North by Northwest and The Birds are my two favorites, NXNW for the epic scale and Bernard Hermann’s soundtrack, and The Birds because it’s creepy as fuck. I also really like Rear Window. While I’m not the biggest Jimmy Stewart fan, the story and the set design are amazing.
We don’t have that kind of granularity anymore, both because RFK Jr and DOGE have significantly cut public health funding and because there are so many variants out there now and so little difference between them in terms of presenting symptoms
“Don’t Mess With Texas” was an anti-litter campaign and nothing else.
Real bud has been for sale in Texas for years now and has been completely unregulated. This regulation imposed by the Dept of State Health Services effectively kills the sale of the real stuff in stores by counting THCa in the total THC equation, which was not counted before. Lab derived stuff will still be for sale
What has happened over the past few years in Texas regarding THC is amazing. Weed is available everywhere. Compared to regulated states like Colorado, it was the wild west. It took the state legislature 3 sessions (6 years) to finally pass a bill trying to make THC illegal again, and Abbott vetoed it.
Well, I’m not happy about these new regulations, which basically make smokeable flower illegal and impose new fees that are certain to put quite a few small shops out of business, however most THC products are going to be remaining on the market, and we’re still going to be able to legally order everything that’s been banned through the mail, which I consider a huge win in this state.
We’re kind of not at all having an energy emergency, actually. Most states have pretty diverse energy generation portfolios, so electricity costs are not as responsive to global oil prices as e.g. gasoline for cars. The reality is there’s already tons of wind and solar online, and that’s going to continue even if Trump tries to stop projects on federally controlled land
The calculus here isn’t strictly whether it’s “healthy” or not. There are quite a few ingredients that can be derived from both plants and petroleum, for example, and I would choose the one derived from plants every time
True, but that does surprisingly little to prevent homelessness.
Yes, but it does a LOT to keep people experiencing homelessness of the streets and in shelter. In US cities that have harsh winters, they also have many fewer homeless folks visible on the streets than you’d find in California or Texas, where people can pretty much live outside in perpetuity
Trump assumes the IRGC are as dumb as him and the people he’s surrounded himself with, which is going to be catastrophic for how this goes for him. The IRGC are theocratic authoritarians who are not motivated by money, and he can’t conceive of this, so is clearly at a total loss as to how to handle the situation he has created
They’ve been letting some ships through heading to India and China, and were talking about setting up a vetting system to allow more ships through
Many rivers begin with glaciers. The Colorado, Mississippi, and Rio Grande, for example, still receive glacier melt to this day
but also have to be weary of the fact that some of them are just posing and scamming.
The amount of people doing this is infinitesimal compared to the actual homeless population. This is basically a right-wing talking point to undercut empathy with people who are experiencing homelessness.
Also you should never feel bad for not giving a panhandler money, but if you feel called to do more, just find an organization to volunteer with. There are people facing homelessness right now or in the near future in every urban and rural area in the US
What’s clickbaity about this headline? He literally said these words, and it means the same thing in context as it does as a standalone sentence
Unfortunately, it would still be in close proximity to Iran and well within attack distance, so it would be completely pointless.
Why would you go around it when it’s behind you? 🤔
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs on the barbeque grill?
Frank.
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Towin Mak, a representative from the educator center that owned the robot, explained to TDM that the incident happened as the robot was leaving the area. The woman stopped in the middle of the walkway to check her phone, and because the robot couldn’t get around, it simply waited behind her, he claimed. That’s when she noticed the robot with its lights on, startling her, given the late hour.
If I discovered a robot standing silently behind me on the street, I would also have a lil’ freakout
Was this war so hastily planned that this was overlooked?
Planned isn’t the term that I think should be applied to what the US is doing. Iran has been planning how to make an attack on their land as painful for the world as possible for a long time. They know their military can’t compete, so they utilize strategy to make an outsized impact. There is no “mine facility” to bomb, they have thousands of mines in decentralized storage. All of this, including Iran’s plans to make this painful, is public information that the US military had access to.
The unfortunate reality is the civilian leadership in charge of planning this are fucking idiots. Pete Hegseth, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump are fucking morons. They know jack shit about any of this but are running our foreign policy.
The Trump Admin is doing the bidding of Israel here, hands down, as influenced by Israel’s assets within the US government, such as certain members of Congress, who have plainly stated as much. Israel doesn’t care about oil prices, they care about destroying Iran and an ancillary goal: As we speak, Israel has displaced almost a million people in Lebanon and is clearly about to annex Lebanese land. This is a footnote in the news because of Trump’s actions in Iran, but would have garnered international condemnation otherwise.
That doesn’t break it down by variant either tho