I never watched Hill Street Blues as a kid so don’t know the context, but in trying to track it down did find this gem:

18 year old schoolkid shagging a 40 year old woman was romantic

I wanted something that required no brain power to watch, and so actually sat all the way through Starship Troopers for the first time in maybe a decade.

“I’d give real money if he shut up.”

The Stand has arguably gone to exhausting lengths to establish New Vegas and Boulder as very different

From what I remember, it hasn’t hurt.

that attempt to rehabilitate the Stalin era without trying to rehabilitate Stalin

Just for fun, I did a quick time search to see if my spitball guestimate of his screentime was anywhere close.

For me, his performance of codebreaker Joe Rochefort in 1976's Midway is one of his greats.

Most consumer trackers do so by extrapolating heart rate, which is generally not very accurate. The late great Zeo actually did check brain activity and in a peer reviewed study remarkably got within 85% accuracy of a PSG. Some of their IP was bought out of bankruptcy by ResMed and used as the basis for another device …

As the article states:

And I started reading all these books...about how to build a society, how to govern a society.

I’ve heard from many experts that Oura is considered the most accurate of the consumer sleep tracking devices

I’m usually only slightly annoyed when a reviewer pushes a narrative - it’s become common nowadays - but what’s moved that to more frustration with Upadhyaya doing so here over and over is that it’s often made her reviews into “Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?” ones.

I definitely do need to rewatch after reading through all the comments, but my general hazy impression was that you walked away feeling a tiny bit bad for Aaron but not really all that much, and that’s not a bad place for a movie to leave a romcom runner up.

I’ve not watched this for years, but the scene that I remember off the top of my head is the one where Holly Hunter’s character displays that she’s made a decision to finally sleep with Tom (which of course she doesn’t) by grabbing condoms before meeting him. As a teen, probably the first time I’d ever seen something…

The Stand often leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to its female characters.

I’ll presume good faith, but your discussions were extremely different than mine.

Perhaps it’d be worthwhile increase n to more than 1 if you’re really interested in understanding the mindset. Try hanging out at the American Legion or VFW hall sometime, although I wouldn’t recommend it for either your liver or lungs and haven’t myself for decades except for a wedding reception or two.

Eh, I was in with Vietnam combat vets at the tail end of their careers who weren’t particularly conservative, and to a man they hated her.