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While we’re at it, this campaign season isn’t “Crazy”, Trump is just awful.  Every WTF moment I can think of was either Trump doing something despicable, Trump saying something despicable, Trump telling a lie claiming someone else did something despicable, or one of his surrogates or supporters doing one of the above.

THIS.

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1920 -Algol x                                                      -Anne Boleyn x -The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari x                   -Convict 13 x -Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde x                        -An Eastern Westerner x -Erotikon x                                                -The Garage x -Get Out Get Under x                               -The Goleum x -Haunted Spooks x                                   -High and Dizzy x -Kohlhiesels Töchter x                              -Der Letzte der Mohikaner x -The Mark of Zorro x                                 -The Monastery of Sendomir x -Neighbors x                                              -Nomads of the Earth x -Number, Please? x                                   -One Week x -Outside the Law x                                     -The Parsons Widow x -The Penalty x                                            -Pollyanna x -The Saphead x                                          -The Scarecrow x -Suds x                                                       -Sumurun x -Way Down East x                                      -Why Change Your Wife? x -Within Our Gates x

1921 -The Ace of Hearts x                                  -The Affairs of Anatol x -Among Those Present x                           -L’Atlantide x -The Wildcat x                                            -The Boat x -Camille x                                                   -The Conquering Power x -Destiny x                                    -The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse x -The Goat x                                                -The Haunted Castle x -The Haunted House x                               -The High Sign x -The Idel Class x                                        -Journey into Night x -The Kid x                                                   -Little Lord Fauntleroy x -The Love Light x                                        -Miss Lulu Bett x -My Boy x                                                    -Never Weaken x -The Nut x                                                   -Orphans of the Storm x -The Phantom Carriage x                            -The Playhouse x -Seven Years Bad Luck x                             -The Sheik x -The Three Musketeers x                              -Through the Back Door x -Tol’able x

1922 -Beyond the Rocks x                                    -The Blacksmith x -Blood and Sand x                                        -The Bohemian Girl x -Cops x                                                         -Crainquebille x -Daydreams x                                               -Dr.Mabuse The Gambler x -Dr.Jack x                                                      -The Electric House x -Flesh and Blood x                                         -Foolish Wives x -The Frozen North x                                       -Grandma’s Boy x - Häxan x                                                        -The Loves of Pharoh x -Manslaughter x                                              -Mud and Sand x -My Wife’s Relations x                                    -Nanook of the North x -Nathan the Wise x                                         -Nosferatu x -Oliver Twist x                                                 -The Paleface x -Payday x                                                        -Phantom x -Robin Hood x                                                 -Shadows x -Sherlock Holmes x                                         -The Suram Fortress x -Tess of the Storm Country x                           -The Toll of the Sea x

1923 -Ashes of Vengeance x                                  -The Balloonatic x -Black Oxen x                                                 -Cameo Kirby x -Cœur fidèle x                                                 -The Extra Girl x -Frozen Hearts x                                             -The Grub-Stake x -The Hunchback of Notre Dame x                  -I.N.R.I x -The Love Nest x                                            -Mystery of a BarberShop x -Our Hospitality x                                            -The Pilgrim x -Raskolnikow x                                               -Rosita x -Le Retour à la Raison x                                -La Roue x -Saftey Last! x                                                -Salome x -Warning Shadows x                                      -The Shock x -The Street x                                                  -The Ten Commandments x -Three Ages x                                                -The Treasure x -The White Shadow x                                     -The White Sister x -Why Worry? x                                                -A Woman of Paris x

1924 -Aelita x x                                               -America x -Ballet Mecanique x                               -Beau Brummel x -Captain January x                                 -The Enchanted Cottage x -Entr’acte x                                             -Girl Shy x -The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks x -Gösta Berlings saga x                           -The Grand Duke’s Finances x -Greed x                                                  -The Hands of Orlac x -He Who Gets Slapped x                        -Helen’s Babies x -Hot Water x                                            -L’Inhumaine x -The Iron Horse x                                    -Isn’t Life Wonderful x -The Last Laugh x                                   -The Marraige Circle x -Micheal x                                                -Monsieur Beaucaire x -The Navigator x                                      -Die Nibelungen: Siegfried x -Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache x      -Peter Pan x -Sherlock Jr. x                                          -The Signal Tower x -The Thief of Bagdad x                            -Waxworks x

