Cooper is more of a “normie”, despite his stage persona, so I can understand why he didn’t fit in with The Factory. His religiosity wouldn’t really mesh with them. I don’t think most people would have fit in there, even those of us who are not religious. Plus, I think we’ve all been given something that is fine but…

I often find old cans of Campbell soup that I forgot I bought, so basically the same thing.

He’s Techno-Trump. After that, he’ll simply start flogging his “brand”, because there’s a vast swathe of bootlicking idiots who will buy anything with his name near it.

“Cool.”

The main airport terminal set definitely would’ve fit right in with something out of the 70's or 80's also the shots inside the airplanes looked extremely dated for the time, which I guess is what they were going for. I’m sure the show also had a pretty bad budget.

Also, there are lots of people who just wouldn’t know her on sight. What’s the age-spread of an SNL live audience? Because I’ll wager her “do you know her?”/”how old are you?” distribution graph skews very under-30.

J.K. Rowling could be among the most popular, beloved people in the world if she could just avoid caring about (or telling everyone else how much she cares about) policing the particular set of genitalia millions of people currently have and/or were born with. What an odd, and cruel, hill to sacrifice so much of your…

if they hire me as a consultant I’ll make it good I promise just don’t let that woman near it!

There are just too many risks. Space travel is one of those things that must be stringently regulated.  It’d be like wanting to build a breeder reactor without any input from the IAEA

You said it. There is much more of Elizabeth Holmes in him, than Steve Jobs.

Apparently she had a panic attack after appearing and had to be hospitalized.

I thought that was Chloe, tbh. 

I think the point is that trans women are women, so any woman would do.

I am not trans, so take my opinion with the requisite grain of salt, but I doubt anyone would have been offended if they had just used a cis woman to dub her voice. I feel like the target is “a voice actor who sounds like the original actor” so the ideal is probably another trans woman, but .... definitely not a cis…

Stupid question from cis guy: the TARGET ideal would be trans dub actors, right? Cisfemale dubs being a step in the right direction but not the goal?

Nah. All one has to do is actually take notes on experiences that one is writing but has not lived or encountered, and perhaps fold them into the final product.

This happened during a Zoom call— “Harris-Lawrence, who is Black, asked a second person on the call, a writer who is also Black, if they had received the email... [she] said she would forward the email to the other writer. “Look at that,” Greg Spottiswood said, “a monkey passing the ball to another monkey.”

Ah, the good ol’ “white men just can’t do no right in this PC SJW MeToo cancel-culture-run-amuck world” that’s never not bullshit.

Sounds like Lucy, Daughter of the Devil to me.

Thank you for the coverage of Big Brother and of Danielle--one of my favorite all time players.  I know BB is not very popular, and I know that the bad casting and tone-deaf producers are to blame for that--but I still watch this with my (grown) daughter every summer--it’s our “love to hate it, can you believe what…