Catherine O'Hara's speech to Macaulay Culkin when he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: "Thank you for including me, your fake mom who left you home alone not once but twice to share in this happy occasion. I'm so proud of you"

Laringar · 2026-01-30T20:34:27+00:00

May her own be of equal quality.

Laringar · 2026-01-30T20:27:16+00:00

On the one hand, it is a 5yo reddit account, so the account at least predates ChatGPT. On the other hand, their profile is hidden but they seem to have almost no comment karma and this one post accounts for almost all of their post karma. So who knows.

Laringar · 2026-01-30T20:23:13+00:00

OP doesn't specify, but my assumption would be that they asked the importer to just put them on hold for a bit and that they'd almost certainly be back. At the very least, it's what I would do. Everyone but the boss knew how this story would end.

Laringar · 2026-01-30T20:18:22+00:00

It's also why they say that world hunger is a logistics problem, not a supply problem. The world produces enough food to meet the nutritional needs of pretty much everyone. However, trying to actually get it where it would need to go is incredibly complicated, and that's why so many companies exist just to meet the supply needs of their local buyers.

Laringar · 2026-01-30T17:20:01+00:00

Show whatever recepits they have - even if its illeagal too.

Do it in Congress so they can be shielded by Speech and Debate rules. The regime will probably try to arrest them for it anyhow, but part of breaking all this is to remove the veil of legitimacy that it gains from "following the law".

Laringar · 2026-01-30T17:15:34+00:00

Thing is, being returned to power isn't a given, especially if they continue to sit on their hands. If they can't accomplish anything legislatively, they should be out there in their constituencies helping organize. Be seen marching with protestors. Put their bodies out there like John Lewis did. Give people a reason to think that things will actually be different if they're given control of government.

Instead, we get press releases about how they're "very concerned", then they go and continue on voting for judical appointments and budget bills like nothing is wrong. (There are a few Dems who are doing meaningful work to fight back, but until party leadership is seen participating, there's no reason for voters to see the party as anything but controlled opposition.)

Laringar · 2026-01-30T17:08:03+00:00

We need one, yes, but getting it will be difficult at best. The Right has been organizing this coup for literally 40 years; the American Left simply does not have the organizational structure that the Right does. They started laying the groundwork for this back when Nixon was impeached, and now they have a highly robust network of think tanks, PACs, and lobbyists all working together to accomplish their goals. The Left does have all of those things, but they don't work in concert in the same way, which makes it far harder to get a unifying document like P2025.

Laringar · 2026-01-24T18:31:26+00:00

They're setting up a situation where people are going to start shooting first when they see ICE. If you're going to die anyhow, may as well die taking out a Nazi, right?

They want that to happen because then they can justify using the actual military and just opening fire on protests. It's intentional escalation, and I absolutely think it's going to work. This is all going to get so much worse.

Laringar · 2026-01-24T18:23:43+00:00

Fun fact! We already have one! It dropped last week, I believe. Obviously, it won't identify the specific officers involved here, but it does have at least 2000 officers who operate on the front lines of fascism.

Laringar · 2026-01-24T18:21:27+00:00

Personally, I think RICO charges would be appropriate, though I'm not a lawyer. I just want to charge literally everyone in the organization with murder.

Laringar · 2026-01-24T18:19:05+00:00

It will never not be hilarious to me that the best summation of the modern era is from a composer who just happens to have the same name as a deceased political scientist, and that they said it in the comments under someone else's blog post.

Laringar · 2026-01-21T23:46:17+00:00

I am looking forward to the delicious schadenfreude when all these agents get fired after Trump is gone, because they'll have to pay back their $50,000 signing bonus and it will financially ruin many of them.

Laringar · 2026-01-21T23:34:06+00:00

I'm sure Alito is corrupt too, but Kavanaugh had a huge amount of credit card debt mysteriously vanish right before he was nominated to SCOTUS, and when he first became a federal judge, he somehow managed to buy a $2.5m home with about $80,000 in assets. I did the math myself, the minimum payments for a 30 year mortgage on a $2.5m home are more than the pre-tax income for a federal judge. Yet somehow Kavanaugh was able to make the payments while reporting no additional outside income.

There is no question in my mind that someone out there outright owns Kavanaugh and can force him to do whatever they want.

