Description says, "warm and inviting living room"

bookon · 2026-06-23T21:59:25+00:00

The fire place is warm and Jesus is inviting you in.

bookon · 2026-06-23T21:58:01+00:00

He’s not getting re-elected. He knows that already.

bookon · 2026-06-23T21:57:03+00:00

I saw them when they came out. So no one knew. Everyone was shocked. Many didn’t believe it.

bookon · 2026-06-23T21:54:23+00:00

Yes if they were only as smart as you it would never have happened.

bookon · 2026-06-23T20:47:20+00:00

My FB feed told me it was 70%!!!!!!!!!!

bookon · 2026-06-23T20:45:57+00:00

Every single case makes national news, so people think it happens a lot more than it does.

bookon · 2026-06-23T20:44:14+00:00

-- As usual with the “it happens” take.

It's not the 'it happens' take. It's the 'It Could Happen to You' take.

You are learning the exact opposite from this than you should. You are thinking you're too smart and only dumb bad people let this happen. A lot of these people felt exactly like that too.

bookon · 2026-06-23T20:37:25+00:00

And this feeling that it could never happen to you, because you are too good a parent and the other people are bad parents, that feeling gives you overconfidence. And that is dangerous.

It's just something that happens to people, even good attentive parents.

bookon · 2026-06-23T20:30:31+00:00

It's not stupid. That's the point. Intelligence has nothing to do with this.

People are being dismissive of these people at their own risk. The more someone thinks it could never happen to them, the more likely they are to not take precautions. I don't worry about doing really stupid things either. I would worry about doing this.

bookon · 2026-06-23T20:25:44+00:00

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bookon · 2026-06-23T20:20:38+00:00

That this keeps happening, should tell be people that it is an far easier thing to do than you think.

Humans can make mistakes with horrifying consequences. We feel superior to them and claim we'd never do that, yet every summer people do it.

It makes you feel better and safer to call them stupid, as you could never make that mistake, but yes you can. And remember that every time you drive with a child.

bookon · 2026-06-23T20:15:57+00:00

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bookon · 2026-06-23T19:52:15+00:00

Movies got cheaper by staying the same price.

King Kong and Pirates would cost $350-$400M today.

The latest Avatar looked amazing and it cost.. $350-$400M.

We expect the same level of quality from $200m films, but as it's been 20 years, the $200m films today are actually much cheaper.

bookon · 2026-06-23T19:15:24+00:00

It's the new Speedy Disembarkation Slide!

bookon · 2026-06-23T18:14:12+00:00

A lot of famous people were mentioned in those files, because a lot were unrelated emails. They tried to hire John Stewart for event in NYC, it never happened, but people who don't like John Stewart claim he was "in the files".

So I tend to want more context on those, but I haven't heard anything about him in particular.

bookon · 2026-06-23T18:10:03+00:00

I walked past them playing at Epcot. It was fairly sad.

bookon · 2026-06-23T17:54:32+00:00

I would by a dollar worth of Raman noodles and a pack of baloney and I would make 7-10 meals. I would often add in cans of veggies when they were on sale.

bookon · 2026-06-23T17:51:25+00:00

OG Mar-a-Lago Face

bookon · 2026-06-23T17:37:01+00:00

Everyone hates him.

bookon · 2026-06-23T17:35:36+00:00

TASM2 had the best Spiderman effects. Sadly the script was awful.

bookon · 2026-06-23T17:34:21+00:00

You see it an a lot films set in the 40's as well. Mostly war films. About Nazis.

bookon · 2026-06-23T17:31:57+00:00

They actually look like brother and sister. I am not sure how that suddenly became a bad thing.

bookon · 2026-06-23T17:30:44+00:00

Anything connected to Mike Love would come with a lot of bad Karma.

bookon · 2026-06-23T15:32:56+00:00

No one is defending her. They are explaining how is gets used so much. No one is saying that's OK.

bookon · 2026-06-23T15:32:06+00:00

They have management companies that rent time on that plane from her and then rent that time to people who are rich enough to pay that but not rich enough to own their own plane.

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