Ahh, I see. All the Viennese rolling in for some cheap fun? I’m neither a digital nomad nor an auto laborer but mountains are great. Disappointing about their lgbtq+ attitudes. When I first found it i could qualify i looked at their vax numbers and see it hovering just above 55% in '22 so I see this all adding up

I have a path to citizenship in Slovakia, is it actually decent?

Haven’t seen either, but David Simon also made Generation Kill which is about the Iraq War, as it was going on, and seems to demonstrate your last point

Red Hulk!!

When I was a kid a big deal was made out of it supplanting my actual favorite dinosaur, T.rex, as the biggest, baddest boi, and when I went to my local city museum they had a giganotosaurus vs t.rex toy dispenser, the idea being the one with less toys in it was more popular, and it was winning by far and my sister bought one and she laughed at me

All of them except giganotosaurus

How distasteful. I definitely didn’t grow up playing NovaLogic’s Delta Force, CoD, Battlefield, the Ghost Recon where you liberate Moscow, etc etc

Excellent question and I have no idea about any of it

Making Avakians seem down to earth

Related/unrelated but after encountering various artists, who tend to live in some cultivated mystique or sense of genius, it was helpful to realize they’re often just also dummies- talented, but of the same mindset as any other dickhead you’ll find out in the world.

The pretension of some success makes it way worse, I’m sorry you’re out there ing with them

Star Wars sequels suck

A truly contemptuous people, those despicable Dutch

I worked one shift at a warehouse that had some day labor available, guy I was working with was fresh out of Venezuela. Had my current political views, didn’t want to prod him too much but wanted to learn from a Venezuelan what Venezuela is like. Of course, he spoke fluent English and told me how his parents had paid for an English teacher for him. He said he hated Maduro and the only way to stop him was to kill him. I asked how he was still in power, he said he stayed in power by paying off the poor.

I got it then, and that flows into my understanding that the people I interact with in anyway who are from socialist countries necessarily speak English, and therfore are almost certainly from the middle class or higher. Which is helpful when remembering how “survivors” testimonies of those counties should be read. They are likely not from the working class or poor, and that WILL color their narratives and of course the ones we hear promoted in the west.

Anyway, he and his dad, who was also fighting brain cancer, were struggling finding work. This was a couple years ago, who knows how things have gone but here we see what capitalist america has to offer

Children of Men is happening

When he started shaving his teats, I said aloud “what is he doing!” But then it all came together.

There’s that episode of Hey Arnold where a Vietnamese character recounts his daughter I think getting on the last helicopter out of Saigon

This man’s obsession with the letter x needs to be resolved with two over his fucking eyes