For a better tomorrow.
- imbecile1
- What is he smoking, his extra appendages? lolutopian
- I'm pretty sure this is AI but with India, you never know...I've seen some shit_niko
- even in india right hands don´t grow on left armspoidokan
- Beksinski vibes!skinny_puppy
- Picture?canoe
- we will spend our days watching fake content very soon and we wont be able to tell whats real and fake. #soonHAL9001
- Morning_star3
Suggest a good movie…
CIVIL WAR
It looks beautiful, like Magnum photos and I guess that’s the point. There are so many notable shots, camera moves, framing and compositions it’s worth watching for those alone. The soundtrack is unexpected in its attempts to sooth, like a smile from the executioner as your blindfold is put on. The sounds of war, the bullets, the explosions, the shouts and screams do some impressive heavy lifting, making a sonic soundscape that adds drama, texture and depth few films can match.
Civil War dances a precarious line between narrative progression and identifying political perspectives. The ambiguity has fucked off some viewers but I think that’s part of its success. It forces you to comprehend what war means for a country and its people without the ‘booyah’ that so often justifies inhuman behaviour in the name of a chosen cause.
By Alex Garlands own admission it takes influence from Apocalypse Now and that’s evident in its pacing and the way the acts progress. Like Apocalypse Now it’s a Road(River) Movie that happens to be set in the arena of war. It’s not about sides. It’s more about how individuals choose to act when faced with extreme circumstances that they’d never personally experience except through the monotonous spewing of fact-free news and partisan propaganda. What would you do when you discover a high school friend steeling food for his kids from your store? What would you do to ‘get the shot’ and how does the quest for that shot change the outcome because of your involvement. Is that truth?
If you go expecting obvious heroes and villains or Platoon, Glory or Gettysburg you will be disappointed. I could find very little to criticise, the performances are great. Particularly Jesse Plemons, whose just terrifying. I loved it, I think it’s a thought provoking, beautiful film that asks more questions than it answers, and that’s a good thing. Go and see it if you want.
- I felt the same. But also seeing someone I know in real life murdered was a trip and it stayed with me all weekend. I have issues with the ending thoshellie
- Do you know one of the actors. Ooo spill, which one? I did have some notes about how the 'ending' of one of the characters at the end could have been better.Morning_star
- What was your issue?Morning_star
- Nelson Lee played the guy from Hong Kong. My issue at the end was the role reversal. KD didn't need to go all childlike as she entered the final push inward.shellie
- But it was overall riveting. I couldn't look away and it's still on my mind. War movies hit different for Americans bc they're never on our turf.shellie
- There's usually nothing familiar — houses, roads, signage, make it all feel like it can't happen here. I thought painting the picture was interesting exercise.shellie
- I believe the theme stated was, "You were was about her age when you started. You have to start sometime." which was nebulous enough not to take sides butshellie
- I would have liked something like -- ending the cycle to start with embracing the truth. As members of the press, they bring the truth to the surface w/facts.shellie
- But overall, I think the movie serves its purpose to make Americans think -- not about sides but the true price of each side.shellie
- yes yes and yesrobthelad
- canoe15
Punches For:
Can't we have an IQ test for members?
This uber idiot thinks people are communists based on the websites they visit.
So I guess when I visit FOX News to get some perspective, that makes me an ignoramus snowflake that never traveled outside my zip code, but somehow leeched a worldly understanding of cultural dynamics and history from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson.
- HAHA!! Violent IQ tests for everyone!!
Everybody gets punched in the face FIRST then has to take an IQ test...
