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Jorpho wrote:Didn't Avatar make heaps of money before being largely forgotten (except for being a movie that made heaps of money) ?

I am actually consistently surprised how people keep remembering and liking Avatar. I'm not sure why, but I don't think your point stands.

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I disagree. People like labels because they're convenient - you're in the same boat with a bunch of other people, you can get the support of others who know what you're going through in a precise manner, it's easy to find communities that take your experiences for granted. People generally like putt...

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I liked the movie a lot, but I'm not sure why people are raving about it as Oscar material. It's beautiful, well-acted, well-directed, but there's nothing particularly groundbreaking or unusual about the story. Also we watched the first Hellboy right after we saw the movie, and the similarities were...

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Hey, welcome back, I remember your avatar, which is basically how I identify people here.

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Congrats on being out! And that dress is cute!

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Are you trying to say slavery had consequences?

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If we never interact with assholes, we might not fully appreciate the value of decent people. Citation please. The whole "without the bad times we wouldn't appreciate the good times" is a common enough trope, but I have a feeling an harmonious utopia where everyone is pleasant to each oth...

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Oh god. I was SO tired on Monday. Puppy woke us up twice during the night to take her outside. No wonder I wanted to bake her.

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Into the Breach , the new game from the creators of FTL, is out. I have about 300 hours clocked in FTL, I wonder how this game will hold up. I've only played for an hour or so, so my information may be off. It's a tactical strategy game played on maps of just 8x8 blocks. You control three mechs and...

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If the passenger assigned to 40a is standing in the aisle in row 40 fiddling with the overhead bin, then the passengers assigned to 40b-40f are standing in the aisle blocking rows 35-39, waiting for the first passenger to get out of the way so that they can take their seats. The passengers assigned...

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I assumed they were basically paid actors.

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Except if you board back to front, anyone who's stuck delaying a row is going to be further back in the plane. Maybe I didn't explain myself properly. If the door is at the front of the plane and the passengers in row 40 are taking forever to get into their seat, the passengers in row 39 don't give ...

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Why wouldn't it happen pretty much exactly as it did in the first X-Men movie? Mutants start popping up all over the place and we learn there was a secret school helping them out. Not too far fetched - they just need to reboot the franchise. Hugh Jackman already basically said he's done, I think, so...

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You seem to think enemies and aggressors are just naturally occurring elements of society and not a result of government. What I'm getting at is governments are the cause of these enemies.

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And my point is that all wars and all need to "defend from outsides" comes from governments.

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I am somewhat skeptical of your numbers. For one thing, if ads are so lucrative, why do sites even bother with merchandising in the first place?

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They're not subsidizing the rest of the plane. There's a third the amount of people per square meter in 1st class so they pay three times as much. You really think the amount people pay in coach is negligible? In any case my point was specifically regarding the special treatment they get during boar...

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Except usually the reason the outsiders want to come after us is because of the government, not the governed... Yeah, that's why we came after the American Indians and took their land. It was the Indans' governments that made the Europeans want to colonize them out of existence. Oh yeah great examp...

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Yeah, you have a really skewed idea of how much ads make for people who share them. I've been reading the webcomic for more than ten years now, never missed one. If I donated Randall a single dollar, he would make more money off of me than he ever would have from my through ads. However, since I ord...

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Except usually the reason the outsiders want to come after us is because of the government, not the governed...

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I'm assuming this is a reserved seating flight? Anyway there's two main facts you're overlooking here. 1. People are easily and confused and can't easily follow directions in airports - many of them just assume everything will work out since so many people are pushing them along, many are exhausted ...

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I was gonna say "Ugh, snow crash". I really disliked that book, but I know I'm in a relative minority opinion on that.

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I just noticed again we have the pasta attachment to our mixer and we haven't made fresh pasta in a while. Should probably fix that. Friday I made some delicious, delicious humus. It really turned out fantastic. I got some mushrooms and pita bread to make fried mushroom topping for it tonight. I als...

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I want an entire movie dedicated to Shuri inventing various gadgets for different heroes and being awesome.

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There's a lot of factors in what makes a person cry, at a given movie at a given time. I like This American Life's story on crying about movies on airplanes . (I just relistened and Freaky Friday is one of their examples) Off topic (because not a movie) but I guess since we're mentioned This Americ...

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I suppose if you're a podcast you probably want to get some sponsorship deals. Have you tried calling Casper?

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elasto wrote:
US billionaire Warren Buffet says his conglomerate has received a profit boost of $29bn as a result of President Donald Trump's tax reforms.

Maybe he should use some of these profits for lobbying for tax reform.

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Meh? Probably a bit unusual when considering cishet population but I've known people who felt pretty fluid with their gender. It's a social construct after all so I'm not surprised your social experience impacts it. Does it bother you?

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Aren't most of these shooters coming from more-or-less middle class backgrounds? I don't remember a narrative of them being particularly poor.

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BTW, you know who worked in a public school and had a conceal carry permit? Philando Castile. So yeah, still not sold that giving more guns is a good idea.

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...Gun control advocates want to take away Edgar's hobby just to prevent... Not just "Edgar"'s hobby, but lots of people's hobbies, and also the very idea that people can have dangerous tools as part of their hobbies. You realize we already do this for a lot of things already, right? We r...

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That said, it would not take much to convince me that there should be a police officer in all schools, but for a totally different reason. If a fight between two students broke out or someone was caught with drugs, it would be more appropriate for a police officer to handle the situation than a tea...

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It's nice you're putting words in my mouth that I never said.

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You are disgusting.

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Both in Israel and in the US I've had a set of measuring cups and spoons, as well as a scale. I always prefer weighing ingredients, but the vast majority of recipes I've seen measure eggs by whole units (based on large eggs), simply because unless you're working in an industrial kitchen you probably...

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On the subreddit people talk about how Coyote in myth often dies because he goes too far and is then resurrected, so it's possible that's what we'll see here. He certainly seems surprised at Ysengrin's bite, but I suppose it could just be a "WTF do you think you're doing" sort of expression.

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The more time goes by the more I dislike how emotionally manipulative this movie is. Someone at Pixar said "We need everyone to cry at the end, no matter how in-line with the rest of the film it is" and they decided to go with what they did. It's some Lars Von Trier-level bullshit.

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Yeah, his behavior around this affair is more relevant politically than his actual infidelity.

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The recipe suggested mango powder but we didn't have any. It suggested lemon juice as substitute, so I used that. Probably not as authentic but still turned out great.

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My department's newsletter sent out a similar feature today, linking an article on the life of noted black meteorologist, flight instructor, and 1936 Olympic gold medallist Archie Williams : As I recall, when I came back home . . . people asked me, ‘How did those dirty Nazis treat you?’ To which I ...

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