Women's Right to Vote

This is so much more fun than reading the same content on Twitter. 

NY Times top 100 TV shows of the 2000s

Here's the list. Not terrible and nobody cares about my take, but I'm gonna give it anyway!

1. Breaking Bad

Fair.

2. The Wire

Fair.

3. Mad Man

Nope. 

4. Succession

A little high.

5. Fleabag

No complaint.

6. Game of Thrones

Fair.

7. Veep

Too high.

8. 30 Rock

Fair, deserves credit for injecting life into a moribund form (sitcom)

9. Curb

Fair, deserves a boost for enduring relevance and singularity of vision and production process.

10. Atlanta

DEI, but I like the show.

11. The Office US

Tough one...I give nod to Office UK for originality but an argument can be made for Office US. Deserves bonus for talent identification -- what others went on to do post-Office.

12. Arrested Development

Fair

13. Girls

DEI

14. Friday Night Lights

Fair.

15. Six Feet Under

No context for having an opinion.

16. The Office UK

See above

17. The Americans

Seems a bit high

18. I May Destroy You

DEI

19. Chernobyl

Nope

20. The Crown

No context for having an opinion.

21. The White Lotus

Fair.

AI Worries

I'm more worried about Russia invading NATO and China building a huge nuclear arsenal than AI. 

US-China Relations

You know, it might be interesting if the MSM actually reported in detail about the Trump-Xi meetings as enthusiastically as they report about Cambridge professors or child murderers -- you know, about the things that impact the entire structure of global governance. 

Interesting Hot Take

About the possible reindustrialization around AI.

Maybe AI will build new iPhones right at the corner store.

I Believe It

US military using Xbox controllers to shoot down Iranian drones. 

McDonalds

Doing poorly. 

I can't remember why, but I recently downloaded the app and it gives me a free medium french fries every week if I purchase something for $1. I traditionally don't go to McDonalds very much, but find myself grabbing this free french fry most weeks since. I don't see how they can do this. 

Logging

TV: The Pitt S1 E1-12

A watchable cliche of every liberal platitude under the sun with inexplicable hospital gore. Is there a raging white racist? Of course there is. But in case it wasn't clear he's a bad guy, he sucker punches an old woman later in the season. Is there a gay couple having a baby with a surrogate? Of course there is. Is there a heroic black man who saved a woman from a subway train? You bet. Are there autistic characters? Many, in fact. Is there a reference to Thanksgiving being really bad for the Native Americans? Uh huh. Is there a female doctor doing IVF? Yeppers. Is there an incel who does a mass shooting? Looks like it. Does Noah Wylie give a speech about how young men are alienated because they're not in touch with their emotions? You betcha. 

Reality

We can safely assume Trump didn't want this Iran war, so the question becomes why he did it. Two options:

1) He was persuaded by hawks and Israel

2) He looked at intel that suggested they were close to a bomb and a ballistic missile combo that would be game-changing

My guess is the latter. 

Palestinians

Could "win" with one simple strategy: demand voting rights. No one in the West would oppose it. But it tells you something important: they choose to name their children Yahya instead.

Drugs and Hormones

Those who claim Lindsey Clancy went insane from taking too many weird pharmaceuticals and had a strange hormonal situation also advocate using hormones and pharmaceuticals. Make of that what you will.

My Favorite Meme

Is this one...the fake video game sunglasses indicating badassery. 

"So a chad is like...a normie dude."

My favorite version of course are the old Stannis the Mannis memes.

I'm Not Single...

But if I were, my only non-negotiable criterion would be that she doesn't post about it online.

That's One Angle

DSA political candidate interview.

News person: What do you say to the public about being a thief and a criminal?

Candidate: It's a good thing, actually. 

All this started with the tattoos. Mainstream LARPing being a prisoner. I blame Allen Iverson.

Nicole Hannah-Jones Article

I'll applaud one aspect: it was truthful. She almost puts it together. But we should stop there. For someone in her position to be so lacking in common sense for much of her adult life is truly astonishing.  She denigrated and called racist all the people who got to where she is now intellectually. Her own daughter, at age 10 or so, figured out what everyone knows - certain schools suck and can't be fixed in a timely enough manner for it to matter to the current student population.

But the truly most ridiculous thing she writes is being totally in the dark about how her daughter thought she knew math, but actually didn't. One of the reasons Asian kids seem to do well in school is that no Asian-American parent would ever let this happen. And truth be told, very few just above-average, college-educated folks of any color would either. Personally, I don't trust the schools, so I'm quite on top of various subjects, including math. But even if you were the type of parent who wasn't too on top of it, math comes up in daily life and in basic things like board games and discussions. Even things like long division, which her daughter didn't know. I find it almost hard to understand how a parent could be so blind. She interacts with her daughter, doesn't she? Did she not notice her multiplying and dividing up things wrong all the time? I just find it very confusing.

I Take Back

Anything negative I've ever said about AI videos. 

The Replies

Just reading the replies - solid comedy.

Interesting Take 

On JD Vance.  

My gut instinct is that he's not Presidential material. Rubio and DeSantis both fit the bill better.

Question: why isn't DeSantis more popular nationally? Is it simply his height? Guy gets elected in Florida and seems to govern well there...whereas Newsom governs terribly and is somehow a leading candidate? Is it really just height?

AI Doom

I thought we could always just unplug it, but what do I know? The main problem seems to be bad human actors using it for evil ends, but the same processes of crime and deterrence would work, right?

Also, what happened to global warming?

I Don't Know

Who is Macklemore?

Exaggeration

Mamdani hires an advisor who was a former editor for a gay communist magazine. I always thought the term was a funny exaggeration for a liberal, but I guess it turns out to be a real thing!