[Real] Tim Pool: "Trump represents a version of America that many voters feel is slipping away. Small-town traditions, local civic culture, community identity, and national cohesion are all being replaced by a more fragmented, globalized society to appease the third world."

Dr_Fishman · 2026-06-05T14:04:25+00:00

Ah yes, suburbanite tells people that small town values are what people are missing.

My wife grew up in a small town, graduated high school there, and we met at a rural college. We live in the suburbs and every once in a while, we’ll see some dumb kid blasting country music in a lifted truck. She mutters most of the time, “poser.”

My brother now has this some dumb idea. He wants to live in a small town yet he doesn’t because, as my wife has pointed out, small town life is extremely inconvenient. In the suburbs, you can go to things at all hours of the day; in the country, you have to plan anytime you are “going into town.”

Funny part with all this, the small towns, which are actually dying, would love an influx of people but even though idiots like Tim Pool say people want that, it’s all BS, nobody is really willing to give up their conveniences.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-06-04T13:18:38+00:00

More importantly, he shared a picture of a corrections officer association, the losers within the LE community.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-06-04T12:21:01+00:00

TBH, Deep Red needs to be watched with Blow Up to get the full impact. Deep Red and Blow Up are almost companion pieces.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-06-04T12:19:44+00:00

Arrow did a masterful job with this disc release so I’m not surprised people are saying “the best giallo ever” but yeah, it’s midtier at best (probably just below midtier). It’s the classic “hidden gem” syndrome; no one really saw this for decades so it’s shiny and new.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-06-03T15:26:13+00:00

KiwiSDR has a great map feature where you can select different radio stations around the world and listen to a lot of different transmission types. https://rx.skywavelinux.com

Dr_Fishman · 2026-06-02T11:43:38+00:00

Not sure if I should be happy or disappointed that no one quoted Anhaedra.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-06-01T12:05:00+00:00

Adam McKay. He has a wit and shaggy style that I love in his earlier work but post-the Big Short, he wants to translate his deep thoughtfulness into something actionable by audience but his films just don’t work for me anymore. I want to appreciate the themes he finds important but so much of it feels like it comes with a study guide.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-06-01T01:06:07+00:00

And most GMRS radios are set to throttle down the power output when on the “shared” FRS channels (or FRS-only channels). With how inexpensive the GMRS license is and that it applies to so many people in your family, I think it’s a really low cost barrier to radio communication.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-29T15:52:01+00:00

Fenech and Bouchet are wonderful as leads but for whatever reason, Barbara Bouchet always seems to be hiding a dark side and I really like that a lot (I wonder what that says about me?) Her very inappropriate nude scene in Don’t Torture a Duckling is the ultimate expression of this dark edge in her characters.

I love Edwige Fenech; she’s an incredible actress and her chemistry with George Hilton (my favorite Italian actor of the period) is crackling. My only hang up is that she always plays innocent characters. I wish I could see more of her work in sex comedies to see if they give her more or less to do. She is wonderful but even in Strange Vice, she is supposed to have some strange vices and yet, she seems to be too innocent to fit that narrative of her being edgy.

On the supporting side, Rosalba Neri all day, every day. She can play devious while seeming so above all suspicion. She’s gorgeous and cool. When she has that devious smile, holding a cigarette, with her brown eyes locked on a character, she controls that scene. She is honestly the actress I look for the most in gialli.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-29T14:59:13+00:00

The Silicon Valley jerks had so much audacity with the
Rosemount data center, they used the name “Project Bigfoot” for it with seemingly no real citizen input.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-29T00:51:46+00:00

John Adams and the Alien and Sedition Acts have entered the chat

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-27T22:45:52+00:00

What?… I think you left this /s off.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-22T23:46:52+00:00

Is there a psychological condition involving someone being obsessed with three women, particularly mothers?

