The movie The Shallows itself is not that good, but the cinematography of the surfing scenes is really lovely.
Even the scene where Nancy gets knocked off her board and attacked by the shark is beautiful in its own grim way.
I do recommend the movie because the photography is great and Blake Lively gives a very good performance.
Why is it “BELIEVE SCIENCE!!!!!” to assert that one should be as strict and as zealous as possible about fighting Covid, no matter what sense it makes, but it is not “BELIEVE SCIENCE!!!!!” to acknowledge that people need human interaction and connection to prosper and flourish?
Sure seems like something other than science might be going on there.
Was just talking about this yesterday. Nowadays it's so easy to locate people online that dropping by their house with no warning feels unnecessary and creepy. But back when you didn't know where anyone was, it often felt friendly and spontaneous! https://t.co/oBKQbhiaub
— Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 (@Noahpinion) January 27, 2022
Yep. It was totally not unusual for friends to drop by unannounced and spontaneously in the 1980s and even into the 1990s. Happened all the time and was very welcomed by most. And it wasn’t just young people — everyone did this and it was nearly ubiquitous. “Hey, let’s go see what [insert name here] is up to” was a very common phrase and occurrence back then.
It only started becoming considered creepy in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Much was worse then, but much was also better. It’s a world that most people — even many who lived through it — cannot imagine now. And it wasn’t even that long ago.
Why do dating apps bring out the worst in men?
The worst in men? LOL. Like women are any better. Often worse, but in (sometimes) different ways. Nancy is just pissed that some of the vast power imbalance in dating where women hold the high ground got leveled out a little, at least for the top 10-20% of men.
Of course she has a book to sell, so she must exaggerate and distort as much as possible too. Anyone writing a book must make the problem sound 100x worse than it is. And I do think a lot of women like Nancy would love to go back to patriarchy. “Unfettered access to women?” What the fuck does that mean? Maybe these women should be escorted by a male relative everywhere?
This is a real good example that when a power imbalance is equalized, the group that no longer has nearly all the power (in the case of dating, women) feels like they are being oppressed. It’s funny if you aren’t in the dating world because she’s so put upon yet so, so wrong.
She’s amazing on banjo. So fluid.
The Obama administration's most consequential decision was to address the Great Financial Crisis by bailing out the finance sector, rather than borrowers. 1/ pic.twitter.com/1PQGZZtoUT
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) January 27, 2022
That’s what made Trump inevitable, right there. And worse. Obama fucked the whole country over more than any other president, including Trump. Trump is a petty criminal; Obama is the real deal.
Someone replied to my tweets about the anti-vaxxer being denied a heart, angrily saying "oh yeah, this won't be used as a precedent to deny people care for being fat or disabled." they do not seem to understand that is literally already the STATUS QUO in the donation game.
— anna phylaxis (@quatoria) January 26, 2022
Obese people have about a 50% lower one-year survival rate after organ transplant, and very obese people (when it’s even allowed), have about a 70% lower survival rate.
And that’s not because of discrimination. It’s because being obese makes you very fragile.
It’s very odd to me that those who believe you should only produce and consume media about those exactly like yourself don’t realize how profoundly, deeply conservative that sentiment is. And terrible, too, of course.
How can they not see that? I guess every ideology when taken to the extremes wraps around to the other side. That’s just another example.
And that’s exactly fucking why I do not live in NYC.
My doctor friend says last night:
“There has to be a goal attached to public health interventions. It can’t just be austerity for austerity’s sake.”
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) January 27, 2022
A lot of the libs do in fact have a goal: take things away from people, especially if they are items or experiences that provide joy or promote any sort of human flourishing.
But I agree. We never decided what we were attempting to achieve with pandemic mitigations so, shockingly, we never determined when we were done (and never did much that made sense).
I knew Taylor Momsen was talented as I’ve liked The Pretty Reckless for many years, but this vocal performance, good god:
Damn, her lower register is just insane.
It’s simple: throw the style book out. If you hear a pause in your head, the comma goes in (see what I did there?). If you don’t you don’t. https://t.co/J4yM9rIAjs
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 13, 2021
Exactly. When I was still a photojournalist, someone attempted to do this to me. I wrote “NOPE” in red on the their edits and submitted the story as it was.
📈RESURGENCE—Worrisome that #Omicron is somehow surging ⬆️ upwards again across Southern England 🏴. London’s case drop has also stalled —now flat. Likely due to dropping #COVID19 mitigations & throwing caution to the wind by @BorisJohnson & @sajidjavid.
Figure by @DrWilliamKu. pic.twitter.com/Nv9TTyjeOC
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 24, 2022
This cracksmoker is annoying. Much more likely to do with weather, especially after the initial surge — people are spending more time inside because the weather got crappier and cases went up again, because Covid mostly spreads within households, indoors:
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Omicron isolation makes me long for the simple joy of hanging out with a friend.
Amazing that expressing sentiments like this became controversial. What the fucking fuck.