Agree and disagree. His "schemes" are going to be more like: "drive me around on Halloween while I run up to the storefront and take all the candy left out for kids!"
That's kind of like going up to a display that says "free sample - one per customer" and taking several samples. And doing so on a first date, like: this is who I am. It's not really bad or anything, it's just... kind of weird and embarassing.
Those are some impressive looking birds! I've crossed the street to avoid one on the sidewalk, I can't imagine being attacked by one swooping from a tree.
The setting does nothing. Someday they'll have to pay a fine for that, but they've already budgeted it as a cost of doing business.
A late 19th-century French mansion (pictured: west facade) shuttered for more than a century has opened its doors to the public, revealing an array of outdated luxuries and oddities.
I just want to point out there's a nonzero chance one of those frogs was named Pepe.
Yeah, I suspect we basically agree on things. I grew up with Threads and The Day After, and later I read up on nuclear winter and EMPs so I realize that human extinction is a very real possibility.
But apart from that, the question is: how to prepare for the "less than extinction" scenarios, the sort of thing that Krepinevich and ready.gov discuss.
You did the right thing: you kept an eye on your environment, and you had an exit plan.
Unfortunately, our mental health institutions don't receive as much funding as they deserve. One out of every five adults in the US is living with a mental illness (source). I know I would be really pissed off if someone strip-searched me and forced me to shower.
I'm familiar with the extinction event scenarios, and agree that in some cases one may not find the world worth living in. I recommend Krepinevich's "7 Deadly Scenarios", a couple of those involve nuclear attacks. The sitations are comparable to the recent Covid pandemic: millions of people die, the world is subsequently scarred, but life goes on for most people. A bit of planning can make things less horrible and a lot of it overlaps with natural disaster.
TIL:
It is now believed that the Ottoman military was able to maintain rough parity with its rivals until the 1760s, falling behind as a consequence of a long period of peace on its western front between 1740 and 1768, when the Ottomans missed out on the advances associated with the Seven Years' War.[66]
I suspect what they're getting at is: there are a lot of scenarios other than "all out exchange between major powers", and when the fallout starts floating, you can either just hang out at home (and die of cancer in a year or two), or shelter in a basement for a week (and emerge to a troubled but liveable world.)
Shockumentary (1997) - Insane Clown Posse documentary aired on MTV
> One of the group's first projects with Island Records was an hour-long documentary titled Shockumentary, which aired on MTV. The station initially refused to play the documentary, but Island Records persuaded them to air it as a personal favor.[28] Shockumentary helped increase album sales from 17,000 to 50,000 copies per week.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_Clown_Posse
- the link from above, poor quality but SFW (as shown on MTV?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TIn9dpRwGs
- another copy, very poor quality, only watch if the others are not available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nF6PXYtshE
- another copy? you have to sign in to see it bc it "may be inappropriate" and I didn't feel like it so I dunno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn3g2gzgjfM
- another link, much better quality, does not bleep out the profanity (as shown in NL - Dutch subtitles?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKgNcG68S_E
Apparently this was also released on VHS in 98 and reissued on DVD in 2004.
College Kickboxers (1991)
> A college freshman who trains in martial arts is beaten up at work by a racist gang. His co-worker, a Chinese cook, beats the gang up and trains the young man in kung fu. When a tournament is to be held, the teacher tells the student that he will not teach him for money. However, when the gang beats up the student's best friend, the student now must make the choice of entering the tournament or keeping the promise to his teacher.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146571/
You know this movie. You've seen it a million times before a million different ways. But this one is campy in its very own way, which makes it special.
link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9XAwQHIEIA
Introducing Homey D Clown (In Living Color, June 17 1990)
In these troubled times, who can we turn to for guidance?
