state level with Trump's taxes.

I am stunned they can't find more important things to be concerned about.

"Blond"...

--Also, he only pardoned the white meat...