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I understand why he's a threat to them, I just don't understand their battle strategy. Everything they do to attack him elevates his profile and makes actual Democrats suspicious of the oligarchs.

Sure, but again, he's the mayor. He can't set financial policy for the banks of the world. NYC has a huge administrative budget, but it ends at the five boroughs. He can't be like "All UN delegates have to end all wars." He has authority over city administrative issues, and it looks like Trump is going to go after him personally.

Important things happen in his city, and that makes him the most powerful mayor in the country. But that's like being the tallest elementary school student. And the job is a career killer. The last NYC mayor to be elected to higher office was in 1869.

So some airlines gave Trump enough money to get special treatment.

So much god-damned attention on a fucking mayoral race. Sure, it's NYC, but he's still just the mayor. Like they could have just ignored him and sapped the energy from his win, and then primaried him when his term was up.

It's just further evidence that the Democratic leadership is entirely inept.

Alternative theory, the people pulling the strings are already in control, and Trump is the useful idiot who can be the bully/lightning rod for international ire.

I never understood people who hate on the RAW. Like, it's an open concept. Make it your own. Any changes can be done at the first session, and if you have an adjustment that's better, everyone will agree and it will catch on.

This has always been the far right endgame. They don't want people to rely on government, so they make government unreliable. Citizens become more exploitable, and thus more profitable.

Someday, that old planter will become a fountain.

This is a good idea even if you don't think they will do it. When they don't do it, you can negotiate money back from the purchase to cover the cost of hiring a junk removal team. Then you can pocket the cash and do it yourself or you can pay someone else to do it.

This is funny whether it's a pet or an actual boss.

I mean, Trump went to UPenn.

Are you thinking of Penn State, or was there a pedo at UPenn, too?

Really? I think I sunk 100 hours into BOTW. I would also go with TOTK all things being equal, but I never felt like BOTW was a tech demo.

I use ostensibly a lot lately. Seems like an appropriate word for our times.

That's the level of copium I've been mainlining since his heel turn. Like I didn't want McCormick in the primary, and I definitely didn't want fucking Oz, but this is pretty bad.

You know how you have to pay extra to have insurance to pay to take care of your mouth bones and your face balls? Well, what if we did that but with all the bones and stuff? Like, why are your foot bones included in the same insurance that pays for you to have knee bones or neck giblets? Why not do all the bones and stuff a la cart? And then maybe skin can be a premium add-on. We could charge separate for the red goo that's all on the inside everywhere, and then it's like a subscription model for having parts. We can sell it like "don't pay for the parts you don't have," and people will think that they are saving money because each part costs less than the whole, but paying for everything costs more.

-some Health Insurance board member somewhere, probably.

I mean, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but you're wrong. Love and Thunder was, at minimum, a completed movie. The self-parody went way too far, and it wasted what was potentially the best villain since Loki. More Gor and less of an Australian actor trying to do a Greek accent that ended up sounding French. Also, it had screaming goats, so it was not a good movie. But it was a fully-rendered, complete film with some cool visuals and at least a semblance of an engaging story.

Jane is dying of cancer, and becoming Mighty Thor protects her but also accelerates her demise.

What about the nature of power, and who is ultimately responsible when bad things happen?

Is faith justified by the (in)actions of higher beings?

What does it mean to be "worthy"?

Love and Thunder was the third act of Thor's character arc, where he discovers what is important, and what his purpose is. Is he a hero? A king? A protector? A petulant braggart? A leader? A killer? A God? What does he really want to be? What would he wish for?

He finds the ulitmate boon, the thing he's been looking for since the first Thor movie, his life's purpose. He returns "home" fully changed and seeking new adventures not for glory, but to break the cycle of oppression sought by the powerful.

Love and Thunder is not well done, and the message is muddled, but Quantumania is just bad. There are a few funny bits, Paul Rudd is always charming, and Kang was portrayed by a good actor who may or may not be a bad person (not the point of this discussion). But it suffered from the same self-parody problem as Thor, and it didn't look good. The quantum realm wasn't interesting, the story was internally inconsistent, ants developed weapons and saved the day because time shenanigans(!?), MODOK happened and was a huge disappointment (I did laugh out loud at him becoming an Avenger), and it all looked like they were rehearsing scenes while they waited for the sets to be done being built. Quantumania was an aggressively bad movie with almost no redeeming qualities or character development. Cassie grows a bit (pun intended), and Scott learns to see her as a young adult (and, dare I say, a Young Avenger), Janet slays some of the demons from her past, Hank learns his wife was fucking tiny Bill Murray, Hope is also in the film, and Kang is set up to be the next big threat to the Avengers Multiverse (except forget that bit because reasons). The stakes could literally not be smaller.

Isn't it likely that in the microsecond after they all return to human size, the ants developed a whole new oppressive civilization using the remnants of Kang's technology and their own, subjugated all the subatomic residents, and are a potential threat to the larger universe? Kang was going to escape, why not the techno-ants?

All the post-Endgame movies and shows have been about introducing the Young Avengers lineup. Wiccan and Speed, Patriot, Hawkeye II, America Chavez, Kid Loki, plus Ms Marvel, Phyla Vell, Skaar, and Riri. Obviously Stature will be there, but I would argue that Love is set up to bring more to the table both in power set and pathos.

That's not to say Love and Thunder was a good movie. But it had good within, and isn't that what really makes us all worthy?

I sunk hours into NetHack, and I still occasionally dive into the dungeons. I also have a NES emulator on my phone, but it's just not the same. I'll play Zelda or Metroid for the nostalgia, but it's not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.

I'm glad you have data, because I was just thinking that cultural attitudes towards tattoos and nudity don't seem to be related, but I can't prove that.

.... I should start an AI company.