Ha I get these exact same texts but in California

No no, it’s dumb. It’s not the cadence that makes it dumb; it’s the substance, or sometimes utter lack of it in Trump’s case.

I’ve read a few from T. Kingfisher this year and they’ve all been awesome.

Also really enjoyed the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, and the Emily Wilde books remind me in a good way of the Lady Trent books which I loved.

I’ve also read a few romantasy books but they’re unfortunately forgettable. I think I’m kind of over the genre. I want my fantasy with a bit of romance, not the other way around.

BookWyrm is great, seconding!

Anything by the Coen brothers. Especially the Big Lebowski. I just don’t get it. But I’m probably not the target audience, either…

I was 100% in agreement with all of them until the last one.

Five stairs at time down would break my ankles

Oh yeah /r/stupiddovenests was awesome.

One of the subreddits I miss terribly is /r/divorcedbirds. She would fit in nicely. But someone cleverer than me should come up with a good backstory.

The Replacements. Keanu Reeves playing a sub quarterback. It’s stupid fun even if you don’t like football and the supporting cast of football players are great.

What we do in the shadows

I looked into this for my son, who gets really bad hiccups. We have lots of regular straws, so before I bought a special one, I had him try a regular straw that was pointing straight down at the bottom of the cup so that it was letting in as little water as possible. Totally works (most of the time).

2003, I think; at least it’s the first I remember. I was 20 and in college. I had just missed out on voting in the Bush/Gore election and was a bit salty about it. Anyway I got to vote in the Gray Davis recall election in California and yes I voted for Schwarzenegger if I remember correctly, but you gotta understand how completely crazy the choices were. Also I was 20 and dumb, or at least I was still one of those people who “hated politics” and didn’t pay much attention.

For a hot second, I thought something was really wrong with her left leg

!LemmySilver

Did I do it right? Wasn’t really gonna participate but you deserve it ❤️

Ooh I was close; I guessed Paid Video On Demand.

2011 Jetta TDI. Newly married, my husband has a weakness for shiny new things. He had a 2008 Jetta and wanted to sell it and “upgrade” to the more efficient and environmentally friendly (er, about that) TDI. A few years later we bought a second TDI.

If you’re not familiar with Dieselgate, well, yeah, we got defrauded basically. Long story short, we ended up selling both and replacing them with…

Teslas. Sigh. Fuck me.

Mine might be that we didn’t own an encyclopedia; I can’t remember if we did or not. But… I think we did.

I am a lurker, mostly. I have never tried to change anyone’s opinion online that I can think of. But as a lurker, you can bet that my viewpoint might be changed by a good argument, even if it’s not directed at me. Just as it happens with religion, I’m sure there are conservatives (or leftists for that matter) on the internet that may have cracks beginning to form in their worldviews, and the right exposure on the internet can send them down a rabbit hole of questioning and considering alternatives. I suspect a major part of the reason I have gotten more and more leftist myself over time is because of exposure to good arguments on the left and much fewer on the right, plus the lack of desire from the right to partake in good faith arguments.

So what I’m saying is, your argument may not get through to the target, but there is collateral … well, not damage, but you get what I mean.

Sorry no, you are right, the first one is very campy. It’s been a while so I may be misremembering a bit. But what I meant was that Superman himself plays it pretty straight. (I think?) Lex was ridiculous. Do any of Gunn’s characters play the straight man? I’m mostly familiar with GOTR, though I did see Suicide Squad once; I just don’t remember much of it. I feel like every GOTR character is pretty ridiculous except for maybe Gamora but even she has moments.