When I was a kid Captain Marvel usually referred to DC's character (now better know as Shazam). Marvel's Captain Marvel was a dude who died of cancer or something. And Marvel's version never was very popular (not the original dude, nor the long line of female Captain Marvels who followed), though they keep desperately trying to make him/her a thing.
Good point, anyone who ever changes their opinion on anything is a hypocrite and should be condemned. Never learn or evolve your ethics, figure them out when you are a kid and stick to them no matter what.
Wait, aren't you from the same SJW movement that thinks that a person should be judged for the rest of their life for something they wrote in their high school yearbook?
It's all about a vague sexual assault charge or jumping bail, or some shit. The UK and Sweden would NEVER engage in legal system theater just as cover for extraditing him to the U.S. Nope, this is all about some charge in Sweden that got dropped and Britian's endless noble quest for justice. No extradition worries for that bloke.
Yeah, pancakes. When I was a kid during the Apollo era, every kid (and most adults) assumed that by 2018 we would have moon bases, giant space stations, maybe even colonies on Mars--that Apollo was just the beginning of mankind's journey into space.
Now it's 2018 and the U.S. can't even put a man in orbit. And NASA gives us pancakes. Delicious.
Yeah, who would have thought that cutting open human beings who are probably already seriously ill might result in a slightly higher death rate than from a bunch of diseases that have all but been abolished in the developed world?
In other news, people who've been shot are found to have a higher post-shooting death rate than people who haven't been shot. Film at eleven!
Nothing new. If you looked at retro-80's movies like Hot Tub Time Machine you would think everybody and their mother back then went around wearing all day-glo outfits with pop-star hair. In reality, most people just wore jeans and a t-shirt, same as today. And unless you were a woman or you were in the band Poison, your hair probably wasn't poofed-up too much.
Ironically, I remember my dad laughing at the version of the 1950's shown in Back to the Future (he was particularly amused at Biff's buddy who went around wearing paper 3D glasses for no apparent reason other than "3D movies were big back then, right?"). Now I see the same thing in the way movies portray the 1980's.
Oddly enough until Deep Space 9, with its over reaching story arc. Star Trek didn't worry too much about canon. They would do a temporary solving of the problem at hand, then run off to a new place not worrying about the consequences of their actions, and never looking back.
That's what I really love about The Wrath of Khan. When he started working on that movie, Nicholas Meyer went back and watched the entire run of TOS. And one of the things that struck him was how, in those completely self-contained episodes, Kirk and crew were always able to cheat death with no real consequences, and no decisions from any previous episodes ever came back to bite them in the ass (or were ever even mentioned again). So he set about creating the ultimate critique of that, a movie where Kirk's propensity to just move on and seemingly completely forget about his past decisions (and obligations) came back to bite him hard--a movie in which Kirk finally faced real consequences that he couldn't just last-minute cheat his way out of. A lot of people miss that essential element of STII completely, and think of it as just an exciting revenge story. But there is a lot more depth to that movie than most (even most Trek fans) appreciate.
Of course, STIII (cursed be its name) completely undid all those important consequences in STII. And that was truly tragic, IMHO. But that was Paramount's fault there.
850,000 people lining up for $15/hour despite the repeated documentation of truly terrible, dehumanizing working conditions. Amazon employees urinate in bottles and trash cans in the warehouse because it's faster than going to the bathroom and they might face consequences for wasting that much time. They get various injuries as a result of proper industrial hygiene. They get fired for being ill. They're treated like disposable meat-bots. But I guess that's better than no job.
Try being working class in "flyover country" sometime and you'll realize that those conditions (and much worse) are quite common. A working class job where employees aren't treated like shit is a rare exception. The conditions at Amazon are par for the course for the working class. What ISN'T par for the course is a $15/hr salary. That's DAMNED GOOD money in most places. Where I'm from people will fight just to get an $8-$10/hr. job that involves hard work in shit conditions. Hell, I used to cut tobacco for $7/hr. and was thrilled to be making that (in MUCH worse conditions than any Amazon plant). $15/hr is enough to actually live on without taking a second job. And most working class people in red state America would be damned glad to have that.
Sure, inside the CA/NYC urban bubble, $15/hr. might sound like a joke. But I can assure you that it's no joke to most Americans.
I would say that "everyone being scared of even mildly criticizing you out of a literal fear of death" is way more power than any government official in France has.
And everyone who believes in freedom should have damned well shed a tear when that shooting happened. Because no one, "marginalized community" or not should *ever* be above criticism. And blasphemy laws or restrictions have no place in modern Western society, period--no matter the religion. If you think that it should be okay to mock Christianity but not Islam, you're not a liberal. You're just a hypocrite.
Keep up? They've been far ahead of both of them for a long time.
Yes, because the Switch's amazing 720p/1080p-on-a-good-day GPU, weak-as-fuck CPU, and online service that can't even match where Xbox Live was in 2002 are truly the envy of MS and Sony.
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When I was a kid Captain Marvel usually referred to DC's character (now better know as Shazam). Marvel's Captain Marvel was a dude who died of cancer or something. And Marvel's version never was very popular (not the original dude, nor the long line of female Captain Marvels who followed), though they keep desperately trying to make him/her a thing.
