The Pitters' Place

Monk

Sorry to hear about the familiar issues. Sounds like a very toxic environment. I think of Cash/Brandon periodically. Often in situations where I check my biases about gun owners. Several people we've "known" online have passed. DAd, Cash, PulpFiction, and now Sulla. I'm sure there are more...

Monk

Glad you're doing better. My bro got it last month and it hit him pretty hard, but he seemed to recover after a week or two too. I'm glad my family listened to me about not gathering for Christmas (after many of them did for Thanksgiving) seeing that he probably would have been contagious during Chr...

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Like Gendo said, mostly Facebook I guess? I'm also on Reddit but seems like few people here like it. I think it's mostly not a lot of people are really active anymore, so I don't check in as often, which creates a bit of a negative feedback loop I'm guessing.

Monk

But yeah if it wasn't for COVID Trump would have won in a landslide. Even with COVID, if Trump had just bothered to give off the impression that he was reacting to it responsibly (advocating masks, supporting lockdowns, listening to the scientists, performing some empathy, and so on), he probably w...

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I started out fine on Tuesday. Biden losing FL so quickly and easily was a bit of a surprise, but you know....Florida. North Carolina and Georgia also weren't looking great (GA had some weird issues going on so votes from Atlanta got delayed), but I was still optimistic. But then results in TX were ...

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Most of the old IMDB Pitters are now just using Facebook. Do you think people would take time to post on Reddit if they aren't taking time to post here? Yeah, that's fair. My assumption was more Pitters had Reddit accounts, so getting into discussions would be a bit more fluid, but obviously wouldn...

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I know we've discussed this before, but I was wondering if people were interested in transitioning to Reddit. We can even make it a private community if we wanted. Just think it might facilitate more discussions since I assume a lot of the people here have accounts, and then anything new will pop up...

Monk

You actually click on those links? You live life in the danger zone

Monk

My recently adopted state of Michigan had a good election. Flipped a congressional seat and the governor, and Dem senator was reelected. Also, all the ballot measures passed: legalized recreational marijuana, automatic and same day voter registration, and a measure to end partisan gerrymandering. Mo...

Monk

Still processing. 76 percent of white women voted against Abrams lol. Beto and Gillum lost to dumbass Republicans that ran terrible campaigns. This unholy country never had any hope. The likelihood of Beto winning that was so incredibly low. The fact that he got it to within 3 percentage points is ...

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I went over and looked at IMDB2.0 and didn't really see the negative comments? Maybe they were deleted?

Monk

Cassius Clay wrote:I think there are folks over there that still regularly spy on this board(hi marv and vegas ), so Cine was prolly thinking it would have gotten out anyway...and might as well take control of the narrative.

Probably this.

Monk

This is terrible to hear. I'm shocked and saddened. Thank you both for delivering the news .

Monk

Is the last sentence sarcasm? I during the election I heard nothing but “But SCOTUS!" Honestly, the whole Merrick Garland thing was barely covered throughout the election. I think it was largely because everyone just assumed Hillary would win, and Dems were hoping for a younger and more libera...

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Yeah, this place is ded

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Woah, people say that so much it can make a list? Because obviously what I was asking for was a list of individual names. That's clearly what I was going for. I meant what types of people do you talk politics with that you hear this commonly. Because I'm in radical circles all the time and I never ...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:Who?

Lol, because I keep a list of everyone who says this shit?

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Cassius Clay wrote:lol

"But...the Dems are just as bad!"

Monk

He'd just pardon himself, yeah?

I wish I were joking.

Monk

He tweeted a response apparently.

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Monk

Probably because she hasn't done much in the last couple decades. I believe due to mental health issues?

Monk

I really don't care do u?

Monk

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/us/maga-hat-new-york-bar-lawsuit-trnd/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; So this story is making the rounds on social media, where a guy was refused service for wearing a MAGA hat...

Monk

Hah I like that (the messing with scammers bit, in case it isn't obvious)

Monk

Raxivace wrote:Reddit has an awful community and the format of the site itself sucks. It's not worth integrating into.

