My god, that’s perfect! Wait, no, I’m perfect!

I understand that being comfortable in one’s own skin means being comfortable with being average, but… Can’t I also be amazing and the best and like, so cool? Why can’t I be well adjusted and also perfection incarnate?

I think this is the best take, just like Trump he’s willing to say any old bullshit to get his way. I’m unwilling to call it charisma, I’d rather go with mythomania.

A lot of people from the city have second homes there, vacation spots. Maybe that can explain it?

With a blue shirt and a glove then there’s some leeway

The area’s grey in a TSA lane

To impress a chick, helicopter frisk

Helicopter frisk

Helicopter frisk

Wooooooow

And mother 3. Dear God, mother 3.

There’s good reason for that, outside of a few industries, American unions were pretty comprehensively dismantled by the likes of Reagan. We’re resilient creatures, we’ll tolerate a lot before burning out, but people will also demand better conditions if they’re shown they can have a say. We just don’t have many contemporary examples of workers wielding that kind of power in the states. The guilds in the movie industry are a steadfast counterexample, though, and united auto workers have been showing some muscle recently. There’s no denying it’s a really tough battle, but people will fight back if they’re given some hope.

For some reason this immediately reminded me of Van Damme’s truck commercial?

Disregarding clinicallydepressedpoochie’s weird blend of a hero complex and defeatist puritanism, the concept of one big union organizing strikes across trades and states, while never really successful, did play a significant part in galvanizing workers and popularizing unions. Even in smaller countries where general strikes are more common, they remain isolated events, but they do a lot to promote the potential unions have in giving workers a voice, and grow unions’ ranks by increasing enrollment.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M-0TB9JMpdE&t=64s

Assez d’accord, le film respire un manque de connaissance de tout ce qui a trait aux jeux vidéos, au virtuel, un peu comme s’il reprenait l’idée qu’on se faisait du cybernétique à l’époque de neuromancer. Je pense que Cronenberg était un peu trop vieux, ou trop peu impliqué dans son sujet, pour réussir ce film.

Both can be true.

And then NY and SF are 5th and 6th with 36%… Did AI write this?

I was smoking at 12 in France in 1999, I told tobacconists I was buying them for my mom. Pulled the same thing off in the states when I moved there 2 years later. And I was far from alone. These are far more recent (terrible, obviously) habits than you might think.

That’s actually not true, ‘ground apple’ is a common name for different sorts of tubers in a number of different languages, going back to the latin ‘malum terrae’.

We think that of all morons in positions of power, because it’s difficult to fathom how they got there otherwise. Despite all the proof to the contrary, we continue to think meritocracy is a thing. The prosperity gospel is one of the more overt expressions of that belief: if you’re rich, it’s obviously because you’re just the best, smartest little cookie and you deserve it all. What other reasons could there possibly be?

Why thank you.

I’ve been saying the same thing the entire time

This is hibiscus sabdariffa

The picture you posted is of the wrong species, which I assume is why you were confused.

The calyx is red (and the petals are yellow/white) on hibiscus sabdariffa, which is the species they use commercially.