If youre in DFW try KXT the public radio station, or kntu the station out of UNT in denton funded by the univerity.

If talarico wins it will because ken paxton is such a piece of shit that even the conservative media bubble cant hide it.

There are a lot of movies in the 50s and 60s that werent so much war propaganda as they were soldier’s experience. Since their audience was people who’d been through war already. You see a certain style of humor of soldiers not heroically leaping into battle, but desperatwly trying to avoid fighting entirely, and when their is fighting trying as hard as they can to survive more than amything else. Certainly there were propaganda films then that did treat soldiers as heroes, also fuck john wayne, but its in the 70s and 80s that those types of movies disappeared and all war movies became heroic, and even non-war action movies became pro-war.

Literally anything not involving chronic pain or mind numbing boredom?

Charlotte is a good anime, with the main character kinda being like this in the first episode. But that’s it. I highly recomend it because the show has some of the best character growth ive seen in anything.

“The Rizzler” Ink on paper 2026

Actually im not. I deal with old books every day. What youre talking about is the modern publishing space where books get pulped by the millions because they are textbooks that weren’t picked up by enough schools. Or theyre no longer the latest edition. Even regular consumer books get pulled for not having enough sales.

The used market is still full of these books even after being abandoned by the publishers. But even that market is still driven by demand. Used bookstores only buy books if they think they’ll sell. But the thing is they still bulk sell those books that dont have market value because people will buy huge pallets of books for pennies on the dollar.

Yes libraries also recycle books that have been on the shelves too long. And it’s hard to sell old library books because of the extreme use they are put through. They do library sales for old books pretty regularly. Most of the time they are pulping books that are worn out. Which still suggests a demand, worn books are read books.

What they’re doing is taking old texts from warehouses that are known to be abandoned copyright, since stealing modern writing has proven to be unpopular. And so unknown old works are basically free game. And at best they are saving it digitally, which is good, but then selling access since after destroying the physical copy so as to have a monopoly on the data. And moatly theyre selling it to ai companies to use as training data. So basically theyre squatting old rare text that they have no actual right to.

Ive got over 350k on my 05’ Toyota. I dread trying to buy a newer car.

Popular doesnt always mean good. Unpopular doesnt always mean bad. There are countless little poetry books that only circulated through clubs. Texts circulated through writing groups that contain works of authors before they were famous.there are rare books you’ve never heard of that a collector would pay thousands for because they are one of the few people who know its value. Old folios that crossed oceans as the libraries behind them burned in petty wars that sat in attics for generations before the family found it only to send it up wholesale in an estate auction.

The point is that these assholes buy it all up by the truck load and process it indiscriminately. All to avoid copyright, and to feed their environment destroying hallucination machine.

The vetting worked just fine. To repeat a comment I made in another post:

Too stupid for the Marines? Too fat to be a cop? Join ICE! We dont judge, just execute!

And using them for slave labor.

I just see a douche surrounded by pigs.

I comment on shit posts!

I’ll add to this an anecdote. My neighborhood is near a nature preserve. We get all kinds of animals theough here, but mostly racoon, possums and armadillo. Oh and feral cats. For a while we would occasionally have critters fighting in our yard. You’d hear it at night especially during summer. Not so much lately.

See a few years ago we got a feral kitten fixed as part of our local colony management group. Cat decided to stay, and we’ve been looking after her. Friendly, but stand-offish. We make sure shes fed, but let her do her own thing. Hasn’t shown much interest in the inside.

We noticed that in the evenings raccoons would show up to steal her food. We chased em away, but theyd just come back later. The thing was that cat would sit there and watch the raccoons. She even moved out of the way once she was done, and let the raccoons have their share. Its been a few years now, and our yard cat manages things between other cats, the raccoons and the possums, and sometimes armadillos and nobody fights about it. Heck sometimes we find a small crowd waiting for our cat to summon the food for them.

The point being, violence may be an inherent part of nature, and the wilderness. However even animals when they dont have to work so hard to survive will cooperate when its to everyone’s advantage. Which means that anyone who tells you that violence is the only law of nature is full of shit, and is really just telling on themselves. In my opinion.

It’s truly sad, but thanks to this government program they can eat all the crayons the want.

Too stupid to be a marine? Too fat to be a cop? Join ICE! We dont judge, just execute!

I consider Vivi to be their best written character.

Honestly I agree. Theres a whole history in the time that comes after 8 where SeeD is an active force for a very long time. At the same time if you consider this a time travel story, it takes place at the start of SeeD which makes sense if you consider the true sorceress from the future trying to thwart her enemy before they ever become a threat. I think one of the places where the story fall apart is that we get no explanation of who she is other than that she wants to do the big bad. I think it would be interesting to have a game that explores that end of things.

FF8 is a flawed game, no argument from me. But to me what makes the game great is that it’s the game where squaresoft was at its most experimental. Guardian forces was an attempt at making summons be genuine characters rather than a simple simulation of the idea of summoning. The leveling weirdness was an attempt at solving the problem of level grinding endemic to the genre. The story was an attempt to go beyond the usual heroes of light just saving the world. Did these attempts land perfectly? Not at all, but they had interesting permutations.

I think it’s amazing that squarsoft even in that time tried to do so much different in just that one game. They were challenging standard tropes of the genre.

I genuinely question this writer claiming they played the game many times when they pretty much ignore the existence of Laguna when trying to find character depth and background. Really you have to remember the game in its moment in 1998, and this reads like someone playing it well after the fact. And then wondering why the game doesnt do things as well as the games that came after.

Bush 2 was a failson who was largely well intentioned, but also had no idea what his dad’s friends were doing in his cabinet. His second term he started taking a more proactive role when he realized how he was responsible for a lot of the fuckery going on around him. At the same time, Iraq was all his baby. I don’t say this to absolve him of anything, he was a shit president, but he was about as shitty as any other nepobaby that managed to fail into high office.