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by seanicus 5y ago
Cuba has been in shambles since, at the very least, Batista came to power in a CIA-backed coup with monetary help from organized crime. After his government was overthrown all of that money dried up and the sanctions imposed (with no attemp
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by seanicus 5y ago
Yes, well known journalist Conan O'Brien is who I seek when I am forming my opinions on geopolitics Also I'm guessing the purpose of the Conan piece was to 1) rebuke Trump for calling it a shithole - rude, unproductive, and should
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by seanicus 5y ago
No sarcasm: can you point me to a mainstream news outlet referred to Cuba as prosperous? Both things can be true; Cuba successfully developed it's own vaccine, which is impressive for a country is said to be economically far worse off
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by seanicus 5y ago
Is that like the Arizona audit which couldn't find any issues and has now been sent off for impartial review by a floridaman who's into conspiracies?
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by seanicus 5y ago
I do this but with scary movies
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by seanicus 5y ago
A broken, racist, nationalist clock is right twice a day. And as for the "new info" that has come to light, I find it amazing that Americans will continue to believe every 'smoking gun' offered to them by their intellige
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by seanicus 5y ago
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jan-13-op-scher... "people... would rather make twice as much as others even if that meant earning half as much as they could otherwise have. How irrational is that?&qu
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by seanicus 5y ago
It is immoral and illegal that McDonalds won't serve me a Chik-Fil-A sandwich. This is such a great rubric!
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by seanicus 5y ago
One of the biggest upsides of self-driving car tech developing further is that it will make life safer for pedestrians and cyclists. (But it definitely isn't there yet).
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by seanicus 5y ago
They're not joking; this acquisition cost more than it cost Disney to buy Marvel and Lucasfilm COMBINED. They're definitely taking the entertainment end of their business very seriously.
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by seanicus 5y ago
Worth mentioning that the studios have been screwing theaters more an more for a long time. Theaters used to be run on ticket sales, now your popcorn costs $18 because Disney is taking 60% of all ticket sales. It really seems like at some p
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by seanicus 5y ago
Exactly. When the movie star system died, it took a lot of material made for adults with it. Even Robert Downey Jr. can't carry a movie that's not a popular IP. Now everything is a $200M sequel to something else or a $1M movie tha
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by seanicus 5y ago
Squeezing all the juice out of a genre or subgenre is what Hollywood is best at. If you didn't like cowboy movies you were avoiding like 60% of all movies and tv shows made from the birth of cinema until the 70's. I think we'
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by seanicus 5y ago
The Thing is probably my favorite movie and the practical creature effects are still largely considered the gold standard of the craft. But in 2K the artificiality is getting a lot more noticeable and while I will certainly be getting it in
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by seanicus 6y ago
These accounts about Marcia are deserved but downplay the contributions of Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew. The three of them absolutely saved Star Wars in the editing room. The lack of Lawrence Kasdan is the reason that every piece of dialogu
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by seanicus 6y ago
Lol. I always assumed it was Hold On for Dear Life.
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by seanicus 6y ago
Pretty sure the economic impact of doubling the workforce as well as decades of frozen wages has had a significant effect on social acceptance of 2-worker households, but blame whatever boogeyman/woman you'd like to.
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by seanicus 6y ago
Hard to get velocity behind improving something half the voting population would rather be rid of, even if it's against the very same voting population's best interest. So it goes in the US.
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by seanicus 6y ago
I'm right there with ya. Kiddo is very young and I can't justify shelling out even 3 extra nanny hours per week for fitness. I try to incorporate/papoose him for as much as I can but there's a lot of stuff I can't d
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by seanicus 6y ago
Reminds me of the proverb "build muscles in the gym but reveal abs in the kitchen."