I used to hate the weekly model when streaming became popular, but I think people are better viewers when they watch weekly. It’s easier to have ongoing water cooler conversations about each episode, so your show gets consistent buzz. Plus you don’t have the extreme of a whole year+ to wait between seasons. If a classic show ended in May you could start a new season in September. By the time most modern shows have new seasons, I forgot 40% of what I saw last season.

The most illegal alien. Smallville had an episode where Clark helped hide an undocumented migrant. His mom tried to chastise him and he had to remind her his own paperwork is shady as hell.

If the last season had never happened it would be debatable. I’d have probably given the edge to Jamie.

I think I need sleep. I thought you were writing that you got $30 million after your divorce. I was wondering who you were complaining to.

On a serious note. Are you ok?

nothing will come close to the cultural impact that the original had.

That’s part of the reason why I probably wouldn’t recommend old trek first to somebody. We don’t have the benefit of being able to go back to the cultural moment of the '60s Trek.

I compare it to how Wizard of Oz is a great movie, but you can’t really experience the transition to color that happened in the movie the same way someone in 1939 did. Plenty of TV shows were still in black and white all the way into the '60s.

The Covid lockdowns in winter were Christmas for antisocial people. Between the winter hats and mask you could be totally unidentifiable.

My macroecon book, which was written by a guy from the Bush administration, hit us over the head with that concept.

It’s strange to thing that he’d be considered a pariah by his party’s leadership now.

Why didn’t you drop the quotes from Turing, Minsky, and Lovelace?

Don’t put the squeeze on the voters. They either didn’t vote for trump, or they were so dumb that they did vote for trump won’t understand why their electric bill went through the roof.

The whole point of democracy is the voters have an impact. If nothing changes for the voters don’t be surprised when they vote for the same party next time.

People use the word incel to the point of irrelevance. If you’re having sex you’re not involuntarily celibate.

Folks online were calling Henry Cavill an incel a while back. If these guys were celibate it would be by choice. If you’re trying to criticize them in other ways, why not use the right words?

Wasn’t Daniel Stern willing to stop robbing the house because there’s a kid? I trust the guy who does property damage over the one who’s dead set on terrorizing and torturing a kid.

It reminds me of that story where a robber steals a car, then when he notices there’s a kid in it he turns the car around to chastise the parent for leaving the kid inside. Don’t be a thief, but if you are don’t torture kids.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/man-steals-car-in-beaverton-with-young-boy-inside-comes-back-to-scold-mother-and-return-child/283-f96adecc-e6ff-4856-b81b-a42b9169c10c

Dude caused a dip in US GDP

That seems implausible. Do you have a source for that? or is that just exaggeration?

The security argument is a lie, I think. I think websites like Netflix like these features so it’s difficult to approach copying a video.

If security were an issue I don’t think you’d be able to copy text to the clipboard in situations where you can’t screenshot.