Time to slay. Vampires of the world beware!

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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Gudanov - Aug 12, 2021 7:36:15 am PDT #8420 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Amazon seems to think I'd like the book "American Marxism" by Mark Levin. I have to admit I like this bit from the excerpt.

"In America, many Marxists cloak themselves in phrases like “progressives,” “Democratic Socialists,” “social activists,” “community activists,” etc., as most Americans remain openly hostile to the name Marxism. They operate under myriad newly minted organizational or identifying nomenclatures, such as “Black Lives Matter” (BLM), “Antifa,” “The Squad,” etc. And they claim to promote “economic justice,” “environmental justice,” “racial equity,” “gender equity,” etc. They have invented new theories, like Critical Race Theory...

Marxists - people who disagree with me.


Tom Scola - Aug 12, 2021 7:46:43 am PDT #8421 of 30000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

That's a lot of scare quotes.


-t - Aug 12, 2021 8:03:32 am PDT #8422 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The more you use, the scarier they are, right?

I've seen recommendations for what appear to be far right books in, IIIRC, Amazon/Audible Originals although maybe it was some other free/included in your membership thing, there seem to be a lot of those. I find it disturbing whether it's because these are actually popular or because there is some push to make them featured or whatever


Jesse - Aug 12, 2021 9:12:01 am PDT #8423 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This is a very good thing... [link]

I was getting very nervous at not seeing Darkness at Noon on there, until I figured out TV shows were split out. Good one!

edited to add: there was a story in the newspaper this morning that some people are refusing the vaccine because of I Am Legend - the 2007 movie - in which a vaccine turns people into vampires? zombies? and they figure the same thing will happen to them.

And that's not even what happens in the movie!


Steph L. - Aug 12, 2021 9:22:33 am PDT #8424 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

The FDA is going to expand the EUA for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to recommend that immunocompromised people get a third dose: [link] which I guess means they'll be super-extra-mega zombies, which is unfair to the rest of us who are just ordinary zombies.


-t - Aug 12, 2021 9:36:49 am PDT #8425 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Don't you have a zombie tooth as well?


Steph L. - Aug 12, 2021 11:32:09 am PDT #8426 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Don't you have a zombie tooth as well?

Zombie AND cyborg! (The implant is a titanium dealie, and they used bone powder from a cadaver to make sure the jaw bone was going to be structurally sound enough to hold the implant.)

I feel like there should be a whole new genre of movies about that.


Gudanov - Aug 12, 2021 11:40:04 am PDT #8427 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

in which a vaccine turns people into vampires? zombies? and they figure the same thing will happen to them.

This makes me imagine a conversation.

"I hear vaccinations cause autism"

"No. There's no evidence of that and the study that started the whole thing was thoroughly discredited."

"I guess you're right. Vaccinations don't cause autism, they cause zombies!!"


-t - Aug 12, 2021 11:50:10 am PDT #8428 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Zombie cyborgs vs cyborg zombies: the dead who walk again have begun replacing lost body parts with technology, while cyborgs created to protect humans but who have since been bitten by zombies continue to fight their historic enemies. Live humans are extinct.


EpicTangent - Aug 12, 2021 11:51:28 am PDT #8429 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

"I hear vaccinations cause autism"

"No. There's no evidence of that and the study that started the whole thing was thoroughly discredited."

"I guess you're right. Vaccinations don't cause autism, they cause zombies!!"

"I can't find any studies disproving it - must be true!"