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Mighty Mouse is so cool

Brian May wishes he was as good a musician physicist as Brian Cox.

But... that's exactly what being in a new timeline would entail? You don't seem to be disagreeing with me at all.

Okay, you're not wrong in your general point that 'increasing roads doesn't decrease traffic'. But you're arguing with a generality and not with the specifics of this case, which is that it's being considered, in part, to relieve pressure on the Dartford Crossing specifically. Which it would almost certainly do. There is already a rail link between Essex and Kent relatively close to the area, but the problem in question here is that pretty much everyone in the east of England who wants to cross the Thames by car has precisely one crossing to choose from. The planning here acknowledges that it would increase traffic in general, because like you say it always does- but someone travelling from, say, Chelmsford, or Norwich to Dover not needing to get onto the M25 to do so would almost definitely decrease pressure there. Which is the point. In that respect, really none of your alternatives make sense. Building a new metro system all the way out to Gravesend just to link it to Tilbury would be very expensive and solve almost none of the problem, since people travelling from Gravesend to Tilbury aren't really the major cause of traffic at Dartford. Since there already is a rail link in the area, another one right there without any other changes probably wouldn't make a huge difference. Making a more robust network probably would, but it'd need a completely new rail network all the way around England's south-east, running crossways to London and not just in-out - it'd be a ludicrously more complicated project than building a tunnel and connecting the roads on. I'm not actually against that- the Beeching Cuts were a load of shite and hurt Britain to this day- but it's not a viable immediate alternative, or a project any politician would feel able to justify. The bus lane idea... well, I'm all for having a bus lane but (1) it wouldn't solve the main problem the thing is being built for and (2) you still need to build the tunnel anyway. Making it just for buses would, again, not solve the problem. On the price note, @Heartofice: while it does still seem very very high, I would say that the cost involved isn't just for the tunnel itself- it's for a whole new major road, including a completely new junction on the M25 and maneuvering bypasses around several towns. And for all that environmental activism is easy to mock, the Thames Estuary has always been a pretty highly-focused area of conservation, so I'm not surprised there were issues around that. I'm not sure it should cost 9 billion, but I can imagine that would be complicated.

Thousands of athletes round the world compete just fine during Ramadan, including many many footballers playing for their club sides. As far as I can tell it requires a little bit of extra work with their diet and preparation for them to be at their best, but it doesn't seem to be of concern to most of their club sides.

He conceived, and was originally going to make, the Bene Gesserit spinoff TV show, a prequel based in part on Sisterhood of Dune. Admittedly from the sounds of it it's a quite broad 'based on', not being billed as an actual adaptation, and one that avoids directly engaging with Brian and Anderson's idiotic take on what the Butlerian Jihad was about, but still.

It's not actually rotoscoping, as far as I can tell. They weren't tracing over the frames, they were just painting oil paintings replicating each frame.

Yeah, I know, that was my whole previous post in the topic. What we can't trust Putin in is when he says Ukraine did it.

I'll just come out and say it: I don't think we can trust Putin on this.

Looks great.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's also way too early and too easy to reach for that. Terrorism within Russia is quite common. Also I'm not really sure Putin really feels he needs a false flag.

I mean, it's possible she was just out shopping.

Not clear if this is actually directly related to Ukraine, but I guess it belongs here for now. Serious attack at a concert hall in Moscow. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-68642036?src_origin=BBCS_BBC

Chemotherapy is a fucking drag, man. I've known people who you'd barely recognise during and after a course.

To be fair, I think wanting to keep it private is a perfectly reasonable desire and it would have been fine- a few crazies, but fine- if not for the bungled photo. After that, though, well, I can't blame her for still not wanting to say anything but it would have been way better to make it public quicker, of course. But anyway yeah, cancer sucks.

Imagine how much of a gullible cretin you'd have to be to think Trump didn't assault E. Jean Carroll.

That's a pretty huge change though. Pretty much the entire reason for the start of the plot of Dune Messiah is that Paul is in love with Chani. At the very least Villeneuve would need to spend a portion of the film getting them back together, but I find it difficult to see how he'd do that and then segue into Dunne Messiah anyway. Nor why he'd make the change in the first place if that was what he intended. We talked about it earlier, but the inclusion of 'hello grandfather' suggests pretty strongly that Villeneuve is deliberately exploring another timeline branch to where the books went. What that entails is hard to say, but it also seems unlikely he'd deliberately include that reference and then hew so close to the books that it makes little odds. We're in the timeline that 'sickened' Paul - we'll need to know why that was. Also, neat little details I saw someone point out: Paul tells Chani he'll love her as long as he breathes, but when he takes the water of life, he stops breathing.

Honestly the 'how filmable are the sequels' debate isn't of much use until we know how closely Villeneuve intends to follow Dune Messiah- given that he's set it up to be impossible to start in anything like the same way. Also, as I've seen others say, if we want unfilmable, wake me when Villeneuve adapts Book of the New Sun.

Point Break: a worthwhile remake of The Fast and The Furious

Monkey Man looks like film of the year material.

tbf, EPO was for a long time impossible to detect and is still a lot easier to hide than 'roids.

In other news, Physical 100 is back, oh yeah.

One of the things to remember about Conor McGregor is that he appears to have been out of his mind on coke for pretty much the entirety of the last two years. That would have to have an effect on a man.

Ghislaine Maxwell notwithstanding, it's actually quite rare for a rapist to schedule their rapes with their PA. And she had the job for a year, it's not as if she was some longstanding confidante. There's no reason to assume she knew any more than anyone else did, and if there was any evidence at all she'd helped him do it, which is what you said, she'd be on trial. Like Maxwell.