There are two possibilities here. Taylor Farms paid a shit ton of money to get the FDA to say this. Or DOGE decimated the FDA so significantly that they managed to fuck up a basic sample test. Neither one is great!

Please read.

I like how Sabrina Carpenter looks like a Bruce Timm drawing that he wished to life.

Reality doesn’t exist, all is television

Instead of drawing attention the sort of banal ubiquity of childhood sexual abuse the Epstein era has transformed it into a genre exercise of secret cabals and baroque conspiracies absolutely irresistible to hack crime tv writers but entirely alien to the reality experienced by most victims.

Just as all the anti-vax/MAHA stuff disproportionately sickens & kills their own followers, they don’t seem to realize what it’d mean in this context if they really did have a system where only white cis evangelical Christian “high-T” MAGA males are automatic A-1 draft classification (waves bye-bye)

I'm pretty sure that the only reason they haven't at least started 'exploring' reviving the draft so far is that they don't want non-whites in it. They've demonstrated that they don't care about any other reasonable objection, so that might be the last holdup

the early webcomic scene is so quaint to look back on. social media metrics have totally ruined our perception of audience scale and success. found a 20-year-old interview asking dave anez how it felt that bob and george had *over one thousand* daily readers. that was a medium-defining hit back then

seeing reviews/posts criticizing the Odyssey movie for being an inaccurate or too-modern retelling of the original—and i’m begging people to learn one little thing about Greek stories and their reinterpretation even in the Classical period, like this was a very Euripides take

The end of every empire/superpower is "you may not believe in reality but reality believes in you"

Everything is based on the principle that you can ignore all real-world considerations - the amount of oil in our reserves, the lack of man/firepower in our current warmaking apparatus, the actual utility of what we're invested in etc. - and do whatever, and everything will remain exactly the same

Ah, yes. Expanding the war. Always a classic when Glorious Leader is on his heels. Surely this won't backfire as it has done at nearly every instance of utilizing this strategy throughout history.

To continue the thought: I've seen some slapstick gags in the last 10 years (for example, somebody getting unexpectedly hit by a car) where the perfection of the CGI makes it horrifying instead of funny. You're always much better off having an obvious stuffed dummy flying into the air.

RETVRN to 'yondah lies the castle of my fathah'

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

My Odyssey thoughts: I saw a post about how this would have a Bryan Adams song if this was a 90s blockbuster but rest assured the Travis Scott song that plays over the credits with lyrics like "Looking for a Siren/Hoping that they call" is just as silly.

I guess the check cleared

Even as someone who had already read about and laughed at the premise, seeing the trailer in the theater I didn't even recognize it until halfway through. Up until then, I was simply confused why what seemed to be an aggressively low-key romcom got this level of promotion

Okay, but that is spiritually the plot of about 60 percent of peplum films, so you can see why I'm trying to get folks to watch Hercules Unchained (1959) and the like.

It's called Sex Purge, it has "Sex Dwarf" over the closing credits, let's get some of those Jean Rollin topless French girls in clown makeup in there, what kind of movie studio am I even running here (slams a hand on the surface of my vast gleaming mahogany desk)

My favorite probably has to be Equilibrium. In the future, emotions are illegal…AND karate is done with machine guns.

I have seen this trailer like 5 times and it's wild to me that it seems to exist in an alternate Sex Purge universe but they spend like 3 seconds mentioning that and then immediately move on like they never said it at all???

“In A Whut” movies

We need a name for those 'high concept' movies where the concept is so high that it asphixyates leaving the atmosphere

The thing about resistance movements is they only get credit after they succeed. You don't get your little back-pat for doing your job until after it's over. One will note how we talk about the Italian and French resistances during WWII and not, say, the German one.

The basic problem with Bill Maher is that all his friends will tell him "oh you're offensive" or "oh you're racist" and that's actually flattering to him, it makes him feel dangerous and unorthodox, but no one will tell him his REAL problem which is that he's dumb

PTA to Martin Brest: "Is there a story about Stuart Cornfeld, Herve Villechaize and a barracuda?" I think you should watch this video. youtu.be/c9US4QTjuS0?...

It appears the majority of Republicans who believe that Bill Maher is every Democrat's favorite comedian also included Bill Maher

Just to show how grotesquely out of balance everything is, consider that the median net worth in the US is just under $200K vs his $270 Billion net worth. So this is the equivalent of a normal person spending $60.

Nothing says “I should be taxed more“ more than using $82 million to argue that you should not, in fact, be taxed more.

He’s been voting Republican for years, so whatever

Don't print lies in the newspaper

matthew always brings the receipts

I really do recommend peplum films if you wanted a little more color, and a little more queerness, in The Odyssey (2026). They're all over YT and Tubi and the other free services.

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The paella connection is definitely there, but jambalaya is equally influenced by West African jollof rice

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Proud of Argentina for losing to a squad with Black players

In a golden age of grifters and scams, Shakira and her Hips That Don’t Lie are a breath of fresh air

Yeah, I watched the Odyssey

Yeah, I watched the Odyssey

has anyone called the tates the “women as property brothers” yet

american public education continues to baffle me

do the people arguing that the computer could be a person know that base 10 is a social construction and one that isnt even universal

a lot of the AI consciousness debate is downstream of education policy that frames math as an elemental force like gravity instead of a language