Think of it this way. You are in a courtroom and the lawyer asks 'why didn’t you call the police?"

If your home was burglarized and you don’t call the cops, the police will assume you’ve been doing something illegal. Most people will call the cops just to have a police report on file for the insurance or to claim a tax loss.

All of the Northeast.

enlightened self interest.

If you deleted a commnet it means you realized you’d done something wrong.

Self-awareness is a good thing.

I always upvote deleted commnets

Ayn Rand didn’t stop smoking after she’d been warned about the risks.

Because her books weren’t selling, she ended up on social security, a program she’d mocked when healthy.

To her admirers she is a model of the power of intellect and the glory of self reliance and independence

[off topic?]

I live in New York City. One of my friends used to teach an art history course at the4 College of Staten Island.

She once told me that she’d had students who’d never travelled the 12 miles to get to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The Met is considered one of the top museums in the world, but going there was too much hassle

Back in the day, variety shows and Top 40 Radio did a great job of exposing people to new talent.

The first four words.

Great old novel/movie “The Magic Christian.”

https://youtu.be/FE2zTnOJ94I

Peter Sellers is a billionaire who decides to wage war on his own class.

Runs 100 yards barefoot through broken glass.

My favorite Jolie story.

Lauren Ridloff is deaf. She was having problems with her cues in ‘The Eternals.’ Jolie told the director to use a laser pointer and then clean it up in post-production.

Also, they had to use her own kid in Maleficent because she was scaring all the other children.

Don’t compare your blooper reel with other people’s highlights.

Also, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie split up about twenty years ago and that relationship is still creating drama

Compare yourself to the people you see in the movies.

You never see Lara Croft or John Wick get the hiccups. If you do it’s because you’re a jerk and everyone will laugh at you.

Woodstock

Tet Offensive.

Assassinations of RFK and MLK

Riots.

Nixon elected.

USSR invades Czechoslovakia

Apollo flights.

Hell, boy, back in the War Between the States we’d trade good Virginny tobacco to the Yanks for a case of that delisous stuff.

Tell me you’ve never been allowed in the officers’ club without telling me…

Found in every military kitchen in the world.

There’s no invention that can’t be used for military purposes.

Old people love to talk.

I might want to read a bunch of Sherlock Holmes stories in a row. It’s going to take the algorithm years to realize that was a one time binge.

I think of it this way.

I read people talking about the huge differences in styles between 2024 and 2000 and how everything changed.

Then I look at the styles in 1960 and 1984 and see really big changes.

The algorithm is going to err on the side of what I’ve already liked. It’s not going to jump in with something totally off the wall.