1925 -The Battleship Potemkin x                                -Ben-Hur x -The Big Parade x                                              -Chess Fever x -Cobra x                                                             -Don Q, Son of Zorro x -The Eagle x                                             -Le Fantome Du Moulin Rouge x -The Freshman x                                               -Go West x -The Gold Rush x                                              -El Húsar de la muerte x -Isnt Life Terrible x                                             -Joyless Street x -Lady of the Night x                                           -Lady Windermere’s Fan x -Little Annie Rooney x                                       -The Lost World x -Master of the House x                                      -Les Miserables x -The Monster x                                                  -Orochi x -Phantom of the Opera x                                   -The Pleasure Garden x -Sally of the Sawdust x                                      -Seven Chances x -She x                                                                -Smouldering Fires x -Stella Dallas x                                                  -Strike x -The Tailor From Torzhok x                               -Tumbleweeds x -The Unholy Three x                                         -Visages d’enfants  x -Variety x                                                           -The Wizard of Oz x -Wolf Blood x

1926 -3 Bad Mex x                                     -The Adventures of Prince Achmed x -Bardelys the Magnificent x                 -The Bat x -Battling Butler x                                  -Beau Geste x  -The Bells x                                          -The Black Pirate x -La Bohene x                                        -Brown of Harvard x  -Brudeferden i Hardanger x                  -The Devils Wheel x   -Don Juan x                                         -Faust x   -Flesh of the Devil x                              -For Heavens Sake x  -The General x                                      -The Great Gatsby x  -The Great K&A Train Robbery x          -The Holy Mountain x  -Kid Boots x                                           -The Magician x -Manon Lescaut x                                  -Mother x -Nana x                                                  -A Page of Madness x  -Rien que les heures x                           -The Scarlet Letter x  -The Son of the Sheik x                         -So Your Old Man x  -The Sorrows of Satan x                        -Sparrows x  -The Strong Man x                                 -The Student of Prague x  -Tartuffe x                                               -The Three Million Trial x  -The Torrent x                                         -Tramp Tramp Tramp x  -What Price Glory? x                               -The Winning of Barbara Worth x

1927 -Annie Laurie x                                           -Bed and Sofa x -The Beloved Rogue x                         -Berlin: Symphony of a Great City x -The Cat and the Canary x                         -College x -Downhill x                                                  -The End of St.Petersburg x -The Fair Co-Ed x                                       -His First Flame x -It x                                                              -The Jazz Singer x -The Kid Brother x                                       -The King of Kings x -The Lodger x                                              -London After Midnight x -The Loves of Jeanne Nay x                        -The Loves of Sunya x -Man From the Restaurant x                        -Metropolis x -Napoléon x                                                 -The Ring x -Robinson Crusoe x                                     -The Scar of Shame x -Seventh Heaven x                                      -Spring Fever x -Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans x             -Svengali x -Underworld x                                               -The Unknown x -When a Man Loves x                                   -Why Girls Love Sailors x -Wings x

1928 -A Day in Berlin x                                        -Accident x -Alraune x                                                   -L’Argent x -Beggars of Life x                                       -The Big City x -Blonde For a Night x                                 -The Cameraman x -Champagne x                                            -The Circus x -The Cosacks x                                           -The Crowd x -The Devious Path x                                    -The Divine Woman x -The Docks of New York x                           -Easy Virtue x -The Fall of the House of Usher x                -The Farmers Wife x -Feel my Pulse x                                          -Four Sons x -A Girl in Every Port x                                  -The House on Trubnaya x -The Italian Straw Hat x                               -Jujiro x -The Lady of the Lake x                               -The Last Command x -Laugh,Clown,Laugh x                                 -Lights of New x -Mother Machree x                                       -Moulin Rouge x -The Mysterious Lady x                                -Noah’s Ark x -October: Ten Days That Shook the World x-The Passion of Joan of Arc x -The Patsy x                                                 -The Power of the Press x -Sadie Thompson x                                 -The Seashell of the Clergyman x -Sex in Chains x                                           -Show People x -Speedy x                                                     -Spies x -Steamboat Bill Jr. x                                     -Steamboat Willie x -Storm Over Asia x                                       -Street Angel x -Sweeny Todd x                                            -Underground x -Upadek domu Usherów x                            -The Viking x -Vormittagsspuk x                                         -We Faw Down x -The Wedding March x                                 -West of Zanzibar x -While the City Sleeps x                     -White Shadows of the South Seas x -The Wind x                                                  -A Woman of Affairs x -Zvenigora x

