GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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They got her early. She had a few solid credits to her name when she did Iron Man 2, but the smart MCU move at that point was to recruit young-ish talent and get them signed on for multi-movie contracts relatively cheap. Hopefully what we all get out of that sort of arrangement is that talented actors make enough MCU money to go off and do whatever out-there artsy stuff that creatively appeals to them and fosters their talents, rather than having to plug away in garbage movies just to pay the bills.

Three German engineers at the very peak of giddy anticipation about to introduce their crowning achievement to a cheering crowd:

Counterpoint:

Has there ever been a person with a more prolapsed face than DJT?

Humans are almost unique in the animal kingdom in needing C-sections, due to our overdeveloped brains being almost, and occasionally slightly, too big for our birth canals.

Wolves and most functional dog breeds give birth with no issue at all.

It's mostly bulldogs and other wide-headed breeds that need assistance, which sounds to me like breeders going way too far on the wide head / narrow hips route of trait selection.

I didn't know the phrase "free whelping" until I was reading about some pure breed that was known for being able to give birth without medical intervention, on account of there are some breeds in which it's fairly common to need C-sections. Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that being able to give birth unaided ought to be a baseline of health for any goddamn dog in the fucking world.

You've got to check your card.

Normally the metaphor isn't this literal.

Even worse than the planet of awful African stereotypes?

Foul Coughing

The Pillage People

The Shite Stripes

That sounds awesome, and isn't that terribly expensive, honestly. My wife and I went on a similar route road trip for our honeymoon a few years ago and it was in that same ballpark of cost, between car rental, hotels, and other expenses.

Money is no object?

Alpha Centauri. Build a spacious and comfortable Orion Drive ship for me and a few thousand of my best friends to go on a nice long trip.

Boss: I've decided to pay you shit wages and expect you to work nightmare hours.

Union: We've all banded together and would collectively like to tell you that we prefer better wages and more reasonable hours, or else we will strike.

Boss: I've decided you can't do that, or else.

Union: Yes, or else, indeed. That's the core concept here.

Call his fuckin' bluff, or else you don't really have a union at all.

/nottheonion

My theory is that Jupiter Ascending was supposed to be a trilogy, but the studio would only approve one movie with a wait-and-see approach to the second and third installments, and the Wachowskis just said "Fuck it," and crammed 6+ hours of plot and world building into a two-hour movie.

The idea did occur that I'd better be damn sure that I like whatever honey I'll be eating for the rest of my life.

The use of the word "parasite" is not a coincidence.

"[The Jew] is and remains the eternal parasite, a parasite that spreads more and more like a harmful bacillus, as well as inviting only a favourable culture medium. The effect of its existence, however, is similar to that of parasites: where it occurs, the host people die after a shorter or longer time."

— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

The flak canon was a ton of fun, but I have a special fondness for the slime gun. Primary fire leaving a bunch of slime balls around was hilarious, as was running around with the secondary charged up, just hoping to run face first into someone and fire it at point-blank range, killing you both. Strategic or tactically sound? No. But hilarious.

There was that one time he used diplomacy to... diplomatically reveal that he'd brought a bunch of trigger-happy Klingons to a confrontation with the Romulans. Picard loves diplomacy, but I would not want to face off against him in a shooting war.

Let's all take a look at how well it worked out when America provided support for the Mujahideen in their war against Russia, but then withdrew that support when it was no longer convenient for us.