Randal Vegter

And obviously, leaving aside a large segment of base that was into it.

Yes, I was very disheartened after the election, thinking people knew all this about Trump and said more of that please. I think now it’s more a combination that Americans 1) weren’t thinking about it too hard and 2) don’t really take evil seriously.

Jan 6 feels very memory holed already.

I appreciate it as a reminder that the last war did indeed happen, and it was a big one.

I keep thinking about the “bog down” idea in context of the millions of Epstein files that DoJ is working through.

Isn’t this just the correct approach for a long-form show? As opposed to shows like Lost that never had an end in mind or HIMYM that locked itself into an ending that the show evolved beyond.

Vera Webster erasure!

Ellison would have killed Peacemaker tout de suite.

At least Netflix gives me a side of hope with my concern entree.

And yes, Paramount would have been disastrous.

Warner Bros had an unbelievable year and seemed to have to really figured it out as a talent-friendly studio, and DCU has been looking really promising. Hopefully Netflix understands what it has purchased.

“the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship.” I thought this had to be the Democrats’ principal goal in 2020, but they completely took their eye off it. I don’t have a lot of faith here.

Well, it was an attempt to solve the root issue of not being able to afford things. Price freezing without lowering the barrier to build is a recipe for shortages. Hopefully it didn’t fail!

Oh! Grosse Pointe is one of my favorites. Definitely watching this now.

PS Covid and Floyd I do give our leaders partial credit. Might have been differently received 25 years earlier.

An interesting theory I’ve heard was 9/11 —> Iraq —> 2008 financial crisis —-> COVID and George Floyd = 25 years unrelenting of our leaders aren’t that competent, so what else you got? Like if we just had a chance to catch our breaths, but then Trump is his own crisis.

Agree on the political dangers. And there are big problems to solve that might not be solvable regarding accuracy.

I agree with the core point: LLMs are not intelligence. But LLMs are also not just chat bots. I know people building interesting products combing their own expertise, automation, and using LLMs to compile large amounts of data.

And guitar is a perfect song

Fair.

I went into Nope thinking Peele could be our next Spielberg. Ten seconds in I was thinking he had the talent but absolutely zero interest. Bold film.

As I’ve been watching the trailers, I keep thinking about how Gunn dealt with his gross tweets scandal and the world turning against him. Admitted wrong, said what he learned, became better. Contrast that with Whedon and Louis CK failing similar situations. I want to see the Superman by >that< guy.

Can’t wait. We need it badly, for all the reasons you say.

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse
Means certain things are set in stone.
Who we are, what we'll do, and what we won't’

It's gonna be a long walk home"

This Independence Day, I’ll let the great American philosopher Bruce Springsteen speak for me:

“My father said ‘Son, we're lucky in this town,
It's a beautiful place to be born.
It just wraps its arms around you,
Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone.
(1/2)

I saw the logic in containment. I see the logic in regime change (basically calling a spade a spade that we’ve been at war-ish for decades). My fear is this kind of sort of dragged into war flailingly by our own incoherence.

I also think that Dems will be broadly against this war. By tribal logic, that means Rs must be for it.

Just rewatched that clip. It’s so clever.

Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet is taking out the trash.

Stay thy hand, fair prince. Who said anything about fair? [unveils machine gun]

To be or not to be? Not to be.