Tim Burton only made one good film, and that was Beetlejuice. And that one was only good because of its excellent cast and their complete commitment to their parts. Also, the makeup was just great in that movie.
Day: May 1, 2020, 11:24 PM
Deservingness
If we spent all the money we spend keeping money out of people's hands on just giving people money, that would probably cover at least most of the folks who need but are denied benefits, without increasing the budget at all. It's just cruelty; there's no real budget motivation.
— Christopher Blackstone (@SpinsForbidden) April 30, 2020
This is almost always true. Just like going to Medicare For All would save several trillion a year, at minimum, and provide better health care to nearly everyone. But we are so, so terrified of someone getting something they don’t “deserve” that we’d rather spend trillions preventing that and make all of society far worse in the bargain.
Selene
One of the best videos on YouTube, lays out why moon landing was real, because faking it was actually impossible. We couldn’t make cameras lie yet. It was easier to go to the Moon.
Original creator deleted due to harassment.
(thx @RyanMRuark found again)https://t.co/ePYBAxUTxi— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) May 1, 2020
Agreed. I haven’t yet watched the video, but the Apollo program’s total cost was about $25.4 billion, or around $152 billion in today’s dollars.
As a back-of-the-envelope calculation, even assuming you could do all the tech and other development necessary to fake the moon landing in the same timeline (you could not), faking it credibly would’ve cost something like $5 trillion — which was an entire year of GDP for the US in 1963, inflation-adjusted.
So yes, the moon landing was real because it was far easier and far, far cheaper to just go there than it would’ve been to stage it at that time.
Fiver High
HONEST ANSWERS ONLY: What were your five most-listened-to bands or artists in high school? (And don't try to be cool and say some hardcore band from Manitoba that three people have heard of).
— Tweets: Ohia (@koolwhp) April 28, 2020
My five:
Mazzy Star
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
Tori Amos
Belly
Reade-ing
The status gap btwn Blasey Ford & Reade is not irrelevant to the gap in their treatment .
Prof. Ford has the soft-spoken composure of professionals used to being heard.
Reade ("Survivor, Domestic Violence Advocate, Animal Rights, Actress, Writer. Poet") appears…
— Alice (@AliceFromQueens) April 29, 2020
I think this is a large part of it. “Educated” liberals read Reade as a nobody, while Christine Blasey Ford hits all the right targets for them as someone who should be respected: well-dressed, very articulate, poised, highly educated. She’s one of them.
Reade on the the other hand is kind of messy, loud, louche, and lower-class, which they all hate. To them, Reade is a deplorable and thus automatically to be discounted.
Prop Me
Moderns can't believe that 'overfat' for men starts at 14%. We are so far removed from the wild that abnormality is normal
This is chronically 'overfat' -in wild it was possible to be fatter bt not chronically. Now pple r permanently fat.
'Fat acceptance' is disease acceptance https://t.co/yaHZtWQI7m
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) April 30, 2020
“Disease acceptance.” Dead accurate, implication intended.
But…but…but, there is absolutely nothing we can do about obesity! It’s destiny! It’s fate! No fate. Do the work, ignore propaganda, quit whining and get fucking busy.