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Is it because of how it would look if you turned the box upside down?

He is offered 10 million to do a hit. He counters with 100 million.

I thought this was quite high

Well, Woody Harrelson's dad's top rate was only $250,000, but that was 45 yeras ago.

Watched "The 13th Warrior" on Sunday. Not sure why. By the standards of films in general, it's a low-budget silly bit of cheese. By the standards of films about vikings, it's the peak of historical accuracy, serious drama and cultural sensitivity.

It's not a real Golf Club comment if you're trying too obviously.

Apparently most contract killers available on the dark web are actually law enforcement.

Or scammers, because the sucker doesn't have much option for redress.

Dumpling Dynamo.

The same team made another conspiracy-laden TV thriller series about the food industrly, a few years later, but it wasn't nearly as good. No Joe Don Baker, for a start.

The fact that Mel Gibson of all people remaed EoD as a film is the most vomit-inducing of bleak ironies.

At 5'8.5", I am a giant in rural Aberdeenshire where I grew up. So I moved to Brixton, where people pat me on the top of the head as they stride past. I have no idea what psychological need that was answering.

Indeed.

#wouldrep

On a website far away, somebody started yet another discussion about historical accuracy and cultural sensitivity in Assassin's Creed. I conjured up the idea of Ubisoft making "Assassin's Creed: Princess Diana" to illustrate a point, and now I really wish they'd make that game. A French games company tainting the memory of the blessed saint? Reform and the Tory gutter press would go mental.

you don't half spend a lot of time picking rows on here!

No, I don't. Since the result came in, you've been treating even the mildestly expressed disagreement -or even request for clarification - as a personal attack, and responding with the bile you mistakenly imagine is being directed at you, so I do not think your judgement on this is sound.

Unsubscribing for the sake of my mental health. Please just leave me alone.

etc.

Etc. including Israel/Gaza. American politics being what it is, there's not a stance they could have taken that wouldn't have hurt them on one side or another. Which does suggest they might as well have been a lot braver on that issue than they were, of course. If you're going to lose, lose with some pride.

Still, I look forward to hearing the further very correct opinions of people who thought that Harris was nailed on for victory.

Of course, thet's the only reason anybody could dislike it.

Anger is understandable, but to say the way they're expressing it isn't constructive would be grossly bexaggerating its virtues.

After every election, a lot of people use the result to justify all their theories about pretty much everything, usually without doing the legwork to provide some evidence of how much it contributed to the result, or was relevant at all. Just a lot of shouty venting. "I told you so" is what they're all saying, but this person making it the title of their post really doesn't endear them to me.

I can read through that and be thinking "Maybe. Seems true. Probably relevant." and then I get to

They really seemed to think that people wouldn’t notice what was right in front of them, or maybe they simply didn’t care.

And all I could say to the author would be "Grow the fuck up, you ranty child." I mean, I'm pretty sure Biden's people didn't think that and did care, but it would be a waste of time trying to say that to them.

I could make a list of the specious arguments, but

But ‘democracy is on the ballot’ is an incredibly antidemocratic slogan.

Is a fucking corker of nonsense, and I don't have the energy to reread the rest.

I can remember when Moldbug was just a shitty little Neo Nazi Internet troll shunned by the few that had even heard of him. Depressing what filth has crept into the sunlight behind Trump.

Xanthe Dewsnap

Fuck me, the name alone is the product of several generations of sandal-wearing, joss-stick-burning cousins marrying..

he was indicted in federal and state courts

"Politically-motivated harrassment and abuse of power by the Democrats" (Even some Democrat politicians are embarrased by at least one of the New York cases)

He was found liable in a civil court in case relating to a sexual assault

"Clinton got away with it. The elite media made excuses for him and sneered at the victim" (This is true and shameful, regardless of the fact that Republicans are hypocrites on this issue)

Another court levied massive fines on his business empire

"More persecution."

"And yet he's still a successful billionaire. He really is good at this."

"He even told us that he understands corruption because he's seen enough of it in business. How honest is that?"

It's also worth remembering that "He may have been formally elected but he's not my president" is something Democrats started back in 2000. It went around and it came around.

You're a meme now. Accept your fate.

I seem to recall that, a couple of days ago, somebody was talking about how people want to sound smart in their answers to polls. Well, it sounds smarter to say you mostly care about policies.