It’s likely not up from 7%, they just happened to poll the right people. Hell I think most of these polls at this point are made up just to try and make a horse race.

God help Denis Villeneuve as he gears up to somehow develop a good screenplay out of Dune: Messiah which was easily, by far, the weakest of the original Dune books.

Pretty good news! If next week drop-off is acceptable, then the film can probably do at least $500-600 million in total in the box office against its $190 million budget, and I bet it actually ends up at $600-700 million. Not some monster hit, but a very solid hit that Legendary and WB will be quite happy to have (and…

WB is desperate for a franchise so unless this movie completely craters next week I think Messiah is in the bag. Great reviews,  strong opening weekend. It’s really all WB could ask for right now

Would watch Muppet Dune.

Speaking of Mad Men actors, John Slattery also would work.

I think Jon Hamm lacks the subtlety to pull of Drebin, but now that you mention it, in 15 years he may very well resemble Leslie Nielsen.

It was great.

Can’t help but feel that while Neeson does have dry comedic chops to pull it off, someone like Jon Hamm would’ve knocked it out of the park.

I adored Angie Tribeca, it was glorious. Damn I miss that show.

Real headline

“FBI promises that it's only scooping up data from absolutely everyone for noble reasons, and that it would never violate your rights."

I’m not really sure what’s going on with this but one thing I can lament is that former employees of the Trump administration are still getting jobs and being treated like serious people.

Not sure about the fascination with the word “deprecate”. This is really common jargon in the Tech world.  Ask anyone at Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc... and they would have heard the word thousands of times.  It simply means wind-down or get rid of in the tech world.

Why are you stuck on the use of the word, “deprecate”? The word is being used in its proper context. As a developer, we use the term deprecate all the time. Either for a feature being removed from an application or code within a framework being phased out and replaced with a new method.

It is more odd that the article…

“Crime” has nothing to do with what’s ethical and everything to do with what’s illegal--which is exactly the point people need to remember. Abortion IS now a crime for many people in the U.S., and that should be front of mind for everyone.

My intuition is that ultra processed foods tend to be higher in calories and saturated fat, rather than anything the processing itself does. There are far too many variables.

“Smokescreen” would imply that they’re trying to hide it, and they are not.

So, hmm. If I extract the seeds from from a food grass, mechanically crush these using machinery, combine this with a non toxic inorganic crystal and animal protein derived from an animal source, then further mechanically process this material by aerating and molding... is this a highly processed food or is this just…

Anyone else think this “Save The Children” Q-nut movement is really just a smokescreen for Christo-Fascist authoritarians?