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Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs"
Which movie villain do you think had the best fashion style?
Will Ferrel in Zoolander. He invented the keyboard necktie for god’s sake!
Most relatable villain?
Anne Wilkes, Misery. Really amazing job of creating someone who is both a character and a metaphor. She works so well in terms of being a fully rounded and creepy character but learning she’s King’s metaphor for drug addiction adds a lot of layers and nuance to the story without getting in the way.
What’s is your favorite villainous performance for movie villains?
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Here's a map of Gaza.
Why are you leaving out Gaza's other border? Gaza also has a border with Egypt, and the Israeli military doesn't control that one.
Is that death total in Palestine? If it's in Gaza why don't you use the right name?
Same reason I refer to the America’s as Turtle Island. I don’t acknowledge stolen land the way the colonizers want me to because I don’t recognize their right to invade it.
If you don’t understand how Israel controls this land maybe you should read up on it. Ignorance in the Information Age is voluntary.
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Oh no! I wrote about a bumpkin! Glad I didn't jump in! I guess my entry won't be lumped in. I feel like a munchkin
Before you get sunk in to a rhyming entry, poetry is not permitted. On that note I have to write a new one!
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financial insecurity - gotta change that.
maybe new job?
I make much more than my parents did at my age. Difference is the buying power, particularly in terms of real estate, that my money has. The lack of home ownership means my money disappears every month, theirs grew as an investment.
I could also swap jobs, but I find it hard to find a business I feel proud to work for as an accountant. My moral code on this has had me turn down much higher pay, but I can’t work for a place that I know hurts people with shady business practices.
Right down from the road from a place where an indigenous group was massacred by the US military. Unfortunately that doesn’t narrow my location down at all.
Would you support land back?
Cheating on this answer; the correct length. I’m not so interested in word count as feeling like the story continues to be fulfilling. Also don’t want a story that I feel cheated and left blue balled because it was indetailed or skipped over important events.
Think I read the first 30 goosebumps.
Do you read collections of short stories or just novels?
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Every country’s carbon emissions are a fraction of the total. Every country owns its carbon footprint. All of those African countries could stop the pollution you’re blaming on Canadian and Scandinavian companies if they wanted to.
I’ll agree with you that each individual makes a negligible contribution to climate warming when compared to what the corporations make, but I’ll remind you that people create the corporations and buy what the corporations make while they’re polluting.
Saying “they all are fractions” vastly disregards the overwhelmingly high percentage a few countries. It’s unreasonable to demand a reduction from a country who’s population barely makes any pollution as opposed to Western nations that are actually able to change.
Unfortunately it’s not true, saying the African nations have the autonomy to rid itself of foreign corporations. These mining areas are very much supported by military defenses from both private contractors and Western armed forces. And if a country does fight back? The CIA has had a hand in about 350 regime changes that we know of in the last 100 years, generally replacing popular and socialist leaders with violent right wing factions. That’s the price you pay for fighting imperialism.
As for consumer options, this is largely unrealistic as an option for many. Corporations are able to keep much lower prices than small businesses. It’s impossible for many Americans to reasonably live without consuming from them. Looking at my personal budget I pay an additional 60% markup for ethically sourced food. I check this number occasionly for when it gets financially tight and my morals can’t be supported because my family needs to live.
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I think those videos indeed show stuff that's actually happening there. And those hostages are indeed victims of Hamas's violence.
At the same time the citizens of Gaza are, for many decades now, being held hostage by Israel. Terms that apply to Israel regarding Palestinians are apartheid and ethnic cleansing.
So while everyone may be shocked by the violence and the scale of the attack, everyone should have known another violent Palestinian revolt against Israel was to be expected (this is not directed at you, MsStep). And given that Israel will probably not change its attitude towards Palestinians, there surely will be many more after this one.
Founding of Israel is weirdly a result of anti-semitism. The WW2 ally’s were largely anti-Semitic, not to the extent of the Nazis but very much so. They didn’t want Jews in their country and they secured their Zionist fighting forces by with a deal to give them a country. Post WW2 the Zionist with backing of the English who had secured the land during a colonist invasion and WW1 weee given the land. This was occupied territory that was very violently stolen from the Palestinians and gifted to the Jewish refugees.
Ever since the US and it’s Allie’s flooded Israel with military tech, weapons, and money. They also supplied direct military aid whenever it got dicey. The end result was a nuclear powered Israel that put a chokehold on Gaza Strip and they turned it into a genocidal slum.
There are many nuances and back and forth with this conflict but I at the heart of the matter Israel are colonizers that violently overthrew the locals and repress them to this day.
Hamas are terrorists, but so is Israel. And Israel have created a much, much larger civilian body count with no actual threat of repercussions. This also really makes people fear that any epicenter of nuclear conflict will be Israel.
Accountant by day, barbarian Queen by night. Roleplay and fantasy her escape.
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Except that Hamas attacked Israel and taken civilian hostages, and Israel isn't America.
There’s a civilian death total in Palestine somewhere the size of 9/11 every few months. Not to mention that Gaza is essentially an outdoor prison controlled by the Israeli military.
Israel’s military is funded by America every year, billions and billions of dollars are spent. They also have a stockpile of nukes via the US. They are our military presence, soldiers supplied by a mandatory period of military service (aka slave drafting) from every citizen in Israel.
Car. I absolutely hate driving, hate being in it, hate that it’s next to impossible to not have one. And it’s a three year lease of money, even if it is used.
What are you hungry for right now?
