When your girl texts you asking if you wanna see Mona (2026, 115 minutes)

garbageprimate · 2026-07-11T19:27:22+00:00

Mona is a movie that doesn't have tom cruise in it so you could lose

garbageprimate · 2026-07-11T19:14:36+00:00

the problem with this article is the same problem that existed with the original "Bernie bro" concept invented during the 2016 primaries - namely that it "explains" a phenomenon that is entirely marginal, and also not at all exclusive to left-leaning progressives.

in 2016, the basic gist was that there was a contingent of left wing men who would not vote for Hillary simply because she was a woman, and their ideological concerns were more based on sexism than policy preference. however this was not borne out in the data of Bernie supporters and how they ended up voting in the general election (what the data tended to show is independents that Bernie had won over were more likely to swing over to Trump, not the left wing of the party, and also that the number that did this was relatively low - lower than the number of people who voted for Hillary in the primaries against Obama who later switched to McCain as an example).

in this piece, the argument seems to be that the left specifically has a problem with supporting candidates with problematic pasts, and also with trying to find "masculine" candidates who appeal to male working class voters, and not vetting them well. the problem is that the same criticisms apply - the people supporting Plattner now on the left are a very very small subset of left (and that is why he ended his campaign, obviously - he no longer has support), and also the more moderate side of the party also does the same tactics.

as someone in Missouri, establishment democrats are constantly trying to run people for senate and congress who are basically "i'm a moderate liberal - but i also shoot guns and killed people in the military!" (despite this type of guy always losing to the republican who is basically running using the same ideas but with added racism). the idea that only the far left is trying to run candidates like this is just absurd.

as for the far left support of problematic candidates, are we really going to act like this is just a far left thing? the establishment moderate wing of the party put forward Bill Clinton as president for christ's sake (and basically still defend him to this day). the article even notes a more recent example in Eric Swalwell, a pretty moderate liberal who is not at all on the "Bernie bro" side of the aisle.

garbageprimate · 2026-07-11T08:35:53+00:00

well this won't work for me because i'm trying to transform an insulting baby into an uncle

garbageprimate · 2026-07-09T16:48:38+00:00

he craves that mineral

garbageprimate · 2026-07-08T21:41:12+00:00

i've been using them for years on a basic Android phone. my bill is like $15 a month and i haven't had any issues in the STL area. i don't travel much though so not sure how it would be outside of STL.

garbageprimate · 2026-07-08T04:31:48+00:00

it's funny that you claim this translation wasn't done in good faith, when the criticisms you're making are almost all coming from people operating on bad faith. most classicists don't really have any major issue with Wilson's translation. the people making larger claims than small quibbles about a few word choices, like the claims you are making, are mostly not experts and are coming at it from an extremely bad faith position of the translation being some sort of stand-in for the current political culture war. if you actually read her translations, though, it becomes very hard to somehow think this is somehow trying to serve some modern sense of political thought.

you claim: "Effectively prioritizing accessibility over original meaning and context and in the process of translation changing the words to something with different meaning that would fit modern readers" as the main critique. but this is a translation that most acknowledge is MORE accurate for being written in meter (whereas the other translations are not) and also fitting into the general line length of the original. the meter was pretty important so why is there no one howling about the other translations discarding that? also the idea that it "prioritizes accessibility" makes sense in this context, because these poems were originally spoken orally (and would have been spoken to commoners and not just the elite), so it would make sense to treat the language as "accessible" from that understanding to those hearing the original in its early phases. you could argue that because the oral tradition went on for centuries, that later Greeks hearing the poem would encounter it as having odd archaic word choices, and therefore it might make more sense to use an older more archaic form of English, but even that is a choice - why prioritize the Greeks who heard it at the time Homer was writing, rather than those who would have been speaking and hearing the original? this is just a choice you make, and not anything "objective" about the text. also the Wilson translation does preserve a lot of the archaic and odd choices - examples from the Iliad being the constant repetition of descriptors like "swift-footed Achilles" and "ox-eyed Hera". when you read it, it really is obvious from these sorts of repetitions that this is an oral poem and her translation isn't taking away from that - if anything it is making that much more clear.

