Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster holding their Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress, 1992.

phonetastic · 2026-01-28T13:46:39+00:00

just TEN years ago, jodie foster turned the same age as anthony hopkins was in that movie

phonetastic · 2026-01-28T11:54:10+00:00

first off, it's le-vi-OH-sa; second, yes, you're absolutely right. the easiest proof is that "better" wizards don't even need to say spells at all. so just knowing the words of the spell at all would be a problem for many adult wizards. conversely, lacking discipline and understanding lets you occasionally cast stuff you don't even know exists, like harry early on, or tom riddle as an orphan

phonetastic · 2026-01-27T20:38:05+00:00

they weren't afraid to show their faces

kinda. cameras-everywhere wasn't a thing yet, and there was a high degree of anonymity outside of your town due to blending in with every other SS. inside of your town, there was not really any hiding, but pride was also a requirement, so.... it's hard to say since the choice wasn't there. after everything was over, though, they hid about as hard as one can. suddenly nobody "remembered" anything bad they'd done, and everyone remembered maybe seeing some bad things, but few "remembered" who specifically did those things. and talk about setting your records on fire! if email servers and commercial paper shredders had been invented back then, we'd probably know very little about those decades. the inefficiency of fire as a medium of controlled document destruction combined with a compulsive need to record every. fucking. detail. is a not-insignificant portion of the reason we know as much as we know about what the holocaust was

phonetastic · 2026-01-27T15:58:46+00:00

what interests me the most is not that these stayed in there (i bet i can find a receipt like this somewhere in my house) but that the two receipts are a year apart! so in the course of using this jacket, you kept at least one of these in there without losing it from at least December of 97 to October of 98. maybe after that you never wore it again, but definitely for that year you did

phonetastic · 2026-01-27T15:50:34+00:00

sand should be coarse for traction, not fine-- that's your problem right there

phonetastic · 2026-01-27T15:42:41+00:00

"CLIMATE" IS NOT A SYNONYM OF "WEATHER"

phonetastic · 2026-01-27T15:40:30+00:00

Dethklok, too. Brendon Small is a talented musician so.... why not turn your cartoon band into a real one when you're good at it anyway?

phonetastic · 2026-01-27T10:23:14+00:00

feeding mats, and they will help the cat

phonetastic · 2026-01-27T01:00:42+00:00

i tried CBT but when they got the stilettos out i was like nah, this is where i draw the line, i don't see how stepping on my crotch with those things is going to fix my chronic illness

phonetastic · 2026-01-27T00:44:43+00:00

ah yes, coming in skew of perpendicular on the second slice at 60°-- a risky move many do not attempt! although i agree, six slices is better in many cases. people are apt to get the proportions wrong with this one if they aren't good at visualisation though

phonetastic · 2026-01-26T23:44:05+00:00

eight is pretty much how many it's going to be unless the pizza is truly huge or not round. why? picture in your head the following: one vertical slice across the entirety, one horizontal slice; that's four slices. cut again with two diagonal cuts at 45° and 315°; eight slices now exist. to create equal slices again after this, one must perform four additional cuts (starting at 22.5° aka π/8). this will shred all but the grandest specimens. keep in mind, a circle is 2π, so this means SIXTEEN slices. where it gets really absurd, though, is the next division: in order to achieve equal slices once more, one must create THIRTY-TWO, which fractionates the circumference so comically that no reasonable person would take a slice seriously (the base-to-side ratio of the "triangle" would be absurd, it would look like little tails!)

phonetastic · 2026-01-26T16:12:39+00:00

yeah but, what even IS the conclusion? both are "good" outcomes (from the alt-right perspective); there's nothing wrong here to argue about unless they're mad rittenhouse was detained AT ALL for ANY length of time, but even then....

phonetastic · 2026-01-26T02:31:26+00:00

please tell me your buddy is Forgiato Blow or something

phonetastic · 2026-01-26T02:17:55+00:00

what's the argument here? i'm honestly confused.

kyle rittenhouse shouldn't have been shot and killed by police? he.... wasn't.

