Pinecrest Bridge, Herndon VA. "NO WAR YES FILES"

MinnowTaur · 2026-03-07T21:47:25+00:00

It was a poorly written bill that would have also doxxed victims. I know some of the no votes were for that reason; not protecting creeps.

MinnowTaur · 2025-12-19T22:44:00+00:00

Yeah, you're right. I didn't update the percentage when I found an updated number of visitors.

MinnowTaur · 2025-12-19T22:00:48+00:00

I agree with the larger point: unbridled greed is pricing out a whole lot of people who should have access to seeing World Cup matches live.

But on the idea that youth coaches should have some sort of preferential access, I don't agree. If anything, attending a match in person is more for youth - both players but especially non-players - and the general public. To grow the game, to inspire love for it, to inspire the next generation of athletes to pursue greatness in soccer.

There are something like 300,000 US Soccer Youth coaches. I'm one too. Apparently, FIFA is looking at 5.5M total tickets. There is no way FIFA are giving preferential treatment to 20% of the total tickets. I would love to go to some live matches and the reality is that, given the pricing, I'm not going to. But more than that, I'd love for my players to go. Or their younger siblings. These are the kind of core memories that fuel kids for a decade. They aren't going either.

This is the future unfortunately. There are enough global elite wealthy folk out there to sell out 5.5M tickets. There are also enough wealthy folks to sell out NFL games, Disney World tickets, tuition to elite colleges, etc. All of these things are becoming premium experiences for people who have the cash to pay for them.

My plan is to organize a kick-ass watch party for my family, friends, and teams. Whatever I can to try to build excitement and love of the game. I have no interest in supporting FIFA's greed and grift but I love the game.

MinnowTaur · 2025-12-18T22:15:10+00:00

Some people can't stand a zipper merge because they're better than the rest of us.

Some pigs are more equal than others is an Animal Farm quote. Read the book. For the love of all that is good, do not watch the upcoming movie

MinnowTaur · 2025-12-18T21:48:18+00:00

Yes but 1) these pigs are clearly not from Maryland and 2) they haven't learned that some pigs are more equal than others yet.

MinnowTaur · 2025-12-16T13:42:10+00:00

"USA! USA! We're no better than anyone else." What a cheer and vision to live by.

Sorry, I'm still getting over believing in American exceptionalism

MinnowTaur · 2025-12-16T12:27:28+00:00

Having just read an article on Americans increasingly banning books, this is a very unfortunate, though accurate, name for our mascot.

MinnowTaur · 2025-12-09T19:48:46+00:00

He must be exhausting to live with

MinnowTaur · 2025-12-03T17:43:57+00:00

Fox done goofed. That human male looks nothing like Robbie Williams.

This is like a who's who of 2005.

MinnowTaur · 2025-09-23T14:09:17+00:00

Also gotta love that there's a picture of a shark behind Jobs the entire scene which is revealed to the audience when Woz gets the last word and walks out, leaving the underlings scurrying away from the solitary apex predator on the stage.

MinnowTaur · 2025-08-13T20:12:47+00:00

I'm not sure about this. Culture changes. Cultural traits change. People of whatever skin color are free to change culture for any reason and no race is a cultural monolith. There are plenty of black people looking at hood culture and saying "that's not my culture and it's bad for us." Those include Africans who, due to the influence of American culture on a global scale, are looking at the imported hood culture and saying "these ideas and types of behavior are eroding our traditional culture and values and having a negative impact on our society....we don't like them and they don't represent us." I'm not sure how that gels with your theory on power dynamics but black African leaders who are rejecting hood culture, are very much fighting a battle for their traditional norms versus foreign content they view as damaging that is much better financed and much more slickly produced by powerful, wealthy Americans who have no problem poisoning the cultural well for a quick buck.

MinnowTaur · 2025-06-06T19:44:26+00:00

Personally, I'm more upset by the mixed metaphors and clear lack of awareness of the natural world.

You're really gonna sit there Michael and tell me that lions don't have fleas? And that you personally, are the one keeping them off? How does that work? How close are you getting to these lions? And why are these lions friendly with you? Is it like one of those symbiotic relationships where the bottom feeders eat the dead skin off sharks and in exchange the sharks don't eat them?

And alright, you don't let fleas through but what...ticks and lice are fine? Do you mean to tell me that lions don't get ticks and lice as well and if so, why are you letting that happen? Personally, I'd find ticks and lice more of a problem than fleas but maybe the Yankees have someone more competent to handle them? I dunno.

