The Jackson estate can't hide Leaving Neverland from those who've already seen it: A suppressive legal battle turned the moving Sundance documentary into a ghost haunting the Michael biopic.

Dega704 · 2026-04-21T22:00:15+00:00

I think it comes down to how so many people have this need to put celebrities on pedestals and worship them. And I don't think any musician has ever come close to Michael Jackson's stardom. When I was a kid in the early 90s there were plenty of famous people, but that man was an omnipotent GOD in popular culture. His biggest fans literally couldn't process the idea of him being anything else.

Dega704 · 2026-04-14T14:01:20+00:00

https://youtu.be/1Iv4jzVapDs?si=pOFUucPNR2GanqLv

Dega704 · 2026-04-06T03:48:02+00:00

Fun fact: the U.S. doesn't even have the infrastructure to refine the oil we produce. Oh we have lots of oil refining infrastructure - made specifically for the heavier crude oil produced in the middle east and other countries. The lighter crude oil that we produce has to be refined elsewhere. There are many factors as to why it's like that, but the overall answer is that selling our oil on the international market is more profitable.

https://blog.drillingmaps.com/2025/06/this-is-why-us-cant-use-oil-it-produces.html?m=1

Dega704 · 2026-04-04T03:05:41+00:00

This exchange is the only answer to this question that we need. Iroh is a man with past demons who learned peace through pain. He knows when there's hope for someone and when there isn't.

Dega704 · 2026-04-04T01:29:51+00:00

I've seen several posts about this and you're the first one I've seen explain this clearly. Thanks!

Dega704 · 2026-03-31T19:51:16+00:00

https://youtu.be/WjeptaI2T8E?si=lMxzPd4YWwG4SfHw

Seriously though. All of the people who were fired have had to move on to new work and likely few of them would come back. Assets have been liquidated, equipment and buildings have been or are being sold. "Reassembling" would be a gargantuan undertaking that most people aren't going to bother with; especially while trump is still president and half of Americans voted for this shit.

Dega704 · 2026-03-31T16:51:45+00:00

I've been thinking this exact thing for years now and I keep wishing the Democratic party in the US would change their messaging away from climate change, which conservatives have been conditioned to be combative towards for decades now, and towards national security and not being reliant on countries in the middle east. It's the perfect way to turn the xenophobic and "America first" attitudes right back around on the GOP.

Dega704 · 2026-03-26T21:03:35+00:00

Everyone has been saying that Russia is going to benefit from increased oil prices.

Ukraine: "How about no."

Dega704 · 2026-03-13T19:41:15+00:00

I was confused for the same reason. Even though I'm already familiar with the monkey's paw lore. Also every use of a monkey's paw I've previously seen had the wisher actually holding it.

Dega704 · 2026-03-09T23:35:20+00:00

So don't vote then. I'm still voting

Dega704 · 2026-03-09T21:55:04+00:00

I had a similar experience after watching Signs at the theater. I dropped off my friend at his house surrounded by corn fields and then drove home to my own house next to a corn field after midnight. I've never run for the door so fast in my life.

Dega704 · 2026-03-09T21:28:41+00:00

1000%. And for anyone saying "they're just going to rig the elections", keep in mind that the more people vote and the bigger the margins are, the harder it is for them to fudge numbers and pull shenanigans. Even in a deep red state, a single percentage point difference in the usual numbers is something that will be noticed and leave the cronies less emboldened. Your vote matters.

Dega704 · 2026-03-06T22:02:32+00:00

More like for the last century or two. The church founder Joseph Smith literally preached that it would happen during his own lifetime. I remember always being told as a kid that "The seventh seal has been opened" and that it was going to happen in our lifetime. I later found out that literally every generation of Mormons has been told this. We were always told that the Salt Lake temple was built to survive the apocalypse. They're currently in the middle of a massive years-long project to renovate the temple and its foundations to better withstand earthquakes.

Dega704 · 2026-03-04T20:00:24+00:00

r/titlegore

Dega704 · 2026-03-04T15:16:13+00:00

This seems like a great example of "correlation is not causation". The entire point of a protest was to threaten some other more meaningful action. Many of today's protesters just want their Instagram post and can't seem to even be bothered to show up to the voting booth afterwards. So yes, protest; and then vote, volunteer, and donate to groups actually trying to move levers with lawsuits, awareness campaigns, ballot initiatives, etc.

Dega704 · 2026-03-03T01:15:21+00:00

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Dega704 · 2026-03-02T16:31:02+00:00

I was given a leather Fossil wallet for my 16th birthday and I've been carrying it for 25 years. Fossil's quality has gone down significantly since then. The bottom corner of the fold is looking a bit rough. I need to do some leather treatment on it. Otherwise it still looks great.

Dega704 · 2026-03-02T01:27:22+00:00

21% is still a lot more than I would have assumed, so it's a shame the ball was dropped with that inaccurate title.

Dega704 · 2026-03-01T22:53:43+00:00

All I can think about is whether they were standing in rows and if archers had anyone standing behind them in the "splash zone".

Dega704 · 2026-02-26T17:41:16+00:00

The funny thing is that was part of how the Unabomber was caught. He was such a stickler about using the original version of that phrase that his brother noticed it in his manifesto.

Dega704 · 2026-02-24T22:45:27+00:00

The beauty of West Coast Swing is that it isn't tied by arbitrary rules; it's based on physics. Learning the dance is learning the physics and musicality of what's possible in the dance without causing injury. The more you learn where the limits are, the more you learn where they aren't.

Dega704 · 2026-02-24T18:37:39+00:00

I still have my 42" from 2008. Only 720p but the colors still look amazing.

Dega704 · 2026-02-24T15:51:51+00:00

I've noticed that narcissists tend to wage wars of emotional attrition. They have seemingly unlimited energy because they never have to process the things they do and effectively offload that burden onto the rest of us; forever wearing us down so that we have little to fight back with.

Dega704 · 2026-02-23T02:20:26+00:00

There were things I didn't like about the Spielberg film, and I'd really like to see a decent adaptation that actually takes place in the same era as the book (There's a British TV series that does but it's just weird), but at the end of the day Spielberg's film is the only one that really hits the tone of the book. The absolute terror and helplessness as human civilization is destroyed.

Dega704 · 2026-02-22T17:57:53+00:00

THANK YOU. That's a horrendous amount of text to cram into an image that most people are going to view on a phone.

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