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@TheSalonDon Not saying there isn’t a problem but ‘not a single one on Earth’ is a bit of an American exaggeration.

In elementary school they asked how much TV we watched I had 4 hours per day -1 hour SportsCenter in morning -3 hour baseball game at night They sent an email to my parents saying I had a problem Today there isn’t a 3rd grader on earth under 4 hours screen time

@IterIntellectus Vomit

finally AI can show us what painters wanted us to see

Switzerland will be spared.

@NoelWhittaker Is this not the point? To shift more tax burden on to do-nothing Australians who hoard wealth?

I'm running numbers on family trusts. If the trust owned by mum, dad, and 19-year-old daughter earns $180,000 a year and they distribute $60,000 to each the tax will be three times $9,000 = $27000. At 30% flat, it's $54,000. That's double - The only way out is to change distributions to wages, but they must be able to justify the wage. It's a shameful attack on business

@jimstewartson "Don't you find it odd that he tripled his home insurance right before his house burned down?" "That's not odd, in fact it happens all the time!"

It’s not “unusual.” It’s securities fraud at the highest possible level. In the open. Wait til we find out who was buying all those oil futures.

The fact that there are no guardrails in this area because the Death Star was designed by Geonosians that could just fly away in case of an emergency is honestly such a great detail.

Why are they only doing 8-hr shifts if they're robots? Why did that robot touch his head? -...It's Indians pretending to be robots again isn't it?

@TSoS_ It’s not unheard of, if your car breaks and you really liked that model, to buy the same car again.

It's incredible how nothing in the story of this character has ever mattered. Every single obstacle he overcame, every thing he lost ... Nothing matters! The child he had to let go in the show's must emotional moment came back between seasons. The droid who died to protect him and Grogu, changing his worldview in the process, was easily rebuilt. Now, The Razor Crest is back as well; not in a thematically resonant way but for toy-sales and nostalgia. The worst thing a franchise can create is apathy and it's truly sad to see a story that had started with two incredibly promising seasons go further and further down the drain.

A modest proposal: If you submit a manuscript with a made-up citation—not a bungled or misspelled reference—you receive a 5-year ban on having your work reviewed at that journal.

@moorehn It was quite plagiarism.

An MIT writing professor on his students using AI: "I realized that for the first time as a writing professor, I had to deal with students producing words without work, which wasn’t quite plagiarism and wasn’t quite paying for someone else to do the job, but it felt like a kind of naive chicanery; a perversion of the contract between writer and reader." theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

For those of you wondering about Australian “defence” strategy and its underlying rationale, this will help. It’s 👇🏽 officially a comedy series though many have remarked that at times it’s closer to being a documentary.

the way he actually looks scottish

@_alialkhatib Yeah Rick and Morty had a lame 'Elon Tusk' gag- Dan Harmon said he met Elon and was starstruck by him, this was sort of just as everyone started to sour on him.

i'm really just noticing how conspicuously widespread these references were for a short period of time. it came up in star trek too. did he pay a PR team to try to get his name in tv shows, or were writers just all organically doing this?

(Doctors huddling outside of Billy Joel’s hospital room after test results just came back showing he had a heart attack.) “So, when we tell him, do we do the thing?”

@SirSnipeyy You don’t need to watch anything else to understand S2, c’mon. Ashoka works perfectly well in that standalone episode without additional information.

Was gonna show my Grandpa The Mandalorian but how do I convince him to watch 11 seasons of animated kids shows for him to understand seasons 2 and 3

@dannycantalk Public Transport and walkable cities get in the way of none of that, you absolute fucking baby.

I do not want a walkable city. I do not want trains. I do not want busses. I want a car that can take me anywhere I want at any time. I don't want to be dependent on transit schedules. I want to choose who I'm traveling with, rather than going for luck of the draw. I want to be able to control my own climate while traveling. I want to be guaranteed a comfortable seat. I want somewhere to keep my things during a day out instead of having to carry everything with me. I want to buy and take home loads of groceries too big to carry without having to trouble myself with delivery services. I want to go through drive thrus. I want to be halfway home from work and impulsively decide to go to a restaurant on the other side of town and just change direction immediately. I want to drive around a new city to take in more than I could on foot or on a fixed route. I want to do road trips where we make up our journey as we go. I want to explore my own city at will without any particular plan. I want to visit small towns out of reach of even the most expansive proposed public transit systems. Essentially, I want freedom.

What do you mean Dryden vos returns who the fuck is that

This is where I feel like we're retroactively reimagining the past a little bit. Entirely possible that Meghan had very little TV time, but a *lot* of kids of our generation were raised in homes where at least one TV was on any time someone was awake and at home!

My stance on phone bans in schools is that even if they have absolutely zero measurable effect on outcomes they are still worth doing because we want to habituate students into having real-life conversations and not withdrawing into digital life during lunch periods.

@ChrisBarnes3D Oh yeah the guy whose mortgage you’re paying as a renter is bound to pay more for it than he takes from you. That just math. Landlords are nice like that, they take the hit for their renters.

everyone loves to point out renting is "just dead money" until you point out they'll spend £240k in mortgage interest over 30 years