AI

I like comedy (who doesn't) and never, ever considered using AI to make myself laugh. 

AC

I can't find the energy to feel strongly about the A/C in Europe debate. 

A/C is nice. But don't forget to close the windows near the unit.

In LA, I don't hear the A/C "noise" that people talk about. I hear traffic.

Deterrence

What Israel practices is called deterrence.  And it works. 

Mood Affiliation

I think this guy's issue is being in a bad mood. 

Logging

TV: Widow's Bay

First four episodes were good. Clearly, they had no clue where the story went, and so the remaining ones are just spaghetti against the wall. TV was never meant to be novelistic. A negative legacy of Sopranos, Deadwood, etc is that the TV studios think they have capability they don't.

Film: T2, extended cut

Every scene they put back into the film made it substantially worse.

Unreality

Plan crashed into China's largest building, and they scrubbed all mention of it on the internet.

Odd place.

A Modern Slave Society

From a distance, China looks to me like a high-tech slave society. 

They work the coolies for pennies, sell the goods to foreigners, and keep all the money. There is no political freedom or recourse. You don't own anything. What else might you call this situation?

Riiiight

Before Kennedy the Arabs loved the US.

The Name Is The Giveaway

How crazy is DAC?

Matt Walsh

I know this guy seems like sort of a loony dick, but he's right about a lot of basic things.

Female led action films in general are almost always a dud. There’s no audience for it. Nobody wants to see some 105 pound girlboss action hero. It’s a comedically absurd premise, and there’s no getting around that. The studios are of course aware of this market reality. Yet they keep churning these out anyway because they’ll willingly lose money for the sake of pandering to women who want these movies to exist in principle but don’t actually care to watch them. That’s how female-centric our society has become.

I'm literally in the belly of the beast of this world and this is 100% true. In public, women all say they really want these movies and yet they never actually opt to watch them. They will argue the movies "aren't good" and will further excuse them as "male-directed" or "male-produced" or when directed and/or produced by females, they will cite "lack of prior opportunities or experience" so the female directors fail because of systemic issues. None of these reasons are true. Women will watch the most dumbass reality shows set on an island if there are relationship issues at stake. And they know it's dumb. Just like a man like me will watch the most dumbass action movie if some bad dudes get killed in a clever way by the good guy. It's just the way it is. Action movies are fundamentally for the male audience because the male brain works differently than the female brain. Good action movies will be crossover hits to female audiences because many females are not dumb and can enjoy a male-coded movie if executed well. Just like I can enjoy a little Selling Sunset or Love Island at times.

But it's even worse than all this. Because they made a great female led action movie called Furiosa and guess what? No women went to it. So if anyone ever ever complains about not making or supporting female action films...first ask them if they saw Furiosa. They didn't. 

Explain To Me

What is the material difference between a far-left-wing socialist and a not-far-left-winger anyway?  

Everybody Knows Who Don Viser Is...

Best scene in Rolling Thunder is with Tommy Lee Jones's family talking about Japanese-built cars, etc. and how whites can't make cars and even the parts in American TVs are Japanese-built and TLJ and Devane and just sitting there, unable to stand it. The echoes with today...uncanny. Really well-directed scene, too, with the camera angle on TLJ, his head down the entire scene.

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Film: The Shining

The funniest scene is when Jack wakes up at 11:30 am a month into his stay at the Overbrook, his wife makes him a nice breakfast in bed and suggests they all go for a walk. And he's like - nahhh - really got to get to work on my book. Kubrick and King are just ruthlessly making fun of writers here. 

The WNBA Refs

Are simply practicing DEI. I don't see what the problem is.

CA Politics Is Killing Us Slowly

2nd entirely online gig I've looked at in the last year that won't hire people in California because of the independent contractor law dumbass Katie Porter championed.

How many jobs in this state have disappeared simply because our politicians are idiots? Tons...

Logging

Film: Rolling Thunder

"The fuck are you doing?" 

"I'm going to kill a bunch of people."

Logging

Film: Disclosure Day

Found this one oddly boring, though I wanted to like it. The film didn't feel very of the moment, even though the subject matter - I guess - is timely? I don't know. I was imagining if there was a "disclosure day" during an intense World Cup match, and my guess is that most people would be like - Don't cut away from the game for this nonsense.

Also, and I hate to do this, but was the entire chase (ie the movie) really necessary? I don't see why the so-called "idea" of the film needed the story. In short, the idea could've been a short film about the last 10-15 minutes.

Show: Widow's Bay E1-4

All hail Patricia.

Work Meetings

Is it possible to have one without someone criticizing capitalism or racism? Asking for a friend. 

But for real. What is this about? Like seriously. Is this just a giant, giant cope? Are people just angry and want to vent and the only thing they can come up with is abstract concepts? Is this the result of years of propaganda and forcing us to root for King Kong and The Predator? We aren't allowed enemies, so the only enemy can be the system?

To The Hawks

Both in Israel and the US who want to put boots on the ground in Iran. I have a proposal: raise money. Go to Iran. Arrange weapons shipments to get into the country. Arm the opposition and go start killing Basij and Ayatollahs. You won't hear any complaints from me. Good luck. 

Juneteenth

Is it more racist to celebrate Juneteenth or not to celebrate Juneteenth?

Sologamy

Seems weird.