... I'll go first!!!PonyBoy - lol, first he wanted me banned. now this. You really are showing your true colorshotroddy
- fox news is as much of a 'fascist' website as cnn or msnbc are communists websites.hotroddy
- You are a danger to you and your country
https://znetwork.org…hotroddy - sorry I thought you were accusing me of visiting Fox news. YOu can get enough perspective by reading history not by idealized Marxist interpretationshotroddy
- Hot Knobby is QBN's very own village idiot, who still doesn't understand the difference between capitalism, socialism and communism.utopian
- Canoe, please don't take the KnobGobbler personally or seriously. The poor old man was dropped on head several times as a child on purpose, he knows no better.utopian
- I don't think Canoe needs any consolation but That's rich coming from a guy who can't write a proper sentence with a predicate and a subject in his biohotroddy
- I promise to take an IQ test if utopian goes back to grammar school N░O░ ░P░R░E░D░I░C░A░T░E I░N░ B░I░Ohotroddy
- Or a maturity testcanoe
- Nothing says I'm not a communist like wanting to get rid of people.palimpsest
- question, is that the website where you got the term 'institutionalized slavery'?hotroddy
- Someone punch me already!PonyBoy
- I've got ya, Pony.Continuity
- https://i.ibb.co/yWK…neverscared
- neverscared, it's like the trump plaza in there. it's be an upgrade for youhotroddy
- utopian, more like Hot Knobby still doesn't understand the difference between capitalism and capitalizationimbecile
- let's not talk economics in a design forum where Utopian can chime in with his GED degreehotroddy
- ░W░O░K░E░W░A░R░R░I ░O░ R░utopian
- @canoe if you can cite a form of slavery that ISN'T institutional then you pass my IQ test.hotroddy
- ffs *thanhotroddy
- you were right the first time derp derpmonospaced
- I promise to take an IQ test if Knobby goes back to grammar school N░O░ ░P░R░E░D░I░C░A░T░E░I... B░I░Outopian
- ░D░E░R░P░D░E░R░P░utopian
- I think the main thing everyone has overlooked is that hotrod is into peggingimbecile
- Fine, I'm wrong Mono. I can admit it.hotroddy
- has qbn ever not had at least one moron stirring shit here? after all these decades its getting boringinteliboy
- 1. Who is the one stirring shit in this case?
2. The shit pheromones get shit poppin'.palimpsest - For a better tomorrowcanoe
- ^ lol, For those craving a real-life MAD MAX experience,hotroddy
- HAHA!! Violent IQ tests for everyone!!
- _niko7
World War 3
all sabre rattling and a show. if Iran really wanted to hit Israel they'd launch their ICBMs 16,000mph vs 200mph drone and un-hittable since they go into outer space before coming down and striking their targets.
Just want to show they responded so they can get back to the real business of killing girls who don't wear a hijab.
- or maybe I'm wrong and they actually did fire ballistic missiles https://apnews.com/a…_niko
- but the ballistic missiles go 7km/s so they would have reached Israel in 2.5 minutes, not hours like they said._niko
- they definitely had ballistic rockets in use alongside the slower, mostly distracting, drones. The footage of them coming down is like a terrifying SpaceX vid..Nairn
- ..seeing them come in down the atmosphere at ridiculo-speed. This was a test as well as a slightly pathetic statement.Nairn
- Iran has been launching rockets at Israel from behind their girlfriend’s skirts for years. Unzipped their own pants this time to limp effectGnash
- Totally stealing "unzipped pants to limp effect", flol.garbage
- mort_4
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- I was wondering if ‘cream’ was a verb in this offering...mort_
- “Can you warm this up for me?”nb
- Gardener5
- OK 33 sorryGardener
- we're likely all in our 40s and above with a few outliersimbecile
- Saw you post on Jesse's FB. That's some lineup.kingsteven
- wow that boomer comment :Dsted
- Ramanisky26
- Oh, I like her.Continuity
- All fun until a dirty old man is touching her boobies.milfhunter
- shopped!sarahfailin
- imbecile14
- Ramanisky25
- https://media.tenor.…_niko
- I think it's the best they can do, pretend to retaliate against Israel._niko
- https://i.imgur.com/…Gnash
- the face only a mother-aunt could love ♥_niko
- really demonstrating your in-depth knowledge of the middle east with that meme gnash :-|kingsteven
- Iran committing suicide?Krassy
- Give those genocidal cunts hell, Iran.Milan
- also - religious wars fought in 20224?!? Humanity still living in ancient-think times. SMH.Krassy
- https://media1.tenor…_niko
- Only a terminally online moron would cheer on Iran12xu
- nobody's cheering on iran you fucking doltkingsteven
- https://media1.giphy…YakuZoku
- @kingsteven. you missed milan.pango
- Can we move on to WW4 now?neverscared
- Lol, apologies. Not sure if I missed the comment or the comma.kingsteven
- THE IRON DOME!!11milfhunter
- Iran is basically a meme nowGnash
- yuekit2
World War 3
Iran says its attack on Israel is a response to Israel's strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and "the matter can be deemed concluded."
