Grumpy Rootbeer

Surely not the NYT once again flipping through its Rolodex of influential and powerful people for someone to interview about politics and then pretending they're just some guy.

Man, RIP. I love Checkov of course, but Koenig will always be the evil psychic cop from Babylon 5 to me.

All I want to do is soak in the tub and watch a movie, but the house with the tub doesn't have Internet yet. My life is a tragedy.

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

Graças a Cristo

Y'all better not be BSing about Lula.

Fuck yeah, it's the least impressive film criticism gambit ever: I wanted to see a different movie about something else, therefore this movie is bad.

There's a type of online person, especially if they're some type of creator, who is entirely brainbroke by metrics. I so frequently hear the podcasters I listen to about the online right go "people don't understand how huge this guy is, he's got 300,000 subscribers!" That's nothing!

So, are conservatives getting Sand and Turek ads on their conservative political podcasts? Because I keep getting Hinson ads on my lib and leftist podcasts.

Apples are just astonishingly better than when I was a kid and what you'd get at the grocery store were either mushy red delicious or lemon-sour granny smiths.

these are automated processes. they're not little guys or whatever. this is putting a brick on the gas pedal of a semi and hoping it drives somewhere and comes back with a trailer full of gold bullion for you. this is criminal behavior

Possibly my best movie week this year. Not pictured: a Goodfellas rewatch and You Can See Everything.

Ah, Rob. All those pains to come across as conservative and down home as possible and Sarah still thinks you're a godless communist who's going to trans the kids and give her job to an *ethnic slur*.

Truly remarkable to be the sort of moron who's like "sure I'll be interviewed by the Times" only for your answer to every question be a look of dawning confusion as you realize you don't know fuck about shit.

I've had a strong suspicion for several years now that slaughterhouse and rendering plant owners are a quiet driver behind a lot of MAHA shit considering how aggressively unpopular cuts and byproducts like tallow and bone broth have been pushed in those spaces.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Pete has to have been really confused when he looked at this globe and didn't see Israel on it.

One of the things I think people are missing about You Can See Everything is that Holmes' persona was shaped by an environment (Silicon Valley VC culture) that rewards the performance of neurodivergence. Being a Big Weirdo was to her advantage until it wasn't.

Was going to continue tackling this month's scary movie classic watchlist with The Omen tonight, but Amazon shoved Hundreds of Beavers in my face, and it was honestly probably for the best because I had a blast.

*just spent thousands of dollars on various home improvement projects voice* Being a homeowner is expensive.

I am everyday so glad that neither of my parents ever got hooked on social media. I goof on the dumb procedurals she watches all day, but that's so much better than my mom scrolling Facebook and turning her brain to soup.

The home water treatment stuff makes my head hurt. All sounds like bullshit. I just want to give someone a thousand bucks to make the water palatable enough that my mother will stop spending hundreds of dollars a month on ice and bottled water

Me buying a house: Yeah, fuck yeah, whoo! Me having to make home improvements and pack on a tight time line: Well this fucking sucks.

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Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

Watching Rosemary's Baby and extremely regretfully finding that I have to hand it to Roman Palansky.

My cue to remind everyone that one of the very first things Trump did in his first term was to roll back fiduciary rules for investment advisers.

The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

Folks, you've got to see You Can See Everything. I was literally leaning forward on the edge of my seat for most of the last 40 minutes.

Women like Guilfoyle leave me more convinced everyday that the gender gap when it comes to various of sexual misconducts is largely a result of culture making it far less likely for women to a.) be in a position to commit them and b. get away with them.

stop wishing society looked like the cartoon you enjoyed when you were eight years old and take stock of what actually fucking exists and what you can reasonably do with it

I dug Digger and am enjoying my dual projects of catching up on horror classics and watching the le Carre cinematic adaptations (despite the first two le Carre's being underwhelming).

Been shopping for a water softener/reverse osmosis system for the new house and was really put off by one of the more highly recommended company's pitch video essentially opening with "hey man, shitty water is just the price we all happily pay because Iowa loves corn!"

Yep. I think the two most important invisible things that happened in the 00s was that America's ruling class got exposed to the Gulf monarchies by the war on terror on the one hand and China by the quest for markets on the other, and came away saying "I want that for me."

Genuinely had this experience in college when at lunch with my friend group one of them referred to the paintball outing they'd all gone on that I wasn't invited to.

Fuck the critics, Digger rules! So glad I actually saw it while it was still in theaters.

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It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion.

Just saw an anti-Turek ad by an alleged marine who pronounced it "Marine Corpse", and man, if you did a full tour with the Marines without learning how to pronounce corps, I think you might have bigger problems than a democratic candidate being insufficiently deferent to you.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

I consider No Country for Old Men to be a more or less perfect movie, but for the extremely obviously 2007 vintage Jack Links jerky display that is always in the shots of Anton Chigur during the gas station scene. The movie takes place in the early 80s and otherwise does great at recreating the era.

I dunno, Mr. Mayor. This is not the tone I'd take at a meeting with a fourth of the residents in attendance.

Sorry, MAGA ladies, naked quid pro quo corruption is only for the boys.

Hard to exaggerate what a total failure MBS has been for Saudi Arabia. He's basically spent a crucial decade blowing historic amounts of money on failed megaprojects and cultural plays, and left the country as dependent on oil production as it ever was.

I'm too tired to game, someone come play Zero Company for me.

This is the way.