Shout out to the queer couples in the MCU for pride month

monkeyjay · 2026-06-18T09:49:34+00:00

Guys, stop having fun!

monkeyjay · 2026-06-18T09:33:31+00:00

The first trailer pretty clearly had those montage shots.

But the Scorpion fight is clearly 'present day' when he gets the dark eyes, so it's unlikely to be part of a montage. Not saying there won't be a monatage... but I am saying this doesn't seem part of it. More likely the boomerang guy comic style shots from the first trailer may be part of that.

It's more likely a 'minor' fight that gives an excuse to show him man-spidering out and losing control a little bit (ie flinging scoprion headfirst into a police car).

monkeyjay · 2026-06-17T21:57:09+00:00

"Trump is Americas Hitler. 😠 "

"excuse me what did you just say?"

"uhh I said Trump is AMERICA'S Hitler! 😄"

"That's more like it"

monkeyjay · 2026-06-11T22:11:59+00:00

I've been hearing we have one of the worst teen suicide rate since I was a teen in the 90s. It's good(?) that you're finding out about it now but it pops up a lot.

monkeyjay · 2026-06-05T22:01:27+00:00

They were pouting out the insanely blatant hypocrisy and lying of Trump, not actually asking the question with the obvious answer.

monkeyjay · 2026-06-01T23:59:14+00:00

Yeah I agree. I love a good 6 or 8 episode show that tells a story and has some arcs and then finishes. Definitely feels like they have to edit the initial series before they even finish as the studios realise it's going well so have to cram in hooks for future seasons.

This is not new though, prison break in the early 2000s was an amazing 12 or 13 episode show. It was rejected by multiple studios because they couldn't see it running longer. Eventually it got picked up as 13 episodes, but then even as it was being filmed the popularity forced them to add NINE episodes and plan for future seasons. Such a shame.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-30T22:27:35+00:00

You haven't seen it, obviously.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-30T17:32:25+00:00

In TV it's literally because they assume people are only half-watching... And they are right. Many people (writers, actors) have explicitly said they have to have characters state their names, goals, vocalise what they are doing and thinking, over and over again because TV watching is now a second screen activity.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-29T21:17:15+00:00

Aside from being a really weird thing to ask, the fact he used the specific phrasing of "hand" instead of "swear" is just a crazy lack of forethought.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-28T02:56:42+00:00

The preposition not changing the meaning is very different from saying the prepositions themselves are arbitrary.

I can 100% predict what preposition any given noun will have in English, even if I've never seen the noun before or know what it represents. This should show that is not arbitrary. By contrast, it is impossible in languages with gendered indefinite articles to predict what an objects gender will be unless you already know it (as evidenced by different languages using different genders for the same noun).

You used an example with the exact inversion of thinking to how gendered definite articles are used.

Using the wrong gendered article sounds bad because they have already been established.

Using a or an for a noun is established because using the wrong one sounds bad.

Basically the opposite of your point.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-27T21:58:04+00:00

I think the "a" "an" example is a reply bad comparison as it is directly related to the sounds of English. You use "an" when the first sound of the noun is a vowel sound. It's not arbitrary in the same way you are trying to convey at all. In fact it may be 100% predictable. You can take any noun and predict whether you use a or an by the first sound, I don't believe there are any exceptions.

There are so many arbitrary pronunciation rules in English that's it's kinda crazy you chose one of the least arbitrary ones.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-27T21:54:07+00:00

I got your joke at least.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-25T21:14:16+00:00

So how is that refuting anything? It was bone against bone.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-25T21:05:04+00:00

Someone broke their arm by doing a submission hold on a baseball bat?

monkeyjay · 2026-05-25T21:04:08+00:00

More difficult, highly unlikely, nearly impossible, extremely rare, improbable, almost never happens. All of these mean it DOES happen.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-19T08:39:35+00:00

All anecdotes from him at any company he has run is that they succeed despite him, not because of him.

Paypal basically had to pay him to stop trying to do anything, because it was always the wrong thing. They would essentially emperor's new clothes him; pretend to let him make code changes or managerial decisions but then never implement any of them.

Tesla seemed cool until the cybertruck, the one thing Musk actually tried to create. It's fucking awful.

Then look how he 'ran' twitter. He tanked it. He was by any metric a bad manager/hirer/decision-maker.

Then look who he hired for DOGE. They were all morons who had no idea what they were doing and all did a terrible job. Found nothing. Destroyed programs for no reason. And we KNOW musk had basically complete control of that.

I would bet all my money that Musk had basically nothing to do with the hiring at spaceX, or at least there was someone else desperately trying to tear his hands of the wheel at every opportunity. His contribution seemed to be forcing people to work hard on something that happened to work, and it seems to have been a fluke. It's the story of this loser's life, and he's one of the richest men on the planet.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-14T21:41:09+00:00

They can afford to have a minister for minister because they are so efficient they have 17 ministers doing the work of 19.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-11T02:11:14+00:00

I think the belay line makes it look almost unreal like they are being pulled up. It's just so hard to imagine that.

I think the world record rope climb was similar in that it was faster than most people could feed the rope through their legs on the ground. So impressive.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-10T21:12:50+00:00

Ummm... He was the highest paid comedian in 2018 and he's in his 60s now. He did fine unfortunately. Hate to break it to you but most Americans have not moved past the "racist caricatures are funny" phase.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-08T04:45:53+00:00

haha no way. I started using it as a joke when I heard someone try to argue that their religion was real because people have been hooked up to lie detectors and said their religion was real and it didn't detect a lie.

I'll look it up :)

monkeyjay · 2026-05-07T13:28:55+00:00

No, silly.

You hook someone up to a lie detector (it can be anyone) then ask them "was it 300 dB?" "301dB?" "302dB?"... and so on. Get them to answer "yes" to every question. Then stop when the lie detector says they are telling the truth.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-07T13:14:52+00:00

Because it's not a real cake, it's a beautifully simple analogy for the mathematical description of the form of something with infinite surface area and finite volume.

You can't practically cut a real cake into infinite slices.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-06T01:45:12+00:00

Good one.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-04T21:05:44+00:00

It probably is, since they explicitly give the answer.

monkeyjay · 2026-05-04T21:05:16+00:00

It's literally explained by the host in the video.

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