Just watched Phantom Menace tonight with my 8 year old. It was his first time seeing it and he enjoyed it mostly. I hadn’t seen it in probably 15 years and...boy it’s bad. It made me feel less grumpy about Rise of Skywalker honestly. At least that had fun snappy dialog and not that weird stilted thing everyone has…

This is Filoni attempting to rewrite TPM to make any sense and have any actual consequence. Specifically in the corner of the universe he has created and is living in.

“They’re saying it can’t be taken seriously until it’s been peer reviewed”

This hitpiece is beyond ridiculous.

“Bring me another Duncan Idaho!”

No worries. I get that engineering at the edge means iteration and experimentation. Sometimes you learn things about the process rather than the product. NASA certainly did with Apollo 1. I’m not sure that Space X does. They run *really* close to the edge of aggressive empiricism, which worked pretty well for unmanned…

In engineering tests absolutely can be failed tests. Things can also fail tests, and this can easily be one of them unless the point of the test was to test to destruction and then conduct failure analysis.

Wearing a mask is pointless?

Your last few sentences imply there is a mystery here that requires further research. There isn’t.

That could be true and it would still also be true that the CDC, for good reason, is not recommending wide-spread use of face masks. Unless the CDC goes back in time and changes their recommendation the article will remain accurate.

In the context of a mask shortage it is critical that the supply is used in a targeted…

The CDC may not recommend it, but there is certainly anecdotal evidence from Asian areas where mask usage was widespread that there is lower transmission rates. Though it would take nearly 100% compliance as the benefit is not that the mask protects the wearer but that it keeps the infected people’s coughs and sneezes…

Seriously, I don’t see a line of people who say this stuff at the top of any tall buildings or on high bridges. Even if they use “us” in their language, they mean everyone else but me and mine.”

It’s okay to acknowledge the potentially existential crises we face and are not adequately preparing for, and also that the ‘Doomsday Clock’ is stupid.

you can. You need a delivery team tracking progress and expenditure across the project that then presents the the status of each team to studio leadership on a quarterly basis. Based on feedback and shortcomings you reallocate resources to meet the necessary deadline or to compensate for shortfalls in reaching goals…

I was ok with 8 coming out of the theater but disliked it more and more as I thought of it after. I don’t think a good movie could have followed the damage 8 did, there was just nothing interesting left to use. Rian was very irresponsible, only caring to satisfy his own little whims to make a film he wants.

Thank you! The real reason I hated The Last Jedi is that it ultimately didn’t take the overarching story in any real direction. For everyone’s talk of how much it changed things, the state of our main characters was largely unchanged by the end of the movie. Kylo Ren was bad, Rey had no teacher, Finn had a reason to…

But in this case, it’s also a dig at its predecessor, a repudiation of Johnson’s attempt to break free of the past and take the narrative in a new direction

The problem has never been an absence of information or ways to convey it. The problem is getting people, whose beliefs stand in firm defiance of that information, to accept reality staring them in the face. The problem is getting people who cannot see past their own selfish whims and desires to give a damn about…

“The United States has the worst history of treating people like shit”

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