Damn, beat me to it. Colonialism is a hell of a drug.

Good point, but what I meant were the smaller actions like suddenly turning on other mutants at critical moments that don't make sense. His ideas to eradicate humans to protect mutants made sense as "I'll achieve my goals by any means necessary" is his M.O.

One of the ones that bugged me the most was in First Class. They are trying to prevent the humans from being able to acquire and exploit Mystique's DNA, so immediately after preventing her from being captured, he decides that it's best if she dies to prevent that from ever happening. This logic can be justified, but he decides to accomplish this by shooting her in a location the humans control, in essence spreading her DNA everywhere and presumably leaving her body behind for them to exploit anyway.

It completely defeats the purpose of everything he was working towards and negates what he had just accomplished. It was those kinds of inconsistencies that bug me.

0.3mm in length, not diameter. Yes, you can see them, but they just look like dead skin/gunk to our eyes.

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While we're at it, we should add Microsoft to the antitrust case...again.

A third of a threat is when they prematurely hit "send".

Take a look at OPs other posts and you'll see a trend. It comes from a racist place.

15-18 yos? The oldest of Gen Z are about to turn 30. Not saying they're justified, just that Gen Z isn't just 15.

We did an experiment in my microbiology teaching lab once where we made cell cultures from some food we had blended without washing first, comparing spinach to raw hamburger.

The spinach was worse. MUCH worse. It also had nastier types of cultures that popped up. I have always washed my veggies thoroughly since that day.

Totally agree with that last statement as someone working in that industry. Would be nice to not only see public labs gain stable funding, but to see publicly-owned infrastructure for bringing treatments from the lab scale to full production too. For medications at least, this would mean we could get rid of the private sector (or at least provide an alternative option) that didn't inflate the costs of treatments and constantly seek IP that kills treatments that are potentially more effective and/or incredibly cheap to produce and provide to those in need.

The private sector provides a necessary service currently, but only because they have ensured that they have a monopoly. Ultimately, they serve as leeches holding the advancement of medical science back.

Also, multiple bush regimes set up the circumstances that led to 9/11 starting with funding and arming the mujahideen. Bin Laden didn't come out of nowhere and the invasion of Afghanistan was completely unnecessary in terms of catching him and others who orchestrated the attack. Even Al-Qaeda offered to hand him over before the invasion and they weren't the last group to offer handing him over.

Bush Sr, Bush Jr, and many other ghouls indirectly setup 9/11 and then made the fallout larger than it needed to be to achieve their stated goals. The blood of millions is on their hands and 9/11 was a drop in the bucket. They deserve to be tried, convicted, and locked away as war criminals, not to sit out retirement painting and pretending they did no wrong.

I have never seen a Kubrick film that I appreciated. There were some cool shots and aesthetics here and there, but overall I'm not a fan of his style of storytelling.

2001 felt boring. Clockwork felt gross. FMJ was decent in the first half, but I forgot everything after the rifle incident scene. I've admittedly never watched the Shining. I get that these movies have been influential to other films, but Kubrick seems over-hyped in the storytelling aspect. Good visuals and music though.

I don't get it, why are these movies so revered?

They can't find the war assets the Pentagon bought either.

If they can't find the money they spent to kill people, why would they spend more money to heal people? They need to focus on fixing their Pentagon audit issues by not doing anything about the audit issues first!