Y2K ended up not being a huge deal because

Right...I thought it didn’t have any real, serious consequences because it was pretty much fixed ahead of time? I know Initech was on top of things, at least.

The Y2k bug—a numerical oversight in global computer systems—didn’t end up having any real, serious consequences,

Upon first viewing, I thought it was definitely Pitt imagining a confrontation with Lee, which would result in him getting kicked off the set, which led to him ruefully saying, “that’s about right”, owning that he’d deserve to be fired. But that doesn’t wash with the actual movie:

There is literally no space within the film for this to have actually happened.

these articles should clarify that this takes place in a dream sequence and is meant to show Pitt’s egotistical character in a bad light

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say a thousand more times: the real MVP of the Pat’s dynasty is Gisele Bundchen. 

“Hi, I’d like to report a murder.

It took me a minute to realize those were two photos side by side, and not one photo showing one Thunder player doubled over in ball pain while a rampaging Green kicks another one in the balls right next to him.

The one thing I’d add is that it’s not just a matter of surrounding LBJ with championship talent. It’s surrounding LBJ with his preferred guys. That’s not always the same thing. Like, it’s great that he can be for getting the Klutch guys paid. But overpaying for Tristan and JR Smith, or treating KCP like an…

They’re already having more impact than Kyrie and KD.

That's only due to selection bias. History remembers when somebody says "that will never happen" and it happens - history doesn't remember the innumerably more common occurrances of somebody saying "that won't happen" and it doesn't happen.

I’m guessing the Navy blackballed Charlie after she blew the whistle on the Tailhook scandal in ’91.

I’d argue that Django Unchained is much less a revisionist take than his other historical movies. The catharsis of Django freeing his wife and killing everybody in the plantation house doesn’t negate the very real brutality of the earlier sections of that movie.

Wow this is a dumb article based on a dumb study.

The last word on Alan Moore’s attitude to adaptations of his work.

Reminds me of this...

Technically that exists. In Freestyle events you can swim any stroke you want, but front crawl, which everyone calls freestyle, is the fastest.