Demon Lord 2099 - 2nd trailer, anime
Fantasy/Cyberpunk anime currently ongoing in Japan and the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Lord_2099#Anime
The Insider (1999 480p) Russell Crowe, Al Pacino
> A fictionalized account of a true story, it centers on the controversial 60 Minutes segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry,[3] covering his and CBS producer Lowell Bergman's struggles as they defend his testimony against efforts to discredit and suppress it by CBS and Wigand's former employer. > > Though not a box office success, The Insider received acclaim from critics, who praised Crowe's portrayal of Wigand and Mann's direction. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Russell Crowe).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(film)
The Substitute (1996 2160p)
> Jonathan Shale is a Vietnam War veteran and mercenary. After a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed, he returns home to Miami. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko, at her apartment; she welcomes him warmly. Hetzko is a schoolteacher at inner-city Columbus High School, an institution with a considerable gang problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Substitute
- This movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35VTbozkY-o
- The sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhrlXhyH21o
There are a couple of cuss words blanked out the in the first couple minutes, but whoever was doing that got bored and quit doing it after a while. Also, the youtube comments say some of the violence was edited down.
Cyberspace CGI scenes from Lawnmower Man (1992)
Keep in mind this was over 30 years ago. The very first Doom was was still a year away, there were no cell phones, and the internet was still something that only geeks knew anything about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film)
Death Wish (2018 1080p) - Bruce Willis, REMOVED
Was uploaded yesterday, aspect ratio is a little weird, might be removed in a day or two. UPDATE: yep, it' gone.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHzdY9EAB6Y
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Wish_(2018_film)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969 360p) - Maggie Smith early role
> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay written by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her own stage play, which was in turn based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Muriel Spark. The film stars Maggie Smith in the title role as an unrestrained teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie_(film)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfuDRmC5qA
I think this might have region-blocking, but I'm not sure of the regions.
THIS IS KUNG FU (1983 Documentary)
Old documentary about kung fu, displaying the various types of wushu forms. Doesn't have a plot, is only 480p, and I think it was meant to be some kind of national propaganda film. But it is fascinating to see the different styles by expert practitioners in natural settings. A young Jet Li shows up at 19:10.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l4mc4H0xIQ
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201255/
The Football Factory (2004 720p) - London hooliganism
> Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer) is a member of a violent Chelsea hooligan firm. His friends and fellow hooligans include Tommy's best friend Rod King (Neil Maskell), the hot-tempered Billy Bright (Frank Harper), and impulsive younger members Zeberdee (Roland Manookian) and Raf (Calum MacNab). Tommy spends his days drinking, using drugs, womanising and fighting, much to the disappointment of his grandfather Bill Farrell (Dudley Sutton), a pensioner and veteran who plans to move to Australia with his best friend Albert (John Junkin).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Football_Factory_(film)
> There's nothing different about me. I'm just another bored male, approaching 30, in a dead-end job, who lives for the weekend. Casual sex, watered-down lager, heavily cut drugs. And occasionally kicking fuck out of someone. > > What else are you gonna do on a Saturday? Are you gonna sit in some poxy office with a cunt for a boss telling you what to do as you count your pennies trying to make ends meet in a country that's sinking into strikes and wars and at the end of the day you go home to your cosy little flat in 'nowheresville' and pull your IKEA curtains shut to hide from the big bad world and pretend it's not happening? Sit in your fuckin' armchair wankin' off to Pop Idols? Then try and avoid your wife's gaze as you struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage? Then go and spunk your wages on kebabs, fruit machines and brasses? Or are you gonna stand up and be counted, make a difference and feel the rush? > > Just for once say "fuck it". I'm coiled up like a spring and I'm ready to burst and wanking ain't doing it anymore. I need violence to make me feel I'm still alive. Fuck all that for a laugh! I know what I'd rather do. Tottenham away, love it!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcwUdxInJ1E - the link from above (optional Turkish subtitles)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_tocRHxjZo - another link (optional Turkish subtitles)
L'Ange du foyer ou Le Triomphe du surréalisme (1937) - Max Ernst
Variously translated as "The Angel of Hearth and Home" or "The Fireside Angel", subtitled: "The Triumph of Surrealism."