Can't we make it invite only? I'm almost certain we can.

Monk

I would not be opposed to creating a subreddit either, if people are interested? Seems like it would help alleviate some issues with the cost of maintaining the site.

Otherwise, we could also probably eliminate a bunch of the sub-forums. There are a lot of them and not many active users here.

Monk

Yeah, I've been wondering recently where several of our regulars have been... gonna list people, even though I'm gonna look like a jerk because I forgot someone. Aels Dragon Azaezel Mur Salmon phe_de Pope sikax Jerk. I remembered you on Facebook! That's what really counts anyway. I think Facebook p...

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Ded, I say

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Cassius Clay wrote:Vegas isn't sure when to stop wiping his ass because it might be tanning oil.

Awful imagery, hilarious burn.

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Dead.

Monk

In line with other people saying that people aren't caring about kids. I agree it's a straw man, but many do think their right to own guns is more important than preventing people (and kids) from being shot through stricter gun control measures. I think there was some politician who said something a...

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Jimmy Carter was willing to watch the American economy burn just to get a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. To be fair, he also appointed Volcker to Fed chair to enact high interest rates to deal with high inflation even though he knew it would likely make him even more unpopular I admittedly ...

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Worse than Harding....?

Monk

I think, at best, you could potentially forgive him for his (still shitty) behavior up until the point where she genuinely told him no. After which he told her they could stop and just "chill" for a bit and watched some Seinfeld. He then abruptly tried to take off her pants again and (I th...

Monk

Those aren't liberals though; those sort of people usually hate liberals, but they're often conflated with liberals anyway, so your statement was true in that sense. I suppose I should have just said "far left", even though I'm aware there is some overlap with other philosophies. The pers...

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I actually blame JJ Abrams for this, as he clearly had no idea either, he just put in that little mystery to entice audiences and hoped someone would figure out something later. This seems pretty consistent with some of Abrams' other work too. Like he helped start Lost and come up with some of the ...

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Condescending in nature, vague references to "neoliberalism," and near-impossible standards. The type of people who think Hillary would have been just as bad as Trump.

Monk

There's a huge backlash to TLJ on the Internet for some reason. I haven't seen it so I can't judge, but they all seem to be complaining that it didn't answer any questions from The Force Awakens, that a lot of plots went nowhere, that there wasn't really any character or story advancement, and that...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:
Monk wrote:This is what people mean when they talk about liberals disparagingly.
Wut

Ya

Monk

I prefer what these people are doing: http://www.perfectdayfoods.com/ - it's actual cow's milk, but produced in a lab without the cows. Other startups have been working on culturing leather and other animal products, so it's a fascinating field that will hopefully one day help to meet demand and po...

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I mean, if it's safe and tastes fine, I'd be cool with it (well, if it's lactose free....)

Monk

This is what people mean when they talk about liberals disparagingly.

Monk

The plot of ESB is that Luke learns his heroes/mentors were liars who deceived him and the entire PT is about demythologizing the Jedi as an institution. Luke's story in TLJ and his moment of hesitation with Kylo is just a cyclical continuation of all of this. Eh, I dunno about. Luke is upset that ...

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I don't mean that TLJ doesn't tear down hero worshiping, just that's it's like the fifth or sixth Star Wars movie to do so and isn't bold in the sense that it isn't the first. I 100% agree that stuff with Luke is in the film though. Yeah...I don't see it. 5th or 6th? Not really. Well he starts off ...

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It disregarded all of those mystery boxes left by JJ. I personally loved Rey's parentage reveal and the way they killed off Snoke, revealing that Kylo really is the main baddie of this series. Yeah all of this owned, though unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if its undone in Episode IX since Abr...

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I might be in the minority, but I absolutely loved TFA. I know it had a lot of fan service and people complain that it was mostly just a remake of ANH (I still say Lucas did this first with RotJ). TLJ was like the anti-TFA. It didn't care about fan service. At all. It was arguably the boldest film o...

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Mercola is a known hack, and has been peddling pseudoscience for at least a decade.

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