This is not a mistranslation. It’s perfect French.

That section means something like, “Significant delays are to be expected.”

En français:

en retard: (to be) late

retarder: to cause to be late

Etc.

Nothing there is mistranslated.

For the most part, liberals don’t listen — except to spreadsheets. If you actually listen to what people say and what they do, it makes perfect sense within their framework of comprehension. For instance, this.

The attitude comes when integration commissioners tell us, for example, that there isn’t a German culture outside of the German language.

As with American and other feminists supporting Islamic oppression of women (yeah, figure that out — I can’t), I am unable to think of a better way to get large numbers of people to vote for anything other than your antipode. Telling people that there is not a German culture — well, I cannot think of anything more destructive for everyone involved, and dangerous to the futures of the refugees along several axes.

Note: when you seem to give preferential treatment to large numbers of people who just show up out of the blue — no matter the reasons for it — and then ignore pre-existing complaints and grievances of native-born populations, you gonna get problems no matter the hue of the people who show up.

That’s not racism or xenophobia.

That’s human fucking nature.

Huh. How did I miss this? Here’s someone who actually understood Ex Machina.

That’s rare; most people seem to have a Kevin Drum-talking-about-the-economy level of comprehension of the film.

The only area of interpretation I’d disagree with is a bit of her read of Nathan. Yes, she is correct about how utterly detestable he is, and how vile, but she I think misses that Nathan is all of those things but also realizes them fully. He is self-aware about his foulness, and that makes it all the worse.

Anyway, the review is great. Not one in 20 reviewers actually understood the film, and no feminist reviewer did besides this latest one that I read. That particularly makes it the review par excellence.

No thought is ever given by Caleb to the fact that he is literally the only other flesh-and-blood human besides Nathan that she has ever met, or that her affection might simply be an aftereffect of the very trauma he wants to rescue her from. No account is made, in other words, for the power Caleb has over her.

In the spartan cast of this relatively minimalist film, then, Nathan and Caleb are two very different avatars of patriarchy. Nathan embodies the brutish, physically abusive side of hegemonic masculinity, while Caleb is the Nice Guy™ who affects kindness and gentility but who is ultimately no less entitled than his counterpart.

And this, so brilliant.

The oppressive nature of her situation dictated the terms of her escape; virtue was a luxury Ava could not afford if she wanted to live.

I am confused why so many feminists watched this film and somehow, disturbingly, got from it the exact opposite message it was attempting to convey. Is it that most films are made for simpletons, and this one was not? Or what?

The reviewer does bring up something I thought about, though I don’t agree: she contends that the movie would’ve been better if told from Ava’s perspective. I don’t agree, as mentioned, though normally I would. If told from Ava’s perspective and not Caleb’s, there would be no chance to pull the genius switcheroo where most people think they should be feeling empathy for poor, beleaguered lovelorn Caleb, when in reality it’s Ava who deserved all along the full measure of compassion and identification.

However, what would’ve been great would’ve been two films. One told from Caleb’s perspective — the one that already exists — and another from Ava’s. That would’ve been just amazing, if the budget had been there.

Great review, though. One of the few where the reviewer fully understood the film and what it was attempting to convey.

I’m having a bit of trouble re-adjusting after having been in Europe for a little while.

The food in the US is so bad. So very bad. The best bakery in the US is about as good as the bottom-tier bakeries in much of Europe.

Food you can get in gas stations there is often better than “high-end” restaurants here.

I know this makes me a rank misogynist, but a lot of above-average attractive women get very angry when the tool they are used to using (their beauty) to achieve some goal completely fails to work on you, even though it’s fairly clear that you are straight.

To be fair, I kind of understand, but being that used on most men it’s such a powerful tool, it’s really shocking to them when you are unswayed by it. Most get angry. Some are just confused. Some persist in a weird kind of confused desperation.

Sure, fairness of face might’ve worked on me when I was 15, but these days, I just don’t care. I actually trust the beautiful less than anyone else because not always but often beauty means you haven’t had to develop much of a personality.

To be fair, it also confuses men when I don’t even notice and don’t ogle attractive women that they for some reason want me to see. Fuck I just don’t care. Probably a horrible person even though her butt looks good in slacks. Doesn’t mean I want to know her.

So basically, I’m a misanthrope. Woo.

The Pixel’s missing headphone jack proves Apple was right.

Fuck that. I will never, ever, ever, ever buy a phone without a headphone jack. Without that, it is simply useless to me.

The problem with the whole fake news construction is that “fake news” is now defined to mean anything that does not toe the centrist line. This means anything to the left of Hillary Clinton and anything to the right of…Hillary Clinton is deemed “fake news” regardless of its veracity, the amount of evidence, or benefit to the world.

This era resembles the Gilded Age in so many ways — not just in the wealth inequality, but in the politics, the attitudes, the actions, the writings, the debates. It’s nearly a complete recapitulation, including in the suppression of unpopular views, particularly of those on the Left.

That is great makeup.

I listened to the audio of the shooting. Definitely a full auto weapon, probably small caliber (5.56mm). Hard to tell from poor cell phone audio, but most likely a modded AR-15 variant.

Why is any of that legal again?

Las Vegas Shooting: 50 Killed and 406 Hurt Near Mandalay Bay.

An armed society is a polite society, right? RIGHT?

Gun maker stocks are up in pre-market trading.