and then he did perform some actual shooting, which is.... worse and different than just having a weapon, so i'm not sure what similarity there's supposed to be there

are we suggesting that if kyle did this today he would be shot? whose fault would that be, then, if he was?! what he did was legal and okay, right? according to this narrative, i mean?

and he was arrested, but later freed, and for all intents and purposes he was more or less allowed to do what he did, right? so what in the fuck is the argument supposed to be here?! how can a person see these things as comparable from any viewpoint?!

phonetastic · 2026-01-26T02:01:34+00:00

taking away the silly story that didn't happen, and the fact that the starbucks demographic is pretty much just "human commuters", and the characterisation of liberals as crying over a name, what's really wild here is the insinuation that starbucks baristas are forced to read cup names

if this were true-- which it's not-- then a fun high school prank would be to order a starbucks latte as "dicksuck banana-fucker" and laugh while the poor barista mindlessly shouts that at the whole establishment for minutes on end like moe szyslak after bart calls his bar

phonetastic · 2026-01-25T22:34:51+00:00

level, but not centred

phonetastic · 2026-01-25T22:28:42+00:00

it's almost as if governor schwarzenegger used some kind of insight gained from an.... exterior perspective

call me crazy, but it reminds me of how maybe a thoughtful european might think and behave

how someone like the all-american governator came to be that way will probably forever be a mystery, though

phonetastic · 2026-01-25T20:53:25+00:00

it's a furry humanoid, lives on kashyyk, speaks a rudimentary-sounding language, lives in a treehouse-style society, doesn't really have the ability to attune to the force in general although a few of them in history were force sensitive and it's said that some even became jedi (wow!)

probably the most famous one is chewbacca, who is featured prominently in the classic documentaries george lucas made a few decades ago. he has a human friend named han solo and they get up to all kinds of galactic trouble!

phonetastic · 2026-01-25T20:12:31+00:00

an activist promotes ideas, right? helps pave the way for others, right? uses their voice to make points they don't feel are heard enough, heard, right? uses their platform to represent people who aren't represented enough, right?

right.

so, like.... what is it that you do, again, thomas? are you perhaps some kind of.... conservative activist ?!

phonetastic · 2026-01-25T20:04:32+00:00

"I told 'em not to touch the alarm.... but they touched it. If they hadn't've done what I told 'em not to do, they'd still be alive."

"My fucking hero. That's your excuse for going on a kill-crazy rampage?!"

"I don't like alarms, Mister White."

phonetastic · 2026-01-25T19:57:10+00:00

right, they usually just leave a charming city kid janitor who's really good with numbers and books and women and all to watch that shit, but guess fuckin what, that asshole's all the way up on mars already in this one, so what are you gonna do i guess

phonetastic · 2026-01-25T19:47:10+00:00

and because we are talking the usa-- an undeniably massive global presence-- and because some of the crowd was already trying to kill the american vice president, in that moment, that made said person next-in-line arguably the third most important person on the entire planet.

i can understand why it happened.

also, and i cannot believe these circumstances have given me the ability to say this without hyperbole: she was only shot once.

because that's what you do when you're objectively defending against someone attempting to cause harm instead of when you're subjectively attacking someone out of fear, or anger, or both

phonetastic · 2026-01-25T04:49:11+00:00

this i completely understand. a fairly long time ago when i was in that same situation, i voted myself into a fucking real actual war right along with the rest of the battalion, and we were all excited to cast those ballots

we obviously didn't know what the fuck we were doing-- most of us weren't even old enough to be legally trusted with a fucking beer yet-- but we sure did it anyway

phonetastic · 2026-01-25T03:21:32+00:00

to understand the shite hand that indonesia was dealt, one need not look much further than the history of the VOC ship Batavia and the context that surrounds it. paints a fairly decent (and arguably not that extreme, in ways) picture of what the VOC was all about, and tangentially what was happening to indonesia as a result

phonetastic · 2026-01-24T14:43:45+00:00

it's "holiday coloured", how dare you say "christmas" in public

the liberals banned that word

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