1929 -Alibi x                                                  -Un Chien Andalou x -Applause x                                          -Arsenal x -Asphalt x                                             -Berth Marks x x -Big Business x                                    -Big News x -Blackmail x                                         -The Broadway Melody x -Bulldog Drummond x                          -The Cocoanuts x -A Cottage on Dartmoor x                    -Coquette x -Diary of a Lost Girl x                           -Drifters x -Finis Terræ x                                       -Flight x -The General Line x                             -Glorifying the American Girl x -The Great Gabbo x x                          -Hallelujah! x -Happy Days x                                     -The Informer x -In Old Arizona x                                  -The Iron Mask x -The Kiss x                                           -The Letter x -The Locked Door x x                           -The Love Parade x -Lucky Star x                                         -Man With a Movie Camera  x -The Manxman x                                   -Mysterious Island x -The New Babylon x                              -New York Nights x -Pandoras Box x                                    -Pointed Heels x x -Queen Kelly x x                                    -Rain x -Rio Rita x                                              -The River x -The Single Standard x                          -Skeleton Dance x -Spite Marriage x                                    -Sunny Side Up x -The Taming of The Shrew x                  -A Throw of Dice x -Thundering Thompson x                       -The Viginian x -Welcome Danger x                               -Where East Is East x -White Hell of Pitz Palu x                        -Wild Orchids x -Woman in the Moon x                           -Wonder to Women x -The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna x

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My day needs less pants and more rocketships.

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Water utilities typically charge based on unit usage (although it's often disguised as a "sewer charge"), give commercial customers a better rate and absolutely will come to your house and shut off your water if you use too much.  ("Too much" typically being in quantities large enough to indicate you just leave it running all the time...the way some people leave bit torrents running 24/7).

So, maybe compare the internet it to the road system instead?  You know, like it was some sort of "information superhighway."

Comcast is considering imposing monthly usage limits for all of its Internet customers.

David Cohen, executive vice president of America’s largest cable company, predicted at a conference Wednesday that in five years’ time, the company will have “a usage-based billing model rolled out across its footprint.”

That means Comcast customers could only consume a certain amount of data before facing extra charges for going over their limits.

Internet should be delivered like water. Can you imagine your water utility deciding that it’s going to deliver a certain amount of water to your home, and then shut it off after an arbitrary limit, unless you pay more? What about delivering water faster or at better quality to people who pay more for it? It’s unthinkable.

Companies like Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon and AT&T are using publicly-funded infrastructure (in addition to whatever the companies have built themselves) and should not be allowed to act in a way that’s counter to the public interest.

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If they were willing to just leave women alone to do their own thing they wouldn't be very good misogynists now would they?

My mind is always boggled as to why misogynists would follow me in the first place.

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Can this be your next one-off comic?

Come to Australia! Please

I read this right after I woke up from a dream in which we did go to Australia. John Barrowman had joined the troupe, so people actually came to see us. Then a bunch of people got murdered and we were the primary suspects. We were locked in a tower, which was surrounded by bananas they intended to set on fire to immolate us. You guys have some weird traditions in Australia.

But really we probably won’t make it there because it would be crazy expensive. We won’t even go to Canada, and we live in Michigan. (As an individual, I will go to Canada, but not Australia because it is expensive and I really hate airplanes.)

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Ten shots?  How did that go down:

"Hey officers! over here! I need help!"

"Holy shit, there's a big black man heading right for us!"

*blam*blam*blam*

"Did I get him?"

"Eh, he's still moving a little."

*blam*blam*blam*

"Hows that?"

"hmm, I think he twitched"

*blam*blam*blam*

"I...Just...Needed...Help...With...Car."

"Shit, we just shot an innocent man!  We're gonna get sued!"

*blam*

"Dead men don't sue."

Unarmed former football player Jonathan Ferrell was shot ten times while seeking help from a car crash. But the officer who shot him won’t face manslaughter charges.

Bull. Shit. Once again, a cop gets away with murder. 

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The essence of this article is "Why the hell do all these completely alien species have females with big tits?  Some of theme aren't even mammals!"

That doesn't go far enough.  Large breasts aren't large because of the mammary glands, they're large because of fat.  It's pure sexual display not present in other mammal species, not even very closely related species like chimps.

The chance of another species independently evolving the same sexual display is close to zero, and has nothing to do with whether or not they're mammals.

Wildstar, Character Design, Female Objectification, Sexual Dimorphism and Biology in Video Games

We need to talk about the character designs in Wildstar.

We need to talk about the character designs in all science fiction and fantasy franchises that feature non-humans.

Wildstar is a science-fiction MMO currently in beta, developed by Carbine Studios. The general thrust of Wildstar is something along the lines of Firefly, Star Wars, and Ratchet & Clank; not exactly a grimdark sci-fi thriller. The mechanical features look interesting and the art style, in and of itself, is really vivid—but what they’re doing within the style?

