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@Chiforober @RetroNewsNow Far and away the best theme music - wish someone would release a cleaned-up copy of the extended version used in the fight on the Hong Kong skyscraper.

@RetroNewsNow If I'm not mistaken, they switched to this other opening intro.

📺DEBUT: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ starring Nicholas Hammond premiered 48 years ago, April 5, 1978, on CBS

@s8mb PD James wrote a novel in the 1990s called 'The Children of Men'; this looked at a world struck by total infertility, overnight, and was quietly horrifying. Worth reading, gets into your head more than the filmed version.

Fertility is collapsing all around the world, not just in the developed West: - Mexico now has lower fertility than the US (even non-Hispanic whites!). - Arab-Israeli fertility is now lower than that of Jewish Israelis. - For first time in 200 years, rich people are having MORE kids than poor. Economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (@JesusFerna7026) sat down with me and @pietergaricano to talk about the economics of the fertility collapse, why education can be such a curse for birth rates, why the collapse is happening almost as much in the Muslim and developing worlds as in the rich world, and why so many attempts to address it fail. We also discuss 'no regrets' policies that could help: clearer data for students about the value (or not) of college degrees; lotteries for admissions to the top universities; subsidies for third or fourth children; and, of course, bigger, nicer and more plentiful housing. Listen now. Links below. 0:07:48 Japan’s GDP output per worker vs. per capita 0:16:21 The debt paradox: Why are East Asian bonds still cheap despite demographic decline? 0:24:37 Fertility is falling faster in Mexico than the US 0:34:00 The rapid fall of TFRs across the Muslim world 0:42:11 Zero-to-one versus two-to-three children 0:51:00 A ‘no-regrets’ policy for fertility and welfare 0:55:48 The education trap 1:07:31 The grim returns on certain college degrees 1:11:46 Why policies must incentivize the third child, not the first.

@CBR I just remember it as grim, overall.

One of the '90s most underrated remakes may have flopped with critics, but it had one of the best final twists. cbr.com/lost-in-space-…

@WilliamShatner Whenever we British dream of a white Christmas, someone generally pipes up and tells us we are, statistically, far more likely to see a white Easter.

I saw a video of someone driving in Scotland and it was snowing today. 😉

@stoolpresidente I was taught to type at night school and, yes, two spaces. Think I have also read it in the 'house style' rules for submissions to various publishing companies. Sometimes break the rule on X though, characters being limited.

Somebody please tell this fool my mother was a high school typing teacher and it’s grammatically correct to use 2 spaces. Take a seat clown

@landofthe80s Star Cops.

Looking forward to hearing your responses!

@elonmusk Whenever a close pass like this is reported, those who wish to urge calm become very two-dimensional, hoping their audience are fooled the Earth is static. It is not. It moves on its orbit at something like 67,000 mph. A miss by 31,000kmph is barely twenty minutes.

Absolutely

@danny_robins Bagels? For goodness sake, man, where's your hot cross buns?

A Mar Mar Marvellous breakfast combo - Marmalade in one, Marmite on the other! Sweet and Sour!

Happy 100th Anniversary, @Portmeirion. This architectural work of genius first opened at Easter 1926. There are two weekends of unforgettable events taking place to celebrate. Be Seeing You?

And the technology! Trusting that the engine won’t shut down due to a failure 10% too soon, that attitude control thrusters won’t fail and aim the burn slightly off, that attitude and position determination are just right, etc. Everything must be just right or you can’t get home.

Burke popularised space travel and is still in many ways still unsurpassed as an explainer of science. And this is great (I’ve RT’d it before) … but it is two shots not one, it cuts 25 sec before the end, making it easier to achieve

@MarkUrban01 I interviewed James about this at the @bluedotfestival a few years ago. Here he is talking about that shot: m.youtube.com/watch?v=c5a987…

@afneil "We're going to Kharg Island - patriotic Americans in a very big carrier, the USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk is a friend, we're going there and we'll capture that big gorilla, tie him to the deck, sail back into New York harbour then put him in a golden cage on top of Trump Tower!"

I am told by White House sources that Trump is seriously considering taking Kharg Island.

@Catsworldtweet Ahem - somewhere to urinate? I have a gravel path at my house that is more pit than path, it looks like the prospectors have been at it, but it's just my cat, who believes she has the world's largest litter tray.

What is kitty looking for? 😹😂

Trump's Iran Downfall

@DrPhiltill @cosmicfibretion Now they have to build a bigger one to get the question.

@cosmicfibretion 42?

Words can not describe what I’ve just seen. I can’t go into the details but I was invited by a leading AI lab to play with a new model. It has solved math, physics, chemistry, life, the universe, and everything. The world will never be the same.

Very pleased to have won the Artemis launch contract for NASA. Benny in Maintenance has played a blinder. Godspeed chaps.

@maddenifico @Ssnyder1835 Do we know yet if he's going the whole hog and building a shark tank in the new basement?

Trump has destroyed the White House, "the People's House," decimating the East Wing and leaving a giant crater of dirt — which is a perfect metaphor for what he has done to America and the world. 😳👇