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Getting replaced at work by Mad Libs generators because our business elites can't be bothered to meet their kids instead of earning another zero they'll never notice

The difference for our planet's lungs, the Amazon rainforest, is really moving me to tears here. Really huge deal for my kids getting a liveable Earth

Yeah dude, the fact you sat and paid for DILLIGAF knuckle tattoos looks like you do indeed give a fuck. Several, in fact.

It's very funny when daycare feeds your kid something that ends up going right through them and you end up changing a diaper filled with completed undigested food, in this case, raisins

Timothy Dalton's Bond tenure. There's something Great there and the writers couldn't get a full hold on it.

The writing has been on the wall for a long time and this still sucks and hurts seeing it happen. Mass Effect and BG2 were some of the most played games in my life and I've been loving Dragon Age the last few years. Sucks extra that it's so close to N7 day and that slight hope for something new.

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@davidjroth.bsky.social without a Distraction comments section after a Rohan episode, I guess I gotta just share this at you, but I found the best sandwiches I've ever had at a little shop called Chill'it in Florence and I gotta recommend it!

The Graduate (1967), dir. Mike Nichols

Yes, I do spoil him. It's one of my greatest joys in life.

Entirely too low

"If you have kids...make sure that your kids know that you love them more than anything in the whole wide world..no matter who they are. No matter what they look like, what they do, or if they wear tattoos. if you don't...when they grow up, they will grow up fucked up." -Doug Pinnick, King's X

I'm a good analyst and I demand Geoff trades jobs with me for the good of us all

I really grew to appreciate Tim Ream and am going to miss him and his game. Spent 4 years with a bullseye on his back and no one could take his spot from him at 38. Even Pep admired him. See ya in the stands, Captain

"They didn't deserve to go to jail over $50, but multiply that fifty bucks by 72, and you've crossed a line!" is not a winning argument!

Change it to "grooving" and you've got a King's X show. Probably why it's accurate they call themselves the First Church of Rock and Roll.

Okay, this is an incredibly, incredibly cool discovery. The brain stem is a different organ?

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

Who will solve teams' Tom Wilson problem from the press box now?

I think the kind of AI booster I hate the most are people who are smart enough to consider the social impacts but choose not to because all they can consider is that it's "cool." To quote Ordinary People (h/t Dream Theater): "Can't you see anything except in terms of how it affects you?"

There's a referendum in Washington State that wants to do this to kindergartners! And no one's bringing it up to call them creeps!

Usually the problem with groupthink is that there's too many sophomoric dudebros in the group. Rarely is the problem there are too few. But not never.

I don't think I've ever gone downhill on a politician faster than I am now over AOC on this. Letting herself be absolutely gulled by the "pro dead kids" caucus.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

I did not need push notifications from both the vanilla ESPN and Fantasy ESPN apps about Tua being named the starter. I didn't need either, frankly.

MAHA only means dead kids and anything less than an unequivocal repudiation of this turn means I need to figure out who I'm voting for in the primary all over again

Serendipitous to see this, I just finished the second half of last week's episode of The Distraction that I'd saved for one last back/biceps/Deadcast/Distraction workout. This should be fun and sounds like a great pairing. Now to destroy my hearing with Iron Maiden tonight and King's X tomorrow!

I don’t know how many members of the military will receive the message but it simply could not be clearer that this administration doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone it’s putting in harm’s way

Oh fuck you Quordle, that is not a word. And neither are random Greek letters, while I'm at it.

A newly promoted guy at work wins a poker game and has to deal with sore losers

Both of my kids are signed up for the Imagination Library. We all get our COVID shots yearly. I don't even listen to country music and she's made my life so much better. RIP Dolly, thank you

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11% + 26% are still mad at Nate Silver's 2016 model (although we all should be disappointed in him since then for becoming a useless and unrigorous pundit). Sometimes you just live in the 30% chance world! Like, 30% of the time!

Welp, this sucks. I guess the idea we're eventually going to get Drew pod and a Roth pod means there's a chance I get one more good podcast out of this, but I sincerely doubt either will become the favorite The Distraction has been since it blessedly rose from the ashes of The Deadcast.

Nothing radicalized me the way that walking my dog in suburbia has. Racing at 40+ on residential streets after a full day of work is psycho shit

My real answer is The Silmarillion, but it's been said enough I'll throw out redoing Sharpe with a real budget. Finding someone besides Sean Bean would be heartbreaking, I admit

Demanding to examine a child's genitals for them to play sports is fucking insane

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The Marx quote came up and it always makes me think of one of the GOAT tweets

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18