…and colluding! Colluding, colluding, colluding to the future!

I've been binge-rewatching Westworld, with my BF who's never seen it. (Thanks HBO preview week!)

I've always tended to be spoiler-insensitive. To the point I have to be rather mindful of it around other people, these comment threads included.

Halfway upvote.

I had to reread it to make sure there wasn't any actual citrus juice going into the cure, which is where I'd have really any concern about it being toxic - especially for a three day cure.

I had a blast making this some years back for a Pride brunch preparty.

Several of the post-Season 3 wrapup interviews with Raphael (the one at Vox from Caroline Framke most notably) touched on these being themes the show had entertained advancing at the end of Season 2's "Escape from LA".

For my money, the last thing this show needs is to be co-opted by alt-right littledicks.

Math checks out.

Oh, I went Ctrl-F'ing for it and missed the whole deal.

Is anyone else having flashbacks to Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash?

Microbial load of the upper GI is generally quite low. There's a low likelihood of what's up there having any pathogenic or virulent capacity, in comparison to the high-load anaerobes that populate the lower GI.

I wholly condone the Thor sub-franchise leaning into its role as the softcore beefcake parade the nine realms need and deserve right now.

An interesting point. What I'd wager is that the 9 and twenty-four year old bear similarity only in that the "adult" response and perception of events will definitely not impact the 9 year old, and may not impact the 24 year old.

Demographically, we're actually in a population trough. the lowest point corresponds to roughly 1976-1978.

I've been using the word "cusp" to describe our corner of the cohorts for years now.

And this might even be a specific argument as to why understanding the psychosocial context of these generational identities can matter.

Wiki credits the OED with "Baby Boom" being attributed to a Washington Post article in 1970. It seems clear the census and academic demographers were already aware of the generational cohort resulting from the end of World War II, and specifically, that the population boom had already been in decline for awhile.

I find the common mistake is that this isn't a box that you clearly, obviously have to fit in.

No, anyone born after 1976 claiming to be Generation X always seemed suspect to me. They kept pushing back the Gen X cut-off date, but there is definitely a difference between the late-70s people and those born before.