Yeah it's Israel who has a monopoly on terrorizing Palestinians if you hadn't noticed

"Murder by Death" which is sort of a parody of Agatha Christie type murder mysteries and also a parody of famous sleuth characters like Miss Marple, Poirot, etc. If you've ever seen "Clue" and liked it you would probably like this.

That's about when I stopped watching. So much wrong with that entire sequence. Lore wise, logic wise, story wise it was just so fuckin dumb. Galadriel is like Gil Galads great aunt she's like 1000 years older than him and here he is like banishing her to Valinor which isn't even a thing? "Auntie Galadriel, you've been bad, get on this boat and go to heaven and don't come back". Scolding her like a child when she is in fact older and more powerful? Canonically she would have a husband and CHILD at this point (both are absent from the show completely so I guess who cares) and Gil Galads like, get the fuck outta here, fuck your family I guess. And she meets Sauron in human form guy RANDOMLY FLOATING ON THE OCEAN because of course. Ugh.

Oh shit I fuckin forgot about that one. Wow. That was real egregious in hindsight. Damn

I once waited 3 hours in a merch line at a concert for The Garden to get literally get a vinyl and a tape not even that long ago

Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists- George Carlin

A few options. Cover the entire lawn for an extended period of time with a bunch of tarps or cardboard so no sunlight reaches the grass. Kill the entire thing. Start over with native seeds. Or roto till the entire thing

For me personally Bermuda grass never stood a chance against all the clover, dandelions, cheeseweed, purslane, tall flatsedge, and broadleaf plantain that make up a lot of what used to be the lawn. Some of those are invasive technically but at least rabbits come to eat the dandelions and plantains

Well technically my facility still does 5 days/8 hours so it's not as bad. Honestly the standing up all day is nothing compared to having to wake up at 2 am and get to work by 3:20. It's absolute ass. But they pay more than $20 an hour and have health vision and dental benefits for a pretty low cost. It beats retail that's for sure

Yeah I like dig up rocks and cut and polish them. Mostly agate and jasper

Thought about this the other day. How nice it would be if worker safety and rights were protected with the same sort of unbridled ferocity that now protects property and capital. Wage theft should mean jail time. Unpaid overtime should be a felony. Making your employees work in unsafe conditions should mean years behind bars. If you can go to jail for stealing from the cash register you should go to jail for shorting pay checks.

Of course a carceral state is not a solution to anything really but it feels good to fantasize about ya know.

Lapidary art

The fucking ridiculous natural beauty everywhere? I live in the most soulless of the soulless suburbs of Los Angeles and if I left my house right now and didn't stop for anything I could be standing beneath the biggest tree in the world in just 4 hours. Or if I want to see the oldest trees in the world I can go roughly the same distance and do that instead. I could be at the trailhead to climb the highest peak in the contiguous US in 3 hours and on my way there I would see an ancient basalt waterfall where obsidian litters the ground, the Grand Canyon of the Mojave where semiprecious gems flow out of the mountains, lakes, rivers, the Sierra Nevadas, Death Valley, it's ridiculous. Every fucking state has traffic and suburbs but I'll go to my grave arguing that we can't be beat for scenery.