If you only want one thing, instant pot is the way to go. You can still make decent rice with it, but it’s also great to have the option to pressure cook.
EnsignRedshirt
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If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Not exactly beating the allegations by publicly firing the guy, but I assume letting him quietly “retire to spend more time with his family” wouldn’t have been good enough for the totally-not-death-cultists.
If that’s the case then there is not and was never any reasonable alternative. Might as well get on with it.
"A vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy!"
I could see it, tbh, given how prevalent the brunch meme is on the left.
If they understood that events in the past were linked to events in the present, we probably wouldn’t be here right now.
As if Ryan Gosling couldn’t pull off the before look.
"If I were the president, I would only send 1000 national guard troops to quell riots."
I love this scene. Such an interesting provocation that says a lot about the setting of the film in a very elegant and economic way. Just really good storytelling.
I think it works so well because in 2012 there was some nascent understanding that the West had passed its peak while China was ascendant, but mainstream opinion wasn’t acknowledging that in any way. That made this scene stand out as being sort of outlandish on the face of it, but with a grain of substance that would stop you from dismissing the idea altogether, creating a nice little bit of dissonance for the audience. If you put this line in a film today, though, it wouldn’t land. People would just be like “yeah, that sounds pretty plausible.”
This was also the same scene where Jeff Daniels is commenting on JGL’s clothing and bemoaning the lack of creativity or novelty. “You’re just copying what you see in movies that are copying other movies. Why don’t you do something new? Just be new!” He’s a guy from the future who probably knows that everything keeps on being the same shit all the time and he’s tired of it. Again, very light-touch exposition that leaves a lot for the audience to interpret without taking up a lot of time or trying to be too clever.
Ms. Rachel is exposing the worst people in the world as craven ghouls by pointing out that it's bad to hurt children. I hope her haters die extremely mad about it.
This sounded ridiculous to me at first, but then I thought about the optics of blowing up the popemobile full of injured children and understood why they weren’t going to let it into the country.
The best thing about not having materialism is that you can just want things. They don’t have to be realistic or achievable or even internally consistent. Somewhere at the Pentagon there’s a vision board with “Iran regime change” on it, along with “China economy collapses” and “Russia quits and gives back Crimea.”