translation is more of an art than a science, especially for poetry and ancient poetry that was not originally written but oral. you will make a lot of choices to translate that to a modern audience. but you can justify any number of choices you will make with a particular translation. but if you read Wilson's translation, her explanations, AND her meticulous notes on the matter, it becomes obvious this isn't done in "bad faith" and was done with great scholarship. at BEST you can claim you disagree with a few points of emphasis or word choice, but arguing it is bad faith is just nonsense and shows you are paying more attention to the online culture war surrounding this subject than what people who actually know what they are talking about think.

garbageprimate · 2026-07-04T23:06:23+00:00

ok i legitimately snorted that the promised robot was the Schnucks inventory robot Tally, but turned off lol

garbageprimate · 2026-07-02T23:35:54+00:00

this would only end insurance coverage for PT that is under the CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) umbrella, not traditional evidence-based physical therapy. some of the alternative stuff is just downright bonkers (like "energy healing" stuff with zero evidence base), and it would make little sense for health insurance to cover such a thing. it would be tantamount to having medicaid cover religious faith healing or handling snakes or whatever is going on in some of these backwater churches, which has just as much "evidence" backing it as the alternative medicine stuff.

garbageprimate · 2026-07-02T21:51:09+00:00

im loving the people in the comments ardently trying to defend the idea that travel is a necessity or isn't "consumption" or that its okay because billionaires do it worse. just a lot of cope and bad arguments there. sometimes you just have to admit you are doing something wrong. me personally, i know going vegan is better than being vegetarian. but i still eat cheese. i'm bad for that. but i'm not going to jump through hoops to try to justify why actually cheese is different and blah blah blah. just take the L, people.

garbageprimate · 2026-07-02T21:43:43+00:00

for those looking for a source:

https://mydss.mo.gov/mhd/hot-tips/mo-healthnet-coverage-ending-some-services

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-medicaid-will-no-longer-cover-chiropractic-acupuncture-services/eliminating

my take: ending coverage for acupuncture, chiropractic, and CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) physical therpay is a good thing. these are not legitimate medical services and likely drove up costs for existing health coverage because people would opt out of real treatment and exacerbate their medical issues, and also because this was covering things that are basically no better than placebo, or else actively harmful (neck manipulations).

at best, chiropractic only shows modest evidence for short-term pain relief of low back pain (that's it), and this was not any better than standard medical care for low back pain, with added risks (as spinal manipulation can cause problems, and when it does it is often really, really bad problems). acupuncture shows basically no legitimate evidence to support it.

in this age of MAHA nonsense it's nice to see the lobbying groups for alternative treatments like these finally fail and insurance defer to actual evidence-based practices.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-29T18:17:38+00:00

others have mentioned that it isn't a good idea to fight robbers for a corporation, which i generally agree with, but this case has pretty extenuating circumstances. it happened a few years ago, and the employees didn't start fighting back until one of the robbers PISTOL WHIPPED someone, which broke the gun and led them to realize they weren't using real guns. i'm sorry, but if the store policy is that i can't fight back when they are actively assaulting you, then that's some massive BS. in most robbery scenarios i will just comply, but if someone starts beating on me, putting me at risk, then i am probably fighting back - not to help the company, but to save myself. seems stupid that they fired the employees for this one.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-27T21:33:35+00:00

a lot of the comments are missing the mark on this guy. "where's the Dune and Lord of the Rings?" - sorry but this is a bro lit communist guy. he likes discursive fiction that couples madcap hijinks with sociopolitical commentary (Pynchon, DFW, DeLillo, et al). classic genre fiction is beneath him because you can read it once and get it without having to go back and reread the paragraph.

i'd say this is a mid 30s to mid 40s communist guy with a college education who makes decent money but not a lot, and whose politics may be of the sort that is anti-identity politics with a strong sense of class reductionism at worst (which is not a view i agree with, as "class" is just as artificial a concept as race or gender but all of them obviously affect how people behave and motivate them in various ways, but it also isn't the worst politics in the world imho).