> Ernst painted The Triumph of Surrealism shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. In this conflict, Spanish fascist leaders were supported by Germany and Italy in their victory. Ernst's goal was to depict the chaos that he saw spreading over Europe and the ruin that fascism brings to countries. > > ... > > retitled by Ernst in 1938 as The Triumph of Surrealism, "a despairing reference to the fact that the surrealists with their Communist ideas had been unable to do anything to resist fascism."
https://www.max-ernst.com/the-triumph-of-surrealism.jsp
The Last Judgment - detail of a damned man (1541) - Michaelangelo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangelo)
Kill or Be Killed (1976 2160p) - karate b-movie
This is a pretty horrible movie in terms of acting, plot, realism, special effects, etc. The one redeeming value is the following. Apparently it was made with the support of the local chapter of the Japan Karate Association, a "traditional" shotokan karate organization known for the rigor and quality-control of its training. So every once in a while you'll see people doing karate moves that clearly demonstrate they've spent years of practice on them.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14991177 >> A famous martial artist, Steve Hunt, travels to the desert for what he thinks is an Olympic-style competition. The competition turns out to be a trap set by Baron von Rudloff, an ex-Nazi general who is still bitter over the humiliating defeat of his martial arts team > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_or_Be_Killed_(1976_film) > > It has a sequel, you know.... > - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHFcQlOiM0 - this film, "Kill or Be Killed" > - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5hwo2Cu6Sg - the sequel, "Kill and Kill Again" >
Kill or Be Killed (1976 2160p) - karate b-movie
> A famous martial artist, Steve Hunt, travels to the desert for what he thinks is an Olympic-style competition. The competition turns out to be a trap set by Baron von Rudloff, an ex-Nazi general who is still bitter over the humiliating defeat of his martial arts team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_or_Be_Killed_(1976_film)
It has a sequel, you know....
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHFcQlOiM0 - this film, "Kill or Be Killed"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5hwo2Cu6Sg - the sequel, "Kill and Kill Again"
The Course of Empire: Destruction (1836) - Thomas Cole
See higher-res versions on Wikipedia.
> No. 4.– The picture represents the Vicious State, or State of Destruction. Ages may have passed since the scene of glory – though the decline of nations is generally more rapid than their rise. Luxury has weakened and debased. A savage enemy has entered the city. A fierce tempest is raging. Walls and colonnades have been thrown down. Temples and palaces are burning. An arch of the bridge, over which the triumphal procession was passing in the former scene, has been battered down, and the broken pillars, and ruins of war engines, and the temporary bridge that has been thrown over, indicate that this has been the scene of fierce contention. Now there is a mingled multitude battling on the narrow bridge, whose insecurity makes the conflict doubly fearful. Horses and men are precipitated into the foaming waters beneath; war galleys are contending: one vessel is in flames, and another is sinking beneath the prow of a superior foe. In the more distant part of the harbor, the contending vessels are dashed by the furious waves, and some are burning. Along the battlements, among the ruined Caryatides, the contention is fierce; and the combatants fight amid the smoke and flame of prostrate edifices. In the fore-ground are several dead and dying; some bodies have fallen in the basin of a fountain, tinging the waters with their blood. A female is seen sitting in mute despair over the dead body of her son, and a young woman is escaping from the ruffian grasp of a soldier, by leaping over the battlement; another soldier drags a woman by the hair down the steps that form part of the pedestal of a mutilated colossal statue, whose shattered head lies on the pavement below. A barbarous and destroying enemy conquers and sacks the city. Description of this picture is perhaps needless; carnage and destruction are its elements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)
The Whole Wide World (1996 2160p) - Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, about the Conan the Barbarian author
> The Whole Wide World is a 1996 American independent biographical film produced and directed by Dan Ireland in his directorial debut. It depicts the relationship between pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio) and schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis (Renée Zellweger).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whole_Wide_World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIQr7pLDEM
IN TIME (2011)
Not a GREAT movie, but I think it's fun, and the idea is solid.
"the truth is, there's more than enough. no-one has to die before their time."
cross-posted from !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee
> In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol. > > Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star as inhabitants of a society that uses time from one's lifespan as its primary currency, with each individual possessing a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live. Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Johnny Galecki, and Alex Pettyfer also star. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time > > !the poster >
Tequila Sunrise (1988 720p) - Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell
This is a totally 80s movie. It's got cocaine, beaches, cops dressed in suits with their hair slicked back, and sex in the hot tub with a sax solo playing. I thought it was all too cheesy, but the youtube comments are full of people talking like it's the best movie ever. Anyway, it's got three of the biggest stars of the period, as well as a very entertaining Raul Julia in a supporting role, so if you're in the mood for something 80s, go for it.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjRKdaiTrQo
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_Sunrise_(film)