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Currently reading "Coercive Control", really interesting, possibly influencing my disgust with aspects of "Money Heist".

IDK y'all. Go to therapy.

But hey, he generously decided not to murder her mother upon realizing she has Alzheimer's and therefore will not be able to implicate him.

Like literally bringing out a polygraph to "prove" that this is true love and the charismatic criminal totally didn't mean to systematically destroy her life and remove all alternatives to their being together.

The text is this domestic abuse survivor meets a charismatic criminal who systematically destroys her life and removes all alternatives to their being together. It's like a horror movie but played for romance? Bizarre.
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The basic problem with the show is that the protagonist by conventional narrative criteria is Raquel, and her arc is being able to solve the heist and outsmart the mastermind Professor but then choosing to defect to his side because of his perfect masculine sex appeal.

I think the only possible reading is they think this makes this guy "intriguingly complex" and not "loathsome".

Yes but as usual I do not remember a single thing.

Finished S2 of "Money Heist" and truly baffled at how they wrote and performed an all-too-convincing depiction of a preening narcissistic abuser, and then also gave him an anti-fascist theme song, a heroic death, and a spinoff.

still can't believe the fumbled the ludicrous cool name "House of Paper" in translation.

I think "The Residence" is really good. Why couldn't they make more of that. (Following my idea which is adapting a different dry non-fiction book into a murder mystery every season.)

Well that does help although aren't there like five total seasons. Eh let me get disappointed at my own pace.
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The show was filmed as a single thing and recut into two seasons for the US release.

(I thought every season of "Money Heist" would be a different heist and my god my face as I realized how glacial this show actually was.)

For which one, although I am sure you're right in both cases.
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Pausing "Money Heist" to catch up on "Bridgerton" but all I can think is like, "crossover of the century".

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
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NB: There was a measurement change although this is apparently? something applied "across sports" at least.

The item is assigned to the player's Right Hand slot, making it visible in first person if a weapon is unholstered. When the Metro Console is activated when traveling between the Presidential Metro and Adams Air Force Base, control input is disabled and the player is forced in first person. After the white fade-in sequence, the original Presidential Metro Cab and Console are disabled and the armor is added to the player's inventory and equipped, appearing identical to the former. A package named DLC03MetroCameraPackage is then initiated and plays an animation named DLC031stPersonMetroCam. kf. which controls the Cab animation and camera shake and repositions the Cab onto the train tracks, placing the player directly inside it. Upon reaching the black fade-out sequence, the armor is removed from the player's inventory. In third person, the armor will appear above the player's head and cause their right hand to become invisible. In first person, it will block the player's screen if a weapon is unholstered.

Actually, it's a glove on the player character.

When the NFL goes to 18 games and the game becomes synonymous with President's Day weekend, we'll see this fully born out. People will just refer to it as Super Bowl weekend

It’s a holiday.

a genuine actual US holiday with built
In traditions and experiences unrelated to the quality or makeup of the game itself

Yeah between the (dubious) ads tradition and the halftime show, the Super Bowl is an "event" across pop culture even beyond the (huge) audience of football fans.
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my guess is unironically ads even though they almost all suck now, even talking about how bad they are is still talking about them and it feels like the last bit of remaining monoculture

Essay question, why is the Super Bowl alone (?) in being immune to rating decay.

Hey we only did that once! 😂

Reminds me of video game systems where the trains are actually giant hats on NPCs.

For example I found this Pew poll where loneliness and urban/suburban/rural status is basically uncorrelated, although urban people might socialize more with their neighbors specifically.

I'm very skeptical of the idea that "the suburban form" is inherently "atomizing" or even correlated with it.

@xenocryptsite.bsky.social If this is right and there are ~660k elected then in one sense that's a lot, but also still probably less elected municipal officials than in France with 4x the pop?

You're always curious about descriptive work on how many elected officials there are.

Just took out: