semisimian

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[–] semisimian@startrek.website 19 points 1 day ago (8 children)

It doesn't look like they had a control group of people doing the strength training without any protein supplement. I would assume that group would also perform the same.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 34 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Hell arrived a while ago and it is summer on Lake Myvatn, or Midge Lake. You can't breathe without inhaling insects, so you have to wear a mask just in case a cloud of those things happen your way.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Easily torrented.

I watched it recently and the film didn't age well in the current social climate. Good script, great cast, but the story is about a "magic pill" that will make old people young again. That in itself is not a bad thing, but the end of the movie sees all the old people making the selfish decision to leave their loved ones for their own eternal bliss. I know it was supposed to be a metaphor for death and heaven and such, but now it just looks like Me Generation, head in the sand, fuck you I got mine, Boomerism.

Wilford Brimley's grandson pleads for him not to go and tries to stow away on the heaven boat. And then Brimley's like "nope, I choose to never see you again, go fishing by yourself." If I was a grandpa, every moment with my grandson would be worth giving up an alien immortal orgy. Geez.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 76 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I might be out of the loop - is this a known fascist, a public figure whose politics we know?

Either way, he is a Master Sargent in the US Marine Corp. He took an oath to defend the Constitution and not a single person or party. His power is bestowed by the people he is sworn to serve. If he is wearing that uniform with honor, that uniform is most definitely anti-fascist.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks to everyone who posts the archive link!

The why from the article: "According to the German statistical office, the “sharp decline” in car production was in part caused by the later timing this year of annual closures at car plants for holidays, as well as production changeover.

But a profit warning by German carmaker BMW late on Tuesday was the latest reminder of the industry’s structural challenges as it struggles with the transition to battery cars, weak sales in China, competition from Chinese rivals and US import duties.

Germany’s economy has been stuck in stagnation for more than three years."

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago

From the article: “Is it Ed Gein who was abused and left in isolation and suffering from undiagnosed mental illness and...that manifested in some pretty horrendous ways? Or was the monster the legion of filmmakers that took inspiration from his life and sensationalized it to make entertainment and darken the American psyche in the process?”

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Especially from a tech critic.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am a dad and a music lover. Profanity aside, I will walk out of any room where anyone is playing the worst music I've ever heard. I don't care what the 'artist' intends, but if I hear dog shit, I avoid as if it was tear gas. Kid Rock is unlistenable. Always has been, always will be. I detest the platform he's been given and that we still have to utter his wretched name.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He is in the article and mentioned as a lefty, but just absent from the article's title. I agree, just say "one out of 40" and you still make your point.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm closer to his age, so I am nowhere close to regular enough to shit on command on a cop car. That is a young man's game. Back in my day though...

 

Most of my Dad's Uriah Heep record covers used to freak me out as a kid. They're pretty awesome, though.

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