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Nobody show him any of the Trump = Cyrus the Great stuff.
It's too creepy.

Maybe distract him with the cats.

15.03.2026 05:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is that a good measure for the quality of a doctrine then?
That it can usually, often, or always be executed?

I'd gripe about the scare quotes, but since the Powell doctrine is often ignored... fair.

14.03.2026 04:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You'd need to smash out the window, remove the hood and hold the cards in your teeth to do these three things.
And obviously you would drive like crap this way.

Might explain the messed up hand though.

14.03.2026 02:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How... sinister.

14.03.2026 02:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gotta confess, I did originally try a bit too hard to see if there was an ending which replaces Mr. House and his Securitrons with Dr. Mobius and his Robo-scorpions.

14.03.2026 00:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you take the administration at face value on this, why did Trump want the Panama Canal?

Bananas? Hats? Van Halen fandom?

13.03.2026 03:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nuts.

Thus closing the loop. As prophecy foretells.

13.03.2026 01:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
GORMENGHAST | Fantasy-Oper von Irmin Schmidt | Trailer
GORMENGHAST | Fantasy-Oper von Irmin Schmidt | Trailer YouTube video by Landestheater Linz

Currently listening to a Gormenghast opera I only looked for and found because of this post.Neat!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QX2...

12.03.2026 23:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I worked for a toy crane company, I'd tell people the only "trick" was to play nothing but the gumball machine - because you'd always get a gumball.

Didn't work though. Seemed like the more wacked the reason they thought a machine was "rigged", the more they thought they knew how to beat it.

12.03.2026 22:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And holy crap, there is a Gormenghast krautrock opera from Irmin Shmidt - thanks for the tip!
Don't think I would have found that otherwise.

12.03.2026 14:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From this album, The Raven or Fall of the House of Usher might be the moody synthest, Cask of Amontillado or The Tell Tale Heart might be my favorites though.

12.03.2026 13:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Cask Of Amontillado
The Cask Of Amontillado YouTube video by The Alan Parsons Project - Topic

Hear hear!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Mc...

12.03.2026 13:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe "moisture farmer" just sounds more dignified than "jerky master".

12.03.2026 03:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gotta be meat right? So many giant animals. Banthas, dewbacks, womp rats, sarlaccs - like, *all the giant animals.

Crates of Krayts.

12.03.2026 03:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
a close up of a monster with big eyes flying in the sky . Alt: a close up Hedorah (the "Smog Monster") flying.

If we dump enough in the gulf, Hedorahdash!

12.03.2026 01:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and that Ray Charles bit. Oh yes.

Sometimes wonder if the old, full 1927 Metropolis would have been found without this and/or the Giorgio Moroder version.

11.03.2026 01:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks like a nice little harvest of soundbites for ads already.

11.03.2026 01:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think the theory is that it won't pass - at least not for a long time.

If so, I could see the Reps (and Newsom, from the article) more likely to get the blame.

11.03.2026 00:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

petrichor and tornadoes
Oklahoma spring

11.03.2026 00:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also, team soda.

You "pop" and "coke" people sound weird to me.

10.03.2026 05:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Accents talk combining with Cold War songs talk:

As someone with a (supposedly) GenAm accent, why do I *hear* the refrain of Games Without Frontiers as "She's so popular" and not "Jeux sans frontieres"?

Do I unconsciously assume English accents (Gabriel or Bush) are always speaking English?

10.03.2026 05:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My favorite will always be "terriers and bariffs".

And he was a good sport about it.

"Anyone can give you a coherent sentence, but something like this takes you into an entirely new dimension."

10.03.2026 02:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So not an ayatollah, but aye, a toll eh?

10.03.2026 01:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's like watching an egg salad sandwich decompose.

09.03.2026 22:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*Rimmer notZimmer

09.03.2026 15:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Between this song, Land of Confusion, and Spitting Image puppets in general, it's funky how much Chris Barrie was the voice of Ronald Reagan in the 80s.

Reagan = Zimmer from Red Dwarf just gave me a laugh.

09.03.2026 14:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's got flow.

09.03.2026 03:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New dysentery just dropped.

09.03.2026 03:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was excellent work.

I hadn't thought about desalination plants getting targeted before. With plants (reportedly) hit in Bahrain and Iran I might be fixating on it too much.

For now, my don't-know-much-of-anything butt is filing it under "not good".

09.03.2026 03:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think the Reuters story about South Korea imposing fuel price caps may be real though.

09.03.2026 03:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0