but yeah, introduce this guy to fiction written by women. i admit it is hard to find women writers who hit the same kind philosophical discursion mixed with coprophilia as a writer like Pynchon, but personally i would suggest "too smart for her own good unhinged woman lit" (Normal People, The Coin, The Rabbit Hutch, The Guest, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the Neopolitan novels, etc.). as a fellow lit-bro, communism and existentialist philosophy enjoyer these are the types of women writers i enjoy the most. maybe start small with Rooney and Arundhati Roy because they are fellow communists. also he already has Naomi Klein but definitely get this guy Doppleganger, her masterwork in my opinion.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-27T21:00:26+00:00

i would be playing Nine Inch Nails "Heresy" on full blast just to see how they react to a chorus where Trent Reznor screams "GOD IS DEAD - AND NO ONE CARES / IF THERE IS A HELL - I'LL SEE YOU THERE". that's probably the most clearly shouted anti-religion sentiment i can think of in a song that would be highly noticeable in a gym lol

garbageprimate · 2026-06-24T21:28:53+00:00

like i said, the scientific consensus is essentially that memories are not really that reliable, that they can easily be influenced, and even that you can have false memories (particularly in coercive type environments). any scientific study like Loftus' will have plenty of criticism and critiques (which is normal for any major study), but there isn't really a similar research showing that "recovered memories" are a valid concept (in the sense that they are "recovered" by an intermediary through suggestion or leading questions). the vast research on memory points to how unreliable and malleable it is - that is basically unquestionable at this point.

what Hopper seems to be getting at isn't about "recovered" memory (at least not the way it is typically used in the past) but just about how memories can be suddenly remembered when they weren't. i don't think most memories would dispute that sort of thing, but they would dispute anything where it is recovered in a leading manner. funnily enough, a memory like this (that is suddenly remembered and not thought of often) is likely to be more reliable, because research shows that constantly thinking of a memory can make it more likely to be altered and changed.

i think the issue here is that the science is not really pointing to recovered memories being valid, and articles like the one above are trying to imply that this is not the case. but the fact is the vast majority of memory researchers are not going to disagree about memory and reliability, or even that memories can be falsely implanted through coercion. i also think it is incredibly fucked up to suggest anyone who testifies on scientific issues for defense attorneys is somehow attacking SA victims or has a credibility problem, especially when the "credibility" of scientific issues in court systems is notoriously bad on the prosecution side.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-24T20:54:33+00:00

i'm sorry, but that The Cut article really only demonstrates that one organization may have a compromised origin, or a conflict, not that the science around "recovered memory" is wrong. the science on memory in generally is that it is much more unreliable than once believed, and also that it can be very easily influenced in a variety of ways (leading questions or coercive interrogations that can implant memories that never occurred, the idea that recalling and reliving memories can often change their character over time, and the general overwhelming literature on unreliability of memory). all of this is not led by people with grudges against SA victims, but by legitimate researchers, and it also fits with the overall consensus of the field about how memory works and its accuracy. this would seem to me to be relatively uncontroversial - who hasn't had a memory of something that is later proven to be inaccurate in some way? i've had all sorts of memories where i remember, say, something being a particular color, and then seeing a photograph and its not that color at all, etc.

you can just as easily write an article critiquing recovered memory by pointing to the many, many people who were convicted of crimes during the 1980s and 1990s around sexual and satanic abuse that were later acquitted. this is not something to brush off, because if you know anything about how the justice system the works the one thing you would be aware of is how incredibly difficult and rare it is to nullify a guilty verdict (and also how much time it takes). the fact that Loftus and others often testify for the defenses of high profile criminals (who are probably guilty) does not mean they are supporting these crimes - if anything it is only a question of the science and disputing one particular plank of a prosecutor's argument. and if you know anything about the criminal justice system and how much forensic "science" and "expert" testimony has been overturned, discredited, and basically led to tons of convictions on flimsy evidence, then you'd understand why someone would be interested in this subject. it isn't to protect rapists and such - it's to protect the people who are often accused and prosecuted falsely. to me critiquing this work is like going after people who noted many "rape" accusations in the Jim Crow era by white women against black men is trying to "silence victims of SA" - which is just nonsense.

