[-] considine@lemmy.ml 9 points 15 hours ago

Friendly reminder that VOA, aka Voice of America, is a subsidiary of the US Agency for Global Media. It was established to convince people in the Soviet sphere that the US was better in every way. It continues that mission with America's allies and enemies today.

The process of opening up a country's media space is integral to getting those State department messages in there.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago

DDT is an extreme way to get rid of mosquitos. Seal up the gaps in your window screens. Keep the bedroom door closed. It's working for me during mosquito season on the subtropical island where I live.

I realize I'm giving advice to a comic about a banned chemical.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

They knew what they were doing here.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 months ago

So... is no one going to comment that it looks like Mads is going down on Hideo?

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago

Jelly beans. The fancy ones with many flavours like butter, apple, and cinnamon.

You'll surely have those bean flavours to talk about, if nothing else.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 67 points 3 months ago

Richard Stanley was hired to direct "The Island of Doctor Moreau" but was replaced by John Frankenheimer after a few days of shooting. However, Stanley considered the film to be his baby (he co-wrote the script) and didn't want to leave. So he disguised himself as one of the mutants and secretly remained on the shoot.

You can watch the documentary about the shooting of this B-movie and it's full of weird details like that. It's called "Lost Soul: the doomed journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Doctor Moreau"

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months ago

Is that David Frum, speechwriter to the Bush Jr administration? Writer of speeches about the axis of evil? Writer of speeches to whip up frenzy for an invasion of Iraq? An invasion based on lies? That David Frum?

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

This is an exercise in absurdism. People searching the picture and giving each other hints without any search target. Fun stuff.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

When they die ... Of natural causes... Like a swift knife chop to the neck.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago

Someone could build an army of clones of you, launch galactic war, and then you'd be hated all over the galaxy. Assuming you have good genes. Probably they made a bad movie about this.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 80 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately they would quickly be replaced by their heirs who would continue to employ the same business people to manage their empires. We need to change the system at the root, not just chop off the top.

[-] considine@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 months ago

I will gather all the time crystals and become quantumly immortal! No one can stop me!

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