I don’t see much reason to think Chappelle has his finger on the pulse any more than Musk does, especially after he thought this was a good idea, and then got mad at the crowd for not appreciating his friend enough for being really rich.

Yeah tbh this really is a sign to me of how far Chappelle has fallen. Not only has he gone right wing in terms of being transphobic and antisemitic, but there’s not even any irreverance to it now. He seriously is going to bat for Musk telling a crowd that they should like and respect him because he’s really rich.…

Same. He made some stupid toy that wasn’t any help, and then got so mad that he called the actual guy who helped a pedophile for no reason. I never looked at him the same way after that.

Yeah tbh, I think most of Will Smith’s star power was not about disappearing into roles, it was just about being a personality that a lot of people find charismatic.

When the joke is basically that Kanye is right, there are a lot of Jewish people working in entertainment who conspire against him, and he was just not smart enough to keep it quiet and “pretend it’s a coincidence”, then yes.

It’s also not even the value of the company. Market cap is the number of shares multiplied by the current highest open bid for a share on the stock exchange. If you wanted to sell the entire thing, the value of bids for each extra share are going to decrease pretty quickly.

I know you’re joking, but it really doesn’t put anything in perspective. These are 3 very different national economies that the average American reader will reasonably have little, if any, familiarity with. Also, Argentina has a GDP roughly half the size of the other two. It would have been much simpler to just say…

It’s because “office job” isn’t really an actual job. That’s just a place where you do your job. If someone asks what your job is, nobody says “I have an office job”, because that tells you nothing. The kinds of jobs done in offices span completely different industries, skillsets, sectors, occupations etc.

Both the guys in this interview suck, but he’s still right about that bit. It was embarassing to watch and made no sense. Even if you wanted to have some kind of serious moment to briefly lament the fact that Trump won the election, this was just an awful way to do it on several levels. It portrayed it like the…

I don’t think that’s what cringe is at all. Cringe at its core is the feeling of relating to something embarassing. It’s not about trying to annoy or disgust someone. It does tend to cause some discomfort, but only because it makes you empathise with the discomfort of someone else. It definitely often is caused by…

I am honestly not that exposed to the fandom, so it doesn’t bother me, but it can be difficult to remove an association with something once it’s been embedded in your mind.

Honestly, it’s not even the lack of different voices, but the fact that the Morty voice always seems to have the exact same characterisation. It was funny at first in R&M because the nervous stuttering and genuine uncertainty in the voice was pretty original and not something I’d seen before in animation, but now I’ve…

This is a strawman. You can fly first class and take substantially less fuel than a private jet.

“private jet flights are harder on the environment than almost any other action an individual can take (while still being a tiny fraction of the emissions put out by the fossil fuel industry)“

That’s not at all as insignificant as you want to make it out. If you slice something down enough it will always be small. It doesn’t change that airplanes, and especially private planes, push out huge amounts of carbon for the time they spend in operation.

This has a lot less sway in the court of public opinion though. Normal people don’t know the CEO of Walmart and don’t really care. They aren’t going to Walmart because they think the CEO seems like a cool and relatable person the way they do about musicians or actors they like, so they also don’t really care if the…

I think this is kind of a problem with having such a small cadre of actual famous and well-experienced voice-actors. Even when they’re quite good, it seems like a handful end up doing rounds on almost everything. Guys like Tom Kenny or Jim Cummings do a lot of voices, and even then they’re in so much stuff that it…

This trend isn’t really growing. It’s been fairly solid for about 30 years anyway. Lion King, Pocahontas, Toy Story, etc all had star-studded casts back in the 90s and by the time Shrek came around it was pretty much at the same level it is now.

Yeah, being big only goes so far in wrestling. He actually wasn’t especially big by the standards of wrestlers back in the day (he got a bit bigger after he retired) but he was arguably the biggest wrestler at the time (or definitely top 3) because of his charisma.

This article really ends up not saying anything by the end. “Don’t cast big-name celebrity voice actors because they don’t have what it takes, except for the ones who are good at voice acting, or the times when it turns out they actually did a good job”. The actual thesis is completely undermined by the end of the…