Judging by the cover picture you posted, at least they set their sights lower than the Chinese:

I will preface this with saying I am all for climate change regs.

You win the internet today.

One day, some fish will be your cold blooded boss:

Tangential musing:

I’m a relatively casual PC gamer (weekends/ 1-2 hours at a time), and I think 3-5 years is a decent wait for me.

Maybe he likes deerholes.

One more thing:  At 4:46, those are some steady shots of the plane drifting from overhead.  It couldn’t have been made by Trevor as he was filming his descent, and his handheld was too unsteady to take relatively steady shots of the drifting plane.  Even more suspicion that this was staged bullshit.

Seeing how crappy Matrix did, I am wondering if the Wachowskis will ever be able to make another big budget production in Hollywood again. It’s not a diss on the movie or them, but their box office track record after the Matrix series has not been great.

I would agree with this, but careful on what is passive. Some will say real estate rentals, but understand that this means dealing with screening tenants, dealing with broken hot water tanks and toilets, evictions, etc, which can cut into some of your profits, even when using a management company. I don’t like the…

This reminds me of a certain scene in “Cannonball Run”, which should serve as a warning for any type of video/entertainment distraction while driving:

I would add Open Your Eyes/Vanilla Sky as Metaverse with cryonics.

I think people forget that no-one made a car chase like the one in “Bullitt” until “Bullitt” did it. Any car chase after “Bullitt” owes it a big thanks.  I agree it won’t hit today’s standards, but take a true car chase (not blue screen crap) from before 1968, and nothing compares.

I read this, and the first thing I thought about was it was cut with rat poison (coumarin/warfarin), which basically decreases clotting in the blood, leading to fragility in vessels and ultimately bleeding when it tries to squeeze into something or moves too hard.

As a doctor who deals on the side with public medicine, it is appalling that legislators are driving public medicine policy, and not the professionals.

In the US, worker’s comp is mostly state determined, except for federal employees or those covered under federal laws (railroad, longshoreman, etc).  In some states, transport to work is compensable, in some not.  I am unsure about federal WC.

“Japan’s anime isn’t designed for live-action adaptation.”

Personally, I would have preferred a monolith.

The first question is: why are students taking out such big loans? Understand I don’t blame the students, but the institutions that need tuition.

Agreed.    Would love a contrast between 1942 and 1982 Cat People.