Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts ~ Richard Feynman || Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. - Clifford Geertz
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You know who else was “dangerously” misaligned according to those who wanted to control him?
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Here’s a story for you. We started filming without owning the title and had to do alternates.
Taft Broadcasting owned the title Ghostbusters as part of their half-hour sitcom starring Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker (F-Troop) and a gorilla chasing ghosts. I had never heard of it. They didn’t have proton packs or Bill Murray. Columbia paid $500,000 to buy the name, but they really should have paid Dean Martin, from whom I first heard the term.
In the film Scared Stiff (1953), he and Jerry Lewis (check out his acrobatic stair descent) are in an old haunted castle, and Lizabeth Scott asks Dean: “Who are you guys?” And Dean answers: “You’ve heard of Trustbusters and Gangbusters, we’re Ghostbusters!”
For my research writing the first movie, I watched every single ‘ghost’ comedy ever made. Bowery Boys, Hope and Crosby, Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis all did such films.
Happy Halloween 2026.
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This is called presentism, where the viewer interprets the past through a modern lens.
In 1987, taking on major household projects was a common use of time for a SAHM. Now they see her and think: Why isn’t she working? How does she have time? Why is she doing this herself?
We watched Fatal Attraction (1987) last night, had never seen it
We were struck by the scene of Michael Douglas's wife painting the interior of the house they buy in the country herself, he's a partner-track lawyer in NYC
The kind of thing that used to be common, now rare
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KJV is based on a medieval Byzantine manuscripts, while NIV, ESV, NASB, CSB, and NABRE are all based on the Greek New Testament, which proctorizes 4th century texts and original papyri.
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And yet:
PISA 2022 overall scores
Top performers + US broken out by race
1. US Asian — 1700
2. Singapore — 1679
3. Japan — 1599
4. Taiwan — 1599
5. US White — 1572
6. South Korea — 1570
7. Hong Kong — 1560
8. Estonia — 1547
9. Canada — 1519
10. Ireland — 1512
Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.
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There’s a formula that takes body fat and muscle mass into account. FFMI…
And you’re correct most people who grouse over BMI are usually just fat and in denial.
the comments… lol. “but bmi doesn’t consider muscle” is fat cope. YOU ARE FAT.
people who are actually athlete-level fit and technically overweight have no problem with the bmi scale. they know they’re outliers because they put in outlier-level effort. bmi is a perfectly fine —
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No this is EXACTLY what would be expected if engineers are sent off with no supervision. It’s not about coding ability.The issue is setting up a project so agents are creating all the appropriate documentation, Specs, Test Scripts, RTM, decisions so Why and How are never lost.
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My favorite is the Anamanaics /Slappy Squirrel “Who’s the band on stage”
youtu.be/Mdqv5xIsFLM
Family Guy recently made a Civil War version of "Who's on First" that had me crying laughing. It had no business being that good.
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What’s funny about the Shane Gillis blowback is the people watching think the joke bombed with the live audience b/c they thought it was sexist.
It bombed b/c it’s a basic observational joke that’s been told and retold for a decade by other comedians and on social media.
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Beyond the irony of being one of the self appointed China experts himself.
His whole China thesis falls apart on demographics.
He’s applying a static 2010s China filter; that doesn’t account for the reality of the next 30 years.
X can be a real treasure trove of self-appointed China experts with zero credentials.
Imagine the arrogance of a Westerner copy-pasting some Wikipedia miscellanea and posting a comment about Song Qingling (Sun Yat-sen's wife) who "never mastered Mandarin", only because she spoke with a Shanghainese accent.
Here is a speech she gave in Mandarin in 1952 at the Peace Conference of the Asian and Pacific Regions.
What about Mao and Deng, and just about every top-ranking leader of that period of history, who also spoke in their strong regional accents ? Did they, too, never mastered Mandarin ?!
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This is the fallacy of converse accident. It is the move of taking an atypical or exceptional case and treating it as if it establishes the rule for the ordinary case. A handful of extreme successes like Nadella and Pichai are not remotely indicative of typical outcome of the median H1-B.
Elon Musk was born in South Africa. Satya Nadella was born in India. Sergey Brin was born in the Soviet Union. Jensen Huang and Lisa Su were born in Taiwan.
Immigration is America’s superpower, and we’re at risk of throwing it away.
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I think it looks like a Sunfire, others see Skylark, Eclipse, and MKX, in any case. It’s clear the big issue with this is the design language is distinctly “used bar of soap” from the late 90/00s; something no one on is nostalgic for.
The Base 2027 BMW 3 Series Is Surprisingly Good-Looking.
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It’s a Pontiac Sunfire
The Base 2027 BMW 3 Series Is Surprisingly Good-Looking.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
“What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side.”
Emmanuel Macron says American free speech is "the opposite of free speech." In his view, freedom only exists inside a "common framework" set by the state.
He compared posting an insult online to hitting someone in the street. Those are different things, because one is speech and the other is violence.
He wants people punished for posting "nonsense," with state-backed fact-checkers deciding what qualifies. He wants a verified identity behind every social media account. He has written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding the DSA be enforced "much faster, much more forcefully."
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