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What movie(s) did you watch 10+ times and offered something new with each view?

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  • "Marathon Man."

    I think it was my fifth viewing that I realized a character from the beginning shows up briefly in the middle.

    • What movie(s) did you watch 10+ times and offered something new with each view?

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  • "Family Plot" gets little love from the critics, which is a shame.

    Funny, scary, and full of twists.

    • If Aliens came to Earth, would we not have as much of a language chellenge as they would do with us? Also like in Mars Attacks how would we know that we aren't saying lets go to War?

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  • "The Road Not Taken" by Harry Turtledove. Short story.

    The aliens have space ships and that's it. They still use horses, bows and arrows, and spears.

    Turns out, space travel is easy and we've been doing things the hard way...

    • If Aliens came to Earth, would we not have as much of a language chellenge as they would do with us? Also like in Mars Attacks how would we know that we aren't saying lets go to War?

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  • No idea. Read it in high school and that's a while back.

    • If Aliens came to Earth, would we not have as much of a language chellenge as they would do with us? Also like in Mars Attacks how would we know that we aren't saying lets go to War?

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  • Can't remember the author or title.

    Old short story where humans land on a planet where the advanced species has gone extinct.

    The Terrans have no way of translating the language until someone finds a classroom and figures out what they used for the periodic table.

    • The media is hiding the real story

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  • The NFL story makes a lot more sense than the alternative.

    Trump et al would love to have a big Luigi movement to point to right now.

    It would be a distraction from Epstein and a reason for much more domestic spying.

    Are you trying to tell me that the people who make money off of paranoid rich people wouldn't be pushing the idea of hordes of domestic terrorists coming for them?

    Look what 9/11 did for Bush Jr, and then quadruple it.

    • What are you watching and what do you recommend this week?

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  • For All Mankind I liked the first season, but no, it doesn't get better.

    Each season does a different decade, so the leads age up.

    It overplays the science fiction card. For example, in the last season they are on Mars. One of the workers is smuggling minerals to Earth for jewelry. None of the CIA/KGB people notices that Martian jewely is being advertised in in the newspapers.

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  • Black Sails. Pirates done better than the Johnny Depp movies.

    Penny Dreadful. Witches, werewolves, vampires, immortals, and Eva Green as a psychic.

    Landman. Billy Bob Thornton as the site manager for an independent oil company. Has to deal with the cartels who smuggle across his feilds; the crazy idiots who work for him; the maniac who he works for; and his psycho family.

    • NYC skyscraper shooter's 'suicide note' blamed NFL for brain disease

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  • You've been watching too many movies.

    The NFL reports came out right after the shooting.

    He shot himself in the chest because he wanted his brain studied.

    No way could anyone put together a conspiracy like this that quickly.

    Moreover, being targeted by a conspiracy would be a Godsend for private military contractors. Trump and the GOP would fall all over themselves allowing them special rights and privileges, and they'd be investigating everyone who'd ever complained about income inequality

    • Inflation Outpaces Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans

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  • "Adjusted for inflation" is a lie.

    Think of it this way. $1 million in 1960 would buy you a couple of mansions, a fleet of nice cars, and you'd have enough left to put into investments that would give you income for life.

    $11 million today won't buy the nicest house on the block.

    • What's that book or story you vaguely remember reading but forgot the title of and can't find it anywhere anymore?

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  • A much shorter list would be all the books/stories I am sure of.

    • Inflation Outpaces Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans

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  • Also, the inflation for luxuries leaves regular inflation in the dust.

    Back around 1960, $5,000.00 a year was a sold, middle class income. A Jaguar sportscar was about $6,000 and a Rolls was about $25,000.

    Even if you spend the money to get a First Class airline ticket, you know that there are plenty of private planes out there.

    Harlan Ellison wrote an essay about 'fuck you money,' the amount he needed to have in the bank so he could tell the studios to fuck off. Back in the day he could go six months on $1,000.

    • Given the recent payment controversy, I have an interesting question. Why are people so interested in porn and NSFW stuff?

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  • It's obviously a basic human desire. Porn's been around since the Stone Age. Might as well ask why do people like games.

    • Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

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  • His book "War And Anti-War" came out around 1996.

    He predicted that the next American war would be against a non-state, maybe the cartels or a terrorist group.

    • Protestation

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  • Television was the revolution.

    If people hadn't seen MLK, the Freedom Riders, and other protesters being attacked, they would have been able to ignore it. It was when people saw the Vietnam War on the nightly news that they started reconsidering LBJ's policies.

    • Best creative hobbys/general hobby for a really depressed young adult?

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    Go the other way.

    A hobby can only take you so far. I'd suggest you reassess your job/career.

    In a good week you can spend ten or twenty hours on your hobby, whereas you'll spend 40 hours working.

    They probably have this book at your local library; you don't need to buy it.

    "Discover What You Are Best At" by Linda Gail.

    Good luck

    • Can i simply bake frozen chicken or does it actually need to thaw over several hours or immersed in cold water or something?

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  • You can defrost quickly with the microwave.

    • How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life?

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  • I found this book when I was almost 30 and it changed my life.

    "Discover What You Are Best At" by Linda Gail.

    It's a series of self tests you can complete in a few hours and a list of the jobs that use those skills.

    If you have a job that you don't hate, you've solved a lot of life's problems.

    • Why ‘King of the Hill’ Is the Most Significant Work of Texan Culture of the Past Thirty Years

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  • Hap and Leonard have entered the chat.

    • Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

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  • Also, free range kids are likely to be reported by 'concerned' neighbors.

    Pretty soon, 'Stand By Me' and 'The Goonies' are going to be classified as dangerous propaganda.