The first ten on today’s playlist:

so at what point do we bring intermissions to films like we do for plays https://t.co/NMja4O4Xv0

— kenzie (looking for work era) (@pk_kenzie) October 29, 2022

Bring back intermissions for films, that is. They were common into the 1970s. The drive-in theater I went to in the very early 1980s had them. I saw The Black Hole there in 1980 sometime and it definitely had one. By the way, The Black Hole is the first film of any kind I recall seeing.

Intermissions are still common for films in many other countries, too. The difference is that in the US we’re willing to make the entire experience worse so someone can get slightly richer, thus killing the film intermission.

The reason I never dismissed the lab leak theory isn't because I think the CCP is trying to diabolically conquer the world with bioweapons and blah blah bullshit…it's because lab leaks happen all the friggin' time. https://t.co/s8lGY37qqS

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) October 30, 2022

Yep. Lab leaks are extremely common. Happen all the time.

That’s why in early 2020 when a lot of libs were saying crazy stuff like, “Lab leaks never, ever happen and that’s an absurd conspiracy theory that a lab leaks has ever, ever occurred” I was like “alrighty then.” Because lab leaks happen many times a year. And the reported ones are probably only a small fraction of those that actually occur.

I’ve never been as chagrined to be an American as when I went on a bank errand run with a British friend and the teller upon noticing her accent said, “Oh, you sound like you’re from Harry Potter!”

I wish Putin could travel back in time and nuke us at that very moment. Just unleash it all. We deserve it.

Even before the pandemic and up until now, every time I’ve ever ordered a specialty milkshake anywhere on the one day of the week I drink a milkshake (or anything like that), the various places I’ve attempted to order one has never had the shake in stock. Not once.

The only explanation: I am experiencing specialty milkshake oppression.

Still afraid of covid: The people who are still isolating and masking.

It really does look like an actual religious movement might emerge out of the pandemic. For it to endure, though, they’d all have to move closer together to really codify the ideology and practices. Be interesting to see if that occurs; there is a good chance.

The most dystopian, awful part of modern American culture is how we've started to think about relationships as being primarily about power, rather than about love and affection.

Thinking relationships are primarily about power is a one-way ticket to an unhappy life.

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) August 14, 2022

It is absurdly harmful. The PMC libs love it, though, and it’s creeping into all parts of culture now too. If you claim that relationships are about anything save power the cancellation brigade looms. Why the PMC libs want this world as the one they live in, I haven’t a clue.