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I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!

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Do you think billionaires operate in a moral fashion? That their journey was one paved to the top by the ethical treatment of others?

Perhaps we need a new morality because I find that operating inside of prescribed moral bounds is shooting yourself in the foot when making this particular kind of argument.

You operate morally, they use every dirty trick in the book, including killing you.

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Obviously the answer is yes

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I think a good contrast to this is when my dad saved a goose he accidentally snared in his fishing line. If flew straight across mid-cast.

He had to reel it in while it honked and freaked out and and tried to bite him but after that, they were pals.

Brought its goslings to see him on subsequent visits and everything.

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TIL that Die Hard received mixed reviews upon release. Critics didn't like Bruce Willis' performance, action and violence

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I understand how, in retrospect, it may feel like it isn’t groundbreaking, but do consider that before Die Hard, there really wasn’t anything quite like it.

A quote straight from Wikipedia:

It is considered to have revitalized the action genre, largely due to its depiction of McClane as a vulnerable and fallible protagonist, in contrast to the muscle-bound and invincible heroes of other films of the period.

While it did sort of fall apart and away from what made it great in the later sequels, I think it’s important to put the film into the context of when it was released and what it did to the genre.

All that to say, Die Hard fucking rules.

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Afterlife conversations are probably infected too

Between November and now, I worked pretty diligently to create a wall around me to avoid these topics. Unfollowing, blocking, filtering.

Once the inauguration happened, I discovered that the concrete I used was faulty and full of holes. The black, fetid water of these lunatics seeped in from all directions.

Tech news, cultural news, arts, all possible other topics that I thought were safe within the walls I built are now covered with sludge.

I so tired of this shit. How did we let this happen?

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Bean virus

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They’re also just gross.

I don’t remember how it happened but I wound up with one can of Goya and one can of (I think) Hanover Butter Beans.

The Goya beans were slimy, smushed, having fewer and overall shittier beans compared to the other brand.

So fuck Goya for everything you said but also fuck them for having a shit ass product.