“(and, in his case, the 18-35 white demographic, because he just didn’t do well with PoC voters)”

Sorry to burst the narrative, but I’m pretty sure Bernie Sanders got more 18 - 35 PoC votes than Hillary Clinton did. Age was a far more influential variable than everything else.

It wasn’t as popular as it later became, perhaps, but the word “nerd” did originally arise and get popularized in the ‘50s. One of the earliest known citations is from Newsweek, October 8, 1951, defining “nerd” as slang for “someone who once would be called a drip or a square”.

(Newsweek at the time noted this as…

Disgusting. By which I mean your comment. Which has nothing to do with anything, in several different ways.

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing about the band (Question Mark didn’t do that blackface stuff, did he?) and the old song.

Hell, two weeks from the end of 1965, at that. How many girlfriends did this guy have before turning 14?

Probably more apropos to go with Tamil, though, no?

I was wondering this too. I’m sure what it comes down to is that they actually aren’t, in some theoretical sense, legitimate in this context, but in practice, everything comes down to who has the best lawyers. So it’s unfortunately quite understandable for people to react to NDAs with such a strong chilling…

Hell, the magician chose his stage name because of the book. All roads lead back to the book.

Oh no! Losing people money? Heaven forfend!

As to the idea that film studio NDAs keep people from being put in danger… yeah, right. Oh, but you just mean analogous White House secrecy enforcement. Of course the White House doesn’t just cavalierly toss around “You’re not allowed to talk about this. National…

Er, they’ve said several times explicitly, Comet is named Comet because of Halley’s Comet. It was Haley’s site, by that same name Comet, before it became the company.

Was Joe doing the “WAZZUUUUUP?” Budweiser thing from 2000 when bringing his food back to Haley’s table at the restaurant (at around 17:45 in)? Seems like a little anachronism…

The original/core Google ranking algorithm (PageRank) WAS patented; see https://www.google.com/patents/US6285999. Interestingly enough, the patent-holder is Stanford (where Larry Page was a student while founding Google), with Google having paid Stanford for exclusive license rights.

I remember when everyone liked Anne Hathaway, and I remember when everyone turned on Anne Hathaway for being so insufferably Anne Hathaway and liked Jennifer Lawrence instead as her antithesis, and I remember when everyone turned on Jennifer Lawrence for being so insufferably Jennifer Lawrence and…

(Which isn’t to deny…

The documentary, for anyone who doesn’t know, is called Meet the Patels, starring Ravi Patel (perhaps most recognizable for his role in Master of None). It really is excellent.

Ok, so you’re using words in a way that has no relevance to the current discussion.

“white” is an artificial and historically shifting construct, but nonetheless, that construct of white vs. non-white people is a part of the current American experience, and in the context of a discussion about brown men with white…

Are you conflating ethnic Romanians with Romani or something? Regardless, if Canadian-Americans of Austrian, German, Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian ancestry aren’t white, then basically no one is.

2/3 POC, certainly, but (ethnic) Romanians are white, and Tatiana Maslany (of, Wikipedia tells me, Austrian, German, Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian ancestry; i.e., European, European, European, etc.) is also white.

Nothing wrong with being white, of course, but, like, if your ethnic background is a bunch of long-ago…

The Internet tells me he’s born in December 1978, she was born in September 1987, and they married in 2016. So a significant age gap, certainly, but she’s not quite half his age. She’s also not Indian, but rather half-Afghan, half-white, and grew up in America.

Given her background, I’d be surprised if it was anything…

But, of course, he didn’t actually suggest BMX bike to Simon Pegg subconsciously; that’s just the fake explanation that makes it entertaining. Simon Pegg originally wrote BMX bike, just as he thought, but Derren Brown managed to swap out the note ahead of time and put another one in its place. That’s how magic works;…

Ah, just tell us or don’t, but don’t play this coy nonsense; what’s the point?…