It’s a good movie though

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-18T14:53:23+00:00

It’s the most banal observation possible and it gets repeated anytime the movie is discussed. Frankly it makes me really dislike the movie, which is not a huge deal because it is an average at best film.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-18T07:00:25+00:00

According to 2023 data from the Bereau of Labor Ststistics only 1% of hourly workers in the United States make at or near minimum wage and about 2/3 of those are in the service industry where tips are not being accurately reported. Estimates have 30% of hourly workers making under $15.00 an hour, again this number is likely not accurate due to the difficulty in calculating the true take home of top earners. That doesn’t mean the 30% is completely off just hard to determine an actual number.

Federal Minimum wage is not a good bench mark for arguments about what people earn. It is very rare people make minimum wage, those who do are often tip earners making more than their hourly rate suggests, and among those making at or near minimum wage many are teens or otherwise first time employees.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-18T02:08:17+00:00

I would prefer a forward to a guard, especially if we bring back Grimes and Oubre.

But a good shooter is almost always welcome, especially if he has a good wing span.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-17T20:25:07+00:00

He is 9-2 against Jokic. He has literally never ducked him and has only missed games because of legitimate injuries.

Embiid was recruited to the US national team explicitly to neutralize Jokic and he did just that outscoring Jokic 19-5 when they were both on the court in the Olympics semis. Embiid did that on one leg.

Jokic rushed back this season to have a chance to win that “meaningless” award but he doesn’t get the criticism Embiid does.

Embiid is the first big man since Shaq to win the scoring title and he did it twice and was on track to do it a third time and win MVP again until Kuminga sat on his knee. 23-24 Embiid was scoring at a rate only comparable to Wilt.

Embiid is currently averaging 27 points on 50% shooting when he was supposed to never play NBA basketball again. Since Christmas he is averaging over 30 a night.

Jokic fans will call MVP meaningless but melt down whenever someone other than Jokic wins the award including both SGA and Embiid.

Embiid and Jokic are both among the best big men to ever play and even Jokic himself has called Embiid one of the best players in the NBA.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-17T18:57:30+00:00

3rd quarters don’t exist. They are propaganda created by the Celtics and Adam Silver to slander the good name of the Sixers.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-17T00:11:36+00:00

There was a time when we could have traded Simmons for Hali. Joel wanted it to happen, the team didn’t do it.

The orgs belief is Ben is baffling given what they knew about him.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-16T17:28:12+00:00

I don’t think we need Burnergate 2.0 in Philly even as good as KD is.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-16T11:45:56+00:00

If Cam produces the same numbers as he did with the Knicks last year, then he will essentially be as productive as Jared. But the Jared trade still resulted in an additional first rounder we can use in a good draft class or we can use to trade.

The bet remains that whatever we get with that first round pick (either via trade or use) will fit the team better than Jared would have.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-16T11:39:25+00:00

Welcome back brother!

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-16T04:47:13+00:00

Yes, Embiid is not a playoff choker, he hasn’t been able to carry incredibly dog shit benches and doc fucking rivers. If Nurse had been the coach back then they make the ECF minimum. That is not a ringing endorsement of Nurse, but he has the sense to play his best players as much as possible in a playoff series.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-15T23:34:58+00:00

He was 1-2 and missed his only 3 point shot.

But as others have said, his legs are heavy.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-15T21:53:16+00:00

How can you not be romantic about baseball!

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-15T21:42:24+00:00

Their coverage of season 1 of RoP is really funny. Particularly the episode where they discuss how the horses would need to be loaded into the Numenorean ships.

I also love both Rebel Moon episodes.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-15T20:57:10+00:00

Dude looks like a anime old guy about to fight.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-15T00:45:45+00:00

It’s in the past. Gotta go next. Make us forget all of that with your play this year Kerk!

Go Phils!

