Beat me to it. That’s what it made me think of.

Whoa, some high-up executive is definitely going to be punished for this! (assistant whispers in ear...) I mean... a lot of low-level workers are going to be fired for this!

The thing about Alito’s decision that struck me (a non-lawyer) the most, was that he ignored the Founders. Ben Franklin, after all, published recipes for abortifacients; this indicates that abortion was a normal part of life that people should know how to do as safely as possible, according to that Founder. Alito had…

How can you write about OSIRIS-REx and not explain the hilariously tortured acronym? It stands for Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer.

Speculating here: Not too costly to do, too costly to give shareholders returns better than they can get elsewhere. I wish these could be run as co-ops.

You’re right. What this is (I speculate) is a desperate stab at making some money of her own. Since she doesn’t want to leave the house and she doesn’t know how to do anything, someone suggested this to her and she grabbed it.

It is pretty amazingly brazen.

In the olden days writers used to get royalties. Writers of books still do. That’s fair, isn’t it? That was taken away. Residuals are the new way of rewarding writers and actors for projects that do better than other projects. Basically, you get $X for your work on the day, and an additional $X spread out over time,…

Very few actors or writers are rich, for any reasonable definition of rich. Besides, union membership isn’t something one “deserves”, certainly not something someone outside the craft decides they “deserve.” It’s something the participants decide to do for their collective benefit. That goes back to the medieval craft…

I love enthusiasm, but your choices, “Can Wonka be a hit? Or is it destined to be a campy cult classic?” ignores a very possible third option. Admittedly that third options is a downer and I don’t want to rain on anyone’s fun. I’ll let you put it into your own words. I actually enjoyed Return to Oz, but it can’t be…

Thank you for that.

Elon Musk never claimed his Twitter was going to be as controlling of speech as the old Twitter, but just in a different direction. He claims to be a free-speech absolutist, which one might think means he would allow speech he (and his friends) find obnoxious or annoying. So your comment is off-topic.

If by “Nazis” you mean the German Nazi party in the WWII era, they weren’t anti-Catholic. They were against Catholic hierarchy who were opposed to them. They were perfectly fine with priests and bishops and church leadership who were pro-Nazi. The point was submission to the state, not atheism or Odinism or paganism…

I would love to see Squirrel Girl, but not that Squirrel Girl. Hard to judge an actor by a commercial (or even several), but I will anyway: not that funny.

Michael Shermer (of Skeptic magazine) has a nice podcast on this topic.

My understanding is once the strike hits 90 days, studios can cancel contracts without penalties due to “force majeure.” Once they’re out of all the contracts they don’t like anymore, they’ll start to count the dollars.

Won’t someone think of the shareholders!

Hello, I’m a development executive at Disney and I’d like to discuss this intriguing idea.

I seem to remember A Canticle for Liebowitz (could be wrong... maybe I’m thinking about Behold the Man?). Time traveler goes back to year 6 or so, finds Jesus, but he’s developmentally disabled. The time traveler ends up doing the things that are written as Jesus’ deeds. Very moving story.

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