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Me: What are you talk--

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Begone, mortal! To the cornfield with you!

Me: Uh, I'm still here

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Any OTHER smart mouths want to end up in the cornfield? I DARE ya!

Me: Uh, Neil, that doesn't quite add up...

Neil deGrasse Tyson: And that's what scientists THOUGHT until a Danish chemist named Nels Heffweiggr developed an *elixir* that ALLOWS me to wish people who CHALLENGE me to the cornfield.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Your coffeepot will hold *less* water in this expanding universe. Your pot will hold 0.2169oz LESS per year! Scientist have MEASURED this!

Me: It's so weird. 62 oz used to be the perfect amount to fill my coffee pot, but now it's too much. Has something changed the amount of water this pot can hold?

Neil deGrasse Tyson: YES! The universe is expanding, ok? And the water in your pot is made up of molecules, and they're expanding!

Or maybe I'm just saying being a grown up is hard.

I don't mean to trivialize being in prison, which a) is obviously different, b) is badly handled by our society, and c) isn't something I ever experienced.

I was merely making the analogy that I became used to and felt comforted by the loss of choices.

I miss being young and in school sometimes. You were always told what to do, so it wasn't too hard to navigate. It was a bit like prison, but I liked being institutionalized. Sure you might have to deal with abuse from other inmates or getting dicked by an asshole guard, but if you kept your head down you didn't have to think or try too hard

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

Not to spoil anyone's fun, but no, Vance did not write that he had sex with a couch. He is an asshole for many other reasons.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/

Tonight's anthem (sing along):

https://youtu.be/BUM_zT3YKHs?si=17Vf4KVQVAY34Qrt

@MamasPinkyToe almost more of a shart.

When you run the numbers, we are all functionally equivalent to those million monkeys typing on typewriters.

There are still magical things in the world. They're just harder to find.

A blast from the past, an anti-Bush video set to George Michael's "Freedom '90". It was very cathartic back in the day.

https://youtu.be/Wm2OXQh3duI?si=FMbzgeZGtwiM-Zwq

It should be Harris. She is the only logical choice. And she will be a great candidate because she is a talented politician and because WE will give her overwhelming, unwavering support.

Also, Powell's timid professor persona seems more of a put on than his hit men personas. I have to believe in a version of the character, even if it's changing or wrong. That kind of applied to most of the cast.

4) Gary's arc. You see him shift between personalities, and you see plot consequences, but you don't really get to see Gary's growing pains or internal challenges about managing these personas.

3) Unclear tone. Most of the time it's a rom com, sometimes a thriller, occasionally a dark comedy. A movie can be all these things, the styles have to work together. These don't. You can fulfill or subvert expectations, but you and the audience have to agree on what the expectations are.

2) Very unclear about character intent and subtext. It's very unclear at times what characters are trying to do. I think this is to keep you guessing about the plot, but it makes it hard to feel the stakes or tension between characters. And as a result, the conflicts never get more interesting.