- Really? Autoemasculation.Nairn
- for context - Iranian drones have 50HP engines and cost ~$20k to manufacture. US drones are typically ~$1m and on average kill 1 personkingsteven
- per UAV strike. Iranian drones i believe just crash in to a target. like an eco friendly V1kingsteven
- iran would know the chances of one making it through air defences which are designed to take out small rockets are next to nonekingsteven
- Agreed, it seems calculated just to say they responded. The same as when the Americans killed Qasem Soleimani.yuekit
- However, can Israel really stop at this point and not respond to Iran's response?yuekit
- Literally the plot of Boyz n Da Hoodprophetone
- It wouldn't be like them not to escalate, would the US intercept Isreal's missiles going the other way? fortunately when they're not committing genocidekingsteven
- isreal are capable of more targeted strikes.kingsteven
- lol prophetkingsteven
- lolyuekit
- Iran is patheticGnash
- @kingsteven lol at eco-friendly, and yes, you're correct. Iranian UAVs are lawnmower suicide bombs. I don't think they even have cameras, just GPS.garbage
- Our Predators are fucking insane, and are fucking terrifying. We literally call their deployment case "the coffin".garbage
- Fun things like the parasite UAVs they carry like Finder, which drop off from the Predator and are scanning for thermals and any cell transmissions.garbage
- While the Predator is in loiter mode looking for its target. I saw one while driving on some backroads in Nevada once and almost shit my pants.garbage
- Did not realize that I was getting really close to Area 51, and I guarantee you a trainee was told to use me as a training exercise. "Get those plates".garbage
- Me thinking "Why's that plane so low? Oh my god that's not a plane" and coming up with excuses that I missed my turn on my way to the Alien brothel.garbage
- Which is actually real. There's a combo gas station, restaurant and alien-themed whorehouse out there.garbage
- haha, i had some friends on an art residency out there and it looked bonkers.kingsteven
- i remember reading that the Iranians program their drones to hide behind the US drones while landing as it's the only way they can get close to US bases :-|kingsteven
- they don't seem to have much success in ukraine with them either - attempting to attack field targetskingsteven
- Interesting on the tailing drones, do you have a link?garbage
- think i read it on twitter but this seems to be the source: https://www.politico…kingsteven
- Those iranian drones are the modern day 'doodelebugs' - useless for anything other than terrorisatoin of vaguely-described large population centres.Nairn
- canoe2
War
Checked out the old go-to. It's old to me. Meaning I don't visit very often, I mean at all. They've drastically improved the UX. But still lack timeliness.
Iranian drones in Iraqi airspace, seems like a conflict of interest for Iraq since they have US bases. Here in lies my total lack of knowledge since being absent at "znet".
One could easily speculate on Biden and interpret this lack of response (drones flying over Iraq) as a terrible way for Israel to learn a lesson. Which is an obvious projection because it's complete speculation.
Without getting caught up into what "god intended" for Muslims, Christians and Jews, Israel is an embarrassment to humanity, or at least what Americans thought was humane, and that's a bar nobody can limbo. Americans though, in any neighborhood are disgusted about the innocents we've killed and imprisoned, even back to Vietnam, and in my generation, Desert Storm onto G Bay. We're not "gung ho", enrollment proves it.
Americans also love the underdog story, but this reality is overwhelmingly sad. Neither "team" has anything to love, it's true. But Israel had a lot more to lose. They are a let down.