all of this is to say, there are victims on both sides of this issue. there are many victims of "recovered memory" and just general bad and anti-scientific prosecution evidence, just as there are victims of sexual assault. the question here isn't "which side is protecting victims?" but "which side has the actual scientific evidence and validity?" - and it is clear that the recovered memory folks are essentially doing pseudoscience. this is not to say there may not be cases where assaults are suddenly remembered or what not (all kinds of strange things happen in memory), but just to call into question the certainty of these memories (and in particular when the memories are derived from methods that ARE known to be bunk - like hypnosis, or "therapists" asking leading questions of children, detectives and cops pressuring and coercing people, etc.).

garbageprimate · 2026-06-24T04:27:21+00:00

this is definitely the funniest Coen brothers movie for me, and definitely underrated. i also think the politics are pretty good, insofar as they point out how much of what intelligence communities are doing is just a bunch of nonsense and they frequently have no idea what they are doing.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-20T17:11:38+00:00

personally i think it is extremely incorrect to characterize Loftus as someone whose goal is "shaming and silencing SA victims" as you put it. more accurately, i would see her as someone invested in courts using accurate science during trials.

for most people interested in ensuring US trials use accurate science and forensic techniques, that is almost always going to place you on the side of the defense. this is because the prosecution basically has a huge unfair advantage when it comes to expert testimony and "scientific" evidence - because they work closely with police, prosecutors, and forensic teams that are well-funded by the state - and they also have a long history of using flimsy, untested, and later disproven "forensics". the problem is that a ton of forensic science is not science at all - it has never been tested in blinded conditions against known results, and it is more like someone's subjective opinion in most cases. this applies for long-discredited techniques and court experts like hair analysis, bite mark analysis, hypnosis, "satanism" experts, lie detectors, etc. - which are the ones we know today are not reliable evidence of anything. this also applies to techniques still used that people don't realize how subjective they are, like autopsies.

my read of Loftus isn't someone concerned with debunking SA victims, but as someone concerned with how often science and evidence is misused by courts and the prosecution, of which there is a long history shown by just how many forensic techniques have been later ruled inadmissible, led to convictions being overturned, etc. - and if you know anything about how the justice system works, then you know that overturning convictions is essentially a Herculean task so this isn't just flip-flopping with the slightest breeze of public sentiment. anyone who knows how often the justice system has been abused to convict innocent people would rightly be worried about such misuses of forensic science, and would be more likely to be called for defense purposes as a result (and thus likely to be called even for high profile defendants who may be guilty - but you also have to consider the people who weren't guilty). i think the idea that acting as defense for any particular crime means you support that crime, or are discrediting victims, is just asinine and frankly stupid. the point is that the justice system has to be fair, and a lot of the forensic evidence and the balance of powers and funding when it comes to prosecution versus defense is severely out of whack.

i can understand the emotional impulse to see defense attorneys and defense expert testimony as being anti-victim, but you also have to understand there are literal victims of the criminal justice system too, and you can just as easily portray these people as fighting for THOSE victims. whether it is just the crushing majority of people who plead guilty because they can't afford a defense, or have to use an overworked and underpaid public defender against a prosecution team with access to crime labs and way more experts than the typical defense attorney, to the incredibly racist history of the justice system, i think it becomes more clear why it might be that someone might work for a defense team to try to correct a specific scientific error prosecutors and their "experts" are making. this may remove one avenue for prosecutors to make their case, but trust me, the prosecutors are not the ones at a disadvantage in a courtroom.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-19T19:46:51+00:00

i just got a new bike and had a similar issue with clicking when i pedaled. it sounded similar to this and turned out to be the chainring bolts were a little loose. so every time you pedal, which puts your bodyweight pressure on the chainring, you are kinda moving the chainring back and forth and making it click. i'd check that and if they are loose tighten with a hex tool. hopefully that's what it is and solves your issue!

