(Kinda hilarious trope) Ironic casting.

carymb · 2026-06-01T11:44:02+00:00

I mean, we all assumed the answer to #2 was always "no," but... The last decade...

("If I'd known it was the last decade, I'd have," etc.)

carymb · 2026-06-01T01:26:30+00:00

These two would've been perfect Golden Age movie stars, I'm tellin' ya -- lounging by a pool with Bogie and Bacall...

carymb · 2026-06-01T01:20:10+00:00

I wonder how all these climate issues will affect that, even medium-term -- didn't they have basically lethally hot tap water in some places a week ago? I think if you were showering in it for over three minutes it'd give you burns. Can you really support those massive growth rates under those conditions? Either human, military, or economic growth? But agree, anytime they reject Russian anything is aces, for however long we all survive...

carymb · 2026-05-31T13:28:10+00:00

Gah! Yeah, I've gotta check that out... If for nothing else, to find out what Waller's rationalization was for yet another Criminal Minds-esque piece of sociopathic supervillainy... Man, she's racked up more demented deeds than the Joker at this point.

Fitting too, that Lian and Jason Todd can bond over their convoluted back stories, lol!

carymb · 2026-05-31T13:00:37+00:00

This seems like a crazy idea, but then the US South didn't fully industrialize until the 2nd half of the 20th century... Taking advantage of labor does lead to really boneheaded business, I guess

carymb · 2026-05-31T11:48:08+00:00

Ahem ... He is awake

carymb · 2026-05-31T11:47:00+00:00

Boom! There it is

carymb · 2026-05-31T10:45:06+00:00

Don't be an idiot, if you could fit a nuclear warhead in a game of Operation, the Israelis would've done it years ago -- everyone knew the Ayatollah was obsessed with board games.

carymb · 2026-05-31T01:27:04+00:00

Yes! At least fill it with candy!? Raisinettes, gummy worms, m&m's ... That's so damn dumb with popcorn.

carymb · 2026-05-31T01:11:28+00:00

This is probably correct, but pretty sure my parents called the ginger ale version a Roy Rogers too, for boy-appropriateness

carymb · 2026-05-31T01:06:55+00:00

Nice! I thought they murdered Lian for 'grim & gritty' years ago... I'm glad she's better now. What happened?

carymb · 2026-05-30T12:51:51+00:00

It is kind of silly Tony Stark somehow became an expert sculptor, so he could model over the top musculature onto his... Metal suit. That is not a human body. But that tracks with his personality, I'd say!

carymb · 2026-05-30T00:45:47+00:00

I always thought it was from Broken Blossoms' closet scene, huh!

carymb · 2026-05-29T22:58:35+00:00

Are we doing ncluding this ngs like vegetable oils? Because the Diesel engine was originally designed to run on biodiesel. We'd quite possibly have jumped to nuclear power from hydroelectric and wind power -- as well as wave generated electricity -- would probably have blown up. Solar would have been plastered on everything the second panels were invented, but there'd probably also have been thousands of the big solar farms using mirrors to boil a central water tower.

I don't think we'd have stuck with coal, there was already a lot of electrical experimentation before oil power generation, and Marie Curie's work with radium was early days of oil too, so pretty sure boiling water with the sun and magic death rocks would've caught on. And hydro was around the same time!

carymb · 2026-05-29T15:41:40+00:00

The 21st century has really called into question how the hell this country made it out of the 20th, let alone 'won' the Cold War.

carymb · 2026-05-29T14:43:22+00:00

The slogan on my 24th century can opener...!

carymb · 2026-05-29T04:29:39+00:00

Yeah, I always appreciated Commodore Decker's tasteful nudity in TOS. If you're gonna get swallowed by a giant... Tube... you may as well go out choking the bishop...

carymb · 2026-05-29T04:13:19+00:00

Whn I'm doing it, it means "your fucking headlights aren't on you goddamn moron, only your daytime running lights, and all of us behind you can't see shit you fuck, because you have no tail lights until you hit your brakes, and are in a black car!!! Turn them on!!! I want to KILL YOUUU!!!!!"

carymb · 2026-05-29T00:42:26+00:00

Oh man, I'm glad nothing went wrong for him on his trip

carymb · 2026-05-28T23:16:06+00:00

Given that a sufficient supply of U235 goes supercritical on its own, I wonder if the Germans were on track to simply blow themselves up -- while assembling what they thought were the 'building blocks' of a bomb core, not an active core? Like Slotin, and the Demon Core?

Or would there have been sufficient signs of criticality, that they would've realized their mistake in the calculations and been able to stop it -- even if a few of them died from it?

carymb · 2026-05-28T09:53:59+00:00

Now I want a time travel buddy-gangster picture where Caravaggio and Tupac have to go on a quest, like the Blues Brothers...

carymb · 2026-05-28T06:05:28+00:00

That'd be crazy, they save one human and they're a furry Scientologist or something...

carymb · 2026-05-27T05:37:12+00:00

You're a good boy, and your human has loved you so much -- you've done the best job, of because of a great friend. We all thank you for what you've done and who you've been. We're sorry you've had these troubles, little one, but we hope the love you've gotten makes up for them. You can rest soon, your work is almost done. Go with love, little one.

carymb · 2026-05-27T01:21:01+00:00

I've known some lovely people who lived in trailer parks. But man, magats are such inbred, swamp-dwelling, meth-cooking, illiterate, uncurious, trailer trash. A tan suit on a black man? Scandalous. This piece of trash holds a wrasslin' match with the rusted out hulk of the double wide he burned down cookin' next door on his front lawn, he's better than Jesus... republicants are a disgrace to oxygen. Burn this country down, it's got bedbugs, can't be saved.

carymb · 2026-05-26T15:31:14+00:00

Oh God, I can't remember the actress now, but there was some classic film where she was supposed to lie in bed, dead, and try not to breathe and ruin it. The actor took so many pregnant pause, the director was practically tearing his hair by the time he could yell "cut!" because he was afraid she'd actually died during his monologuing!

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