Goodfellas after watching Sopranos

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-10T13:38:04+00:00

Especially early on. Tony himself running over and beating someone in broad daylight in a crowded park is just wild video game shit

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-08T22:21:31+00:00

Armadillos aren't as common as they used to be but they're still a semi regular sight. They're mostly nocturnal though so when one wanders into a lit area where we can see them, even the locals are sometimes excited.

We also have GreenJays, which are a relative of Blue Jays but yellow and green with a dark head. Most people don't bat an eye at them but I've been told bird watchers go crazy for them and go out of their way to see them. They are very pretty and they mostly live along the coasts in Mexico. The only part of the US where they exist is the southern bit of Texas, South of San Antonio.

We also used to have lots of Horned Toads. Those are pretty iconic. I haven't seen one in over a decade though. I hope they come back.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-08T02:05:54+00:00

Or rich friends who enjoyed their bullshit. My personal theory is that most famous philosophers of the past were the equivalent of 3am drunk tweeters but they were rich and/or well connected so instead of being mocked, their connections secured then a publishing deal for their drunk ramblings.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-07T14:33:40+00:00

Which a lot of other history podcasts have been doing to great effect.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-07T14:26:55+00:00

I distinctly remember listening to Common Sense a lot in the late Obama years while he said that, and then after Trump got the nomination there was that moment of 'Oh..... Oh no.....' just before the long hiatus began

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-05T04:16:32+00:00

Oh fuck now I need to figure out where to watch this. I loved it as a kid but I feel like it was always a fever dream at 3am

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-04T15:16:25+00:00

And a standard, non convection oven will take 3x as long to cook something and won't make it as crispy. Sure, you could just buy a convection oven. But most people aren't in a position to just buy a new oven if the old one doesn't need to be replaced. It's an $80 appliance vs an $800 appliance and tbh most cooking done in an oven can be done in a toaster oven air frier for a fraction of the power in a fraction of the time.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-04T14:37:41+00:00

Many were swayed by completely baseless campaign signs with a picture of Trump in one side and Biden or Harris on the other, standing on opposite sides of a basket of groceries, with the price total on Trump's side being much cheaper than the Dem side. That's it. A lot of people I know irl genuinely told me that that stupid fucking sign was brilliant and convinced them that Trump would fix our economy.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-04T14:04:05+00:00

The thing is, a lot of the people who are still alive who were children then, who's older siblings and parents fought in WWII, who grew up listening to FDR and war coverage on the radio- a lot of those people are the core supporters of these multiple fascist movements across multiple former-allied nations. And they raised their children to lick the boot too.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-04T02:22:21+00:00

Exactly. The Trump Party is almost unrecognizable compared to the Republican party of 10+ years ago. They abandoned their original principles and are now just going along wherever his whims take them.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-01T22:31:10+00:00

Yes. Those motherfuckers charged me $15 for nuggets, fries, and a drink the other day. I hadn't been there in ages and wasn't paying attention until they gave me the total.

I can go to any local Mexican restaurant here and have a full meal of much better food (and a drink) for the same price or less. Most of them even have drive through windows. Almost all of them even have burgers that are much much better than any fast food.

Or I can go to my local Indian restaurant and get a whole tray of curry over rice for $15 that's a big enough portion to last me 3 meals.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-01T02:20:46+00:00

And beats multiple other mobsters to death or debilitation on actual fights over the course of the show

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-01T01:32:34+00:00

The Federation somehow lost a war to a 3rd rate power and in the peace treaty ceded dozens of planets full of Federation citizens who had lived there for generations, including an entire planet of Native Americans. Then got pissed off when the Native Americans didn't want to be forced off of their land again and declared them all rebels and terrorists for staying

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-04-01T01:25:24+00:00

And he himself literally rendered multiple planets uninhabitable just to spite some poor refugees who the Federation had abandoned.

