Wednesday Night Open Thread

A couple of weeks ago, Harvey said couldn’t wait to see the Pitch Meeting for Aquaman.

Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

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Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s Wednesday Night Open Thread.

What’s on your mind?

I Think I’m Missing Something…

Iran threatened the US over its designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.

So… for accusing them of blowing up women and children, they’ll blow up our women and children?

There’s Consciousness, and Then There’s Sentience

[The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware] (Viewer #4,922,244)

Of no practical use, but fun to think about.

Link of the Day: Not a Smollett Fan, I Take It

[High Praise! to Townhall.com]

You’re A Sucker For Not Believing That The System Is Rigged

Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Trump Truths: Evidence

Bernie Sanders is now the front runner in the Democrat Party. Which, technically, is stronger evidence that President Trump is colluding with Russians to rig a presidential election against the Democrats than anything Mueller came up with.

Millionaire Bernie Sanders Denounces Greedy “Billionaires and Trillionaires”

“Billionaires and trillionaires are everywhere! They have wallets full of money THIS big!”

NEW YORK CITY (AP) – After admitting that his net worth is actually above $1 million, Democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders took to the stump to denounce the actions of greedy “billionaires and trillionaires”.

“Millionaires are fine, hard-working folk who deserve to keep every penny they earn,” said Sanders, pausing to comb his hair by standing over a subway grate like a homely, socialist version of Marilyn’s dress. “It’s America’s heartless, selfish, corrupt, avaricious billionaires and trillionaires who are destroying this country by refusing to pay their fair share.”

“It’s simple math,” Sanders said. “America’s current national debt is $22 trillion. If properly taxed, America’s top 22 trillionaires could pay that off all by themselves. Why we haven’t made them do that yet is beyond me.”

“Also,” Sanders continued, “the federal government spends half a billion dollars an hour. That’s all. America doesn’t need any billionaires. Half of one would be enough to keep our country running. Simple math! When I’m president, we’ll make government more efficient by cutting billionaires in half.”

When asked what would happen after America ran out of billionaires to cut in half, Sanders said he had a plan for that.

“As Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently pointed out, it’s simple math: offer Amazon a $3 billion tax break to build a new HQ, chase them out of town, then BOOM! That gives you 3 billion smackers to spend on something else. Math!”

Sanders’ calculator could not be reached for comment, having recently hung itself in despair.


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Straight Line of the Day: ICE Caught 100,000 Border Crossers in the Last Month. Why Is Everyone Coming to America?

Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

ICE caught 100,000 border crossers in the last month. Why is everyone coming to America?

The Illustrated Frank J: Completely Blows Over in 3… 2… 1…

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Random Thoughts: Minimum Wage and the Human Soul

Americans trying to comprehend the stabbing crisis in the UK
“Why not just shoot them with your guns?”

Seems like all the focus on guns and knives is to avoid having to deal with the much more difficult root cause of violence that you have a bunch of people running around who for some reason want to stab and shoot people.

Don’t call Joe Biden “Creepy Uncle Joe.” That’s falling for a right-wing talking point. Instead call him “Gropey McHairSniffer.”

I got my KickStarter Bears Want to Kill You package from Ethan Nicolle! It wasn’t a scam! I have a softcover to show the kids and a fancy hardcover (and art) to keep their grubby hands away from.
I contributed some jokes for the book but Ethan Nicolle said they were so bad he didn’t use them and in fact he is now permanently less funny for having read them. Constructive criticism noted!

Million Dollar Idea: Give me a millions dollars, and I’ll tell it to you.

Genghis Khan, Ronald Reagan, and the planet Neptune are all part of a shared universe called “The Universe.”

Hey! Look! AOC did something hilariously stupid again!
chucks phone into the river

I think the minimum wage should be $0 an hour. No lower than that. No one should have to pay their employer to work.
Well, unless they want to. It’s a free country.

If I were a mad scientist, I think the first thing I’d make would be flying spiders. That would make them rue the day they crossed me!