Well.

The NDA dropped on a bunch of Wildstar content and character creation videos are up. You can watch them all, but here I’m just going to focus on the Granok, Draken, and Mechari.

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"Entrepreneurs are already capitalizing on the data-privacy trend."

Well, as long as different set of people are getting rich, I guess that's okay #sarcasm

Advertisers and third-party trackers have created a multibillion-dollar business by harvesting info from search engines and mobile apps, but none of that money goes to the owners of the identities being tracked. That could change in the wake of revelations about NSA surveillance and a growing awareness of data-privacy issues. Entrepreneurs are already capitalizing on the data-privacy trend.

(via Fast Co.Exist’s The World Changing Ideas Of 2014)

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No. Wrong. Bad.

They have <head> surrounding a headless body.  That’s almost exactly backwards.

Strong is okay, I guess.  I’d rather see something that showed it was more important, like showing the tag make someone stand out in a crowd.

<i> no longer strictly means italic.  It sets apart “special” text with no specific semantic meaning.  While leaning guy shows what it looks like, it won’t help teach people when to use it.

<center> was deprecated years ago, and technically doesn’t even exist in html 5.  Even worse, the floaty dude sort of implies a vertical-align:middle, and keeping middle sorted from center is one of those little nuances noobs often miss.

After countless iterations the NYT has finally discovered the most effective way to teach HTML to the youth of America.

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Author of "The Tell-Tale Booty"

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What would happen if false accusations of rape became common?  Men would have to start protecting themselves from those accusations.  What would that look like? 

One thing men would have to do is maintain alibis.  That means, for example, not putting yourself in a situation where you're alone with a women unless you know can trust her.

Another thing men would have to do is maintain a "good" reputation in the sense of not being seen to be "looking for it."

Is that starting to look familiar?  Let me spell it out.  The worst case scenario if false accusations of rape become common is that men have to start taking rape-related precautions similar to what women have had to do for generations.

Deal with it.

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Instead of killing them, how about we just launch an automatic combined IRS audit / DOJ probe / Grand Jury investigation.  And make them cover the costs.

Someone just solved the economy. 

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As much as I hate misogyny, MRA, and dudebros, I am not letting AXE access my facebook profile and friends list so I can vote in this.  AXE.  You know, that company that uses blatant sexism to sell aerosolized douchiness to the sort of people who are voting against this woman?

Yo, guys. Remember Rose, who became a small trend a couple days ago for participating in the AXE competition to see who’s gonna be the next Malaysian astronaut? Some Men Right’s Activists are voting in one of the dudes to make her lose and it’s happening. Keep voting on her and don’t let her lose this!

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Ad revenue.  Tumblr needs to become palatable to advertisers, which means not offending the usual gang of uptight, homophobic idiots.

Tumblr users have always had the option of marking their account as NSFW, and since around 10% of Tumblr is porn, people were generally pretty good at labelling their blogs. 

However, under Tumblr’s new content restrictions, posts from Adult-rated blogs will no longer show up on tags. Any tags. Also, Tumblr is able to flag your account as Adult without you labelling it as such—although users do have the option of appealing to the “Trust & Safety Team” if their feel their blog has been flagged unfairly.

Adult blogs are now unsearchable.

If your blog has been flagged as Adult, nothing you post will ever appear on Tumblr’s public tag searches. Your posts will only be visible to your own followers and the followers of people who reblog your content.

This means that if you want to publicize something like a Kickstarter campaign or political message, or even to signal boost a personal plea for help, that post will still not show up on Tumblr’s internal search engine. You are cut off from everyone except your own circle of followers.

Also, Many Tumblr users are finding that some tags have disappeared entirely from Tumblr’s iPhone app.

It’s unclear whether this is directly linked to the new content restrictions, but for example, iPhone users searching the #gay, #lesbian or #bisexual tags have reported seeing the result “No posts found,” although #bi, #lgbt and #queer still produce results. [READ MORE]

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It makes me sad that so many of the big names in atheism are misogynistic.  It's just a good thing we don't see our "leaders" as infallible founts of revealed truth.

“If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, Harris explains, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion."

“there’s nothing more natural than rape. Human beings rape, chimpanzees rape, orangutans rape, rape clearly is part of an evolutionary...

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Whenever I feel sad about the death of a loved one, or start getting existential about my own inevitable death, I just remind myself that everybody dies and that's okay because that includes Pat Robertson and people like him.

Fuck Pat Robertson, and everyone who takes him seriously, forever.