These blunders aren’t uncommon as American celebrities attempt to wade through geopolitical disputes they have no business in.

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And there was a ‘professional’ whose responsibility was specifically to make sure the gun wouldn’t hurt anyone.

It never made sense as a defense to me (other than him truly in his heart of hearts believing it), because he had absolutely no reason to believe the gun was loaded. He was on a film set, in front of a camera.

You’re right. I’ve seen it happen in front of me and no one has ever “pulled the trigger” and the weapon is always “defective.”

Exactly. I’d already assumed it was the case that he pulled the trigger, either accidentally without realizing or as part of the rehearsal process. The prosecution on this case is a shitshow.

So a prosecutor can get press and run for State Senate

Why exactly would he get charged regardless of if he pulled the trigger or not?

It’s almost as if Joe Rogan were a vacuous douchebag with no real expertise or strong opinion on any topic; a “go with the flow” kind of bro who routinely spouts a bunch of nonsense that millions of fellow vacuous bros find “entertaining.”

I thought it was refreshing that they figured it out so fast. It makes sense that the average citizen isn’t going to figure out that Superman is Clark Kent (because none of them have even heard of Clark Kent) but Clark’s two best friends? Who are around him all the time, and who are both investigative reporters? And…

The comments are awful because they’re all agreeing Devine’s conclusion but gently disagreeing with his reasoning? What “pet hate” are you getting at here?

Exactly this. I was getting some major neurodiversity vibes from this whole thing. (For context, I have ADHD and strongly suspect I may be autistic, but I haven’t been officially diagnosed with that.) The thought process of “I want to write a memoir” (arguably the most personal form of writing) leading to “I must…

Pure speculation, but everything about his approach makes me think he might be on the autism spectrum (I say that as someone on there myself, so maybe game recognizes game). The analytical approach to word count and choice, structure, looking at successful authors and passages to emulate (in a “good artists borrow,…

Like, he wanted to write a memoir, so of course the first step is to compile a database of 25,000 books to count all the words and analyze their vocabulary. How could you possibly begin writing a book otherwise?

I hadn’t heard about this, and when I got to the part early on about it being a “linguistic analysis of literature”, I thought oh, there have been linguists analyzing literature that way for decades. There was a guy at Mizzou years ago, for example, named Gilbert Youmans who was counting the number of *unique* words…

“every news article is just based around a list of words that people like to click on.”

Yeah, it feels like we’re just gonna have to wait through a couple years of neo-luddite panic about any prospect of computerized analysis of “creative” media.

Benji, my man, you’re supposed to use a burner account when you do stuff like this.

“seems to have raised a lot more red flags than it lowered”

every news article is just based around a list of words that people like to click on.