I lifted that straight from the interview. Dude is funny.

Half a bald eagle wingspan.

Not the person you asked.

Gass made a birthday wish during a concert that the next assassin wouldn’t miss trump back when that dude shot at him during a rally. Black publicly said he would “never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form”. They cancelled their tour and went on temporary hiatus.

While I disagree with Black, I do understand why he would say that. MAGAs were itching to find someone to shoot at the time. If I were an entertainer I would not want them showing up to my show shooting at my fans.

The most recent interview with Gass has him saying this: “Somebody called my mom. My poor 95-year-old mom. It hits close to home, and you want to be brave and courageous, but I’m not a congressman. We’re just entertainers. And it just bespeaks the insanity of the times. It feels almost vindictive."

But both Gass and Black have said they’ll be back as Tenacious D. Black said he loves the D and everybody has to take a break sometimes. Gass said they’ve hashed it out.

Friends go through shit sometimes. And these two have been friends for like a thousand years. Their friendship just happens to be public and people take sides when they see it happen.

Edit: took out a sentence that I had in there twice.

It’s not that I necessarily disagree, I just refuse to give it my energy and don’t understand the folks who make it their whole thing. I can watch older Futurama. Old King of the Hill. Read WoT (the show was fine, I don’t have strong opinions about it except that the timing kind of fucked them with the covid restrictions, it’s unfortunate but I get it). I don’t have to watch the Dresden Files TV show.

You’re out here with well reasoned examples. You’ve said your piece. I bet if I go into your history (I won’t) that you won’t have 50 posts today bitching about it. Those are the folks I’m talking about. Not people who are disappointed and looking to talk. That’s natural and human!

I always feel the same way about shitty TV and movie adaptations of books I love. If I don’t like it I can just not watch and go read the book again. The movie/show won’t get the numbers to continue. I never really got the people who are like “new/adapted show/movie ruined X!” then run whatever they can to complain about it like it’s their whole personality. Naw man, they fucked up an iteration. And except in the case of Star Wars and ET they didn’t change the old media you loved so much. No one hired the Pinkertons to break into your house and rewrite your books.

I remember the Wheel of Time adaptation. You had the camp that enjoyed it. The camp that thought they strayed too far from the books. And very obvious racists.

I saw more repeated posts and comments about it on my feed from the third group than anyone else, maybe combined. Like the same guy spent half his day just posting about how much he hated it. Cool man. Go read the books again. There’s gotta be healthier hobbies than shitting on things you don’t like.

Like all the screaming and crying.

And they’d get extra copaganda out of it! Look, we’re just fun loving guys playing with kids!

Subscription fees plus the double dip into selling bulk licensing of your thin client to companies who make computers.

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in East Texas as well, probably an hour and a half into Texas from Shreveport. I can say this has been true since at least the 80s that I’m aware of. It’s not “lol, can’t train 'em gotta put 'em down!” and more “I guess I could call the sheriff and he’ll come out and maybe accidentally shoot my dog along with this pack of aggressive, possibly diseased animals who may be gone in the half hour it’ll take him to get here or I can make sure my dog and kid are safe.” I guess there was also “I’ll go ahead and risk my life and start the treatment for rabies and try to catch this pack of feral animals and take them to Dallas where I’m sure the second I turn my back they’re going to be put down because they’ve been out here killing and that’s all they know.”

We had wandering strays that never caused a problem. We did have a problem with meth heads dumping failed fighting dogs. The only time it got to be a real gray area was when you weren’t sure whether a dog had a disease that caused balance issues or if one had just tangled with a wild animal and was hurt. But a hurt dog is also a dangerous dog and you’re still running up against waiting half an hour for a sheriff that might show up blasting every animal in sight whether it’s gone or not and possibly having your family hurt.

Life is complicated. And it sucks. And some of us are just out here doing the best we know how. Except Kristi Noem apparently who hated that dog and didn’t care for it or train it properly, blamed the dog for her failure, then decided she also hated a goat, missed the kill shot, and had planned so poorly that she had to go reload and come back for round 2. That’s fucking incompetence and spite, not protecting her kids and her neighbor’s chickens. Luckily she surely won’t bring that kind of incompetence and hatefulness to any job she might do with the government. Surely not, no way.

Sure, in between the plot. But you can skip right over it.

No. The difference is “this guy is a problem, get rid of him” and “this is built into this particular system and is sanctioned (implicitly or explicitly) at all levels. To fix it will require bringing people at the highest levels to justice”. And it’s a fair take. Although I absolutely agree that just using the word without criteria is a fucking problem. Many issues we face are because different people and groups of people ain’t working with the same dictionary. Sometimes it’s innocent. Sometimes it’s malicious.

There is a great example about the word respect. I do not know its definitive origin but it looks to be someone calling themselves AutisticAbby on tumblr.

"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."

I was actually talking about Pan Am flight 160 the same day. This would have been a better story. Wow, that’s crazy. Looks like 2 of them made the news.

It was a very small event on November 3, 1973. Interestingly one of the three raptured made big news, but it was covered up. He was a pilot.

Oh come on, most people like a little ass.

I’m drunk. I live in Texas. So it was very difficult to choose my username.

A couple of things.

First, that was mostly a conservative fantasy. They pretended to be waiting for a corrupt government because they were big and manly. Most of the “left” (I mean, you know, left of Republicans) wanted gun control ranging from sensible roadblocks to an outright ban.

Second, no matter whose fantasy it was, it was going to be a fantasy once modern war machines were invented. Let’s say I go get a semi automatic rifle. Convert it to automatic. Build IEDs and homemade grenades. But the second drones start dropping bombs on my house I’m fucked, as are my family, probably my neighbors, my friends, and anyone in close contact.

I’m not saying this to be defeatist. I’m not saying this to try to prove you wrong. This is what it was for. But this ain’t gonna get the job done with the modern state of technology and the people in charge being walled away from the general population. I don’t know exactly what the answer is but I’m open to suggestions.

Nah. The people having the kids aren’t generally thinking about another source of labor. I come from a stinking, filthy kind of poverty. Sex is free entertainment and family planning costs money or time to get to the clinic and you have to deal with assholes who think the family planning clinics are abortion factories. So you think “if we’re careful it won’t happen, I’ll just pull out”.

A lot of quiverful ministries are also home to the very poor. Some of them are given teaching for how to get extra money from the government for every kid. The man works, the woman does not, and the older kids are in charge of the younger ones. Childcare solved, in their eyes. I could be mad at them for gaming the system, but I’ve already got too much anger in my heart over the government blaming it on the “welfare queen” stereotype. You know the lie. Black woman with 5 kids from 6 daddies, every one of the daddies is gone. When in reality the system gamers are poor white evangelicals of a specific flavor.

Needs more slide whistle.

Yep. But it’s not that easy for some folks. Disabilities, depression, and probably several things I’m not thinking of can affect exercise. This can help a person get over the hump and lose some weight and potentially help them fix their relationship with food. If a person is thinking long term (and isn’t disabled in a way that makes exercise entirely impossible) they’ll pair this with exercise or start this and once things get a little easier they’ll start exercising.

Hey! They also destroy communities by forcing them to pay for infrastructure upgrades while the companies get tax holidays in return for a bunch of jobs that only last 2 years during the construction phase and only add about 25-50 permanent jobs to the local economy long term.

Let’s also not forget bringing back mothballed coal plants instead of building new ones.