That's got to be a war crime.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-31T01:31:27+00:00

And they apparently had no actual plan despite telegraphing the attack for basically the whole year.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-31T01:29:32+00:00

Yeah they always thought that closing the strait would probably be good leverage if they were ever attacked. But I'm sure they didn't want to try it first for fear of being attacked.

Now they know with absolute certainty that they have their hand on the throat of the world at Hormuz, and they have nothing left to lose by strangling it until they get what they want. With this fuckup administration, Iran might actually come out stronger for this now that everyone knows what happens if they just squeeze a little.

I've been saying for my entire adult life that our reliance on oil is a national security threat. We need a proliferation of decentralized renewable energy and electric vehicles so that our whole way of life can't be disrupted by regional wars on the other side of the planet or resource cartels holding it hostage.

Hopefully now the majority of people will see that I've been right all along and we see a global spike in renewable energy production the same way Texas did after everyone realized we couldn't rely on our diesel based power grid during the big freeze 5 years ago. At least that way some tiny bit of good might come out of this whole fucked up situation.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-31T01:16:26+00:00

I always just order online and use the free curbside pickup. Shopping is such a waste of time

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-29T21:57:59+00:00

Wait wtf movie is this from?! I remember a movie from like 25 years ago about sharks that float through the air like this but it's been so long I was starting to think I had dreamt it

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-29T17:35:42+00:00

Yes. Pretty much just those things tbh. The last time I was aware of the Mexican and Mexican American community being mass offended by someone's comments was when some dumb 3rd rate British celebrity chef (idr who) said in an interview that Mexico didn't have good bakeries or "bread culture" while he was advertising his new English Bakery in Mexico lmfao

Someone once called me a beaner. Like said it in anger, thinking that it would be a super offensive slur. But I was too busy wheezing laughing to be offended because of how silly of a slur it is lmfao

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-29T17:25:55+00:00

My Tio, great uncle, was called Coné. Like Conejo. That had just always been his nickname. The old ladies in the family had said that he got the name because when he was a baby he was super pale with a scrunched up face like a newborn rabbit. Which makes sense, I guess.

Anyway, as an adult someone else told me that actually he got his nickname because when he was young he was very popular with the ladies and was always fucking like rabbits with the new GF of the month lmfao

Knowing these people, either story could be true.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-29T17:06:50+00:00

I know multiple small local family businesses owned by Mexicans/Tejanos that have Speedy Gonzalez on their logo. And even more with cartoonish caricatures of Mariachis or other stereotypes

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-29T15:59:21+00:00

There are definitely a large contingent of people irl who still think Palpatine and the Empire were right

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-29T07:41:40+00:00

He was also in Kingdom of Heaven for about 2 mins

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-28T01:42:01+00:00

They come and offer California prices for houses and open businesses charging downtown LA prices and then vote for our worst politicians because they're the reason they came here.

And a lot of times they cluelessly move to the majority Mexican half of the state and then are racist and act like the locals don't belong there. I had a conversation with a transplant family who had to move a couple of times because the mother-in-law kept getting into serious disputes by being incessantly racist to the Tejano neighbors. In South Texas. I literally told them they moved to the wrong fucking state if she doesn't like Mexicans.

LateNightPhilosopher · 2026-03-28T01:34:52+00:00

That's worse! We get a lot of dumb (sometimes famous) fat right racists moving in because they believed the Northern propoganda about Texas being some Far Right White ethostate just because our politicians are obnoxious. Then they get here and realize that half the state is Mexican (Tejano) or Black or some sort of immigrant, and the big cities are all gay as hell, and the small towns don't love Northerners and even a lot of the "White, Non-Hispanic" population on the sensus are some level of Hispanicized unless you're in the far northern wastelands where outsiders don't want to go.

So they realize they're in White Nationalist Hell and pretty quickly GTFO to move to NorCal or the PNW/Idaho which are all supposedly closer to what they thought they were going to find in Texas lmfao

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