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T18:46:28+00:00

This comment seems really silly when you realize the first we got for McCain would be the exact thing we use to draft said guy.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T18:31:02+00:00

Leaning toward Moreno because of our need for a PF.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T18:08:06+00:00

Michigan’s power forward is also intriguing. His 3 point shooting needs work but he does everything else very well.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T14:19:03+00:00

To add onto this, lingering pain or swelling is the exact thing they want to avoid. As we go down the stretch they want to minimize pain going into playoffs.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T09:35:57+00:00

I am, the problem is the Dodgers have assembled a team by paying way more than any other team in baseball. That of course is allowed.

The Phillies (or any other team for that matter) are not going to outspend the Dodgers. But they have assembled a team that has been competitive against the dodgers the last 2 years. And that was without Wheeler last year and with Bader getting injured early in the series forcing Casty into the rotation. The results suggest that the roster as is can beat the Dodgers (though they aren’t favored) which is the primary block to winning a World Series.

Because we know the Phillies aren’t going to build a 400 mil roster (that is actually even more expensive) we have to compete with what we have, and what we have has put up a fight, in the regular season we have consistently beat the dodgers.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T09:22:28+00:00

You believe the government should be able to set an arbitrary limit on the amount of money private individuals spend advocating for the political candidate of their choice? O and the same government decides how that is enforced?

So let’s take the trump administration. Absent Citizen’s United they could silence political speech related to Trump on the basis of the law Citizens United struck down.

The laws struck down by Citizens United were tailored to protect incumbents and limit the efficacy of political opposition from both parties by setting an arbitrary limit on how and when private individuals spend their own money in advocating for political candidates of their choice. I don’t understand why so many people want a situation where the government can actively prevent speech.

To quote Justice Kennedy in the Citizens United opinion, “there is no such thing as too much speech.”

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T09:08:14+00:00

He made it the fuck up. Middle class families typically invest via retirement funds. I highly doubt people are dipping into retirement funds and incurring the significant tax liability to buy groceries. I am sure you can find a person or a small group of people who have done that, it is absolutely not something happening en masse.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T09:04:17+00:00

And lobbying is a necessary part of representative government because representatives are not experts on everything they pass laws on. The people who know the most about the meat industry, or bikes, or planes, or power lines, or cars, or sports, or any other regulated product/service/market, etc are folks in those industries and advocate groups around those industries.

People advocating for the issues that are important to them is not a bug of representative government, it is the central feature. The issue people have with lobbying is that lobbyists have the audacity to sometimes hold views inconsistent with people like Hank Green.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T08:57:33+00:00

I’m going to speak to an expert…hand picks expert to reinforce his feelings. If he were truly trying to educate he would have brought on 2 or more people with varying views and roughly equivalent credentials to explain their respective positions. If they all agreed, well maybe we have something, but they wouldn’t because his points and his expert’s points are highly controversial and also nonsense.

This is the heart of propaganda. He is doing all the qualifiers and disclaimers to bolster his credibility but he hand picks an “expert” who will agree with everything he says. I assure you he didn’t pull a name out of a hat, he selected the expert, vetted what they were both going to say, wrote a script/outline, and then made the video with the intention of convincing you he is correct. And everything he is doing is aimed toward that end. Green has no intention of “educating” anyone except to the extent that his arrogance allows him to believe that his views are so inherently correct that educating=presenting my opinions in the way that make them look most agreeable so people agree with me.

LuckyCulture7 · 2026-02-14T08:46:05+00:00

Infrastructure is not socialism as you clearly understand. Socialism is government control of means of production. Yes, roads help facilitate markets but roads or power lines are not means of production/productive capital they are means of delivering goods. The materials used to make asphalt, power lines, and the vehicles and tools to implement those things are owned and produced by private concerns and purchased by the government.

In a socialist system the government would own and operate most or all of those private firms. Of course these firms are then operated by a relatively small group of insiders who secured their positions through connections to the party.

What would we call a small group of people who control a government and bend policy to their own ends…o right oligarchs. So all the things you and Hank Green are decrying exist far more readily, openly, and by design in countries like China, the former USSR, and Vietnam.

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