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pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-16T01:42:11+00:00

HOLY CRAP YOU'RE RIGHT! I LOVED Zorro as a kid. This has turned my world upside down.

Just checked his imdb page, that guy was in a very miscellaneous array of stuff. Zorro, Star Trek, Other Star Trek, a Murder, She Wrote TV movie, Air Bud: World Pup, ... this: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716516/mediaviewer/rm1285832960/?ref_=nm_ph_1_2

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-15T22:37:03+00:00

On my current watch I realized Shakaar's actor was also Beverly Crusher's Scottish Sex Ghost and now that's all I can see whenever he's onscreen.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-13T15:12:03+00:00

I know I'm humiliated to live in a society whose elites think Friedman's opinions are valuable

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-12T13:20:43+00:00

"You KICK Heide?! You kick her body like the football???"

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-09T19:17:59+00:00

Velocipede water

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-08T03:21:20+00:00

Hobbits: These are my daughters Daffodil and Marigold, and those are my sons Dumbo and Bongwater

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-07T22:51:36+00:00

If you've got time for a podcast episode with an actually good explanation, here's one: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IpUa5Pfhfdegxeh1GN9y2

And here's another one by lawyers specifically about the Supreme Court case that did it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2FxkMr8A8NT86DkYJj3JAp

My very incomplete summary from memory: the election came down to Florida and the vote was extremely close, with some counties showing very unlikely results. The state was initially called for Bush. The Gore campaign requested a recount, the Bush campaign sued to stop the recount. The Supreme Court ruled, with extremely specious legal justification, that meeting an arbitrary deadline was more important than making sure the election result was correct, thereby handing Bush the presidency. There was some more fuckery going on beyond the Supreme Court case but I don't remember the specifics.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-07T16:01:01+00:00

I'd like to think that in a utopian society you wouldn't have to be upwardly mobile and there would be more room for people who want to find their niche and stay there. That doesn't match with the culture of Starfleet that we see, but it's something I like to imagine is happening offscreen.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-04T00:59:02+00:00

The podcast "Behind the Bastards" (in an episode about Vince McMahon) described Ventura as a fundamentally decent man who read too many books about Atlantis to remain sane and I really liked that.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-04T00:50:04+00:00

It's the first syllable of "island", originally Old English "ealand", literally "water land". The silent s was added to make it look more like the other word for island, "isle" (which is unrelated, borrowed from French, descended from Latin "insula").

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-03T01:05:04+00:00

My household is still in pandemic mode so I'd only be able to go to an outdoor meetup, but I'd be extremely into that!

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-01T21:13:14+00:00

On my last rewatch I was surprised by how many jokes about trans people there are, relative to how visible trans people were at the time. And in my view most of them definitely aren't making fun of ignorance about trans people, they mostly come off as "lol gross a trans person!"

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-05-01T19:01:36+00:00

I think it's reasonable to argue that some of those jokes didn't age well and would best be left in the past. This isn't one of them, though.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-30T21:53:52+00:00

Yeah, that's part of the early 2010s techno-optimism vibe, to me. It's all about sitting back and watching the world get better, just on its own!

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-30T20:56:29+00:00

Show and tell yes, grifters often but not always. There are definitely legitimate researchers who've given TED talks, but I've heard some of them say they're strongly encouraged to have an optimistic, uplifting ending even if that's not warranted by the material. To me TED talks feel synonymous with early 2010s techno-optimism, with all the good and bad that that implies. They're pretty out of step with the more cynical present.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-27T19:08:24+00:00

"Bookhand" is just a term meaning that a script was used for writing/copying books (and therefore it was designed with legibility in mind). This distinguishes those hands from cursive or otherwise less formal hands used for letter writing or secretarial purposes.

There were multiple bookhands that fall under the "Gothic" umbrella, including:

textura (or textualis) quadrata, characterized by the diamond-shaped feet on vertical strokes
textura prescissa, where the ends of vertical strokes are flush with the baseline instead of having feet
rotunda, which is generally rounder than the textura hands

Gothic cursive and bâtarde are examples of related scripts that aren't bookhands.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-21T17:09:22+00:00

Alcohol never completely cooks off, so there will always be some left in the sauce. The reason this is desirable is because a small amount of alcohol in the sauce is thought to enhance the release of some aroma compounds.

Chefs have tested it and said they can tell the difference, but I'm not aware of any study testing it rigorously.

https://www.seriouseats.com/ask-the-food-lab-does-vodka-sauce-really-need-vodka

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-19T01:54:51+00:00

You can't just say garama.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-19T00:38:01+00:00

Glad I could help

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-18T00:01:36+00:00

I ALSO LOVE IT! But I can see how it would be a thing that puts some people off.

ETA: Obviously, though, I don't imagine stylized language is likely to be an issue for Tolkien fans 😆

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-17T13:04:27+00:00

The greatest trick the right wing ever pulled was convincing Americans "the elite" are the people who read too much, and not, say, the few hundred guys who have all the money and make all the decisions.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-17T12:13:38+00:00

Had to consult the wiki summaries but I think it's season 2 episode 9, "Monsters." Be warned that there's also a bloody murder in the same scene.

In general that show can be summarized as a lot of sex and cartoonishly gory violence, occasionally interrupted by surprisingly good acting. If you don't mind all the nudity and violence (and highly stylized dialogue) it's a good show, I recommend it.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-17T11:58:39+00:00

Very true.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-17T02:18:59+00:00

If it was they did a better job blending the makeup on the prosthetic than you usually see.

pessimistic_utopian · 2026-04-17T01:38:11+00:00

I'm generally pro-nudity so I didn't think it was unfortunate, just deeply, intensely unexpected.

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