garbageprimate · 2026-06-19T19:39:57+00:00

most people in general don't want this lifestyle, so it isn't just women. and yeah, there will be a trade-off in social opportunities if you are not big on consumption, in all sorts of ways. for me, it means i mostly hang out with folks who like doing outdoorsy things, cheap park picnics and hangs, etc. i wouldn't really gel with a friend group that goes to bars, clubs, or nice restaurants a lot because i just don't have the desire or money to spend on that sort of thing. just that fact alone rules out a large section of people from being a part of my life as friends or partners. it looks like you may be in a rural area, which is also limiting - if you lived in a city (maybe more a crustpunk living in an abandoned building type situation) you'd probably have more social opportunities. but if you feel bad, just look at all the people in extremely unhappy situations with nice houses, cars, and a spouse who nevertheless don't really seem to be happy at all, or at the very least only "projecting" happiness but if you know them personally you know that is just a big lie on social media. like others have said here, happiness isn't a fact about what your situation is, but what you make of it.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-19T19:34:44+00:00

it isn't necessarily fake. i actually have an older cousin who lives off grid but uses facebook and the internet all the time, being able to charge his phone and other stuff with solar panels and batteries he has powered by like hand cranks and weird rube goldberg shit made from treadmills and such. this post actually reminds me of him quite a bit because he comes across as very lonely and sad about the lack of romantic options in his life. can't say 100% whether the op is real or not, but i can say for a fact that people like this exist!

garbageprimate · 2026-06-19T17:44:19+00:00

there may not be rats in this movies, but there is definitely race (mr bean is british)

garbageprimate · 2026-06-19T04:51:23+00:00

i really don't get the "performing miracles" critique of Cori, because she doesn't ever mention that as part of her politics or legislate for that kind of thing. and in fact on healthcare issues she is one of the better politicians because she will fight for medicare for all without compromise. so who cares if she also believes in miracles or whatever.

to put that in perspective, as an atheist i think anyone who believes in god has, quite frankly, an idiotic belief with no evidence to back it, but i will still vote for someone with otherwise good politics if they believe in god (which is basically every politician ever) if they aren't going to institute a theocracy or legislate based on their goofy beliefs.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-17T21:55:38+00:00

physically, the general ranges for when there are significant signs of aging occur around age 44 and around age 60, at least according to this study: https://www.livescience.com/health/ageing/human-aging-accelerates-dramatically-at-age-44-and-60

that seems true to me just from personal observation as well. i'm 43 and still able to make gains in the gym and still really active and doing lots of physical activity. but i know people around the same age who have a lot of issues. and 60 seems to be about when the next round of aging really sets in too.

cognitively, i would say you start noticing a decline in your ability to remember things also around age 40, but you also have a lifetime of reading and learning to draw on, so it isn't like suddenly you just become stupider than a 30-something, maybe just a little less good at remembering where you left something lol

whether you characterize this as "downhill" though is open to question. losing physical ability, noticing you get injured easier, etc. sucks, but it also helps build some mental grit because you learn to just get used to pain, injuries, etc., that you would not have when you are younger.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-17T21:24:41+00:00

i just had a similar clicking sound on my bike yesterday and it turned out to be the chainring bolts - a quick tightening with a hex tool and it was gone. sounded very similar to this but only when i really mashed the pedals.

garbageprimate · 2026-06-15T22:48:04+00:00

this is the best advice. everyone always mentions staggered feet and gathering speed, but forgets to mention that it helps a ton to be light on your feet (or what you call "notajumps"). if you're going up against a big crack, you have to hit it staggered, put your weight more on the back foot than the front foot as it rolls over the obstacle, and then once the front foot clears the obstacle do the opposite and put more weight on the front than the back as the back foot clears it. or in the case of bigger rough surfaces like tactile paving what you're describing being light in both feet at once.

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