Yeah, Ms. Marvel took over the role in 2012.
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I'm just wandering what a cloud camp revival looks like.
And lo', Google Drive sayeth to me....SINNERS shall not upload!!
Would you like some suggestions?
"12-Year-Old Boy's Parents Build Nuclear Fusion Reactor, Boy Helps"
Good point, anyone who ever changes their opinion on anything is a hypocrite and should be condemned. Never learn or evolve your ethics, figure them out when you are a kid and stick to them no matter what.
Wait, aren't you from the same SJW movement that thinks that a person should be judged for the rest of their life for something they wrote in their high school yearbook?
Well, they could always respond by thanking those employees for their input and wishing them well in their new employment search.
It's all about a vague sexual assault charge or jumping bail, or some shit. The UK and Sweden would NEVER engage in legal system theater just as cover for extraditing him to the U.S. Nope, this is all about some charge in Sweden that got dropped and Britian's endless noble quest for justice. No extradition worries for that bloke.
He violated the "The Country With the Biggest Military Gets To Make the Laws For Everyone Else" Act of Forever.
Damn, I meant 2019. Somehow even worse.
Yeah, pancakes. When I was a kid during the Apollo era, every kid (and most adults) assumed that by 2018 we would have moon bases, giant space stations, maybe even colonies on Mars--that Apollo was just the beginning of mankind's journey into space.
Now it's 2018 and the U.S. can't even put a man in orbit. And NASA gives us pancakes. Delicious.
Yeah, who would have thought that cutting open human beings who are probably already seriously ill might result in a slightly higher death rate than from a bunch of diseases that have all but been abolished in the developed world?
In other news, people who've been shot are found to have a higher post-shooting death rate than people who haven't been shot. Film at eleven!
Early Myspace pages were WAY worse than anything ever put on Geocities. Most Geocities pages weren't that bad.
Nothing new. If you looked at retro-80's movies like Hot Tub Time Machine you would think everybody and their mother back then went around wearing all day-glo outfits with pop-star hair. In reality, most people just wore jeans and a t-shirt, same as today. And unless you were a woman or you were in the band Poison, your hair probably wasn't poofed-up too much.
Ironically, I remember my dad laughing at the version of the 1950's shown in Back to the Future (he was particularly amused at Biff's buddy who went around wearing paper 3D glasses for no apparent reason other than "3D movies were big back then, right?"). Now I see the same thing in the way movies portray the 1980's.
Well, at least I don't have to wonder anymore why I was perma-banned for posting "I think Xi Jinping may be overrated."
And I really liked that elephant too.
That's what I really love about The Wrath of Khan. When he started working on that movie, Nicholas Meyer went back and watched the entire run of TOS. And one of the things that struck him was how, in those completely self-contained episodes, Kirk and crew were always able to cheat death with no real consequences, and no decisions from any previous episodes ever came back to bite them in the ass (or were ever even mentioned again). So he set about creating the ultimate critique of that, a movie where Kirk's propensity to just move on and seemingly completely forget about his past decisions (and obligations) came back to bite him hard--a movie in which Kirk finally faced real consequences that he couldn't just last-minute cheat his way out of. A lot of people miss that essential element of STII completely, and think of it as just an exciting revenge story. But there is a lot more depth to that movie than most (even most Trek fans) appreciate.
Of course, STIII (cursed be its name) completely undid all those important consequences in STII. And that was truly tragic, IMHO. But that was Paramount's fault there.
Try being working class in "flyover country" sometime and you'll realize that those conditions (and much worse) are quite common. A working class job where employees aren't treated like shit is a rare exception. The conditions at Amazon are par for the course for the working class. What ISN'T par for the course is a $15/hr salary. That's DAMNED GOOD money in most places. Where I'm from people will fight just to get an $8-$10/hr. job that involves hard work in shit conditions. Hell, I used to cut tobacco for $7/hr. and was thrilled to be making that (in MUCH worse conditions than any Amazon plant). $15/hr is enough to actually live on without taking a second job. And most working class people in red state America would be damned glad to have that.
Sure, inside the CA/NYC urban bubble, $15/hr. might sound like a joke. But I can assure you that it's no joke to most Americans.
I'm outraged because some other people are outraged and I'm afraid that if I'm not outraged too then they'll get outraged at me! ANGER!
I would say that "everyone being scared of even mildly criticizing you out of a literal fear of death" is way more power than any government official in France has.
And everyone who believes in freedom should have damned well shed a tear when that shooting happened. Because no one, "marginalized community" or not should *ever* be above criticism. And blasphemy laws or restrictions have no place in modern Western society, period--no matter the religion. If you think that it should be okay to mock Christianity but not Islam, you're not a liberal. You're just a hypocrite.
The wrong comic can be deadly serious these days.
Yes, because the Switch's amazing 720p/1080p-on-a-good-day GPU, weak-as-fuck CPU, and online service that can't even match where Xbox Live was in 2002 are truly the envy of MS and Sony.
What color is the sky in your world?
We hooked it up to Ariana Grande and it just keeps printing out "Need attention" over and over.
They'll just take it from anywhere.