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Cake day: July 31st, 2020

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  • I didn’t recognize Boba, as the actor has aged so much. Baldness alters a person’s look a lot. So that’s who dragged away Ming-na Wen’s character last season! I thought he’d be some necromancer, seeing as how she was shot point-blank. Her character’s return is what I’m most excited about.

    I love the titular Marshal, played by Timothy Olyphant, who has aged extremely well (he’s 52!). His character has a likable swagger. More of him!

    A missed opportunity is when the Tusken Raiders and the villagers were battling the dragon together, they could’ve worked more cooperatively. As the Tuskens were pulling on the dragon with their roped harpoons and were sent flying into the air, the villagers could’ve helped pull on the rope, like a tug-of-war with the dragon. It’d be a powerful image of budding solidarity. But even after they won, the villagers remain separated in their own clique as their cheered.

    In fact, the villagers remind me of how Israeli settlers whine and brag about how hard they’ve worked to build their homes, and how they demonize the natives and look down on them.

    For a season pilot, it adds less to the overall storyline than I expected, but I’ve always liked the show for its experimental and episodic feel. It’s ok that it’s not so much about the plot as it’s about the individual adventure and the wacky extraterrestrials we encounter.

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  • Sometimes it almost feels like the vaccines are so slow that they will be available to the general public after the pandemic is over (i.e., pointless by then).

    But then again, some Americans and Brits keep defying protocols and common sense (in the name of their vain individual liberties), causing nth waves of resurgences that spread around to other nations. Since their irresponsibility would extend the pandemic by years, the vaccine would probably arrive just in time, even if years away.

    I’m not anti-vax of course, but still, I don’t think I’ll enjoy the side effects of these vaccines, which I understand to be flu-like themselves, just milder and quicker.



  • Dear Accursed One,

    I haven’t really used this site on mobile, but a somewhat-similar issue occurs for me on desktop when I have subpar wifi or when my network is overwhelmed, such as when I’m in the middle of uploading massive files to an online storage site.

    The main listing loads reasonably ok, but individual posts are stuck on the circular loading indicator (the one from this website), and the webpage only shows that pre-loader. If I refresh the page, it loads fine on the 2nd try usually.

    Are you also an occasional sufferer of unfavourable connectivity? Or do you share your Internet with other users? (I have no suggestions or fixes, as I’m not a technical guy. Maybe stop penetrating those curse-ridden pharaonic tombs; ain’t no wifi in there!)


  • The pretence is getting lucridous and tiresome. I almost forgot Carlos Vecchio & Guaidó’s gangsters took over the Venezuelan embassy in D.C. in May 2019 (with the help of US federal police), and the impersonators are still there, loafing around.

    Those performers have managed to keept up this charade for years, with no ends in sight – like the histrionic HK rioters and Uyghur “Turkestanis” – because of deep-pocketed Western enabling. The traitors’ play-acting becomes lucrative pasttime or even full-time work.

    Such “parallel” duplicity are like those fake abortion clinics in the US (and growing elsewhere too) to divert and misguide. They also remind me how an anti-cult deprogramming group was bought out by Scientology, who sneakily misinform desperate families of cult victims. These shameful pseudo-organisations wouldn’t be possible without teams of idealists, opportunists and zealots – all with no misgivings about exploiting their fellow men at their most vulnerable.





  • Just in”? More like tiresome, decrepit and overripe vilification repeated ad nauseum since the last presidential election.

    They managed to libel Russia, China and Iran all in a single sentence. Should’ve also tossed in Nicaragua, North Korea and Venezuela to appeal to the entire panoply of regime changers!

    And, since they claim both poor defenseless Trump and Biden are “undermined”, both Dem and Republican ignoramuses can now blissfully retweet such equivocal run-on sentences.

    As they read from their monotonous scripts, ostensibly dependable NPR, PBS NewsHour and Democracy Now are gleefully having their cake and eating it too. They just can’t lose audience interest from repeating accusations and denigration aimed at the US’s perceived archenemies. Easier targets there aren’t any.


  • The use of certain high-frequency words like “propaganda” and “dictatorship” were baffling to me too, but I wasn’t too bothered, as I felt it’s like how Trekkies and other subcultures have their own lingo.

    What initially disturbed me was how ostensibly positive words like “liberal” are also used unconventionally by communists. I thought anti-liberalism meant anti-progressivism.

    These words simply have primary meanings with the opposite tone of how communists have defined them. It conveniently gives haters yet another excuse to malign us: the accusation of Orwellian doublespeak. [Obligatory aside: Orwell = snitch]

    It’d certainly help to be aware which words have contradictories meanings, then add succinct synonyms parenthetically.