My 8yo daughter just now: “Whatever job I get when I grow up, I want to be able to stay home a lot.”
And that’s why there’s a wage gap.

Let’s simplify this: Who is not running for president?

“You shouldn’t call people animals!”
Neil deGrasse Tyson twitches

The Pandemic Legacy board game is pretty thrilling. Win or lose, the board permanently changes and you keep moving on.
I unfortunately messed up our first game and didn’t know the rules were supposed to change halfway through (we played the whole game as regular Pandemic). We lost anyway. Beat January our second try (two tries per month) and aced February. Onto March!

I’ve thought about having bad opinions since good opinions don’t get enough attention on the internet.
Nope. Sorry. Can’t do it.

Enjoyed Mission Impossible Rogue Nation so much last weekend we’re going to watch Mission Impossible Fallout this weekend. Time to watch Tom Cruise jumping from stuff!

Being a member of the Impossible Mission Force sounds like a pretty sweet gig.
“Your mission, if you choose to accept it—“
“Decline.”
It’s government work, so you get paid the same whether you do anything or not.

“I’m you from 30 years in the future—2019. Ask me anything.”
“Where else have we gone in space?”
“Nowhere else.”
“Do people own robots?”
“Yes. They vacuum.”
“They do anything else?”
“Nothing else.”
“Well… what about video game systems?”
“They would blow your mind away.”
“Cool.”

My 3yo daughter wanted to play Frozen with me. She was going to be Princess Anna and I was to be the king.
She told me to go downstairs and die 🙁

The Christian concept of the soul is, morality-wise, a bit like humanity receiving alien technology thousands of years ago that we’re still trying to figure out. It’s the basis of much of western values — particularly human rights and the concept of equality.
There’s no logic to the idea that, at their core, all people are equal—certainly science and the concept of evolution don’t back that up. But it’s a Truth we as a society accept and is fundamental to how we interact.
The problem is we treat things like rights and equality as secular values, but fundamentally they are not. I wonder if they’ll last if the basis erodes. Of course, we don’t need to find that out.

Pretty much no game has used that IR sensor on the bottom of the right joy con, but I’m finding out from my daughter’s Nintendo Labo projects that it’s pretty powerful. It can even work as a video camera.

If it was really crummy service, I give a 20% tip based on the pre-tax total. And maybe I don’t round up a dollar.
Good, bad service — being a waiter is a job I would hate to do and I’m always just glad someone else is doing it.

I like how you can often tell who the Christian artists are because they are the ones who are relentlessly positive. I aim to be more Christian.

All of Bernie Sanders’s books were made in sweatshops. If anyone asked for more than ten cents an hour for gluing pages together, he’d beat them with a stick.

Remember when people used to be able to make coherent arguments instead of just mobbing and punishing anyone who disagreed with them?
Or maybe I’m just idealizing the past.

I fear a future where if you ask someone why racism is wrong, the only answer they’ll have is loud screaming.

The duty of each American is to keep idiots from getting power, but unfortunately the preferred method is to prop up some other idiot to try and get him or her power.

Trump’s Muslim ban wasn’t a Muslim ban but I can’t really get on people for calling it a Muslim ban since the one who first called it a Muslim ban was Trump, the big dummy.

Feels like more than tens years ago that I first saw Parks and Rec. I remember how my first child as a 1yo would stop whatever she was doing and start dancing whenever she heard the theme song. Once she was in the middle of crying and stopped instantly.

But who will cancel the cancellers?
Oh yeah. Each other.

If zombie Hitler rose from the grave, I’d hope the nation would unite to fight him, but people would probably be like “First we have to stop the Mexicans” or “Sure zombie Hitler is bad, but not as bad as someone who doesn’t like abortion!”

Watch Your Border Security

Venezuelans are now marching to protest power shortages, water shortages, and their President’s socialist regime.

Meanwhile, Bernie fans are marching to bring all three to America.