@Kumagoro:disqus and @Sanctusfilius:disqus you both got me thinking that maybe Chuck — because he earned his way (and probably did — no knock on the hard work I am sure he put in) he sees that as the only way to do it. Kind of like how a lot of people who went to Hah-vahd have this issue with less prestigious schools,…

Late in here, but there's something I wonder if anyone else picked up on or think is crazy, but…

I hadn't thought of circulation and heart that way and I should have, given that my grandpa had the same thing! (it plays hell with mobility if you had a ministroke even).

Also @EG and @J.P. —There are other possibilities for loss of mobility that takes a long time.

That's true, I was just thinking of how — as you note — a really huge heavy object moving really slowly diffuses its energy in both time and space (there's a whole other issue of what we mean by inertial mass) and that a bullet is focused (the energy density is much higher).

Great post; you could add that the problem is that if I torture you enough I can get you to say blatantly untrue things. THe Salem Witch trials demonstrated that.

Also @jonathanfrakesfanboy:disqus — The thing is, the crime rates didn't really spike all that much. But the perception did.

In many cases people who have been not just accused, but "convicted" (i.e. the university administration says yes, the allegations are true) can still live in their dorm, and loses nothing in terms of access to the campus. This is added to the fact that law enforcement isn't usually (if ever) involved here, so there's…

It's not inherently fascist, no, but coupled with the way the movie frames it it is. Ideas of degeneracy aren't strictly fascist either, but they are a common thread and again, in the context of this movie, they can become so.

And that is exactly what happens. It's not like thousands of people have been falsely accused of sex assault and lost lives or livelihoods. There's a difference between not pre-judging and taking sexual assault seriously as you would anything else. Again I ask: why is it that if I spraypaint a giant dick on the wall…

probably not. Physics is weird this way, but in movies you know how sometimes people get knocked over by getting hit with machine gun rounds? (Or even handguns?) That would not happen. How do we know? Because the person firing it wasn't knocked over. Momentum is conserved.

The fascism line isn't just about police states. It's about the idea that due process basically exists to help criminals, the old "if you are innocent you have nothing to hide" bit.

Nobody is saying that they can't. But it's like when people talk about police misconduct, especially against people of color. Are there false accusations? I'm sure it happens. But that pales besides the decades of abuse that many police departments have subjected people to, and the latter is a much bigger problem.

I'm not saying people shouldn't get due process, but the way it is set up (as you say) is that these allegations are almost never taken even as seriously as spraypainting the goddamned frat house. Due process? Fine. But the way it is set up now I can get kicked out for violating a smoking rule, but rape? Nah, who…

Ya know, if all rape accusations were suddenly appearing out of nowhere, with no context, the resident MRA dude who always comes on about false accusations might have a point.

Apropos of @avclub-f47f85617c9ee071d1d585bb94843264:disqus — one problem with any data set is what you include (or don't). For instance, the "housing never falls" mantra was because the data used in all those models was only back to the late 60s. But if they included the period right after WW II they'd have come up…

Speaking as a physics geek, I like this kind of stuff.

Jimmy self-sabotages. He could have shown the ad to Cliff and Clifford probably would have signed off.

You're right I elided a lot of it — point is, the idea of black voters going 90% for a Democrat was ludicrous in 1952. Eisenhower did pretty well there.

Speaking as one from a family who got some attention from Hoover…