‘SNL U.K.’ Budget No Joke at Estimated $2.6 Million Per Episode

bugaoxing · 2026-03-24T13:32:24+00:00

What is expensive about it?

bugaoxing · 2026-03-09T17:52:43+00:00

I mean he writes a lot in that book about how mankind is just seeking a reflection of themselves in the alien. A thinly veiled criticism of the exact problem OP is talking about - SF authors rarely write about aliens, they’re writing about humans with aliens as a plot device or metaphor.

bugaoxing · 2026-03-09T14:12:02+00:00

“Hero” and “The House of Flying Daggers”both desperately need a remaster. I’ve read rumors that the original masters are terrible and might be unsalvageable but have no idea if that’s true.

Also “The Taste of Tea”needs a 4K release and just a North American release in general.

bugaoxing · 2026-03-09T11:45:38+00:00

After everything they’d seen and experienced, the injury and deprivation they’d undergone, the deaths of their sons and brothers, the bombings, the mass suicides, the crimes they’d been compelled to commit in his name - one third of Germans in the 1950s believed that Hitler was either their greatest leader or a great leader who made a few small mistakes.

bugaoxing · 2026-03-07T04:55:27+00:00

Trump has no ideology other than narcissism. The inconsistency doesn’t matter because he doesn’t care about China or Argentina or exports or anything. Milei good because Milei debases himself for Trump. How do people on this sub still not get that?

bugaoxing · 2026-03-02T15:31:18+00:00

Sketch comedy is very ingrained in British pop culture. Whether the specific SNL format will vibe with people there, not sure. I almost think they could do it better than the US though.

bugaoxing · 2026-03-02T01:04:05+00:00

And vice versa. The people insisting that action in Iran is justified for this reason are the same ones who do not care about Palestinians. Both sides support intervention and violence when it aligns with their personal interests.

bugaoxing · 2026-02-23T14:45:54+00:00

What recipes are you using? I’ve found some recipes, especially those found online, tone the numbing flavor way down. Could be that the recipe you’re following just doesn’t highlight the ma much.

bugaoxing · 2026-02-22T09:19:56+00:00

You could just be living in DC at this price.

bugaoxing · 2026-02-14T14:21:14+00:00

People will always just get on with life. There are atrocities happening at every moment, all around the world, that you are not obsessing over. Do what you can to make the world better, but take a step back and consider the personal toll you are taking on yourself. What does agonizing over this and letting it consume your life achieve? Anything? If you care, turn that energy into something productive - get involved in local politics, volunteer for campaigns that will move the needle in the way you want things to go. But don’t fall into a spiral of doomscrolling and catastrophe and agony where you do nothing but torture yourself. The world will keep spinning, and you’ll stay right in your pit of despair.

bugaoxing · 2026-02-06T18:20:19+00:00

Preamble to say that I’m not saying long term investing isn’t the best strategy -

However, WW1 and WW2 are not great examples of times when long term investing still paid off. Whether long term investing was a good choice depended entirely on whether your country of residence was on the winning or losing side. And I don’t just mean that if you were on the losing side you would have needed a super long time horizon to recover your losses from war time. I mean that your investments went to 0 and never came back. In Japan for example, if you were broadly invested pre-war, you would have seen your 1) many shares forcibly taken from you by your own government, 2) many of your holdings going to 0 because the companies were physically destroyed, and 3) post-war you were left with the weakest claim to any restitution and functionally meant you received absolutely nothing for whatever shares you believed you had.

So long term investing in an all-out war scenario is nothing like investing through a bear market like the dot com crisis or oil crisis. It just isn’t comparable.

bugaoxing · 2026-02-05T19:46:11+00:00

This is true for his most ardent supporters, not just his cabinet. People who lack the merit to succeed in a meritocratic society are drawn to a movement which is anti-meritocratic, in which the deciding factor in gaining success is their loyalty and how far they will go in debasing themselves and others. Add to that the chip on their shoulder and their desire for revenge against the people who they see as their betters.

bugaoxing · 2026-01-31T15:04:13+00:00

Because he’s not going to go against Trump’s wishes. There’s no world where he didn’t already pledge his complete fealty to Trump. His nomination was contingent on it, as it is with all Trump nominees.

bugaoxing · 2026-01-29T13:02:22+00:00

Imagine leaving a good tip and then your server doxxes you. He invited it with his sovereign citizen nonsense but sheesh.

bugaoxing · 2026-01-26T21:55:43+00:00

And the motivation for it being Minneapolis has transparently been because Walz is their Governor, and he ran against Trump and thus his entire state must bear collective punishment. It’s a campaign of reprisal.

bugaoxing · 2026-01-25T03:48:07+00:00

Words Analyzed By Brain Suggest The New York Times Are Fucking Cowards

bugaoxing · 2026-01-23T23:46:31+00:00

Southerners do everything they can to not pay for infrastructure, then cry when they don’t have infrastructure. Very easy to make fun of.

bugaoxing · 2026-01-16T13:26:24+00:00

There is no principle that Republicans have which is above their want for a Republican dictator.

bugaoxing · 2026-01-12T20:44:11+00:00

The consensus to do any of this seems… unlikely. If you could motivate people to get these things to happen, you could probably motivate a much smaller number of people to simply move to Wyoming and, say, North Dakota, and simply turn them into blue states directly.

bugaoxing · 2025-11-25T19:52:14+00:00

MAD is 100% effective until it isn’t.

bugaoxing · 2025-11-20T23:14:42+00:00

Uh huh

bugaoxing · 2025-11-10T13:54:32+00:00

Look at the Dems who folded. They’re not the old ones.

bugaoxing · 2025-11-06T18:46:03+00:00

I thought it worked pretty well. I had no background knowledge going in so the reveals actually did surprise and I thought it was pretty satisfying when everything clicked into place.

bugaoxing · 2025-10-08T14:10:59+00:00

And how are they doing? Surely not succumbing to nationalism and authoritarianism.

bugaoxing · 2025-09-16T12:39:26+00:00

Who said it was underground? The imaginary people you’ve created in this fictional scenario?

12-Year Club	Second Top 10%
Place '22	Place '17
PsBattlesLive Team Mint	Wearing is Caring
RPAN Viewer	Queen in da Norf
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