ways Rogue One is a Thanksgiving movie:
- complicated family trauma with Jyn's dad working for the Empire
- found family helps misfits find purpose
- that moment when Cassian says "welcome home" to Jyn??
- movie inevitably leads to arguments about data storage formats (classic Thanksgiving fare)
- that one problematic mocap relative (dead Peter Cushing)
- Alan Tudyk
A spicy political take
My boldest take is that America doesn't actually have a "left" in any cohesive politically organized sense and it's weird to complain about "the left" or "leftists" as a single group
What most people call "the left" in media and analysis is either progressive Democrats (who are a minority within their own party) or People on Social Media Who Disagree With Them (hold leftist values/have leftist praxis but don't actually constitute a mass political party or organizing force)
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This is an extraordinary statistic - "by weight, 40% of maritime trade consists either of fossil fuels on their way to be burned or of chemicals derived directly from fossil fuels."
Switching to renewable energy and reducing reliance on fossil fuels is a win-win.
#Maritime #Shipping #TransportEmissions
https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-consists-of-fossil-fuels
also did someone post about Perfect Sentences bc we got a weird spike in subscribers on Wednesday
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-99/ this week in sentences: close to crime, beetroot and music, illicit offspring, favored ritual, opaque whims, merely refuses
So many hard days I got out of bed because of her. I'm very scared that the coming years will break me, not sure how I'm going to keep living without her.
So, funny story. Every cop's body cam is basically an AirTag. I did a talk at DEFCON explaining how you can detect and ID police body cams with your phone.
not uniquely bad news today just uh acknowledgment that the nation of Lebanon as they've known it in their lifetime is basically over, sure