In fairness the US healthcare system does prioritize rich people. You can get preventative MRI scans if willing to pay.

The question is, did any other US President have preventative MRIs done? I’ve never heard.

I was thinking how it could be the next step in preventative medicine if as part of one’s annual physical that not just bloodwork but a full-body MRI could be granted in a universal health care system.

Imagine what that could do in stopping issues before they snowballed, and the value for medical studies…

Interesting! I have the inverted perception. All subjective of course, and it probably has to do with my being less interested in the gritty thriller aspect of the other two. That said I thought Riddick did a great job blending the two. If you haven’t done so, I highly recommend watching the “Unrated” version of Riddick and the Director’s Cut of Chronicles of Riddick which elevate both films significantly.

CoR had so many big, unique characters and good actors. Lord Marshal, The Purifier, Karl Urban as Vaako, Dame Vaako, Keith David as Imam, Judi Dench as the Elemental, etc. In our house, it’s one of the most quotable movies up there with Sin City. Some of the cinematography is stunning, too.

Yeah nothing as groundbreaking as Blade Runner for instance, but just one of those films that has such high replayability for us.

Mediocre!? Thems fightin’ words!

Chronicles of Riddick is a hall of famer in the sci-fi world building space romps! So many good lines.

I modeled the teacup and put in Riddick’s lines when equipping or striking in Skyrim for my wife lol.

Not necessarily the biggest roles but I’ve always appreciated:

• The narrator in the original Medieval: Total War (intro for example). Set the mood.

• Prophet of Truth in Halo 2.

• Dunmer male voice actor for Morrowind.

The first and last especially set the atmosphere so well.

I can’t speak for Alyx as I never got a chance to play more than 10 minutes and I know the voice actress changed for Alyx. But Episode 2, wow. It’s a treat to play the game with commentary. The end of Ep2 has Merle Dandridge (Alyx) getting emotional discussing the final scene.

Bannon sieg heiled. Fuck em.

So much for individual freedom and small government, huh.

I think both are kind of true. They have more power than perhaps any administration in history given how stacked the Supreme Court is and how subservient the entire GOP is to Trump and the billionaire apparatus.

That said, I DO sense a panic of how so many months have gone by and midterms are right around the corner. With Trump’s approval-ratings plummeting to Jimmy Carter levels already and their lack of justifying consolidation of power while Democrats are energized — IF they don’t succeed by next midterms, GOP are going to lose pretty big.

Prop 50 Yes in California is a must as well.

Holy shit they had to close a 17 mile stretch of the I-5 for this bullshit? For those unfamiliar that’s a major artery linking LA to San Diego. Talking an 8-10 lane highway.

But kudos to Newsom for closing it for traffic safety and going against the hubris of the military claiming it was safe.

What a way to mark 250 years of the Marines with a couch fucker and shells detonating over the interstate.

To be honest, we shouldn’t even need Republicans to turn the tide. We just need to get people off their asses and stop pushing both sides bullshit.

Democratic primaries will be fast approaching and now is the best time ever to support Democratic candidates like AOC (likely to primary Schumer), Mamdani, Talarico, Chakrabarti, etc. and get out the AIPAC crap.

I’m reading pilot error is around 70% with 10% being mechanical? Either way, the amount of regulatory oversight, having 2 pilots on commercial flights is far safer. Leaving aside the fact that a single engine is a single point of failure while all airliners must be verified to fly with half their engines working.

I think while pilot error can lead us to believe we can train ourselves to be above the problem, we must also understand the nature of GA and single points of failure leave little room for error, again, unlike commercial aviation where there are often multiple levels of redundancy.

So for me personally, I just can’t bring myself to do it. Especially considering that driving is already one of the most dangerous things we do on a daily basis and I only do that mostly out of necessity.

Private single-engine planes (under GA) have somewhere around the same or worse fatality rates to riding a motorcycle. Don’t think I’ll go up in one, at least while my kids aren’t yet adults.

This is Obama 2009 inauguration vs Trump 2017 I believe. Though most Trump supporters probably wouldn’t know this anyway.

Still, DC had a great turnout for the No Kings Protest!

The problem is that this has been decades in the making. A lack of education in the likes of civics, us history, critical-thinking skills (fallacies, research and analytics). If such education is a vaccine against false rhetoric (bad propaganda), then to reverse course is going to take an extremely long time.

Neurons take time to rewire no less, and if you didn’t arrive to your worldview by rational means, rational logic will not get you out of that overnight.

The only short-term solution I see is redirection of existing anger to the billionaires, and using mockery and satire as a way to short-circuit people’s preexisting biases. For whatever reason, this breaks barriers like little else.

America First in right-wing rhetoric is like the Socialist in NAZI or Democratic People’s Republic in North Korea.

Oh boy. I wonder what true nutrition’s custom powders are like; or rather from where they’re sourcing their stuff…

What I don’t understand is that New Mexico is such an outlier for shitty statistics as compared to other states, even blue ones. Like I feel nearly every ranking has New Mexico strangely near the bottom alongside the likes of Alabama and Mississippi. I’ve long wondered why that is.

Locker-room talk 2.0 huh…

Sadly, I think it’s a win-win for the fascists.

Yes, Russia.