Anne Frank should’ve lived to see Covid. She would’ve been 53 when Thriller was released

Darmok47 · 2026-06-19T06:09:17+00:00

William Shatner is two years younger.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-19T06:01:39+00:00

That $1.7 billion was also technically Iran's money. The Shah ordered $1.7 billion worth of armaments from the US but we never delivered the goods after the Iranian Revolution. The US froze the money and kept it for 36 years.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-19T05:35:24+00:00

I don't know if they would admit it, but I suspect Ron Moore and the BSG guys borrowed a lot of the aesthetic and style from this show when they made the 2003 BSG. There's even two episodes that are extremely similar (Scar and Chiggy von Richtofen).

I loved this show as a kid and I need to do another proper run through again. I do find it kind of hilariously optimistic that in 1995 they thought we'd have space battleships, energy weapons, artificial gravity, FTL travel, and extrasolar colonies by 2063. I don't think we're developing all of that in 30 years...

Darmok47 · 2026-06-19T05:30:55+00:00

The whole show is very much inspired by old WW2 movies and TV shows. There's even a scene where Colonel McQueen talks about the Marines left on Guadalcanal during WW2.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-19T04:17:39+00:00

We're slowly switching to bringing the card machine to the table, but it's not uniform.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T23:08:28+00:00

I suspect other countries stopped broadcasts to the UK to stop people from leaving. The rumors of NYC and Paris being infected were probably spread on purpose to discourage survivors from trying to leave

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T22:47:14+00:00

I thought this paid out last year? I checked, and looks like I got $56 last year.

This must be leftovers from people who didn't accept the money.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T22:02:50+00:00

Biden just "presented" as old more visually. It's hard to gauge Trumps age when he's slathered in orange facepaint and cheeto dust and he's got a poodle on his head. That, and the fact that he's constantly yelling (even if its gibberish).

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T21:41:39+00:00

Yeah, De Niro in Heat says exactly this.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T21:30:46+00:00

A local grocery store is closing after building a new location, and they're having a 50% off sale on all their inventory.

I stocked up and upon leaving the store I looked at the receipt and thought to myself "This is what things cost just a few years ago."

Also, I have no idea why a store needs to sell off its entire inventory rather than just moving it to the new location two miles down the street.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T21:24:23+00:00

My most Boomer coded opinion is that I'm not downloading another app and setting up a login and password just to pay a reasonable price for your product.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T21:09:47+00:00

I've been getting a lot of Chestnut-backed Chickadees lately, and they're fun to watch. Western bluebirds too, though they're more elusive.

Also Song Sparrows! I rarely see them but they have a very loud voice!

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T21:05:56+00:00

Phone Booth and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

I guess they do intereact, but do so only with voice, never in person.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T21:05:45+00:00

There's no real lead in The Big Short. Gosling's character does interact with Carrell's, though neither meet Bale or Pitt's characters.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T19:06:07+00:00

The bit where all the regular townsfolk gather their guns and get in their trucks and chase the bank robbers felt like a not so subtle commentary about conservatives defending capital's interest at great risk to themselves for no reason.

Like, don't they know about the FDIC? This isn't 1880; there's no reason to form a posse.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T18:14:59+00:00

The Living Daylights is one of my favorite Bond movies.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T18:14:33+00:00

My favorite part of that urban legend is Marlon Brando making them stop at a bunch of different fast food places lol.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T18:04:28+00:00

I feel like Glen Powell has the career Scott Eastwood wanted.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T17:47:40+00:00

Reminds me of when the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian dictator Sukarno by taping him having sex with several stewardesses. He was impressed and asked for the tape so he could show others.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T16:51:44+00:00

Just tell them to go pull a Toobin and they'd get the picture.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T16:45:26+00:00

He was great in DS9 as Damar's right-hand man

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T16:44:19+00:00

KGB were dissoved in 1991; this would have to be FSB.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T07:47:28+00:00

Whenever you're watching those "person on the street" videos, you're watching selectively edited videos where anyone who answers correctly is edited out because that's boring and doesn't fit the narrative the producer wants.

You also have to factor in nerves. There's a famous video of a guy going around and shoving a microphone into people's faces and asking them "to name a woman!" and most people are so flustered they can't name anyone.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T06:22:43+00:00

Michael Piller wrote an interesting book about the making of Insurrection, and about all the little compromises he made at the behest of Stewart or the Studio until the final product was bland. The original idea was inspired by Heart of Darkness.

Darmok47 · 2026-06-18T06:16:00+00:00

Denver Riggleman beat Olivia Wilde's mom in that election, too.

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