What if they made Star Trek: Phase II instead of The Motion Picture?

Not that it matters, because the effect is the same, but I wonder if he really did believe that stuff or if he did it knowing that it would facilitate a wealth transfer to the ultra-wealthy.

This game's soundtrack had some absolute bangers.

Soldier's Chant and Mayhem in particular.

What's next? Letting the youths listen to rock and roll music on the jukebox?!

I have to imagine they carved up the turkey for the whole cabin and thought it'd be funny to pose the carcass with this beefy king.

From Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristen Kobes du Mez

Antecedents can be found in nineteenth-century southern evangelicalism and in early-twentieth-century “muscular Christianity,” but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that a potent mix of patriarchal “gender traditionalism,” militarism, and Christian nationalism coalesced to form the basis of a revitalized evangelical identity. With Billy Graham at the vanguard, evangelicals believed that they had a special role to play in keeping America Christian, American families strong, and the nation secure. The assertion of masculine power would accomplish all these goals.

By the 1960s, the civil rights movement, feminism, and the Vietnam War led many Americans to question “traditional” values of all kinds. Gender and sexual norms were in flux, America no longer appeared to be a source of unalloyed good, and God did not in fact appear to be on her side. Evangelicals, however, clung fiercely to the belief that America was a Christian nation, that the military was a force for good, and that the strength of the nation depended on a properly ordered, patriarchal home. The evangelical political resurgence of the 1970s coalesced around a potent mix of “family values” politics, but family values were always intertwined with ideas about sex, power, race, and nation. Feminism posed a threat to traditional womanhood, and also to national security by removing from men their duty to provide and protect and opening the door to women in military combat. In similar fashion, Vietnam was not just a national security issue, but also a crisis of masculinity. Civil rights, too, dismantled time-honored traditions and destabilized the social order. Representing federal government overreach or even an insidious communist agenda, desegregation also heightened the long-standing imagined threat to white womanhood, and to the power of white men to police social and sexual boundaries. The reassertion of white patriarchy was central to the new “family values” politics, and by the end of the 1970s, the defense of patriarchal power had emerged as an evangelical distinctive.

All that gas for one little turd.

Almost all of them are still too chickenshit to call out their dommy daddy publicly for this totally unjustified war though.

Some Republicans in the House were more blunt when speaking anonymously. The terms of the deal contradicted the talking points that the White House asked its Republican allies to use, Republicans told Politico.

One House Republican said the Trump administration was “lying to some degree” about the peace deal.

“The president didn’t mean to, but he effectively acknowledged he lost the war. It’s no longer worth the economic price. This is the way out, as ugly as it is,” another House Republican told the publication.

“He promised total surrender. And here it is,” a third House Republican said.

Still, the vast majority of Republicans are sticking by Trump, like 68-year-old Greg Votel, a retired law enforcement officer in Minnesota who said the president "can only do so much when you have a Congress that's fighting him tooth and nail to preserve the Democratic Party" and told NPR that it will take more time for Trump's plans to come to fruition.

The problem is that Vance’s knee-jerk reaction to being challenged by a woman is to patronize or dismiss, and an all-female panel in front of an all-female studio audience wasn’t going to allow that. He’s also terrible at being, or even seeming, off-the-cuff and candid. When he said that Trump’s economic policies were going to “pay serious dividends” and Behar immediately asked, “When?” his smile began to wear thin as he hit back: “Well, Joy, what happens is that construction jobs build the factories and people go back to work.” It was condescending and weak all at once.

Corporations and billionaires spend a ton of money to prevent people in the USA from having access to basic medical services as a way to limit professional mobility, forcing folks to stay in exploitative jobs which they hate.

Based on the name, I figured it was related to the bowed rebec.

I had more fun with Jurassic Park: Trespasser and Die By the Sword than I should have just because they had early physics engines.

I actually wonder if Trespasser would make a good VR conversion.

I'm dreading the day when my office has to make the move to New Outlook. As infuriating as the old one can be sometimes, the new one lacks very basic functionality.

From Woody Guthrie's antifascist anthem Lindbergh:

So I'm a gonna tell you people: If Hitler's gonna be beat
The common workin' people has got to take the seat
In Washington, Washington

And I'm gonna tell you workers, 'fore you cash in your checks
They say "America First, " but they mean "America Next!"
In Washington, Washington

They knew back then what "America First" meant: fascist takeover of the government.

Perfect boss minifig. Maxifig?

Wait, I thought Grok was the one people use to make CSAM?

This you?

It is comical propaganda that Ukraine had or has sovereignty. When Joe Biden tells you, if you want a lot of money, you run your government according to what he and what he represents deem fit such as firing Ukrainians in public office, is this really a sovereign nation? How about supporting a coup that subverted the democratic vote in that country? Ukraine is a political war. The EU and NATO wanted to bring the former Soviet states under a liberal umbrella by bringing them into the EU and NATO. All the while, the US was ignoring Russian security interests. The US has no interest in Ukraine. Whatever happens in Ukraine affects nothing in the US. American standard of living will not decrease because there is nothing vital in Ukraine for the US. The brings us further comical propaganda; the Ukrainian border is an American one, and if we don't stop the Russians in Ukraine, they will take over Europe, and invade Los Angeles, and New City. This is nonsensical, but this is what the mainstream news media by way of government agencies want the public to believe. Again, who has credibility here?

That's basically the entirety of opera!

If you're looking for baroque period like the D's "rock block of Bach," check out G.F. Handel; he wrote a ton of opera and orotorio.

It was customary to perform the operas in Italian, but his most famous piece, the Messiah was written and performed in English like all of his orotorios.

Here's one of the arias from Alcina, his opera about a powerful sorcereress who seduces and traps men on her island by turning them into scenery like bushes and rocks when she's done with them. In this scene, one of the men's fiancee Bradamante comes to the island disguised as a man to rescue him and Alcina's sister falls in love with her.

Edit: here's one you've almost certainly heard from Bizet's 19th century opera Carmen: the Toreador Song.

Maybe the best theme song from early computing, too. That C64 sound chip was something special.