Semisimian

I appreciate not being told when to laugh, but to laugh when I think something is funny. I’m 10 minutes into the show and I have only chuckled, but this is a genius ploy, well written and perfectly executed. All things considered, no notes.

As with all comedy, it exists within context. So far, this is solid.

Edit: now that they are huffing helium, I am genuinely laughing.

I already liked Mark, (I just did a guilty rewatch of 13 Going on 30) but now I’m a die-hard.

Ninjas are cool, but I wonder what actual threat the Hand is against Peter.

I am in construction (not manufacturing) and own my own business. Truth is, they are both right.

Rodney is right because there are a huge number of variables that the prof’s equation is ignoring. Also, it is generally a good idea to know what you are manufacturing and work to produce that product as efficiently as possible. The professor is sort of putting the cart before the horse by building a factory with no product.

That said, we are in a learning environment and seemingly in a lower-level class. You have to strip away real-world variables to teach the lessons at hand. The professor is right not to include corrupt politicians and mafia folk, it’s too much when you are trying to start with the basics. But he should’ve had the class decide on a product - he said it himself, it could be anything - and then build up from there.

Mafia payoffs are a 300 level course.

I call all of it “sugar water” so that my kids know the two main ingredients.

Fucking Amazon. They’re dominating the replacement parts and hardware market so much that even the big box stores are decreasing their inventory for stuff I need daily for my job. Whatever I need, Amazon can get it to me faster and cheaper than anybody else - I know why and I hate that is the case. I am forced to participate to stay solvent in my work, forced to participate in the “land of the free.”

Tri Repetae.

You don’t need AI to create soulless depictions of humanity, James Cameron already does that. I think he is just protecting his bread and butter from automation.

Snark aside, I grew up loving his movies. As a film student, I loved taking them apart in critique for his mastery of technical filmmaking. As a professor, I used the DVD extras from his films to show just how forward-thinking his knowledge was of VFX. But this Avatar garbage is just the result of a kid who finally leveled up enough to produce the comic book he wrote when he was 8. It’s awful.

https://animal-uprising.weebly.com/blog

There are 2 images of ‘the evolution of man’ on this page. The 2nd one seems close to what you’re asking for.

Hey man, let’s take some poorly written beat poetry and put it over mediocre guitar compositions. Then we can take a talented keyboardist but make him play the shittiest sounding electric organ. And we can make sure the recording makes it all sound like a cat and some tin cans in a dryer.

I know what you mean, but I’ve never seen a map like this and I am grateful for the perspective.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He can come back and do anything at any time. He had so much more to give and so much more to receive. God damn shame.

I’d love to see Gilda Radner come back for Weekend Update.

Annie Wersching should still be playing the Borg queen.

I don’t know if this link will work, but Moody’s just released a statement that almost half of US states are in a recession. Closer Look on GPB had a Moody’s economist on their podcast today:

Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/closer-look-with-rose-scott/moodys-analytics-says-georgia-nearing-a-recession

Media file: https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/5ec71174-b7c1-46da-88de-b18e00b479cf/f19721af-787e-47a2-8a86-b21601287a49/dccc9b95-fd96-45f9-9666-b3830116851a/audio.mp3?in_playlist=305c7afa-a1e0-4df6-8157-b21601287a62

“I do not see coincidence, I see providence!”

"14,000 roles primarily in management, alongside around 34,000 cuts within its operational workforce”

This should bode well going into the package shipping season. But hey, at least the stock price went up after the announcement.

It doesn’t look like they had a control group of people doing the strength training without any protein supplement. I would assume that group would also perform the same.

Hell arrived a while ago and it is summer on Lake Myvatn, or Midge Lake. You can’t breathe without inhaling insects, so you have to wear a mask just in case a cloud of those things happen your way.

Taste test.

Especially from a tech critic.

Agreed on the independence part. We are much more interdependent than we let on (in the US especially, but other places as well).