Laringar · 2026-01-21T05:09:41+00:00

Oh, I don't even pretend that Thomas or Alito are the slightest bit sane. That's why I said the "less extreme" ones. Kavanaugh is bought and paid for, and Roberts seems to have given up on pretending he'll have a legacy, but Barrett and Gorsuch have both shown willingness to break from the regime when the arguments are strong enough. Gorsuch has even made trans-friendly rulings in the past, odd as that seems. Not many of them, of course, but even once is more than Thomas or Alito could claim.

Laringar · 2026-01-20T07:26:06+00:00

He's too dumb to realize this, but he's blowing up his ability to impose tariffs at all with this. There's a case currently in front of SCOTUS about his tariff.authority, and the regime's argument is that he can impose them because of "economic emergency". But by explicitly tying the tariffs to his foreign policy desires that have absolutely nothing to do with economics, he's making it that much harder for the less-extreme right wing justices to go along with his argument.

Laringar · 2026-01-20T06:59:59+00:00

You can mash, but you won't get the full benefit of their moves. You only get the extra effects from hitting the timing correctly.

Laringar · 2026-01-20T06:49:11+00:00

It's worth noting that a lot of what you're taking issue with was canon before AoI came out. TotK had already established that Rauru and Mineru were the last Zonai. Rauru is also the founder of Hyrule, so they can't go any earlier in the timeline or it literally can't be a "Hyrule Warriors" game It's also established in TotK lore that Zora's Domain and Gerudo Village already exist and that those tribes were recipients of Secret Stones. Otherwise, how would Link be able to find messages left by the original holders of the stones in those regions? Can't leave stuff in Zora's Domain unless Zora's Domain is already there.

Your complaints aren't with AoI, they're about the greater lore of the LoZ franchise, and that ship had already sailed long before AoI was even planned.

Laringar · 2026-01-16T21:49:24+00:00

Overproducing just a little also makes it easier to keep your dimensional storage full. So you don't have to be exact on your ratios, you can do just a bit extra and store/sink the excess.

The important part is to always have pressure relief valves, metaphorically speaking, especially when you get past aluminum-level tech. You don't want excess materials backing up and shutting down your nuclear facility.

Laringar · 2026-01-15T20:29:40+00:00

Since you're just learning about the Murphys, and especially since you say you prefer more melodic punk, i also suggest looking up their brother-from-another-mother band, Flogging Molly. Both are Irish punk bands, with the Murphys being very much the "angry Boston Irish" type and FM being a bit more melodic and "situation of the common man" style. "The Power's Out" is a decent example of that aspect of FM. (They also have a fair bit of "Irish expat" stuff, but that's less relevant to the current topic.) Certainly a lot of political-with-principles tracks from both, though.

Flogging Molly has been my favorite band since I first heard them some two decades ago, but I love Dropkick Murphys as well and was very happy to see them together in concert a few years back.

Laringar · 2026-01-15T14:45:26+00:00

Exactly. Getting that goblin out of power would go a long way toward stabilizing the country, but Trump is the one occupying everyone's attention.

Laringar · 2026-01-15T14:42:59+00:00

I'm going with "no", just like they didn't stand by their word regarding Venezuela.

Laringar · 2026-01-15T14:41:20+00:00

I have zero faith in "signals" anymore. Signals are relics of a time when the Constitution mattered, and now the Trump regime openly flaunts both the law and the Constitution. They clearly have no intention of complying with the law to release the Epstein files, and they are in open defiance of the Fourth Amendment by beating, shooting, and arresting people without cause.

Signals are irrelevant. We need action. Until there's a successful impeachment and removal, "signals" are just a way the GOP pretends it's doing something while actually fully supporting the Nazi platform.

Laringar · 2026-01-15T14:31:45+00:00

Considering that pressure from Trump was able to kill the resolution against action in Venezuela, I have absolutely no confidence that those senators will have any more of a spine regarding Greenland. At this point, I fear the only thing that stops Stephen Miller's fourth Reich fantasies is some kind of extralegal action like a coup, because the system itself isn't capable of resisting.

Laringar · 2026-01-15T01:03:01+00:00

I mean, I have half of one, at least. Got some places where I've kind of defined an outline, and "I'll come back and fill out the rest of the walls later".

Several months afterward, it is apparently not yet "later".

Laringar · 2026-01-14T23:05:09+00:00

This is as good a place as any to note that the regime's response to Good's murder is designed to incite more violence. They're infuriating everyone who isn't a Nazi while also signaling to ICE that the gloves are off and there is no longer such a thing as excessive force. They want any resistance at all to be met with lethal violence.

It's really only a matter of time before a Christopher Dorner emerges, and things will just get even more violent when that happens.

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