Rewatched Matilda (1996) for the first time since childhood. The movie has held up, Danny DeVito directing and starring in it was refreshing since my young adulthood has associated him with his tv show IASIP.

School! It’s out of the question. Who would be here to sign for the packages?!

Also, the scene where Bruce Bogtrot has to eat a whole chocolate cake in front of his peers unlocked a childhood trauma of seeing that scene for the first time.

I love Wikipedia games. This is currently my favorite . A website called “catfishing” raised an eyebrow for me but I swear it’s legit.

The enemy of my enemy is convenient, happy to see a country strong enough to provide some aid for Cuba. Hopefully it doesn’t lead to Bay of Pigs 2: Electric Cubaloo

160 soldiers made an excuse to not see family over the holidays, I get that feeling

I agree this map is far from complete. Maybe my definition is different but I would include “internment” camps like Gurs. Speaking for just France, there seems to have been dozens of them if you include POW camps.

Some people don’t get the opportunity to reincarnate as a human again, people like C Kirk reincarnate as a lower and more vulnerable life form so their soul can learn the value of humility and empathy.

She recently was on Tim Dillon podcast and my impression of the situation: She’s a duplicitous lip-server. Shes delusional enough to rationalize the impending healthcare disaster the dems point to as actually “lapses in Obamacare”, not at all because the BBB bill just passed by her party. Also, she is just protesting with dems where convenient because she is capitalizing on some popularity internal to MAGA. It’s easy to hold her party leaders to account and follow through on promises if that means getting some leverage later on.

Hit the nail on the head with manufactured consent. That was the old way of doing things, it’s all top-down autocracy now. No need to get the public to understand anything, the Trump fascists will do the thinking for you.

I think the silver lining right now with this new policy is that journalists can’t physically go to the Pentagon for information. They could theoretically confer with sources outside of the building, off hours, in a different country etc. I imagine those leaks will be more scrutinized now.

I understand where your anger is coming from but it’s misplaced. Lots of people, Americans too, learn the Irish genocide as “the Irish Potato Famine”. Secondly, single crop use is ONE factor that made the situation worse in the context of anti-Irish policies by the occupying British.

I keep seeing this historical “fact” but I can’t find anything corroborating it. “Hitler oaths” were already being taken since 1933, by June of 1935 the Reichswehr was replaced by the Wehrmacht.

www.verfassungen.de/…/wehrmachtaufbau35.htm