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There’s plenty of Youtube videos on it, no need for me to try and rehash what’s been done better by others.

Gene. I haven’t seen the other two, although I’ve heard negatives. Is there something that either of them (actors or movie) bring to the character?

Willy Wonka. Not too hard to see as a kid, but it was funny too so that masked some of it. Plus the latest theories that try to connect it to Snowpiercer. Granted the latter was likely designed around that idea and it doesn’t come from the first, but if you accept them as connected, that’s a dark world.

And of course Wizard of Oz. As a kid I saw it one way, read some of the Ozma books and they weren’t too weird. But then I read the real Oz books, and that’s dark.

Cue the Jurassic Park quote we all know, but for some reason is constantly ignored.

That bladder has muscles around it that tighten once the sphincter muscles at the base of your bladder relax to let urine through the urethra. So you can and do apply more pressure than just gravity. Just not nearly as much as OP’s idea needs.

That moment is when he was asked at a Covid press conference the softest of softball questions.

Peter Alexander, White House correspondent at NBC News, asked the US president: “What do you say to Americans, who are watching you right now, who are scared?” Erupting in anger, Trump unleashed a tirade: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter. That’s what I say. I think it’s a very nasty question and I think it’s a very bad signal that you’re putting out to the American people.”

He failed on the lesson of not letting a crisis go to waste. His only advantage is Americans, but particularly his base of supporters, don’t recognize these as failures or simply have a low retention for remembering anything.

I think they’re both smarter than me because of it. But it was easier to use the built-in curiosity of a kid (the imfamous repeated WHY) to drive them to learn things than to just feed them whatever answer was available, or not at all. That’s the worse thing a parent can do is shut down a kid’s craving for answers.

I would often turn it around and ask them first, what do you think might happen, and walk them through why they think that. Let them build their own hypothesis to be tested.

Senior: “Yeah, we can’t change that because it will break everything.”

Too weird of a show for mainstream audiences who thought Star Trek was pushing boundaries. It was great.

Good luck, red states. You wanted this.

Phones also have become far more complex than they need to be. At least with a phone if you get stuck in a menu or have some popup or app issues you aren’t moving a few hundred feet per second.

It’s a bit prettier. What’s missing (and I know this is meme territory so it’s not a big deal) is how the jet stream is not just weak and wandering, but literally breaking in places and that’s where warm air into the poles happens. And it’s not hard to understand warmer where there’s normally ice means less ice.

The graphic isn’t all that accurate. The text says a colder period is because of a warmer planet but then the cold area from a meandering jet stream looks larger. The missing part is the warmer air that leaks into the polar areas, causing a feedback loop by further deteriorating the balance of cold and warm that drives the jet stream.

Who knew it was all so complicated? /s

Aka “Fool’s Hope”

We’re not Tony Stark, sir.

Twice.

You know the old trope about how people in the South can’t drive in snow? We do donuts on the roads unintentionally once the snow falls and refreezes to ice. No lake needed. I guess if you only have snow on the roads you have to seek out places where the car will slide around.

Many cities at one time had trolley service which did local point to point connection. Then they were forced out because there was more profit in growing car dependency.