I mean, he was also very close to Roy Cohn. Another, but differently prodigious monster

I was out on St Patrick’s day and saw a guy go by in a novelty top hat that looked similar to this:

And I shouted “Holy shit! It’s St Jamiroquai!” to absolutely zero response

Oh I am fully aware, but I find it important to point out the underlying thing they’re exploiting when you see statements like this. Just like passing ID laws and bans on porn are a subtext to censor LGBTQ people

Oh I misunderstood you then. I thought you were saying that people actually used state IDs. I understand that they are available but in practice I have never seen people using them

Do you have any proof of that because I genuinely have not seen that in my experience. Usually it’s social security numbers, birth certificate, passports, and bills that I see as documentation in lieu of driver’s licenses

Elon’s stupid ass dedication to using cameras and image processing for self driving will ultimately be what leaves Tesla in the dust. A combination of LIDAR, cameras, and other detection tools are way safer than just cameras alone. I’m not a huge Mark Rober fan but he did show that you can beat Tesla’s self driving with Looney Tunes techniques

Just a reminder that America does not have a national ID and that while most people think a driver’s license is our ID only 71% of Americans have one. Children, the elderly, people who are too poor to have a car, or people who live in cities that don’t need cars (which is like, 5 cities but is still a notable percent of the population) are all people who may not have an ID and all of them have been rounded up by ICE. This is a further attack on the poor specifically but on the vulnerable in general

Exactly. Especially considering it’s rare that there’s a month where there are fewer than 2 movies I actively want to see in theaters. So I’m already saving money with it, all those other movies are just bonuses

Plus you get surprised. I thought Clown in a Cornfield was going to suck and I would have never seen Life of Chuck normally but I ended up really enjoying both of them

It’s me. I watch a lot of movies and see arthouse stuff the public doesn’t care about and if something is a big enough train wreck occasionally I’ll see what’s going on (shout out to CATS). Though I have Regal Unlimited so I don’t “pay” for a ticket

Explicitly, no. The rules are you have to be a natural-born citizen of the United States, be at least 35 years old, and have been a resident of the United States for 14 years. To my knowledge citizenship can only be granted to humans though so in effect, yes

That’s some Kingdom Hearts math right there. The Democratic 7: composed of 2 countries, a collection of 4 nations, 3 countries that are kinda sorta part of that collection, and a union of 27 countries (one of which has a higher GDP than any other member of the group). Oh did I mention one of those nations pretty vocally divorced themselves from someone else in that group?

Not a lot of movies this week but they were good

Rental Family 5/5: Brendan Fraser’s renaissance as sad pudgy American is not where I would have landed him but man is he compelling on screen. I don’t know if his earnestness is natural or refined but it really makes you feel for him even though The Whale and Rental Family are pretty outlandish. Another best actor nod seems inevitable in my opinion

The Martian 4/5: I generally enjoy competence porn. Watching a bunch of really talented people approach difficult problems with very high stakes is very entertaining. It also adapts the book pretty well. It does skip an entire chunk of the book but I don’t think it hurts the story

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair 5/5: This is the superior way to watch this movie. It feels far more cohesive, I like the slight mixing/color changes, and cutting out the flashbacks makes it feel like a complete movie. I wish I had the chance to see it 70mm

Batman/Superman Public Enemies 2/5: On paper I should like this way more. It’s an hour long, they immediately get to the point and action and it’s choked full to the gills of characters to the point I didn’t recognize a few. However the animation is cheap and looks bad, Batman kinda sucks for most of it and the stakes are largely nonexistent. I also don’t like Lex’s scheme, it’s pretty ham fisted for a super genius

People don’t know/have forgotten that the Democrats really pushed the moral panic around violent video games and music. Both Joe Liberman (Al Gore’s running mate and promenant senator) and Tipper Gore (wife of Al Gore) were leaders in pushing for music/video game censorship

Even dumber, 95% of tesla drivers their phone as a key and you can use the voice assistant built into the car to text for you

What is 2000s club night if not an immersive historical re-enactment?

Generally speaking trafficking is bringing something into a place where it is not allowed to be

So in your first example, you are allowed to watch that kid, and both of you are allowed to be in that state and to see a movie, so no, you are not trafficking

Similarly if you are allowed to have that gun in both states then you are not trafficking. Additionally in the US if a case involves crimes across states it’s typically a federal charge and not multiple state ones

People can be trafficked against their will for slavery purposes or by their will as a form of illegal immigration. You can even “traffic” legal goods like cigarettes if you transport them without paying all applicable taxes. It’s a catch-all term for transporting things that a place does not want to let in. Typically the term is only used for bulk transportation, smaller amounts tend to have other more specific crimes

If you want to watch the reverse Dumb Money was fairly watchable

I am almost incapable of seeing that title and not shouting GOOOOLLLDDDDFIIIIINNNGGGGGEEERRRR

Fuck that’s a great Bond theme

You ever see someone living your dream and think “damn, I wish I was a raccoon?”

God that is my mother. Even worse is that she makes up/ignores rules if she doesn’t think it makes sense, which, spoiler: is all the time. Because she won’t read the rules. Yes, you, a 64 year old woman who can’t operate a remote, know what would make a game more fun better than the PEOPLE WHO MADE THE GAME 🙄