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It's the spooky season, what are your recommended movies (and other media) for the season that aren't gory horror or kids movies?
  • I don't see any recommendations for The Lost Boys yet. It's super '80s in the "both Coreys" way. It's dated, but still a lot of fun.

    Prince of Darkness is a guilty pleasure for me. I love religious horror, so it's my favorite John Carpenter movie. There are some fairly violent bits, but it's not overly gory like a slasher flick. If you're okay with The Thing, this one should be fine.

    The Endless is also religious horror, but it's more psychological. There's not much violence, but it's very tense.

    Little Monsters (the 2019 one) is a heartwarming comedy about a teacher who has to protect her class from a zombie apocalypse during a field trip. It's got a moderate amount of zombie-movie gore, but it's treated in a humorous way. If you're okay with Shaun of the Dead, it should be fine.

  • Free and Open Media
  • I'm in a book club that is reading Brave New World. Several members bristled when I pointed out that sporting events and booze are basically our equivalent of Obstacle Golf and soma.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene is now adding lasers to her Hurricane Helene conspiracy
  • If Dobbs continues to be the law of the land for any real length of time, we can also expect crime rates to rise in 18 to 20 years, just as they fell in the same time frame after Roe. But I'm sure the GOP is already planning to spin that as the Democrats' fault, too.

  • "Why won't my adult children talk to me anymore?"
  • Okay, there are just multiple layers of bad women's anatomy in the original post and in the comments.

    Eggs are in the ovaries. Without hormonal birth control, generally one egg (but sometimes more and sometimes none) is released from the ovary, travels down the fallopian tube, and if it is fertilized, implants in the uterus. If it is not fertilized, it passes out of the uterus, the uterine lining is shed (that's menstruation), and the process repeats the following month.

    There is no "grandchild" in an ovary, any more than there is a "grandchild" in a testicle.

    And if a fertilized egg implants anywhere outside the uterus, that's an ectopic pregnancy -- which is not viable because only the uterus has the capability to grow with and provide nourishment to a developing fetus. Not only that, but ectopic pregnancies are generally fatal to the mother (or however that person identifies).

  • The United States is a corporation.
  • It has taken the better part of 50 years to get from there to here. I wouldn't say it was easy.

    The evangelical bloc was the hardest to convince. They had to get some capitalist representation in the churches to counteract all of that business about "helping the poor" and "blessed be the meek" that Jesus was always going on about.

    Once they got Joel Osteen to convince millions of viewers that Jesus wanted them to be rich, that really clinched it for them.

  • What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
  • There's a big cake mix manufacturing plant near where I grew up, and I knew a lot of people who worked there. They all confirmed that the only difference between the name brand cake mix and the store brand they made was the box they put it into at the end of the process.

  • Teachers are not having a good time
  • Teacher here. I consider all of the teachers I've worked with, and I consider how few of them I would trust with a loaded firearm under the best possible circumstances (maybe 10 percent).

    Then I consider the number of those who would actually consider using a firearm (down to about 3 percent).

    And then I consider how many of those I would trust with a firearm in a room full of students... and it's zero.

    I finally just avoided the problem by moving to a country where civilians are not generally allowed to own guns and school shootings are not a problem.

  • without saying how old you are, how old are you?
  • Oh, man. What a day that was. I was in first grade, still too young to understand that there were people in that thing and that those people died.

    When we watched it blow up like fireworks, I don't think we realized that wasn't what it was supposed to do. Our poor teacher had to process it pretty quickly so she could explain it to us.

  • Dating perks
  • A good rancher is usually the indirect cause of their cows giving birth because they determine when mating occurs.

    It wasn't sheer coincidence that so many cows had calves in the same 48-hour period. Dude planned it that way by mating (or artificially inseminating) all of his heifers at the same time.

  • Goodbye, Reddit: How the Internet’s Front Page Is Eating Itself
  • That's because there will alway be new 10-year-olds who are just discovering "new" parts of the Internet. They are growing up with the enshittification, so they don't know that things were better before they were born.

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