This is a great time for European labs to advertise any open positions.

Mother Nature is a prankster. She was just having a little fun.

I wasn’t defending Imperial Germany. I was saying anti-semitism was a problem in France too.

fwiw she briefly had presidential powers a couple years ago when Biden was sedated for a medical procedure. Source.

She seems fun, but her outfit screams: “hippie girl who found her mom’s old ballroom gown.” Nothing wrong with that, but this is the Mother of Harlots who plans to be summoning demons. What if you call up Beelzebub and he’s like: “Really? I’m going to tear you to shreds just for wearing that Marge Simpson necklace.”

It was Halloween, so maybe “insufferable asshole” was their costume.

This was pre-WWI. Not sure how anti-semitism compared in Germany and France during this era, but there was plenty of anti-semitism in France as demonstrated by the riots during the Dreyfus Affair.

Remember those people who caught covid and were put on ventilators while denying that they had covid? When bad things happen to Trump supporters they’ll just deny it or blame it on someone else.

This was a “Fuck YOU, in particular” sent right at Harris.

hmm… I think a “fuck you” would be if people went to the polls and wrote in someone else. This was more of a “meh” sent right at Harris… they couldn’t even be bothered to vote.

I firmly believe it was a combination of her race and male voters’ unwillingness to vote for a woman under any circumstances.

I suspect that this played a large part, but the tricky thing is: how do we confirm this? We can’t just poll people, bc they’ll rarely admit it. We can’t compare the performance of congressional candidates because people likely hold the presidency to a different standard. To make things even more complicated, Harris is mixed-race - and Americans are notoriously bad at studying that. And what do we do with the results of these studies? Clearly we still want to nominate qualified people regardless of gender or race.

Political scientists and historians will spend years analyzing the causes and significance of this election. My focus is more immediate. Although the data are imperfect and incomplete, I will offer preliminary answers…

To his credit, the writer explicitly warns us that this is a hot take and is almost certainly wrong.

Hey I’m really sorry to hear about your dog. It must be tough knowing that it’s coming.

Yeah at one point his parents are like: “Bob, you got a letter from some guy in New England… do you know a Howard Phillips Lovecraft?”

D’Onofrio is one hell of an actor – he played Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket, The Kingpin in a Daredevil TV show, and was co-lead on one of those Law & Order shows. He does an OK job here, but tbh I only watched the first half then I got distracted and never finished it.

Hey, it wasn’t that bad. It was definitely TV-movie quality in terms of plot and dialogue, but the basic idea was great and the aesthetic was cool, especially the cars, the clothes, and Amanda Seyfried’s look. Yeah, Justin Timberlake’s acting was distracting, and Seyfried’s wasn’t that much better. I bet if they’d got a better leading man and a top-notch director, they could have made a classic. As it is, the movie made a pretty good profit, so I’m not the only one who thought it was all right.

Seems like it might be a pretty good movie. I think early King was the best, and the movie almost gets the feel of some of his early stories. But tbh I stopped watching halfway through, it got kind of predictable.

BTW if you go to “Subtitles” and select “Auto-translate” to “English” on youtube, the results are usually very good.