By a vicious act of violence or an indiscriminate shelling, death is infinite. By the statistics, Israel has killed thousands of innocent people. The attacks are indiscriminate, ambiguously targeted (re: aid workers), and lack focus (re: Israeli hostages).
Still, Biden would never encourage bloodshed to teach Israel a lesson, we also know know this. We also know Israel, per perspectives at the UN, has committed genocide. And by the looks of it will raze and rebuild Gaza. Which is likely by signals of their brazen and prolonged campaign to take land, and a recent vigilante-style search for a missing teenager that ended up in death and destruction (burning cars, etc) in a village.
Who knows what Biden will do. But it's not critical what Biden says when facing the unconscionable death a civilized nation caused, other than condemn it. What morally-just leader can support what happened in Gaza?
So enter all the surrounding countries, who see Israel and HAMAS as equal animals now, but with the same hate they always had for Jews, and the leverage of genocide behind them, it's not good for Israel.
The country we've militarily allied with, for as long as my voting life, doesn't have the tech to handle bona fide operations on HAMAS as a response to that savage guerrilla rat mentality of an attack?
Certainly you don't have to kill the babies and the kids to eradicate and exterminate these fundamentally fucked up individuals.
So, who knows what Biden is going to do, but ffs he has questions in his head. What has our support been good for? If they can't execute focused operations we trained them on, then what is going on? Are they using us?
- All that writing and this: The White House says it will provide unspecified support for Israel’s defense.canoe
- unspecified, and hopefully conditional, or you're fucked. Get the fuck out of GAZA people, I say, and I'm not your god.canoe
- nice website comrade. I pegged you for a lefty but not a loonie.hotroddy
- yea thought it was weird that the drones were able to fly over Iraq and not be intercepted_niko
- it was reported a couple hours ago that the US had intercepted a bunchkingsteven
- "Are they using us?"
Yup, and they always have been since the creation of this 'state' of theirs. And they'll wave the Holocaust/antisemiti... card ...Continuity - ... any time an ally criticises them, thus manipulating them into silence so that they can continue using us, whilst they carry on with their genocides and ...Continuity
- ... land grabs with impunity.Continuity
- hotroddy, you peg a lot of dudes, but I wasn't one of them.canoe
- imbecile0
blog
the previous owners of this home must have considered clovers close enough to grass to not be bothered weeding or landscaping in any capacity
i've pulled at least 100 gallons of dandelions this week. my trashcan is full. i'm not done. :( 5-10% of that came from the neighbors yard.
mowing tomorrow will look so good when i'm done
sidenote: why do so many houses in america have that little strip of property off to the side that the neighbor doesn't mow?
so silly to see a weed line / different grass line 8 feet from the garage.
my left side yard overlaps my neighbors front yard and we both have a habit of mowing into the other's lawn. cool
my neighbor to the right thinks cutting his dandelion decorated grass is weed control. grrr
sign im getting old
- https://kitenest.co.…Nairn
- Absolutely not. I couldn’t make it past the headline.imbecile
- Grass is stupidnb
- Fuck grassnb
- Get a goatGnash
- i had a goat at my old place (i'd use the neighbor's, they eat sticker burrs). and may i have the stupiest grass everimbecile
- I'd rather have clover and other ground cover than a trimmed grass monoculture.i_monk
- not me, clover isn't durable at allimbecile
- i don't want to be a lawn guy as that's a war i cant win with my dog but i put far too much work in to my lawn for it to look as shit as it does hahakingsteven
- It’s 2024 and you don’t have a goat yet?!nb
- front is clover, fescue, bermuda, it's uneven, patchy. backyard mainly clover. rips apart playing, dog paths are obvious. what kingsteven said is my battle.imbecile
- i should have really taken some before pics before starting this year, building a new retaining wall, fences, drainage, paths, beds planters :-|kingsteven
- fucked atm. digging and breaking concrete all week. this week raising the level of my front lawn with all the turf i'm removing from the back...kingsteven
- I heard you should leave dandelions out for the bees who show up early. I know they suck but the bees need some help these daysstoplying
- I just eat the dandelionsGnash
