Yep, I’ve been hearing stories about him from years ago—no sense of empathy or compassion—just needs to control and manipulate. He’d sleep with guys and then find things out about them to make sure they didn’t talk. So, his flipping out about being casually outed and then going to obscene ends to destroy the…

No, I know a fair amount about our Silicon Valley overlords and Thiel’s one of the bad ones. I suspect one of the reasons he sponsors other people’s lawsuits is that he has a lot of stuff he wants kept hidden—last thing he wants is to be deposed. You don’t hear more about it because people are scared of him. Think…

Damn shame about all of this—Peter Thiel’s kind of a horrible person—oh, yeah, that’s an opinion, not libel.

Well,you’ve been trying to have it both ways—if the character means nothing to the Black community, who cares what blankety-blank Kardashian is wearing if it’s not offensive for other reasons.

If the Black community does claim ownership/stewardship of the character then I think questions of authorship and ownership…

Well, if the character of Storm doesn’t matter to the Black community what, then, is this fuss about? That some Kardashian wore a costume that links her to an imaginary character who’s portrayed as having melanin levels in her skin that place her nearer to the equator than Armenia?

I appreciate your being willing to wade into this. The concerns about cultural appropriation strike me as having gotten out of control—there’s also a slippery slope issue—if you make a big deal about “appropriation” in one direction, you give fuel to people who don’t want “white culture” “appropriated”—aka bigots. I…

This is going to be news to my Armenian sister-in-law that she’s no longer white. Particularly as she’s lighter than I am—and my ancestors are from northern Europe (Yes, some of us have dark eyes and hair.)

Overall, this thread is just reminding me how stupid and artificial racial categories are.

Yeah, that was my thought—it’s a Halloween costume and she didn’t anything blatantly offensive that I could see.

That’s your real problem—it’s not that you’re poor, it’s that you don’t know how to cook or probably much about food prep. Mark Bittman’s book for beginning cooks is a good one—it has pictures of things like what boiling water actually looks like. Oh, it’s *How to Cook Everything: the Basics*.

Here’s the thing—grilled…

Lots of food is cheaper than $2 per meal. Beans and rice, quesadillas, eggs, ramen, pasta, toasted cheese sandwiches, yogurt with fresh fruit, homemade granola.

Have you read the New Yorker profile of its founder. Yeah, he would like to replace food with this.

Oh, the casting is terrific in the original film, but it’s not a great film. A fresh eye could have done something with it and a live element. What you can’t do is try to make it more tasteful and less raunchy.

Sigh. Don’t they interact with any older people? Or,heaven forefend, look up basic facts before posting?

No, no, he’s NPD—Narcississtic Personality Disorder—pretty much textbook. He’ll be the example in the textbook or at least the lecture in the future, hell, probably already is.

Which is why I said in another post that I don’t think that historical accuracy matters that much. However, but I was talking about historical accuracy in the above post.

Burton’s being historically accurate and true to the book with his cast. England’s not the United States, which has always been multiethnic thanks…

In 1940s Britain—yeah, pretty much. The world wasn’t always like it is today.

Well, the best number I’ve seen in the threads so far is 1 in 2,500 in 1950—at which point there would have been the beginnings of the post WWII emigration from India as a result of the 1947 independence and partition.

So, yeah maybe 1 in 10,000 concentrated in a few areas. Look WWII Britain wasn’t seeing a lot of…

I took her as mixed--part Native American, part white--grey eyed, black haired. The movies were partially white-washed.

Uh, you do know the film mostly takes place in 1940s England, right?

Actually, there weren’t. Not none, but not many. The immigration from former colonies (India and parts of Africa) didn’t really occur ‘til after World War II.

Even now, it’s a pretty white country.