Call the Midwife has had the consequences of abortion being illegal as a recurring theme throughout the series!

I actually think Firth isn’t playing Peterson weird enough. Michael Peterson is a deeply strange man, in unsettling ways. I think Firth is nailing the affect of Peterson’s voice, but the whole vibe I’m not feeling yet. But I also imagine it would be extremely difficult to pull off Peterson’s whole strange vibe,…

This is one of the few widely-publicized cases where I can actually legitimately see how either version of her death (accidentally falling, or the husband doing it in a fit of rage) is totally plausible. Usually, it’s easy to assume, “yep, of course the husband did it, there are 2 of them in the house, 1 is dead, it’s…

the show still has owl theory to explore, of course

The owl did it.

I prefer the Texas Cheesecake Repository

But how you going to claim self defense if you threw the first punch? Also, if the other guy was not rushing at you, coming towards you or anything, how also is that self defense? 

Whatever Rani drinks, I drink one cup more. My skin has sloughed off and I’ve evolved into an ambulatory gel-pak.

Also because Twitter was mean to him once.

They aren’t called tech douche bros for nothing.

OTOH I did just deactivate my account, much lower bar than moving to Canada. 

Helps to solve world hunger.... nope

What’s really interesting is that the tech oligarchy, defined by people like Musk and Peter Thiel, don’t believe in democracy as a valid social order. They’re extremely liberal libertarians who don’t respect or support government, even if it’s ostensibly by the people, for the people. So when he says “vital to a…

Imagine claiming that you can’t afford to pay a wealth tax because all your money is tied up in assets and investments and isn’t liquid enough to be given to the government in the form of taxes and then dropping $44 billion to buy Twitter.

Nope, sorry. I hate bananas. The smell, the taste, the texture... no thanks! 

This is too much concentrated, freshly squeezed niggrance to consume in one gulp.

My hangup? My hangup is that bananas don’t taste very good after they’ve lost the last of their green, and their texture also isn’t especially enjoyable at that point. Bananas are a C-level fruit at best, they’re delicate, messy, high in calories from sugar, and mushy.

I was watching a YouTube channel about coffee, and the host was “restoring a thrift store espresso machine that is almost 20 years old!”

I realized that after I posted and thought about changing it, but I decided to keep it in place for posterity. Granted I’m 51 so a while back could be anywhere from lunch today to 20 years ago. It’s one of the dubious benefits that comes with being eligible for membership to AARP...