He’s a centrist, without being a big DNC insider. He appeals to people that find Sanders/Warren too socialist, but don’t want Hilary 2.0 either. 

The food system is fine. Something like a hundred million people ate salad in the last week, and ~100 of them got sick. That’s quite literally a one-in-a-million chance. 

One of the problems with adding data from Spotify to the billboard charts is that there isn’t an easy way to distinguish “listening to my favorite song” from “putting something boring on while i work/study” from “i’m literally asleep right now.”

The successful ones have all had big name casting choices, which made me realize that it’s best to think of it like going to see your favorite play with a new cast. The sell isn’t so much “go watch Aladdin but in live-action”, its “go watch Aladdin but the Genie is Will Smith” or “go watch Lion King but Nala is…

There’s so many repetitions of lines like “yes, go ahead and go” that it started to be really funny. They’re so careful to emphasize that he’s not trying to coerce her into staying, that it ends up sounding like he really wants to get rid of her. “Yeah yeah tonight was fun and all, but your driver’s here, can you just…

She’s popular with nerds because she played the love interest in Scott Pilgrim. But the film you should check out is 10 Cloverfield Lane, it’s a great movie and she’s great in it. 

It would be nice to see the MCU get some kind of one-off “Outstanding Achievement in Serial Filmmaking” Oscar. They’ve been consistently pulling off something that no one else has ever done before, and that merits some kind of recognition.

You’d be surprised how common bladder issues are. It’s embarrassing to talk about because unless they’ve experienced it themselves, many people react like you do: “what are you, a child??”

Groups of people who cannot consistently go 6+ hours without a bathroom include: sick people, diabetics, old people, children,…

This issue is what killed Food Network competitions like Chopped for me. The producers want so badly to maintain suspense about who gets eliminated that they withhold information from the audience and edit it to look like every contestant has done equally well. This just makes the result feel like a coin flip, and…

On one hand, I can understand the decision, because Men’s Wearhouse comes across as terminally uncool. On the other hand, was that image really hurting them? There’s lots of guys who don’t care about fashion much and just need a boring old suit for a wedding/prom/whatever. Chances are that trying to make themselves…

People think poodles are ugly because everyone gives them stupid haircuts. If you keep their hair trimmed short they’re actually really elegant dogs. And labradoodles can be stunning with short hair - like a really sleek, lanky lab. 

“people are bothered that someone would pay thousands of dollars for an inhumanely bred dog based on its looks.”

I don’t get the outrage about “designer dogs” - this is how tons of dog breeds were created in the first place. If anything they should be healthier thanks to hybrid vigor; the idea that mixing somehow introduces disease or makes dogs crazy is some weird kind of racism.

This sort of phenomenon is why etymology is so difficult to study - it’s easy to get fooled by clever stories of the origins of words, but often the real story is basically the 1600's version of “a group of teens somewhere had a friend named John with a mildly annoying habit.”

It’s kind of sad that he thinks he got one over on the show. The show got exactly what it was looking for out of him - an over-the-top character who does wacky shit to keep audiences entertained (but not so wacky that he doesn’t actually participate in the show). He’s far from the first person to do this.

Taylor has a pretty distinctive lyrical voice. The music has changed from country-pop to pop-pop, but the way she writes hasn’t changed much. I don’t think her output would be so coherent if it was all written by committee. Plus if her shtick was that easy to imitate, other stars would be doing it.

I’d argue the proper analogy is actually Zuckerberg/Winklevii.

This was filmed back in 2017, so it predates his breakdown. As for why it’s been sitting around collecting dust for 2 years... that’s usually a sign that the studio’s expecting it to flop hard.

To be fair, I’m pretty sure that photo’s from the Met Gala, where being over the top is kind of the point.

I think pants have gotten tighter, so it’s harder to pull off just the pants now. But I’m also pretty sure pantsing isn’t really a thing anymore...