This particular pope has been a huge improvement.

Yesterday I woke up near Dallas, went to Houston for family stuff, went back to Dallas for different family stuff, and had to be at work at 8am this morning in Austin.

I think just going to work is less work.

If you haven’t watched the movie since you were a kid, watch it again.

Santa is a huge dickhead. He insults the elves, tells Rudolph’s parents they should be ashamed for giving birth to him, and more.

Maybe something combining a festive spirit with machine guns?

No, but of your legs are broken they’ll try their best to do nothing even though you do pay.

At least the mob is honest about what you get for paying them.

Watched this movie the other day for the first time in forever.

When I was little, I thought Joe Pesci was the evil burglar. But holy cow, Daniel Stern is a monster. Joe Pesci steals a few things. Daniel Stern floods the houses and ruins lives for laughs.

This is the worst AI video generation will ever be.

It’s getting truly scary. The assault on fact will be much easier going forward.

The reason you have to find the non-widescreen version I think is because they released the scene initially for the VHS cut and I don’t think they have a surviving copy of the original non-4:3 cut.

Also: find the soundtrack. There’s a few songs that didn’t make the film. There’s a forgettable Sam Eagle song, but a lovely Bunson and Breaker song with a Beaker solo.

If you can, find the non-widescreen DVD version.

They left the most important, emotional scene of the film (along with the song they used a “pop” version of for the ending credits anyway) out of the theatrical cut of the film.

It’s the scene where Scrooger gets dumped, and there’s a beautiful duet of Michael Caine singing along with his ex-fiance as his heart breaks and he starts to become human.

Without that scene, he suddenly goes from being the man at the beginning of the film to the much friendlier Scrooge with the Giant.

Monkeys paw curls:

Everyone now needs at least 2 jobs. Groceries are nominally cheaper through massive shrinkflation.

He’s askari getting federal charges. Those do.

Superman’s main antagonist supervillain is literally a billionaire CEO.

Yeah. Kids are allowed to love their parents. My parents are flawed. They’re not evil, but they’re the kind of people I wouldn’t spend time with or associate with if they weren’t my parents. We simply have different values and opinions.

But I still love them and love spending time with them, and they feel the same.

I left the business

He probably did intend to scare insurance company executives. I can see calling it terrorism, even if I think he should get off.

I’ve dealt with back pain, and during the height of my battle with the insurer I absolutely would’ve been tempted to kill the fuckers given the chance.

I worked in the retail mines for a few years as both a peon and a peon first class (manager).

Everyone had stories about the absolutely worst assholes they had to deal with. I always told my staff to try to remember that the reason those assholes stood out so much amongst everyone else is because they were not the norm.

Most of our customers were fine or even great. But since that was the norm, they don’t stand out in our memories.

Also, I was always willing to kick out asshole customers. My staff’s job was to take care of the customers. My boss’s job was to take care of corporate.

My job was to take care of my staff.

He’s already doing that.

Both getting to control a country and buying Texas.

New York also specifically allows for Jury nullification in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.

That article is specifically about Libel cases, but isn’t necessarily limited to libel, and jury nullification isn’t prohibited anywhere else.

Additionally, jury nullification is the entire point of having juries made up from regular citizens instead of professional jurors who are experts in the law or panels of judges. A jury is the last line of defense against an unjust conviction.

The Microsoft Zune had a y2k9 bug caused by a lingering clock issue from leap year from the extra day in February 2008 that caused them to crash HARD on Jan 1, 2009. I remember It being a pretty big PITA getting it back up and running.