Really hard for me to feel like Israel is a victim here. They terrorize the Palestinians. Their counter offensive within hours created a higher civilian body count than the Hamas attack. Israel functions as America’s imperialistic toe hold in the region.
I feel bad for Palestinian citizens here. Classic imperialism; torture and kill people till they fight back, use the retaliation to justify an escalation in violence. Straight out of America’s playbook.
After living in LA for decades, I live in an area with trees and parks and nature. I can breath the air.
Would you take a free cabin in the woods vacation with all necessities taken care of for three months? Catch: it’s complete isolation. No internet, no people. Just yourself.
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One other thought. It’s easy for us to talk about what changes need to be made because we’re already rich. I doubt people in poor countries will pay much attention to best practices until they’re rich too.
Check out those carbon emissions from poorer countries. It’s literally a fraction of the problem. Also many smaller countries’ carbon footprint is being generated by foreign companies operating for exports to private Western countries. Example here would be the largest chunk of African pollution is caused by Canadian mineral companies and Scandinavian oil drilling.
Further breaking down the rich countries, individuals are generally making incredibly little difference compared to corporations and the billionaire class. Elon Musk’s little 3 minute joy ride into space has a larger carbon footprint than tens of thousands of the lower classes will generate in their entire lifetime.
My partner’s art. Lots of it disturbing but also really beautiful.
What’s your favorite video game?
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Major crimes?
Let me know when you've decided to stop moving the goalposts, and I'll take your comments seriously.
Maybe read all the thread before you comment. They never said major crimes. But the main question is why when presented with federal data murder statistics on red state vs blue state murders, why are so many of y’all trying to find ways to tilt your head and make it look different.
Over the last 10 years murder rates in red states are climbing by huge numbers.
Just a group lotto pool in high school. Actually felt like I was bullied into it.
HYE won a large prize from a drawing?
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Weren’t the conservatives boycotting Target because Target had some displays that were hella gay or whatever?
What happened to that?
It wasn’t the boycotting that was the problem, it was the religious terrorists who threatened the lives of the store employees. In many locations Target pulled the Pride merchandise, not because they felt it was inappropriate or that they did anything wrong but because they valued the employee safety.
They had multiple mass shooting and bomb threats called in.
So then Target made the gay community angry for pulling the merch, but now it’s a no win situation because it was either endanger employees or cave to terrorists.
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Do you have anything to get anybody to believe your 2% claim?
Snopes verified.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/08/20/police-solve-just-2-of-all-major-crimes/
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This is the problem with quantitative data analysis.
In actuality if I was doing this study I’d source the data of apprehended criminals and their crimes and then use qualitative evidence to extrapolate from there.
Per capita results don’t really take into account people living outside of the formal institutions which is most people affected by crime. We can make baseline assumptions but they wouldn’t be academically sound and I wouldn’t apply change on that basis.
The inherent problem with this method is cops are really, really bad at solving crimes. Like something around a 2% chance of solving a crime. Essentially cops only solve cases where solutions drop into their laps.
Then you have to look at a large % of people will plead guilty but say they did t do it still. Lots of info on this but jails are largely filled with poor people who have not been found guilty of a crime and can’t post bail. When you’re looking at six months in jail waiting on a trial pleading guilty and getting out today is really, really tempting.
Caught up in the last 2 and a half seasons of Archer the other day. 
Pam
Name a movie that is considered popular that you would warn people is not good.
Tiffany Aching series of books by Terry Pratchett. It was absolutely amazing. First one was ‘The Wee Free Men.’
What’s the last TV series you stopped watching because it was disappointing?
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One of the reasons for the development of gender roles was because during the hunter/gatherer phase, while the male went hunting the female did a lot of other things, like wild fruit and wild grain gathering, food prep, child rearing, right? After it changed to an agrarian culture, the male pushed the plow and the female did a lot of other things, like spinning, weaving, food prep, child rearing, right? Put that muscle mass to good use, chasing or running away from prey, and plowing the field.
You did say less heating and cooling. Are you sure that’s necessary? That’s a hit to anybody’s standard of living I’d think. Moms don’t take kindly to their children not having a a warm home in the winter
I’m not saying we need to freeze the place, but blankets and warm clothing in your home and having the temp at like 60 during nighttime plummets power consumption. Less cooling for more extreme temps and relying more on keeping breezes going while having temp set to around 75-80 makes cooling in many places completely unnecessary. That’s how my family does it currently.
Unfortunately I don’t think these sort of mass changes will happen fast enough to stop climate chaos from happening. My whole family is slowly weening ourselves off grid. I hope to get to a power optional state of living over the next two decades.
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What's one adjective this side of 'grand'?
Have you ever visited a famous person's grave?
I dig a visit to graveyards, so many times. If I visit a city normally I hit a graveyard. Also I lived in LA and the celebrity graveyards were some of the few green spaces that didn’t reek of piss.
HYE been the reason someone was fired?
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I’ve read criticisms about the environmental impact of the mining needed to go all electric. Is there any way to reduce power consumption without lowering the standard of living? Like you say less heating and cooling for buildings.
What we need to explore is what is a standard of living. We work too much, a household shouldn’t need multiple people working. This creates the need for fast foods, appliances for laundry and dish washing, buying new clothes instead of repairing old… ect.
We haven’t built our society around quality of life, we based it around capitalism and consumption. That needs to change, and it’s going to be a change that will be forced on the younger generations for sheer survival.
Yeah, but eventually we got it out of that snow bank.
Ever wreck a car?
