At my grandmother’s house, it was Babes in Toyland. No it’s not a porn. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0090683/

I saw someone with the classic John f Kennedy quote “those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable” on a sign that was taped to a classic wooden bat. Probably my favor sign I’ve seen yet.

Lost access to my OG account because I didn’t find out about this until a month after it was too late.

I always see excuses from them like “that should be the role of charity” “that should be people’s choice, not forced on them by the government” etc…

The truth of this is incredibly depressing. There are some people who’s best skill is elevating others but that’s a thing which is impossible to quantify.

I’m pretty sure the “4d chess genius” thing was satire to start that just got Poe’s lawed.

I just looked and it’s now over 185k. The goal was 30k.

I also had no idea. This is what I found.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel’s_nose

The camel’s nose is a metaphor for a situation where the permitting of a small, seemingly innocuous act will open the door for larger, clearly undesirable actions.

This constitutional crisis is “looming” in the same way the saucers were “looming” over the Whitehouse in the movie independence day. While they were firing…

Are you thinking of veritas? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

5.56 is is the standard ammo used by most NATO nations. It’s what (for example) most AR platform rifles are chambered for.

It’s a specific bullet size to be very explicit.

When the initial allegations came out I was shocked. A week later I was having breakfast with a good friend of mine and his wife. The wife worked in the comic book industry and we’d talked about Gaiman before. I brought up the allegations and she told me that no one who rubbed elbowed with his circle were shocked. Apparently he already had something of a reputation.

Victor Earhart. Unfortunately it looks like he was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2016.

Cool video I found of him while looking around.

https://youtu.be/ijLqo7hETPk

What’s the second dish pictured? The one that looks like Bell peppers are being simmered in a pot.

That was the beginning of the end for me. I think by the time I got to that part the series had already been going downhill but I remember that being a really sharp turning point.

I tried to press on a little further. The introduction of the straw man nation with the innocent child king who’s only existence was to be blown the fuck out by the brilliance of objectivism is when I finally decided I just couldn’t go on.

Ooo, I was trying to think of what to answer in this thread and you just reminded me of another Orson Scott Card book, Empire.

Absolute trash. Prior to that I had read all of the Ender and Bean series and loved them. Didn’t know much about Card personally, but picked up this book because it was supposed to be tied in with a video game I was looking forward too.

Reading this book is how I found out what a shitty person he really is. It was basically all him hitting you over the head with his shitty fascist ideology while jerking off to a bunch of military porn like a dollar store version of Tom Clancy. I never did play the game.

My dad cracked three ribs while surfing in his 20s. He caught a wave much larger than normal, fell off his board near the top and landed flat on his back.

Magic carpet 2, the Netherworlds is one I played a ton and think of from time to time. I wonder what I modern remake would be like.

It’s the first game I remember playing with deformable terrain.

Already answered more it less but:

https://www.centralcoastbrewing.com/beer/p/p-nut-butter-breakdown-stout

First time I’ve seen something from my home area pop up on Lemmy. CCB is a solid brewery.

Absolutely. Anansi boys is my personal favorite of his, but I think highly of all his books.