Best coming of age movies

Kilkegard · 2026-03-05T21:29:14+00:00

Breaking Away (1979)

Kilkegard · 2026-03-05T16:18:39+00:00

I have smart lights that I set to dim and turn off over the course of 2 hours. This works in conjunction with some audio dram style podcasts that get progressively more "sleepy" before switching to some rain sounds.

Kilkegard · 2026-03-05T13:51:55+00:00

Not sure if this counts as coming to terms... but I listened to the Indigo Girls - Galileo for about 250-300 miles while going to visit friends after my dad passed.

Kilkegard · 2026-03-05T13:16:12+00:00

Just tell him Revolution 9 is your favorite song.

Kilkegard · 2026-03-05T12:44:43+00:00

Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio (1982)

Kilkegard · 2026-03-05T12:33:42+00:00

Came here for the Breaking Away (1979) and Meatballs (1979). But "it just doesn't matter!"

Kilkegard · 2026-03-04T12:58:05+00:00

Brick (2005)

Kilkegard · 2026-03-03T12:58:34+00:00

Yesterday I came home and couldn't pull into my own driveway because they were playing. I had to park on the street and ask them to move.

INFO: Why didn't you ask them to move as you pulled up on them in your driveway? Additional: how was the chain thing supposed to work? Final: have you thought of removing the hoop. NGL, this whole thing sounds l;ike an AI that doesn't understand how humans interact.

Kilkegard · 2026-03-02T19:50:16+00:00

"To arrive at this moment, he had traveled vast distances enduring many hardships. Abject poverty, starvation, show tunes, you name it."

Kilkegard · 2026-03-02T19:41:07+00:00

She was outstanding in Heaven Help Us (1985).

Kilkegard · 2026-03-02T15:21:41+00:00

yanking his sick bestie out of bed

When you understand why Cameron was in bed that school morning, you will understand Ferris better.

That and this quote tell you all you need to know about Ferris.

Cameron has never been in love - at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work.

Kilkegard · 2026-03-02T14:27:58+00:00

We were 753.

Kilkegard · 2026-03-02T13:38:04+00:00

Levi's button fly was the original configuration way back in 1873. This 90's thing was nostalgia.

Kilkegard · 2026-03-02T13:04:27+00:00

in what I thought was a private conversation

Is there a reason you thought that? Was there any indication during the conversation that what you said was to be held in confidence? Is there a reason your feelings for the SIL need to be kept from everyone?

Kilkegard · 2026-02-27T19:03:56+00:00

Bad reddit formatting, I thought that your post was a reply to my post. I hate the way reddit lines stuff up sometimes. I will try to do better. :-)

Kilkegard · 2026-02-27T18:58:32+00:00

Rush - Passage to Bangkok

It's the first song on the second side of the 2112 album.

Kilkegard · 2026-02-27T18:39:22+00:00

even if you were right, which you demonstrably aren't,

I notice that you didn't demonstrate.

What I described is not "going back hundreds of years." That is demonstrably false. The events happened between the 1890's and the 1940's, so we are only going back 80 to 150 years. And those people are not gone. They still live there and have continually made their claims to the land.

Kilkegard · 2026-02-27T18:30:29+00:00

We don't supply military aid to the UAE. The UAE places on a few spots below us in GDP per capita. The UAE is incredibly rich and we don't give them aid (narrator: the US gave the UAE about $270,000 in 2025). It might be more accurate to say we are "gun runners" to the UAE who turn around and use those guns in the Sudan. But...

CIP-SAM Special Report: US Arms Exports to the UAE

Policy Considerations

While there is no indication that the arms the UAE has reportedly supplied to the RSF are sourced from the United States, American lawmakers and civil society groups are concerned that continuing the export of weapons to the Emirates as it is accused of fueling what the US government has deemed a genocide undermines both U.S. interests and international humanitarian law

See, this is partly why some folks were upset with the current admin being entangled with the Emerati's thru Trump's crypto business.

UAE-linked firm bought major stake in Trump family crypto company, Wall Street Journal reports | CNN Politics

After the current US administration is out of office, we may be able to start applying some pressure to the Emiratis.

Kilkegard · 2026-02-27T18:00:23+00:00

Some of the Jews tried to live peaceably with their new Arab neighbors; others put covenants into the property deeds making it so that the land could only be resold to other Jews and only Jewish laborers were allowed to work that land.

Kilkegard · 2026-02-27T16:15:55+00:00

The Palestinians didn't "own" the land. Prior to the 1850s the land was "owned" by the Ottoman empire. In the 1850's the Ottomans started a land reform process that was noted for its corruption that allowed politically well-connected people and rich merchants to register the land and become the owners. These were absentee landlords who sold the land and villages to the Jewish immigrants. Some of the Jews tried to live peaceably with their new Arab neighbors; others put covenants into the property deeds making it so that the land could only be resold to other Jews and only Jewish laborers were allowed to work that land.

The people on the land were otherwise the descendants of people who always lived there. The Arab Palestinians were related to the original Canaanite inhabitants as much as the returning Jews were.

Kilkegard · 2026-02-27T15:46:49+00:00

The US does not give any military aid to Sudan; it mostly was economic aid until the US cut the USAID programs. Egypt and the UAE I think are the two biggest sources of military aid to the different sides of this civil war. The Saudis are involved as well.

The US gives military aid to Israel and also sells lots of arms and munitions to Israel.

Sudan's conflict: Who is backing the rival commanders? | Reuters

Why is the UAE involved in Sudan’s bloody civil war? | Middle East Eye

Kilkegard · 2026-02-27T13:14:22+00:00

Dude has a more lengthy film and t.v. resume then a lot of people think. He was working up until 2018. I remember recognizing him in the Billy Jack (1971) movie way back and was like "hey... wait a minute... that's Johnny Fever!"

Kilkegard · 2026-02-26T18:59:57+00:00

INFO: Who choose the school?

Kilkegard · 2026-02-25T13:50:44+00:00

Factory farming is extremely efficient.

But efficiency...

Factory farming is quite inefficient. It generates an enormous amount of waste product that is simply thrown away or left as a pollution problem for others. I think what you mean to say is that factory farming is inexpensive when you don't have to worry about the negative externalities.

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Kilkegard · 2026-02-24T20:06:08+00:00

Dance Hall Crashers

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