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That was just the dude who played The Mountain in Game of Thrones. Not sure why he was wearing the helmet.
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I assumed he had. It’s pretty great, it’s absolutely not treated with any respect for the source material. I don’t know if it was meant to be faithful but Nic Cage decided it wouldn’t be.
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More than any of the rest of them I think he already knows.
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Yeah, I get stressed out enough with my indoor ones, always finding new hiding spots and making me think they escaped. Ended up putting AirTags on them.
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I don’t know, by the time I found out he was here he was already on a couple blocklists and there’s no way I’m unblocking him to find out. Also I love it here for exactly that reason.
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When I got mine there was a cat street gang in my neighborhood. They raided a crazy cat lady’s house a few years prior and about a dozen got away, they roamed the neighborhood in a pack terrorizing everything. Didn’t need my cats falling in with the wrong crowd.
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Oh, yeah, my mom’s cats are strictly indoor due to the coyotes, and foxes, and bobcats, and honestly probably the turkeys because one of the cats is kinda a pushover.
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Relatedly, boy do I like this platform’s community moderation tools.
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Well he’s in my parents’ back yard, but their house is at the edge of an open space so it was really the coyote’s back yard first.
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I’m not sure I’d read “haven’t” as “can’t.” Iran has weapons, they supply them to others in fact, but presumably they’re smart enough to recognize they’re not the aggressor so not retaliating right away keeps the big alliances out of it. This isn’t Russia with rusted tanks and Cold War era rifles.
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The other bad news is that there's a non-zero possibility that Tehran and Tel Aviv end up radioactive. That's also not great. But it won't technically be the whole world at war!
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Anyway, if you grow up being told that to succeed (ie. be rich) you need to ignore what you like and believe and get into a certain school, major in a certain thing, and do certain activities, it's not like you're gonna stop looking for the optimal thing to blindly do when you're an adult.
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(I'm extremely fortunate that my parents thought that was stupid. My mom stressed the importance of college but that was mostly because I've always been like this and that was the best way to make money sitting down indoors.)
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It also makes sense in the whole context of the culture my generation (elder millennial) and younger were raised in, where school and parenting centered around winning at life, checking the optimal boxes to be like people who are rich and therefore successful. This is the logical extension of that.
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I can’t vouch for classical, not really my style, but there’s only been one song I wanted to listen to that wasn’t on Tidal in the four or five years I’ve had it. And I have super weird taste. And I don’t remember what song it was so it couldn’t have been very good anyway.
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(In reference to this deleted post.)
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Requisite plug for Tidal: They pay their artists more, but also and more selfishly they stream uncompressed audio, and good lord does it sound good on the speakers and headphones I spent too much on.