There is no US state with absolutely “no” social safety net, due to federal programs. If politicians want to restrict Social Security, they must do so at the federal level.

Non-Hispanic whites are 24% of the population in #1 Memphis Tennessee.

It is physically impossible to tell a joke in the AV Club comments section. When you attempt to click “Publish” your computer electrocutes you to death instead.

She doesn’t claim that the dispute was over the inclusion of a sex scene, but instead how it was to be done.

It sounds less cursed than Gilliam’s Don Quixote.

How did Cochrane “cherrypick”?

Shelley/Bride Of Frankenstein akin to Elsa Lanchester in the sequel The Bride Of Frankenstein

Hopefully not like Keith Moon semi-retired in a hole, to quote Spinal Tap’s DVD commentary.

Here’s someone arguing with them:

I wouldn’t say Jackie Brown was his best, but I think he got worse in reaction to the relatively poor reception that had. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is closer to what he was saying he aspired to back then.

Plagiarism isn’t that much of a death sentence in academia. Andrew Gelman writes about plagiarists who continue in high positions all the time.

The idea was to use masks when we didn’t have vaccines and though we didn’t know if they were effective it was worth a try when we didn’t have anything effective... but now we do have something effective, and we’ve seen that masks aren’t effective. Being ineffective at best is how medicine was for most of the…

The Cochrane Collaboration are generally considered the most reliable when it comes to systematic review of medical research, and that’s who just failed to find evidence that masks work on respiratory illnesses:

which is basically the same strategy that the previous presidential administration tried in 2020

And lo, the Gods of Irony decreed that John Crowley would drop out of directing the film, to be replaced by Nancy Myers.

Maybe it is... for furries.

None of the actors on The Last of Us are really skinny & malnourished enough for a post-apocalyptic setting years after the collapse of civilization. And an entire cast imitating Christian Bale in The Machinist isn’t going to happen.

Lindelof wrote “The Hunt”, which starred Gilpin.

Feces? Does the place not have a toilet? On the other hand, if he could access a bathroom he could presumably get water from there instead of the sprinkler.