Maybe it’s like cilantro where it tastes completely awful to a lot of people, but I can’t imagine disliking dill. Salmon, potato salad, not to mention nearly the entirety of both Greek and Polish cuisine.

Broken clocks and all that.

Counterpoint: Dill is wonderful and people probably shouldn’t take life advice from the founder of a new-age, snake oil company with a corporate ethos that essentially boils down to: “If you want a good life, then make sure you’re born wealthy.”

Or you know, now. The Japanese even more so than the West because they are even more paranoid of immigrants and have only a tiny percentage of them. Which is a problem for them as they have a bigger percentage of elderly people and nobody to take care of them. They even have a word for elderly people who die alone in…

Definitely. I think the difference is that the Japanese seem much more aware that he is trying to use them than he is of being used by them. Both of them see the relationship as transactional, but the Japanese seem to have a more realistic view of what is going on. It may just be that they have all the advantages -…

I mean, what you’re describing is a character arc. He started off that way and it’s still showing glimmers, but the entire point of the book (and series) is that, over time, he slowly sheds that arrogance and appreciates, respects, and participates in that culture and society.

If John Blackthorne, 1600s English pilot,…

I pretty much agree except that he isn’t really endearing or lovable. He’s just a bigoted European full of unearned arrogance assuming that these people are savages because they aren’t white, English speaking, protestants. He considers the Portuguese to be only a small step above them.  Yes, he knows a few things they…

It sure is.

(Clapping) All for it, man. All for it. Fucking bust up the fucking paradigm. Bend that paradigm over and just... Because that’s what it’s gonna take, man, to get eyeballs to the wall, man. T0 get those fuckers up there on the 99th floor to fucking wake up out of their doldrums. This is good, this is good, we need to…

It’s just weird how eco-activists hate art all of a sudden.

They protest at NASCAR and they'll get shot by some redneck. Performative wokeness like this never takes real risks.

There’s a reason that documentary isn’t in wide release anymore.

Right? Too simple and immature of me, but I can’t avoid wishing for people in the audience, who pay significantly for their tickets and look forward to a pleasant experience, to grab these guys and remove them from the theater before security can get to them.

Yeah, I feel like it shouldn’t be controversial to say that not all civil disobedience is effective civil disobedience. You don’t get a fucking medal or plaudit for bitching ineffectively, and you aren’t doing anything of particular note other than convincing yourself that you did something that night.

Can these people go protest at like a fucking NASCAR race or Hummer convention or congressional session or something? This is such toothless, cowardly bullshit.

“The oceans are rising and will swallow this entire theater”

“We’re not protesting the event itself; we are not protesting theater; we are not protesting the emissions that brought spectators to get here. That’s not the point,”

and the american justice system? well it’s flawless ladies and germs. especially if you’re rich, famous and a pedophile.

That is primarily because Jackson had successfully groomed his victims into testifying in his defense. This led to his acquittal.  You really need to watch “Leaving Neverland” so you know what you’re talking about here.

Yeah so was OJ.  Your point is?