therandolorian.bsky.social
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With Vance being the Vice Vice President he now fills the role that best suits his personality, middle management.
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I met Tony Abbott once.
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Balding real estate tycoons with questionable hair*
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This has ultimately been my thought. I think it serves everyone well to have an independent judicial finding that can be used to justify an overhaul of everything ABC, it will go some way into limiting accusations of political interference in doing so.
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I'm still seething at her appearance a year or two ago on ABC news Breakfast to talk about the scourge of ageism in Australia. She said old people are so poorly treated by these young people on their phones who have no empathy for others.
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I don't disagree, which is strange because everyone knows that a shift to afternoon briefing is a demotion from her previous roles.
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Anti DF posters believe that you're advocating that a game is objectively good or bad based on your opinions of the tech. They're confused.
I'm interested in DF's examination of the tech and performance because it's interesting. It's sometimes entirely different to my opinion of the overall game
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Provably*
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I've been a long time listener of PK, religiously listened to Drive but something has been broken in her work for the last year or so. She's often probably wrong and "Peter Dutton says" is used so often it feels like her work is phoned in.
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Are you trying to convince me that the guy who benefited from apartheid might support a white supremacy movement?
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2025 marks 80 years since the official end of WW2. It took 80 more years but the Nazi's finally conquered America.
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He's not qualified, grossly so. Conflating victims coming forward when he's not the head of the DOJ does not help anything.
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I saw an opinion recently about how people spend so much time on a screen, reading words, that it's created a fatigue towards reading, and, well I feel personally attacked.
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Any social media that has a black box algorithm is a threat to democracy.
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That's not how being part of a collective works.
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It's been generations since America won a war. I think Greenland and Canada should be able to hold their own.
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I don't know, maybe asking them and trying to understand their mindset might be better than jumping to the automatic snobbery that they're wrong or morons.or ignorant.
It doesn't lead to better understanding when we apply our views on others.
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"he's also right"
Ok bud, never have I seen a more willfully ignorant response in my years of social media.
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I don't disagree. My point, maybe clumsily made, is that the OP is as equally as bad in making a public statement and my response, again clumsily made, was that I get a chuckle out of the lack of self awareness that that projection is.
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5 has a quite enjoyable single player campaign and the improvement to gunplay, brought from their Max Payne 3 experience, really was a huge step forward for the series.
It's such a shame that so much potential was locked behind multiplayer.
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We're not in disagreement. The academy has a focus on art and possibly social issue narrative. And that's ok.
It's totally fine that that's not remotely relevant to some who watch movies. Calling them out, like the OP only continues to fuel that divide.
The Oscars just aren't relevant to all.
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Again, that's you apply a subjective taste lens and asserting it as an objective fact.
That's my entire point. There's going to be people whose tastes are going to be the opposite of that opinion. It's the fixation that they're wrong that fuels the anti Oscar mindset.
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Are you saying that the fans of comic book movies are wrong? Or some how lesser? It's fine if you are but there has to be some acceptance that they're always going to be dismissive of your tastes simply as a reaction to you of theirs.
This is trying to understand mindsets. Oscar's=elitism to some
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I don't disagree. However the opposite's also true. The people who argue that Avengers Endgame wasn't worthy of the best film of the year are oblivious to how it contributes to facilitating that mindset.
There is equally an elitism and an anti elitism. For some reason the latter gets all the angst
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You're now butthurt that someone might be patronising to you after you were patronising?
Come on mate, that's an intellectual dishonesty that's beneath you and this conversation.
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Now you're going round in circles. It's dismissive. It doesn't put any effort into examining why people would come to a "ew Oscar's" position. And that's the entire point I'm obviously failing to convey to you.
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Ah so your response to accusing someone of being potentially patronising is to be patronising?
Somehow I think that irony and overt projectionism, or maybe the simple misunderstanding is going to be lost on you.
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No it's not. Only if you're an absolutionist. I was giving a possible scenario after being prompted. Films are a spectrum, like taste and the zomg Oscar's crowd is patronising to all other movie watchers.
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Because they might only like action hero movies?
I don't think it's all that helpful to try and define others tastes.
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"or" is itself something created as a hypothesis. Maybe they do follow movies but are only interested in what they're interested in and that isn't what the academy thinks is worthy.
It is about defending the Oscar's, in some way.
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I remember years ago, on a visit, having to run an errand for my in-laws, picking something up from a Vietnamese market in Melbourne. I was the only white person there and it was amazing. The amount of interesting Ingredients would have me there daily if I lived there.
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I always get a chuckle out of the Oscar's defenders. People haven't heard of them because of a marketing failure OR because they're not subjectively entertaining or relevant to them.
The obsession with applying an objective lens to something subjective is film snobbery.
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"Tea is great because of slave level wages"
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Official NVIDIA support, at least in some way, the same day that Valve shut AMD down on saying there will be a next steam deck with AMD hardware...
Nothing to see here...
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I was very very meh on it the first time as it felt like such a slog. Recently I rewatched it and enjoyed it.
The only thing I can think of is I didn't binge it first time. I think the delayed releases are archaic and hurt these Disney shows.
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Still too expensive, ain't nobody got time to through a 30+ min intro before you can drive.
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Definitely a dirty chai, loves both.
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And still high retail prices.
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In some states they're the only government employees that can't be drug tested as an employment condition.
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Ripping off the public, killing the public, these are things described as business. Only victims retaliating is called violence.
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Neapolitan and it's not even close.
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UE5 🤮
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Looks good. If you really want to up your pizza game I suggest following Vito Iacopelli on YouTube and definitely google his pizza dough recipe and consider that.
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Sharma's logic is easily defeated with a question.
"Why do you see anti-Semitism everywhere? Is it because you're Jewish? If so what makes you an authority in dismissing Islamophobia?"
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lol Intel.
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Reads a lot like her strategy to combat ageism is to be ageist.
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It's because modern western conservatives haven't had any actual policy agenda other than regression for the best part of 30 years.
They need to make up things to be worried about to hide the fact they have no agenda to move society forward.
The stupid thing is even they're blind to it.
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The biggest problem I see from people talking about free speech is the misunderstanding of what the "free" means. They have absolutism about it, that free means that it costs them nothing, no consequences.
It actually means the state doesn't punish you for saying it.
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The problem with this statement is its absolutism. I think it's pretty safe to say that there is an element of Trump supporters who aren't acting in good faith, their minds can't be changed, their intent is known. What purpose does it serve to be constantly reminded of this?