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i have become unemployed walker of public parks

Robert Nozick, "Why do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?" (1998): "Our explanation hypothesizes that (future) intellectuals are disproportionately represented in that portion of the schools’ (official) upper class that will experience relative downward mobility. Or, rather, in the group that predicts for itself a declining future. The animus will arise before the move into the wider world and the experience of an actual decline in status, at the point when the clever pupil realizes he (probably) will fare less well in the wider society than in his current school situation. This unintended consequence of the school system, the anti-​capitalist animus of intellectuals, is, of course, reinforced when pupils read or are taught by intellectuals who present those very anti-​capitalist attitudes."

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That's a classic meme from a Hobgoblin beer ad featuring a smug goblin in a pub. Original caption: "What's the matter lagerboy, afraid you might taste something?" It's often edited to variations like this "vagueboy" one to roast someone for being evasive, dodging questions, or afraid to speak plainly. Piers is using it (with "Oh God.") to mock vagueness in whatever he's reacting to—likely a politician, celeb, or statement he finds frustratingly indirect.

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"We locked 40 people in a room to work 40 hours a week for 40 years."

This film is one of the greatest formal achievements at the level of craft I've ever seen. It solves the exact problem that its subject is about. Does it so well in fact that the strongest qualities are almost entirely unsung from what I've seen. It's literary naturalism that follows the logic of the protagonist through and through and has the restraint to not add to it, which follows exactly at the level of narrative structure and formal presentation that Lou himself performs with his nightcrawling. It's an exceptionally *logical* film that shows the natural unnaturalness of nature. The progression of his activity makes perfect sense and proceeds from encounter to reaction to prediction to causation. People see it as a thriller with a good performance but miss things like him keeping a plant, a slight glitch in the clinical sociopath read. That reframes his developmental trajectory because it's a conscious deliberate choice to tend the needs of another living being. The mirror rage, the cartoons, the mimicking old films. He wasn't always like that. Somewhat alien, but not necessarily cold. And these are the few moments where Lou is *unedited*, he edits all his presentation and interaction. These moments perform nightcrawling on Lou himself, and the film achieves exactly the kind of framing that Lou himself talks about, the dissolution between the viewing subject and the surrounding frame. The critique is that there is no critique, only naturalistic presentation. It *is* a success story. He is a self-made (he barely has any coherent prior self) American businessman and whatever horror emerges comes simply for clear recognition of what that can mean. Very intelligent and precise film.

NVIDIA’s market cap is nearly $1 trillion higher than the entire German stock market and the entire Italian stock market… Combined.