Just got out of the hot tub, feeling pretty good about everything right now.
Just got out of the hot tub, feeling pretty good about everything right now.
They actually do mention it when used, but like I say, the use is minimal compared to handguns.
AR-15 shootings get more ATTENTION when they happen which gives the impression they are more prevelant than they are.
I think this year there have been two? The woman at Joel Osteen’s church back in February who shot two people before being killed herself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakewood_Church_shooting
And this idiot who shot up a fleeing car back in April, injuring nobody. Police couldn’t even find property damage.
Had to google for that one. Nobody got hurt so lower press coverage.
Removed, civility.
Limit implies they will still have some allowable amount which is insane!
Exclusively working from home since 2018 so I cut out 10 un-necessary driving trips a week. x2 since my wife is WFH now too.
Installed solar panels to run the house during the day, so our working hours are fully solar powered.
I guess that’s all we can do for now.
“You know, sometimes it feels good to be part of something bigger than just yourself…”
Yeah, me either, it was close enough to not merit removing it, but far enough to need fixing. :)
I’d be more concerned about a neighbor wearing a MAGA hat and flying a Trump 2024 flag than someone quietly owning an AR-15.
But that’s because I’m aware of the statistics.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476409/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-weapon-types-used/
“Handguns are the most common weapon type used in mass shootings in the United States, with a total of 166 different handguns being used in 116 incidents between 1982 and December 2023. These figures are calculated from a total of 149 reported cases over this period, meaning handguns are involved in about 78 percent of mass shootings.”
This “amazing original sci-fi film”?
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_creator_2023
“There is the slightly conspiratorial sense that the team behind this trip down movie-memory lane simply fed the scripts of various canonized sci-fi epics into an AI program and waited to see what sort of composite it spit out.”
Which would be on brand for Gareth Edwards:
"Colin Goudie: I’d worked with Gareth [Edwards] previously. I cut his movie ‘Monsters’ so we’d already got a relationship and I’d actually done a couple of projects with him before that as well. So he got me on board in September of 2014 and asked me to do a story reel for ‘Rogue One’.
There was no screenplay, there was just a story breakdown at that point, scene by scene. He got me to rip hundreds of movies and basically make ‘Rogue One’ using other films so that they could work out how much dialogue they actually needed in the film.
It’s very simple to have a line [in the script] that reads “Krennic’s shuttle descends to the planet”, now that takes maybe 2-3 seconds in other films, but if you look at any other ‘Star Wars’ film you realise that takes 45 seconds or a minute of screen time. So by making the whole film that way – I used a lot of the ‘Star Wars’ films – but also hundreds of other films too, it gave us a good idea of the timing.
For example the sequence of them breaking into the vault I was ripping the big door closing in ‘Wargames’ to work out how long does a vault door take to close.
So that’s what I did and that was three months work to do that and that had captions at the bottom which explained the action that was going to be taking place, and two thirds of the screen was filled with the concept art that had already been done and one quarter, the bottom corner, was the little movie clip to give you how long that scene would actually take.
Then I used dialogue from other movies to give you a sense of how long it would take in other films for someone to be interrogated. So for instance, when Jyn gets interrogated at the beginning of the film by the Rebel council, I used the scene where Ripley gets interrogated in ‘Aliens’.
So you get an idea of what movies usually do."
Is it a prequel though? Based on the title, it sounds more like what happened between the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
Article is being reported for bias, and yeah, thecradle.co is rated as being left of center.
I’m leaving this up because Israel has been caught using white phosphorus before.
Years ago in Lebanon:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/11/israel-us-white-phosphorus-lebanon/
And just recently, elsewhere in Gaza:
Edit Source is depricated by Wikipedia which is good enough for me to remove it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources
Removed, editorialized headline.
There were several nice referrnces to it in the MCU for fans…
Lou Ferigno showed up as a security guard.
In the Ed Norton movie, he’s learning bad Portuguese and spits out “Don’t make me hungry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m hungry.” In the TV show the iconic line was “angry”.
At the end of the Ed Norton movie, he’s hiding out in Alaska under the name “David Banner” complete with sad piano music.
The interview with Ari Melber tonight was a friggin train wreck, and was recorded before we knew about the brain worm:
Can’t say I recognize him, I think I’ve seen 3 of the things he’s been in?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rapaport