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A. I could definitely have this kind of thought when showering after an argument

Your grammatical arrangement makes it a question. The period is a grammatical error. Spoken tone doesn't change it. We knew the intent, but if you're going to be pedantic, I'm going to be pedantic right back at you

That's what actually brought me to the comments. The fuck? OK, so now NYC pop is about 10mil, non-NYC NY is about 10 mil, and non-NYC NYC metro is about 10 mil. How do you get even 30 mil to represent 30% of 350mil? Confuse it with the Iranian population of 92mil? And 30% is the average of the responses!

Do you read any social media with Gen z? Shorthand is alive and well, it just changed how it's shortened.

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bro rq wyd tn finna slide by in min fr fr ong v gd story

Brother real quick what're you doing tonight, fixing to slide by in a minute for real, for real, on god very good story

I was already keeping them on because ei paid $100 and stated my name to tsa once to get the mickey mouse fast pass*

*except every time I fly through Texas where, just like the McDonald's ice cream machine, multipass is closed today

Three buttplug-shaped men walk into a room stroking each other

Is he gonna smoke the kids in his Hokas or is he gonna smoke with the other kids behind the bleachers with his hookah?

Remember when Harley Davidson had one foot in the gravidson and got daddy Reagan to put a tariff on imported motorcycles over 750cc? And everyone just built better 650s? I guess this is to one-up that.

It's fucking asinine that tariffs still "play well in politics". We're footing the fucking bill to no benefit in domestic production.

I'm in manufacturing/engineering. There's no political definition for who takes the jobs, but I do believe their political leanings very closely align with their office personalities. There's the type that complains when someone takes some _liber_ties in the process, and then there's the type that sits for a minute trying to understand that alternate thought process (although usually met with the initial disapproval). There's the type that writes processes the way they think it should work, then there's the type that will convene with and cooperate with the actual affected workers before and after writing it. But at the same time, despite being rooted in science and hard evidence, compartmentalization is widely available. My household PhD is the most religious person in the office. The person is nice, smart, and competent to the point we filter our profanity around the PhD. Potentially the most creative engineer in the office (or most cocky with expenditure risk) is also one of the most obvious conservatives. Sort of like everyone must follow the social rules except for his design ideas.

The redneck engineers you're talking about are probably people who didn't get the formal education or don't have the corporate bankroll to take their work further

"Nobody wants to work anymore" is a fast track to identifying their news/political commentary sources. As if Janet in accounting dreamt of sending "month end inventory call" emails when she was a girl.

For music, I'd venture that the conservative stars are generally making their version of pop. It's not a rule itself, but a core of conservatism is following a set of existing rules because deviation is ostracized

Empathy. Understanding what causes emotional reactions and building on that rather than doing your own routine and being mad others won't agree with you.

Conservative comedians continually get "canceled" because their act only punches down and makes fun of other people, so their content only resonates with their own demographic. They lose audience because their content goes stale. There's a difference between the punchline being that the target is gay vs the punchline being what a gay person does and capturing that nuance. Adam Corolla had the same boring complaints about society, about economy cars, about not seeing enough tits, about sucking dick, over and over. Robin Williams was the full spectrum of range from Good Will Hunting to his stand up to his Genie and Doubtfire and Birdcage (separating from acting because of his amount of successful adlib).

Conservative actors only know one role: their idealized selves. I bet you they're a tough guy with no emotional range, shadowing John Wayne pretending to be a cowboy. Joe Pesci is a real NYC tough guy. That's his act, condescending tough guy. Even with his peak of comedic performance, Vinny, he was just the same character but brought hilarity by being woefully out of place for the plot. Robert De Niro was a theater kid. He makes bank as a mobster but imagine trying to watch Pesci play Captain Shakespeare in Stardust.

Conservative painters/physical media artists... I can't think of any. Maybe I'm just uninformed. Closest I can think of are some photographers that produce images I call "informational" rather than artistic. Capturing a moment in time as if the street view car just drove by, not capturing a mood or feeling.

Anyway, I wonder if the handedness is actually rooted in which kids were tormented in a strict Christian school vs who had a more explorative and welcoming upbringing. Not that people don't come out as lefties alter, but that's gotta hamper their skill-honing years for art.

I've never read the book. Never heard of it actually. The early claim of "stars being infected except one" paired with comments in this thread made it clear there was an alien encounter. Nothing really seems spoiled to me. It maintains a comedic element throughout.

If anything, I'm somewhat more interested in it for not being like the trilo/quadrilogy (1) I was going to jokingly put it in: the unofficial Warhammer origin movies. Event Horizon (1997), Sunshine (2007), and Pandorum (2009). Namely, a remake of Sunshine. These 3 movies introduce demonic beings brought on by space travel which is more or less accomplished by traveling through/near hell. A flaw, to me, is their late-plot reliance on downright supernatural abilities. I enjoyed the relatively solid scifi aspect (2) a lot until things used a godly deus ex machina to wrap it up. Maybe that's my fault for not actually being into 40K.

(1) the 4th reference movie is Black Hole (1979), the Disney Star Wars before Disney Star Warred. As far as I'm concerned, Event Horizon is a remake.

(2) the solar shield on the 2nd ship in Pandorum should have absolutely roasted the back of the first ship upon rendezvous. The movie established reflections could slice metal. The convex shape of the shield would diminish the strength, but the much larger size should have done the trick. I know it was hot before and Mark Strong was naked, but I don't think he would've been strong enough. Complete the nuke mission. God plot closed.

Edit: sorry to put yall through weird superscript formatting. It didn't isolate the 1/2 like it did in reddit. Paranthesized instead

That's if it's specifying aquatic vs other elemental gulls. Perhaps it's specifying what type of body of water it's from instead. That'd imply oceangulls, rivergulls, bagels, pondgulls, lakegulls, etc