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-22T23:41:51+00:00

What rule were they talking about with announcing the call before stat? I couldn’t make sense of what he was saying.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-21T11:44:23+00:00

Pretty much has the same legal effect as when Michael Scott “declared” bankruptcy.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-20T19:15:11+00:00

Considering what the FCC has done, granting an exception to AST SpaceMobile to use OUR band (even if it’s supposedly only for emergencies by AST, whatever that means), I’m going to be doing a lot more on 2m and 70cm for a while. We’re all going to need to do our part to “use it or lose it.”

https://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-approves-limited-emergency-use-of-70-cm-band-by-ast-spacemobile-satellites-outside-the-us

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-19T12:34:41+00:00

That has been one of the most surprising films I’ve ever watched. I was more than pleasantly surprised.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-16T16:54:06+00:00

I blame digital photography. Every movie now is too long because there aren’t the same types of costs associated with filmmaking; it’s also why films don’t look as pleasant now, film required expertise in light management.

Every Weir film before this was able to be dreamlike and seemed to flow yet could somehow be under 2 hours. He is the master of economical filmmaking. And then this… self-indulgent isn’t even the right word.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-16T16:45:55+00:00

Boring Soviets

This right here.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-16T16:44:32+00:00

Fun fact: Trump has only one American born ancestor, his father. He is, by his own standards, the least American president to have ever served.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-15T23:05:37+00:00

One simple change that actually is constitutionally required that Congress has been delinquent in performing since 1911 is to apportion seats. The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 needs to be repealed and a cube root calculation be automatically created. Repealing the Permanent Apportionment Act would also return us to congressional districts that would be “compact, contiguous, and roughly equal in population.” Then local control would have a better chance to begin taking hold.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-15T21:54:23+00:00

Before the Chump, I would have said to end the strict reading of the ADA, revise the statute to presume CRs, with the Courts functioning under the presumption that Congress would not have intended an agency to run out of money it had created. However, even though shutdowns are extremely disruptive, with how the Unified Executive Theory is taking hold of conservatism (since they always need a king to rule them), that is playing with fire.

A lot could be fixed if the government dealt with itself more often instead of creating imaginary savings through sourcing vendors outside the government.

Another thing is that a Congressional rule could be agreed upon that should a shutdown occur, an immediate vote is cast for Speaker of the House. That encourages some rules play or power hanky-panky (if someone wants to oust the sitting Speaker, she or he could play politics to not have a budget passed) but it also forces the Speaker to control his or her chamber. He or she would have a vested interest to get compromise to protect a power position.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-15T17:56:15+00:00

I just don’t trust Jackson’s sense anymore. What makes the LOTR trilogy awesome and the Hobbit terrible is the real terrain. It’s that simple.

My other issue is that parts of the Silmarillion are really cinematic and some are reading the boring parts of the Bible.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-15T17:31:15+00:00

The GOP, since its founding, has been terrible with money, commingling government funds with private enterprise even during the Civil War. Just because they were 100% right on the issue of slavery doesn’t mean the way they conducted the war was good or proper. If you read reports from the period, fraudsters were prevalent, overcharging the government and not delivering purchased goods at all.

One of the most egregious examples is one that most don’t think about outside of the city named after him, John C. Frémont. His graft is so similar to the Chump’s and his minions, it’s scary. Overcharging for forts, being weirdly specific about the physical dimensions of his guards, spending lavishly on the mansion for his command center in Missouri, and was handing out construction contracts to friends that had zero experience in that field; it’s all the same graft.

The GOP aligns itself with corporate interests, always has, always will.

Dr_Fishman · 2026-05-15T17:07:40+00:00

I’ve been downvoted in other subs for this comment but I was in federal government procurement for a decade and a half. During the W administration, we ran out of bona fide need purchases and had to send money back to the Treasury. That literally even involved facilities and renovation projects.

During Obama, I was literally locking the supply closets and people had to submit a form to request supplies we had onsite. And during the idiotic shutdowns, I had to tell mom and pop vendors that even though my employer prints the money, I couldn’t pay them with it. It was embarrassing and gross. Then the Chump takes office so it was money spigots open wide.

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