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It says fits head sizes from small to extra large, but I've been let down by "XL" headphones before. The dimensions don't really tell you much, because they flex and extend to fit your head. The question is, what is the maximum sustainable distance between the ears?

I was thinking the commodore.

Or maybe just NotCare for short.

So is Matthew Lillard. The whole thing feels oddly personal. Like if he had said "I didn't like Dano in There Will Be Blood" you could understand that's just a professional opinion. Maybe he thought someone else could have done better. But making it insulting undercuts his credibility as an impartial critic.

Maybe this time we try literally any cohesive attack strategy? Like instead of just silently gesturing broadly at everything, hoping voters will be inherently riled up about the audacity of conservative fascism.

I think we can stop calling it Obamacare.

You just solved a 20 year old mystery that I didn't even realize I was curious about. It was super weird, because these were relatively progressive, educated adults, and the audacity of the bigotry just sort of left me confused. This helps me understand a little bit better.

We should use every tool at our disposal. We should be irrationally unyielding and exhaustive in our efforts for progress. Leave no avenue untapped.

Everything

I don't know.

It was in a jam

Push it down a hill.

It's difficult to take a review seriously when the author crafts a sentence thusly:

Barclay is a low-level clerk with Unit who, through the kind of bureaucratic snafu that you may in your salad days have believed was confined to fictional romps aimed largely at children over the festive period until age and experience poured slugs into them, ends up being part of the operation sent to deal with the discovery by a group of Spanish fishers of – well, fishmen. Fishfolk.

My European cousins tried to explain to me that it was weird how no Jewish people died in the twin towers on 9/11, like they had all been warned. I had to patiently explain that I had friends who died in 9/11, some were Jewish, and that whatever his source was, it was likely nazi propaganda, and extremely disrespectful to repeat obvious bullshit.

Criticism is fine, when you're talking about someone's work and how to improve it. Calling someone "weak" and "the worst actor in the SAG" is deeply personal and insulting.

Revealing a personal bias in a professional setting belies unprofessional attitudes and prejudices. Tarantino isn't a critic, he's a filmmaker and an influential voice in the industry. Taking pot shots at a couple of B-list character actors is hurtful on a personal level, and wantonly destructive on a professional level. The power dynamic between producers and actors is massively unbalanced. It would be like the CEO where you work talking shit on LinkedIn about project managers at a rival company. If he's saying this publicly, what is he saying behind the scenes? Is he trashing actors to casting directors to influence their careers?

He has every right to say "I don't want these people in my movies." It would also be professional to say "I did not like this specific performance for these specific reasons." It's extremely unprofessional to say "I hate these people because of who they are and anyone working with them is on my shit-list."

He also took some totally unnecessary shots at Paul Dano, saying he was the worst actor in the SAG. That's a bizarrely personal attack out of nowhere on a guy you never worked with.

Good. The Penguin was great, but it was great because it was well crafted. The writing, the acting, the cinematography, it was experts given the tools to do something great. Gotham is a fantastic setting, and the sheer number of worthwhile characters makes anything they do potentially fascinating.

It is entirely possible for a person to be on the right side of one issue and the wrong side of another issue. We support positions, but we elect politicians. Those politicians are not always going to be on our side, and in fact they rarely are.

Gavin Newsom is not on our side. I do not want to vote for him, because I believe we have better options.

But he is better than any Republican. Newsom is not openly racist, defending pedophiles, attempting to murder foreigners, or trying to end civil rights. He and I disagree on economic policy, but if his name is on the ballot across from a fascist, then I'll accept the lesser of two evils.

Still, let's not pick him as the nominee for president. He's not the guy we'd like him to be. Newsom is an oligarch, but at least he isn't a Republican. Governing is the slow boring of hard boards, and sometimes progress is merely reducing the harm.

The mask is off.

Funny, I would have thought she is too old to play a love interest for Pattinson, but she's only 41 while he's 39. I suppose that's my Hollywood gender bias showing. I just think of Robert as the eternally young vampire.

Faith is a big word with many different meanings. Faith in people means trust, but it's not the same as a faith in god. Putting your faith in a person is making yourself vulnerable to be hurt by them. Putting your faith in god is to abdicate your personal responsibility in favor of an ideology attributed by religious leaders to imaginary friends.

My go-to is the biblical definition, which says pretty much the same thing. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. Things hoped for have no substance. So you plant your feet on faith instead of substance, and insist the things you hope for are true. Your evidence for unobservable things is faith. You cannot prove they exist, so faith is your foundation and your confirmation that you're right.

Of course! You've hit the nail on the head, in that anyone can get used to anything if you grow up with it. Your brain wraps itself around your environment, and the language and descriptions you grow up with are the framework for your understanding of things.

It's like naming colors of the rainbow. The number of discrete colors you see depends on the number of discrete names your language has for those colors. Roy G Biv is just one method of delineation. Some languages don't separate blue and green, or red and orange. We actually see millions of colors, but our brain structures categories based on the words we have to describe them.

We use base 10 numbering, because we have five fingers on each hand. Imaging what the metric system would look like if 360 million years ago, some polydactyl mutant managed to win the evolutionary tournament of reproduction, and we all had an extra thumb on the opposite side of our hands. Baseball gloves would look super weird, and we would have a duodecimal metric system where 100 cm could be evenly divided by three or six, but not five, and a foot would be 10 inches without changing either length.