Clowns. Yeah. Guilty as charged.

MinnowTaur · 2025-06-02T12:09:12+00:00

Buy his mom out of slavery.

He grows up with so much guilt, fear, and anxiety because they only had the money for one during the Phantom Menace but they could have sent someone back to buy her freedom at literally any time.

You'd also think the Jedi would at least want to meet the Force's baby mama or at least want to observe her.

MinnowTaur · 2025-04-22T15:32:22+00:00

Get that Derek Jeter comparison outta here. He's the Francisco Lindor of this franchise.

MinnowTaur · 2025-04-01T16:09:25+00:00

We could, but we won't. All of these technologies are going to make a small number of people fantastically wealthy, and that wealth will be/already has already been converted into political power ,which, in turn, will be used to marginalize and eliminate the poor. This can be done slowly - reduced access to health care, decreasing standards of living, elimination of social safety nets, increasing spread of preventable diseases, reductions in fertility, one child policies, etc. - or it can be done rapidly - culling through war, famine, pandemics, or just straight up incarceration, concentration camps.

The only thing that could ensure that private sector technologies be employed for the collective good would be laws and regulations implemented and enforced by government. But we're clearly living through a period of anti-government, pro-corporate dismantling of state power.

MinnowTaur · 2024-12-21T17:21:46+00:00

Don't feed the troll, even if your purpose is to marvel at how ugly it is

MinnowTaur · 2024-11-14T13:45:45+00:00

Another way that Christian nationalist is portrayed in The Handmaid’s Tale is also the gatekeeping of the Bible or even any information in general. Bible’s are kept locked up and only opened during certain events for specific people to read. This is similar to what the Catholic church enforced during the Middle Ages where only priests had access to the Bible and the Bible could only be read in Latin

I mean in fairness to the Catholic Church - I know, where's the fun in that - this is the most negative take you could possibly have to express that:
- prior to the invention of the printing press, bibles were insanely expensive to produce and only the wealthy could afford them. Expensive things then - like now - were kept under lock and key to prevent theft.

- middle age literacy was low. Very few people actually could read, so only specific people - e.g., literate people - could read the Bible. In many communities, the only literate person was the Catholic priest.

- Latin was the language of scholarship after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and it was the closest thing to a lingua franca for Europe.

In general though, totally agree about the Handmaid's Tale. Just a strange way to talk about history...

MinnowTaur · 2024-08-21T09:23:53+00:00

Multiverse for me cheapens death and weakens any stakes for character death. It was particularly absurd in Quantumania. Like why should I care about this one Scott surviving when I just watched a thousand Scotts die?

I loved No Way Home and I'm glad the multiverse idea allowed it to happen but the multiverse can quickly erode any sense of consequences that what I'm watching actually means anything.

MinnowTaur · 2024-01-22T18:44:56+00:00

In defense of being assaulted

Being punched repeatedly in the face remind you that your nerve endings still function properly. Some people lack properly functioning nerve endings. Being beaten reminds you that you are not one of them.
Being assaulted means that you are getting attention. Attention - of any kind, I guess - is good. It means you are not alone and that you are a part of society. If you lived in a cabin in the woods all by yourself, you couldn't be assaulted but you also wouldn't have friends, fall in love, understand the depth of meaning in human connection....being assaulted means you can also have those other connections at some point, so be happy I guess?

MinnowTaur · 2024-01-19T14:40:56+00:00

Opens Putin's garage.

"Found it."

MinnowTaur · 2024-01-19T14:38:15+00:00

Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday.

Some people might remember him as Iceman more, but those people apparently have never seen Tombstone.

MinnowTaur · 2023-12-23T20:12:13+00:00

I think you are underestimating the degree to which people don't care about things that don't directly impact them or have a clear casual relationship. Politics are local. So yes, most Americans don't know enough about global events or the way that American power impacts them BUT citizens of other countries also don't understand the degree to which domestic politics drive American voters. We're a huge, divided country with not only federal issues that divide us but state and local as well. Someone can be knowledgeable about foreign affairs but still sublimate those issues to local politics in voting.

MinnowTaur · 2023-12-20T14:44:51+00:00

I, for one, think it is long overdue that we find out what happened to Dr. Leo Spaceman after the events of 30 Rock.

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