Talking head montages, especially at the beginning of a movie or TV show. I think directors try to ground some fiction in reality by having a bunch of news reporters comment on some event but as someone who tries to avoid that garbage it just feels like the movie is made for someone else and it's been used so many times it's irritating.

Also product placement seeing a soda can or car perfectly framed to see the brand name or logo cheapens any sense of artistic integrity and feels like watching an advertisement.

And if I can indulge in a meta trope of streaming service monetization since it's become so common these days having a subscription + ad tier. Sub no ads or ads no sub, mixing them is the same greed as cable TV and shouldn't be supported by subscribing (Disney, HBO Max, prime, Netflix, etc).

I bet it ends up being caused by something far more innocuous than any of the first guesses that come to mind.

Someone needs to remind the slowest member of Congress again about the difference between fiction and nonfiction. There's no Flash Rogue's Gallery villains hiding in a secret base somewhere.

Not even worth putting the time into writing why his opinion is based on imagined idiocy and not historic fact thinking the liberals and communists were aligned after WW2 at the start of the cold war and the Warsaw pact and NATO squaring off or Patton was assassinated, just a grand display of the best and brightest moron Minnesota conservatives have to offer.

You can't just make and sell cars as a superior mode of transportation and propose policy that effectively is net zero horses as human and cargo transport. Think of all the ferriers, oat farmers, and veterinarians that would put out of a job.

Delisted content should automatically be considered public commons/public domain. Also fuck Disney for bankrolling trade organizations lobbying copyright into the ground with 100+ years bs, there's no good argument for copyright over 5 years.

Daniella Fetish sounds more like a name kink than a pen name.

If the law is not enforced it's no different than there being no law, choosing not to enforce the law or delay enforcement because the perpetrator is wealthy or politically connected happens in oligarchy not democracy.

Add Dostoevsky and Camus

Yeah and no weak poor people in the military either, just wealthy and powerful nepo babies whoops I mean alphas. Only people on the front lines should be politicians, millionaires, and billionaires since they are so much more effective than anyone else. /s

Tythe, Rachel Dradd - The Light https://youtu.be/nx4WcxFdDns

Depends how much money you put in the envelope

Everyone wants to touch my base and I haven't even started building one yet

Colonel: You write "born to kill" on your helmet, and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?

Joker: No, sir.

Red 5, standing by

Faith is belief without evidence, and I have evidence everyone who has lived so far has died and the rest of us have enough in common that would cause us to die for similar reasons as those already dead. I don't need faith to believe we're all going to die, faith would be needed to believe someone won't die because we have no convincing evidence for any immortals yet.

You may be interested in a paper Thomas Negal wrote about 50 years ago called "What is it like to be a bat?"

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf

It's not just about emotional states, which we can observe the behavioral states of but don't know what it is like to experience as other animals. It's about experience and consciousness which I think speaks to the underlying question of when other animals experience an emotional state if we can relate it to our own phenomenology for similar appearing states.

You can't just look at the total numbers and %'s because not every vote has equal weight, the way the electoral college is set up and fptp elections means votes in contested states and districts count for much more than if you're from a highly partisan area.

Not just humility but literally poverty as a virtue too

He should check out what Merlin did last time he overindulged, common wizard mistake