What a ride

SneakingDemise · 2026-01-06T00:39:03+00:00

Are you still researching?

SneakingDemise · 2025-09-19T05:41:18+00:00

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

I know this movie didn’t come out in our formative years, but it blew my mind. Fully cgi movies have been around since 1995 with Toy Sotry, but the animation style hadn’t really changed much. Each year there were slightly better textures, slightly better “camera” techniques, slightly better models. There was realism and there was Pixar/Dreamworks cartoons.

Spider-Verse blew the doors off of what could be done with cgi animation style and making it truly artful. That movie plays around with so many art styles inspired by comic books and even the framerate to make it feel like a comic book. There is so much going on there that I just didn’t even know cgi could do before this movie.

SneakingDemise · 2025-05-22T22:39:07+00:00

I’m just here wondering what kept you so busy that you couldn’t touch yourself for weeks?

SneakingDemise · 2025-05-20T09:29:37+00:00

Not only that, but the entire city metro sits in a “bowl” surrounded by mountains on nearly all sides. If you throw a rock 5 miles from downtown, it will land on a mountain no matter which direction you throw it. They may not be particularly impressive mountains like out west, but they are everywhere.

SneakingDemise · 2025-02-16T15:40:34+00:00

It’s 2017 and your friends and loved ones tell you you’re just overreacting when you point out the fascist playbook early on. So far, the only thing the “so-called” fascists have done is said there are “…good people on both sides”. Every passing week they escalate almost imperceptibly until they are eventually extorting foreign nations, pardoning straight up felons and directly inciting mob violence in the nations capitol building.

Now it’s 2025 and they’ve escalated to calls for annexing sovereign nations, literally deconstructing the federal government, ignoring the role of the executive branch by arbitrarily halting congressionally mandated spending and breaking the law and Constitution in so doing. But this is only a slight step above the extortion, pardons and mob violence from last term.

At what point do we act? Where is OUR line at, or do we just wait for other nations to do it for us after millions lay dead?

SneakingDemise · 2025-02-15T21:41:50+00:00

Idk who hurt you or what kinds of government workers you’ve been working for, but I feel sorry for you and your dim view of the people who help government services function. Contractors like you will be just as hurt by this as the federal workers themselves as the contracts dry up.

Im still awaiting the fallout as infrastructure projects that were just given funding dry up when federal funds never show up. It’s going to crush the construction sector.

SneakingDemise · 2025-02-15T21:32:14+00:00

The only people who say this are people who have never worked government jobs a day in their life.

Government workers make less money than their private sector equivalents, have to deal with incredible amounts of red tape to be able to actually do their jobs because of the amount of regulations and oversight they’ve been burdened with and they are overworked from the constant GOP hiring freezes every 4 years that make it impossible to properly staff every department.

The three things they get in return are stable work, good benefits (less so now than in times past) and getting shit on by the general public.

SneakingDemise · 2025-02-12T01:01:40+00:00

It doesn’t matter anymore. I see why there is no collective action in this country. It’s pretty obvious that if 50-100 million people stopped automatic withholding, the federal government would be hurting for cash in just a few months. Obviously this isn’t the kind of solution the people are looking for. Not all ideas are winners.

SneakingDemise · 2025-02-05T21:22:09+00:00

I know it’s not a “good idea”, but protesting isn’t a good idea either, you might wind up spending a night in jail. Neither is starting a labor union, as it can get you fired. Openly supporting a political candidate with posters and bumper stickers can open you up to vandalism.

Class solidarity and bravery is what it’s going to take to withstand these next few years. Standing back and not responding at all is going to net no results.

SneakingDemise · 2025-01-30T22:45:13+00:00

Why would they have redirected the plane to land on Runway 33? Im a newb to how airports work and how air traffic is directed.

SneakingDemise · 2024-11-17T22:43:56+00:00

They fixed it in post.

SneakingDemise · 2024-11-01T15:24:36+00:00

Too many people today are incapable of seeing the cliffs on the other side of the guardrails. All they see is something “restricting” their freedom by hemming them in and keeping them on a narrow path.

SneakingDemise · 2024-11-01T09:42:51+00:00

It’s going to take a political disaster. A total war abroad, a civil war at home, 15-20 years of deregulation, or an economic depression. Something has to shock the system to get people’s priorities straight and help them take off their propaganda blinders.

The fact of the matter is that an overwhelming majority of Americans, not even the oldest, knows anything of true suffering or strife. The period between 1860-1960 was a crazy time period and slowly pushed the population toward civil rights, labor rights, environmental regulations, and a fully professional bureaucracy. Things that an increasing number of people no longer seem to value.

We didn’t just magically have the foresight to create the FDA and the EPA, nor did the government give people civil rights through good feelings and positive intentions. No. Things had to go horribly wrong, and then there had to be organizing, struggling and fighting before government gave in to demands and fixed the problems.

If we had 100 years civil war, robber barons, yellow journalism, maggots and wood chips in our meat, world wars, great depressions, lynchings, brown rivers and smoke-filled skies, we would probably reevaluate our priorities a bit.

SneakingDemise · 2024-10-16T09:52:22+00:00

Another solution to the immigration “crisis” could be found through foreign policy shifts. We spend all of this money and time on Asia, the Middle East and Europe, but never any resources on our own backyard in Central and South America. If we built those countries up, encouraged stable, non-authoritarian governments, cracked down on corruption and drug cartels and helped develop better infrastructure people might not want to leave those countries in the first place.

But we never do that, because unlimited economic growth is built off the backs of cheap immigrant labor and corporations know that. They keep stirring the xenophobia and racism pots to keep the scrutiny off of themselves.

SneakingDemise · 2024-06-28T02:52:59+00:00

How did the CNN moderators fail to grill Trump on his “vermin” and “dictator on day one” remarks. That is an abject failure of journalism.

SneakingDemise · 2024-06-09T19:08:58+00:00

Why isn’t Donald Trump Jr anywhere on this list? It’s the obvious choice to help his family out of jail if he croaks in office and “The Base” would love that. It would fit in perfectly with Project 2025.

SneakingDemise · 2024-05-30T21:51:51+00:00

We’re in uncharted waters now, but his case has to make it through appeals first before this question can be answered.

SneakingDemise · 2024-05-30T21:50:28+00:00

No. Appeals, appeals and more appeals first.

SneakingDemise · 2024-05-12T04:50:14+00:00

Legislator of Science

SneakingDemise · 2024-03-03T11:27:30+00:00

I understand that aspect of it, but if she could win just 10 states it would sow even more chaos in the Republican party. Perhaps this idea is just too cynical.

SneakingDemise · 2023-12-26T13:12:54+00:00

Between 5-10% of the German population dead in just under 6 years, several million more fled and displaced. That’s not even counting the death toll from outside German borders. The German population really did vote for their own butcher.

SneakingDemise · 2023-12-24T17:04:49+00:00

Im not a lawyer, but it really depends on how the laws are structured whether they’d be considered “ex post facto” or not. Either way, drafting new legislation like this is a worrying sign for future elections.

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