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i would ban everyone and reign over my kingdom of solitude

except maybe red and metatwaddle but they don't post anyway so kingdom of solitude it is

thanas is just butthurt over prussia's history of being a bottom to america's herculean alpha foreign policy

and growing up in regina i met many, many people like jub

it did not inure me to how appallingly awful he is

i'm excited to listen to them when i'm drunk and maudlin at least (like right now)

(and maybe other times maybe)

idk if he's wrong

while i've been in vancouver the past two weeks i've hemorrhaged a lot of money to homeless folks

but i'm a gigantic douche in every situation you could imagine and perhaps essentially

sooo

it is a lot of vaguely melancholic sentimental banjo-strumming

you don't have to answer that

(i'll probably listen to it anyway)

cite? according to all my research it has much more to do with the amount of hours americans put in and the high levels of educational attainment making training more efficient

but since americans give more than twice as much as the next leading country

i imagine it would still reflect pretty well on them

i don't know how you would possibly account for that other than in the most arbitrary fashion imaginable

so probably not

tho year by year, exact gdp per capita fluctuates, so according to some statistics i'm seeing america is behind norway and singapore in that - still, being in the top 3 when the rest of the top ten combined don't add up to america's population is fairly impressive and 'hong kong' shouldn't count why...

the average american worker produces more wealth per year than workers from any other country

pretty basic as a statistic goes

per hour, yes, but not per person (partly because the french work so few hours and there's a natural diminishing returns thing to that) and even then i think that right now only norway and singapore actually top america and being an oil-rich single-culture nation and modern totally urbanized city-st...

americans are statistically the most productive (per person, not per hour) and most generous people in the world We cheat* almost as badly as the UK and Germany for the first, and the second I've seen differently. Here's a hint: Wall Street gets counted in the numbers, that's why American productiv...

americans are statistically the most productive (per person, not per hour) and most generous people in the world

i maintain that american-sized meal portions are the secret causal factor in this

sup guys, it looks like things happened here the past couple weeks

what up with that

edit: i have never used this smiler before this day

the cosmic scenes were incredible, and that segment from the creation of the universe through to the earth's history were awesome. truly beautiful, moving, awe-inspiring stuff terrence malick is at his best filming scenes of nature but here he and his sfx guys really outdid themselves plus, any movi...

film about grief, faith, life, how we act towards others in the face of death = resonates strongly with tucker

film about nebbish, self-absorbed, pretentious writer with more ambition than sense = resonates strongly with nua

thanks to piracy becoming a film, book, or especially music snob is easier than ever

I don't think we really disagree about this one (horror of horrors), I just don't find that the film touches me as strongly as it did you. I think your analysis is pretty good and lines up with most of my thoughts about the meaning and purpose of its sections.

so i finally got around to watching the tree of life it's hard just to say 'it was pretty good', because this is such an ambitious and singular movie the acting is excellent, the film is gorgeous, and some of the imagery has an extraordinary power (the cosmic scenes are masterpieces on their own), a...

With nothing left to do barring either killing the damn thing or waiting on his ass for more expensive analyses, Norville decides to take advantage of his buzz with a walk to the bar for a drink or two before he goes to bed.

He finds an aerosol of isoflurane and opens the box, holding it at the ready. Inside is what looks like the common bullfrog, rana catesbeiana , but its body alone is about nine inches long, and it's seven inches wide at the widest point. One eye is horribly undersized for the rest of the head, look...

Assuring himself that he's probably just crashing and some new breed of deadly frog probably wouldn't be found on a roadside in Michigan, Norville tries to stay what he assumes would be 'professional'. Telling the kid to watch the box, Norville decides to rummage around to see if there's any isoflur...

"So, kid, is this thing... subdued?"

Making a mental a note to put this kid on The List for not calling him Dr. Rogers, Norville takes the box into his arms and tells the kid to follow him to the lab where they can make some detailed observations. Along the way, he'll try to get an idea of what it is.