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Plus a classic transformation into a found family narrative, mind you. That part is fun, if found families are your thing.

Only if it's one per extremity. Like running around on your middle fingers

If you want to talk weird, each leg on a horse is actually one really long finger.

... Still haven't seen The Wire 🥲

Airbags

Gandhi. Seriously. Sleeping habits aside, dude was pro-apartheid.

I initially misread as "lecher" and was very confused.

I've always felt it doesn't solve the problem people think it's solving.

That's a whole can of worms

21 years since Morrowind

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Sorry, I'm still watching the opening sequence of motion picture, I'll let you know what I think when it's done.

/snark

But for real, I feel like the last season of Picard was finally a chance to see the TNG TV characters in action in a TNG movie.

Given the psychological effect of owning a gun, or having access to one has on a person, I honestly feel like we're in the same mental health territory as any behavioral antagonist, like leaving an addictive substance around an addict. You take a gun and put everything it means in a person's hands - the power, the mythology, the kind of baggage it comes with in this country - and it's gonna have some kind of effect.

I don't know about you, but I've witnessed, and am aware of many cases where drivers of certain kinds of cars - big, fast, whatever - do stupid, reckless, dangerous, even murderous things because of the feeling of power and control their vehicle gives them. It's the psychology of the damn things that makes people crazy.

We have a phrase for it, oddly enough: "it's like leaving a loaded gun on the table"

It's funny, I had to reread op's comment a couple times before I realized (I think) that they aren't making the usual argument against voting - I'm so conditioned to expect it because the usual centrist/progressive discourse is black and whited to "vote" vs "don't vote." We get it from the media, bad actors, wishy-washy liberal-liberals, and... (Sigh) leftists who don't know any better.

"Vote, and" should be the message - vote and organize, vote and run for office, whatever. To your point, we need to at least keep a thumb on the gushing artery if we plan to survive.

Ugh, there's that doom ulcer again

He's so good. Too good - reading Blood Meridian was like having my face dragged across fresh gravel, but in a good way, somehow?

I read it as a post apocalyptic story, but I think mcarthy described it as a near future, non specific "ecological catastrophe," which retrospectively recolored the story for me - tipped it from "The Walking Dead, except people" to "cautionary/exploratory speculative fiction on human survival in the face of collapse," for me

They could just pay their fucking taxes so we can have trains

Well done, well done. As a meat brain, this took me down a rabbit hole of new spacetime paradoxes.

If that's the case, try The Road.

I call this my "rule of three" - I wait until I've seen "something" three times before deciding on an abstraction. Two isn't enough to get an idea of all the potential angles, and if you don't touch it a third time, it's probably not important enough to warrant the effort and risk of a refactor