gravity well
The only caveat here is that anything in orbit is nowhere near escaping the gravity well. The earth is pulling on the International Space Station at about 90% of the force as at sea level. It’s just that everything is going so fast it misses the ground.
In the article, that comment is directed at Boots Riley, though to be fair I think he could only be accused of Trojan Horse level obfuscation by people who think anything with social commentary subtler than Hacks is a Trojan Horse.
I like Hacks a lot too (even if the final season was a bit of a low-stakes victory lap, it still made me laugh), but “boomer actually has to explore social justice with an open mind” is at least half the point of the show.
It is a slippery thing, this two weeks — not a measurement of time so much as a placeholder. Two weeks for Mr. Trump can mean something, or nothing at all. It is both a yes and a no. It is delaying while at the same time scheduling. It is not an objective unit of time, it is a subjective unit of time. It is completely divorced from any sense of chronology. It simply means later. But later can also mean never. Sometimes.
To be honest I think I’d prefer to see them cast a regular-sized Ackman, like Alyson or Margaret.
Oh, yes, I did start playing with a screen reader; why do you ask?
As I understand it, they do have one more season…
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.
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?
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 saw The Mandalorian and Grogu a week after opening. It was… fine. Filoni loves wolves and bringing characters in from his animation. Favreau likes to smash the action figures together. We got pretty much all of that, and I smiled more than I cringed, though to be clear I did both. Also, as much as I disagree with his “spectacle movies are without artistic merit” take, there was something kinda sad about hearing Scorsese voice a CGI alien in a franchise that – although it lodged itself in my soul at the exact right moment to stay there forever – is obviously past its prime.
Apart from the potentially dramatic ecologicial concerns, I have it on good, if somewhat dated, authority that El Niño is Spanish for ‘the Niño.’
I haven’t quite decided if it’s intentional or clumsy writing, but there is a running theme of bounty hunter guy doing the bare minimum to get paid while giving Mando every chance to get out of things. He spends zero time looking for Grogu once he has Din. He somehow conveniently fails to notice that his hairless batdog has absconded with, but not killed, a sapient and technically-inclined being. He both delivers important exposition to swamp guy and calls off the batdog upon the merest suggestion of annoyance from said swamp guy. Then, of course, he and batdog GTFO as soon as there’s any opening to do so without the twins coming for him. He looks familiar from the Filoni-toons, so I would have to look him up to see if it’s all in keeping with whatever pre-existing characterization may be out there. Filoni is a known wolf-weeb, so it could be empathy from one parental figure to another, especially with the kinda weird dog-training verbiage they kept having Mando use with Grogu.
Even in the absence of right-to-die laws, from what I’ve seen with older relatives, once the healthcare providers know what’s what and divert you to hospice care, the drugs take care of the visible pain and, frankly, consciousness. These are generally practical, kind people who understand the odds and don’t want to see suffering.
In these difficult times, holocaust deniers of all nations and creeds need to make sure they stick together.
So I have finally started seeing some viable replacements, after a several weeks long partial outage due to changing infrastructure at GitHub, but for years now, the custom keyboard design community has relied on a single person’s site, https://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ , to design keyboard layouts, and to generate properly labeled json exports to set up the most popular firmware.
This is what I do, except the jelly is on both sides of a third and toasted piece of bread.
Just make sure your beard feels empowered to live their truth, and it’s all good. You do what you have to.
Or did you mean facial hair?
Anyway, I can’t grow a proper beard at all, and my plaid button-downs are generally cotton because I’ve always lived places where it’s hot AF most of the year, but I do very much like my Subaru. Had a '13 Outback for 9 years, and finally replaced it with a '22 Outback Wilderness, as possibly the dullest mid-life-crisis automobile purchase ever… it’s a little bit taller and looks a little cooler and has the turbo! I still have the ethereal butterflies center-console protector because I had to make a deal with my daughter to let me trade in the only car she’d ever seen daddy drive.
Modi has not held a traditional solo press conference since taking office in 2014, and has rarely answered questions from journalists on his trips abroad.
If not then, when?
Anyways, I saw TPM 9 times in the first 48 hours.
My friends thought I was nuts for seeing it six times during its first and dollar-theater runs. There was so much interesting stuff to unpack…
…except the plot or acting (barring Ian McDiarmid and Liam Neeson).
Which is the point of the phrase of course. It’s meant to simultaneously acknowledge and dismiss the “well ackshully” crowd. No, Switzerland is not fully surrounded, but also it doesn’t matter in any politically meaningful way.