Feels like every survey in the last 12 years is 67% of people claim to be not crazy and 33% people are psychotic. Except for voting, apparently.

The age bit here isn't a big deal. This just catches national law up to the already lower end of prefectural laws (all 16 to 18 I think). The bigger change is that the victim no longer needs to prove they physically fought back for it to be considered non-consentual.

Oh look, another 6/10 survey. File it with the “2/3 of Americans aren’t massive idiots” and “60 to 70% of people agree good things are good and bad things are bad” surveys.

It’s the drawer next to the “51% vote for nonsense” drawer.

I got the Plex lifetime pass like 10 years ago, but just switched to Jellyfin over the weekend. It felt like every week Plex was asking me to re-pick my home page list and just insisted on re-adding their live streaming junk. Got tired of it. Reverse proxy is not hard to set up, and while there’s some encoding kinks to work out, it’s not like Plex was immune to those problems either.

That sounds reasonable and so it's probably not even remotely close to what actually happens.

I'd have loved Bernie to be in the general... ever, but it just isn't what happened and pretending it was some conspiracy just isn't healthy. The candidate you're in love with doesn't always resonate with everyone else, and that's okay.

Never trust your eyes or ears again in this modern digital hellscape! https://youtube.com/shorts/55hr7Tx_7So?si=db5hROJWYjdQRMTD

They appear to be mistaking the shorthand for the Supreme Court ruling to be the name of a law. In fairness, bills do often have overly patriotic names that hide their paradoxical purposes.

Over time I see less and less of the need to be like "lol I don't like who I'm voting for, but I feel like I have to." I see absolutely no regret in 1) voting against obviously they worst thing ever and 2) voting for someone who seems to a least try to do things that aren't horrible and are generally pretty good? They only time you're going to agree with everything a candidate says or does you'd be on the ballot yourself. Even then it's probably healthy to disagree with yourself a bit.

Apparently he would do all three of becoming a cybernetic dictator ruler of the illuminati, while also plunging humanity into a dark age without technology, but also connect them all to one consciousness.

Very small pickaxe?

I'm just a civic minded citizen with a lot of time on his hands.

From the Sailor Moon Roleplaying and Resource guide book, one of the first few “Big Eyes Small Mouth” books. The actual photo under the text in the book is Wiseman’s Skeletor head, which is pretty oddly placed.

The tri-stat system was as elegant as it was exploitable. It was so easy to blow up planets by taking entirely too many minor defects.

I thought the pacing of things was fine and didn't really feel like too many scenes overstayed their welcome. The 2001 opener I thought was pretty great. A few things did stick out a bit for me, though.

1. The fantastical version of reality. A spelled-out theme of the movie is how hard it is being a woman, which Mom-lady really lays out for the Barbies. It makes some sense because the Barbies clearly don't know what real is like. The trouble is they say it instead of showing it. We don't see Mom-lady having any particular problems specific to her being a woman in the movie's world. The audience is supposed to nod along approvingly because she's saying things that many real women feel, but she's also from some surreal version of Earth where people in gaudy cowboy outfits can wander into a school and talk to the kids and steal library books and they don't get tackled by security. We really needed some scenes with some biting misogyny to give that speech some impact.

2. Pitting the Kens against each other seemed convoluted. Ultimately the solution to the crisis is... voter suppression? Really?

3. The old film montage near the end seemed really gratuitous.

I was in Ibaraki for this earthquake. One of the only times in my life I was ready to accept that it was the end for me.

Thankfully we didn’t get the worst of it where I was, but it was a crazy time for everyone.

Po po po po~n.

“It's just an amazing, amazing movie, and has really great fight scenes and has a really great ending sequence with the main character being thrown into the sky by all the other characters,” she explained.

...I love FFVII. It is one of my very favorite things. But this is not a good sign. Cloud being nonsensically hurled into the air is one of the weakest sequences in that movie. It's cute just for how bad it is. Certainly not what you want your real movie to be like.

Good ol' Bobby Tables