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You are a bit too blase about this erosion.

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"We are still locked into national security reliance on US" is happening at the same time as "Can we diversify away from the shitstorm that is the US" are real things both happening. And the latter is stronger than you think, although at a very inchoate stage.

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Lacking a Vonnegut. Both times ;)

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baked, banked, robbed. Love them. I don't know if you have been in a Le Crueset store, but they are beautiful, they show their pots in a colour spectrum like a rainbow. It's quite striking.

For all Vidal's faults he was basically asking "what better people can we be" while Buckley was "What I think people should be (not valid for people of colour)."

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I was handed down a Le Crueset a few years after I had purchased a Chasseur pot, and twenty plus years later I can see the extra value of the construction and price of the Le Crueset. They really are worth the eye watering prices and essential to a kitchen (IMO).

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The Shuttle Baking Dish is stunning when you see it in the flesh (the ceramic?). And also, for a Le Crueset pot, will not break you financially.

That is one hell of a video, the nervous laughter in the room - they knew she is like this but indulged her fascism anyway. This hints at a wider problem in the so called intellectual classes.

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They have basically banked my money, bastards.

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Did you know that Le Creuset make pots that are shaped like a Star Trek Shuttle and also are Klingon themed? This is news you can use.

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Vidal was a bag of wildness, but his fascist radar was decades ahead of his time.

You are In The Zone of Happiness, and I for one am all for it.

Brilliant. It is incredible how impenetrable baseball and cricket sound to the uninitiated. Like someone talking to you in Linear B

Baseball and cricket, two stick games with the most impossible insider lingo.

I don't understand a word of what you are saying, but I get the good vibes.

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Your observation may be correct, but it's sensible to continue under the rubric of "Trump is down, Trumpism lives". This is a movement, not just a person, and like eradicating Polio will need long term meticulous vigilance and attention to detail.

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The descriptions of the experience are quite fascinating.

Write me up for it since we are talking about cautionary tales and fucking around and finding out.

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Turning out polished legal professionals with less moral compass than Ted Bundy is literally a real educational aim at the top academies.

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Oedipus : The OG Fuck Around and Find Out Story.

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If you stop for even a moment to think, a corpus built around "Don't do this/be like this" makes total sense.

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The entire Greek cannon is filled with people you do not ever want to emulate.

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All the Greek stuff is basically "Don't do this" advice.

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I don't know why I get such grief for adding a lamb chop. Tip: when grilling a lamb chop, just before you serve it, place a knob of butter on each chop, drizzle of worscetershire sauce, and cook until butter and worcetershire are bubbling, then serve.

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I have got into lots of fights with Brits about this, they think this is heresy, but I think the addition of a grilled lamb loin chop perfectly rounds out the "big breakfast"

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It's funny you mashup Bundy and law, like the dividing line between cartoonishly evil and vicious and an elite SCOTUS brained legal academy type is very fine.

Achilles is like the one of the worst role models you could ask for. His whole story is a cautionary tale.

Achilles is kind of an asshole? Who gets tolerated basically because he's a buzzsaw of death. Who the fuck looks up to a guy who literally has a flaw so fatal we named a part of the body after it?

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I think it is not good that we have this rather powerful new technology and the people running it are both congenitally untrustworthy and also borderline insane.

I get strong Simpsons vibes from AI people

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Hard to trust companies that have an incentive to not be transparent.

It was wild how before radar it was literally lots of eyes AND ears as national defense early warning

I've heard that when you are in these chambers you can hear your own heart and that sends shivers down my spine! Icky!

There is something about experiencing it on the big screen in a cinema that makes even the oldest film fresh and new and interesting.

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It's good read, I enjoyed your article! I haven't really experienced people going so down on a film like you relate in the article, but seeing an old film at the cinema - no matter how many times I have seen it on the small screen - always resets me to like "first viewing" state of mind.

One of my favourite Ruffallo performances

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I’ll give Public Enemies a rewatch. I didn’t like it at the cinema. Can’t recall why, just didn’t gel with me. But I’ll give it a go. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a lovingly shot LA film. While it’s only set in LA in the back half of the film, True Romance is pure, pure LA

One of my favourite moments in that film is in the interrogation scene where Crowe is holding the chair and his knuckles go white as he grips it (eventually breaks it ) as his anger guess through the roof hearing about how the suspects mistreated a woman

Crowe does pent up fury so well in that film

rgoers.bsky.social @rgoers.bsky.social · 20h

A ridiculously good scene. Rollo Tommasi.

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"kitchen table issues" is what you say when you don't want to face up the really huge problems the country faces, and would rather live in delusion.

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rgoers.bsky.social @rgoers.bsky.social · 20h

Undersung LA film : LA Story.