Yup. You want to speculate on SpaceX, then no one is stopping you. You may even make a shitload of money if you do it right (based on recent valuations I’m not so sure, though), but maximizing short term capital gains based on vibes is absolutely not what the S&P 500 is used for.
If SpaceX is actually consistently profitable, they’ll be in the index in one year. Is what it is.
This corporate product placement is getting out of hand!
Sounds like this was a pretty fucked up situation, but one wonders why the white cops (can’t say for sure, but the police wrists on the bodycam look very pale) would really have no trouble believing that a white kid out late at night had been tormenting a brown one.
I bet it has way less to do with being “woke” than it does with their actual experience on the job. They also called the ambulance right away, but they did fuck up quite badly by not believing him when he said he’d been stabbed.
To be clear, the Sikh kid needs to go to prison, the police need to be investigated and those officers disciplined, and I grieve for the victim and his family, but people who think that an 81%-majority ethnicity is enduring some epidemic of oppression, because previous white shitheads lulled some lazy cops into complacency, they have some other agenda. I wonder what JD Vance’s is?
Exactly. Missing the forest for the trees is kind of Calvin’s stock in trade, and the adult perspective makes it a lightly but pleasantly layered punchline.
Kills every edged consumable like it was hickory grown in a sand dune, but god forbid you get one drop of sweat on it before you paint…
LOL, okay I read your article too now. I assume there’s some sort of interior wall-ish structure that would probably be fine to cut through, as long as you know exactly what you’re doing and don’t make any mistakes or encounter any surprises whatsover.
So… fine then? What is all the fuss, comrade? Is just like making CO2 scrubber adapter.
The headline was misleading to begin with, since it was done as a precaution while Roscosmos busted out the good duct tape instead of their usual fix of chewing gum.
I think that was Babylon 5 and J Michael Straczynski. You’re thinking of the repeated times when, in the middle of the hardest hitting writing in SciFi, there’s a ham-fisted, horribly conceived episode about a second-rate lounge singer coming out of a Ferengi holodeck or whatever.
New generation just never grabbed people the same way, but at least nobody’s fuckin’ their dead son’s best friend or doing missions in the throes of a serious hard drugs addiction. I’m still interested in how it all plays out, and only one season left, which feels about right.
I will note that it seems like understanding Star City, probably every season they eventually make, will be key to extracting full value out of the plot to FAMK S5. They may be going full Marvel with a cinematic universe.
I suppose to hear them say it, they’d say this is how they’re holding the line on the core use. Shrinkflation instead of inflation, so… Yay?
Lest you think this is a bit out of character…
Doesn’t actually change the message much, once you allow for who Calvin is, which is of course part of the enduring brilliance of the strip.
He is promising… “a Rally to end all Rallies!”
Can we hold him to that?
It’s almost like the tech companies are preying on places that have cheap land and residents with less political influence…
Jesus, at least the meat packing plants and shingle factories employed people they were poisoning.
It reminds me of 30 Rock in that sense, where you can imagine some of these people will become respected names, but some will never deliver a performance as good again for their entire careers.
Also a solid defensive catcher on the baseball team.
That’s all correct, and the new movie also has the Colosseum flooded deeply enough that there are large sharks eating combatants in the naumachia. Then there’s the infamous cafe and newspaper scene, and of course, the one gladiator riding a rhinoceros with full tack as a war horse.
All of which could be somewhat forgiven if it was a decent movie, but it’s also predictable and overly derivative of the first one, utterly anticlimactic, and Paul Mescal joins Sam Worthington in being a “star” who has all the action-movie charisma of a floppy skin tag. I’ll withhold overall judgment until I see Hamnet.
And yet, somehow it’s a more sophisticated ahistorical argument than whatever the fuck they were getting at in the sequel.
What about the papers where he expounded upon how he wanted to return to a fully-functioning Republic, but not for the benefit of the senatorial class? Release the Maximus files!!!
I finally started watching Resident Alien, and I’m about halfway through S3. I am a sucker for both sci-fi and Northern Exposure-ish shows where a fish out of water is dropped into a quirky and isolated community, so I don’t really know how I waited so long, but it does mean I don’t have to worry about it getting canceled on a cliffhanger.
As an aside, I watched S1 on a TV with “soap opera vision” motion interpolation turned on, and JFC I forgot how cheap and awful it makes everything look.
As I understand it, they do have one more season…
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which a lot of people think will end with the first interstellar ship, or even first contact. It did feel like they wanted to cram in more than their episode allotment would allow this season, and a lot seemed undercooked. Like, they barely touched on Dev’s role in the automation plans, just assuming we’d infer that the crazy Mars-first guy who’s basically embezzling from his publicly traded company to build more infrastrucure for colonization actually needed to learn that “the right people were already on Mars.” In retrospect, I do kind of appreciate that the farm dome attack was a disaster because he couldn’t imagine life happening in Happy Valley. Not a bad idea, just didn’t have the breathing space it needed to land.
Then, as you say, Jarrett/Stevens was assumed to be interesting because of her family, not because she had anything really compelling to learn or do, and her arc with learning to hate Marsies and then overcoming it was almost laughably compressed. I did think the Baldwin family’s stuff was okay, and I like Alex more than most people do. Also, thank God they didn’t drag Ed and his age makeup through the entire season.
So, I generally agree with you. They’re sprinting through their plot outline to get to their end-game, and the “one season per decade” framing device is creaking under the weight of what they want to do.