3 deaths:

You don’t believe it is possible to like something in a piece of fiction even if you would not want it to happen it in real life?

I just feel shattered after watching that.

Think of this moment the next time you decide NOT to vote for someone you perceive to be a corporate Democract “because there’s no difference between them anyway”.

There’s actually no hard evidence out there for how much the episodes cost. Nobody with actually knowledge appears to have ever dropped a number. $5M seems above the more like $3-3.5M per episode, but who knows? Certainly not fans ...

Not so true in Europe.

GDPR was carefully written to avoid “citizen of the the EU” issues. It applies to all persons physically present within the EU boundaries. It might be stupid in places, but it isn’t vague in this respect.

The guardian had one the most awesome restaurant reviews of a place in paris, where the color scheme is described thusly:

Just a note to point out that most of the natural world doesn’t have targets. It doesn’t have teleological progressions either. Things may change, over various timespans, but they do so without targets, merely in response to circumstance (weather and climate as much as anything).

When a person such as Isabella Rossellini says something what do they mean by it?

Survivors, BBC 1975 or thereabouts. Feels slow compared to any modern TV show, but was deep too. Quite a bit of it on YT.

That’s some good writing right there.

2 points.

Yep. My home town. Good description of that period.

Was at the gym last night and some dude in the locker room was playing Sade on his bluetooth speaker (“Is it a crime?”). I don’t normally like to think of music being uniquely rooted in a place, but somehow standing there in a Philadelphia L.A. Fitness in 2018 it occured to me that Sade’s music (certainly the early…

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We should forward this to the Texas lawmakers. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to be caught doing anything the same way the France does.

All of which speaks to the importance of ensuring that adolescents get exposure to a wide variety of music. I’m just as wedded to the music of my adolescence as anyone else, but it is an equal parts mix of minimalism and early electro-funk, berlin-school electronic music and dub, the osmonds and bauhaus, ligeti…

Thanks very much. I do remember that scene now, and I stand corrected and better-informed. For some reason, the mind-control aspects of what is described lodged themselves in my head more than the rape part. Thanks again.

I have a question. Pardon me if I am just totally deaf, dumb and/or blind.