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No, it’s for his mother Bea and his father Jay!

Does anybody else think about how Hawkeye’s real name is Benjamin??? And the fact that we don’t even know what BJ stands for??? All I’m saying is it would be really funny if their names were the same.

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happy pride to Boris from Ottumwa Iowa

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really important financial advice: if a bank employee hands you a printout on scam and fraud tactics because you made a big withdrawal from your savings suddenly then you should maybe consider listening to your bank and question if you're being scammed by someone

related observation: idk maybe if your bank says "make sure this isn't fraud you're being pressured into!! Here's what to look out for!!!" And you go "hm. well that's not important," and then go right ahead to hand over $50,000 in a shoebox to someone you were told is an undercover CIA agent

—then maybe you shouldn't be considered qualified to write a financial advice column.

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this is literally so insane this was allowed on television

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fake mash plots — “ captains charming “

the only clue a hungover hawkeye has of the nurse he spent the night with are the shoes she left in the swamp , and he begins a futile search for the owner of them . trapper’s shy and awkward old friend makes a visit to the 4077th , and trapper tries to pawn him off on a nurse so he doesn’t have to cancel the date he had planned .

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I have questions about Florida guy

"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.

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Ok so I’m working on a master’s in English and am planning to do my final project on derivative works and am currently working on an essay on characterization between adaptations with new settings and basically ow my head hurts and also thanks you just gave me some ideas on search terms and also how have I never thought of this?

If you get this the way I get this, I salute you.

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i do think it’s interesting that in less than a decade after reviving both the jurassic park movies and star wars franchises, universal and disney, respectively, have fucked up what could have been never-ending theatrical cash cows to the point where the jurassic franchise is ending in critical disgrace and star wars has been relegated almost exclusively to disney’s streaming platform. how badly do you have to fumble bags that are mostly just “people and aliens in a far off galaxy and space” and “dinosaurs! what would happen if dinosaurs?” that the franchises became so devoid of any redeemable value that people are eh about seeing a cultural icon like darth vader wield his lightsaber or a website like rotten tomatoes, which grades on a heavy curve, especially for nostalgic projects, has your film at a 37% critical favorability and is being accused of making dinosaurs “uncool”. it’s fascinating. i hope the bubble bursts for marvel next.

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I’m pretty sure the previous poster meant the word Palestine isn’t Arabic, which it is not.

As far as ancestral land, you’ll have to define what you mean by “ancestral.” The ancestors of modern Palestinians conquered that land in the 7th century CE. And most of the ancestors of modern Jews were expelled from that land 600 years earlier (I say most because there were Jewish communities who never left too).

How long do a people need to live somewhere to lay claim? How long do they need to be absent to lose a claim?

I don’t know the answer to those questions. I’m inclined to think we both have a claim. But don’t pretend that Palestinians have always lived there. They’re a fairly new arrival.

Christians try to separate history from the Bible because they don’t wanna get “political”, meanwhile the Bible is literally full of history. The Old Testament isn’t just about the prophets like Isaiah, Elijah, and Elisha. It’s history. It’s even said in the Old Testament that keeping history and remembering it is important. Y’all like to pick and choose what to follow but y’all ignore the passages that completely contradict you, your beliefs, and the way you think. Then you wonder why ppl call you flip floppy. I will always stand by what I’ve been saying when it comes to this topic: y’all do not know what it is y’all believe in. Not all of the Bible is a metaphor. A lot of it is very straight forward and clear. Y’all also need to understand that Palestine has existed for thousands of years. Not the country of israel. Palestine. It was Palestine when Jesus was born and it was Palestine when David was king. Do better and actually do research. Listen to Palestinians. They know better than you and the settlers that have stolen their land.

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of course i have a praise kink, i'm a burnt out former gifted child.

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95% of NFTs are worthless, and most of the most expensive ones are priced between $5-100 where they were once drawing millions US$ apiece

Not a moment too soon, and fully deserved 😎

In conclusion-

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I want the writer’s strike to last until they get everything they demand and more. I want the SAG strike to last until AI is entirely forbidden across the board in the entire industry. I want CGI artists to unionize and strike. I want animators to strike. I want composers and directors and designers and VAs and techies and producers and stage hands and game devs and programmers and recording artists to strike.

I want every aspect of the entertainment industry brought to a grinding halt for months or even years to take it from the corps and put it back in the hands of the artists.

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rating actual medieval names i have found as a medieval studies student but they get progressively more unhinged:

William de Appeltrefeld: 8/10 bc appeltrefeld sounds like a nice place to live. who wouldnt want to live in a field full of apple trees? points deducted cause there are like fifty bajillion williams in england

Luke de Luka, merchant of Luca: 6/10. ur parents really werent creative huh

Hugh de Wlonkeslowe: 7/10. looks like a straight person trying to keyboard smash. *laughs in english place names*

Roger Smert: 10/10 absolute banger of a name. does it make any sense? absolutely not! but you guys. i dont think you understand. smert!!

John de la Bro: 7/10. when ur such a bro that its literally ur name and 800 years in the future its all people know of u

Hugh Sad: 7/10. weve all been there buddy

Gaylarde de la Mote: 10/10. slay. i bet this guys mote was the gayest mote youve ever seen

Hugh de la Penne: 9/10. we stan a pasta man

Richard de Astlegh: 10/10. verily, he shall ne'er give thee up, ne'er let thee down, nor shall he run with great haste and desert thee, he shall ne'er cause thee to weep, ne'er bid you farewell, ne'er shall he speak wicked falshoods in thine ear or cause thee harm

Bindo Hug: 8/10. who is this man a hobbit???

Eudo la Zusche: 6/10. deadass sounds like something youd see in a really bad fantasy novel

William crisp: 7/10. w h a t.

Asser son of Licoriz: 7/10 there is so much going on here i dont even know what to tell you

Baldwin Panik: 10/10 cause this is a heckin mood

Richard Cok, aka Dick Cok: 69/10. nice.

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I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist

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you just lost the game

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I think it would be cool to see a Jewish redeemed villain character where part of their redemption is asking for forgiveness on Yom Kippur

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not to Discourse but I’m a cis man and my partner is an afab enby and if you call us a “straight couple” I will personally come to your house tie you to a chair and make you listen to a podcast about gender identity on endless repeat