Yes — “Nature” versus Nurture. Was she built that way, or did she learn it?

Well, it makes total sense in the feminist interpretation — Caleb was probably not seeking to free her, he was seeking to take over ownership of her.

I read somewhere that the original intention in the movie was to show the helicopter pilot speaking to Ava at the end, but to show her brain processing the information as a jumble of seemingly-senseless frequencies, proving that no, she’s not even slightly human.

I liked the fact that the tech-bro Oscar Isaacs was playing basically did the same thing to him first, though, i.e. the doors stop opening when the power goes out, and hmm, isn’t that a fire hazard or something...?

Domhnall Gleeson.

I don’t know about boiled milk, but when I was in India, the tour guide advised us to eat yoghurt and rice for diarrhea. (The whole tour group got a bad meal. It was a dodgy few days.)

I don’t think her face moves very far from the expression pictured above, but yes — if you told someone who didn’t know her that she was 27 years old, they’d believe you.

Note, however: Things washed inside a laundry bag don’t get as clean — not unless it’s a mesh bag, not just permeable fabric.

Butter on deep-fried potato chips is a bridge too far, and I say that as someone who snacks on slivers of butter off the block in the fridge.

Okay...

Okay, a big chunk of that $300,000 in taxpayer money that Greenberg spent was for the bitcoin mining rig he set his office on fire with, right? It wasn’t all hookers and E?

When I was a kid, I was in the room while my mom was getting a shot, and when the needle went in, I went so white in the face the doctor lunged for me because he figured I was going down.

This is a bit like when I learned you can crunch up and eat pomegranate seeds.

I generally am irritated by people who show up in the comments to call the whole article/slideshow useless, but my gosh, there was not even a single item in that slideshow that I thought was even marginally useful. The ziplock hack wasn’t terrible, but why not just break the pin in the middle?

Somebody or something is definitely bricked up in there.

Quite an interesting Twitter thread (starting on the link below; you’ll need to click through to read it all) about the financial mechanics of why she’s re-recording and releasing her old catalogue.

The equivalent of “push your boobs to the sky” would be “twist your shoulders toward the camera and your hips sideways to the camera to make your upper torso look more triangular.”

To me, cilantro doesn’t taste bad, but it doesn’t taste good either. Is this receptor gene an all-or-nothing thing?

If the cheating happened years ago, and LW1 continues to need to work on the issues it caused, but strangely doesn’t describe any of the years’ worth of issues, except the most recent two instances, and only in slightly-vague terms that make them seem very minor—then I think this might be a selectively curated list of…

+1. Some friends, when they got enthused enough to make calamari, would do it outside so they didn’t have to live in a fish-and-oil-smelling house for a week.