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Also, may not be a popular opinion but The White Lotus is trending towards that cliff and has been since the middle of season 2.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 9m

Westworld was almost the perfect premise and preexisting media property for prestige TV. It started so, so strong. And went crashing downhill. It's a bit impressive how badly they managed to screw up A-level casting of a Crichton bad company sci fi featuring the wild west and robot ninjas.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 32m

"Excuse me, are you sure that's the right loo?" "We don't need to concern ourselves with where people urinate."

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 35m

It'a wild that Sudeikis was hired as a writer first at SNL because he's a very good straight man / character actor and seems to be mediocre at the writing/production part.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 47m

They never in that entire show knew what to do with anyone's love life and it only got worse over time.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 58m

"A challenge for young British celebrities is turning into JK Rowling or John Cleese."

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1h

You could use this anecdote in workplace sexual harassment training.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 1h

Who wants to read this shit

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 3h

I imagine on the real-life Omicron Persei 8 the real-life Lrrr is watching his feed from Earth and yelling at the Queen about we should simply eat the charlatans.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine flying in from a distant planet, seeing this amazing graphic - which to be blunt shows a better technological advance than the internet - and then seeing a bunch of Earth Big Thinkers fretting over birth rates and imagined racial group population collapses.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 3h

No, it's the classification of "Latin America" likely moving the Caribbean and Central America away from the US/Canada figure versus lumping all of "Europe" together, which means the comparable UK/France/etc. numbers are offset by high infant mortality in eastern Europe.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 3h

Most of Western Europe was around 5% infant mortality it seems (www.researchgate.net/figure/nfant...), so I presume much of that is driven by Soviet bloc and adjacent numbers/presumptions (from another source, Albania seems to be around 15% in 1950, which feels correct).

researchgate.net

Figure 3: Infant Mortality Rates, 1856-60 to 1976-80

Download scientific diagram | Infant Mortality Rates, 1856-60 to 1976-80 from publication: How have Europeans grown so tall? | Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in...

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 4h

Uncommitteds Look Long and Hard at Cox, Go for Moore

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 4h

The longer this goes on, the more convinced I am that the next admin should do the mother of all civil asset forfeitures the day after the innauguration.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 5h

This doesn't mean there aren't adjacent problems or obstacles with old industries decaying or with AI in particular. Our policy preference for a room's worth of billionaire figureheads running an industry sucks, but generally Schumpeter and his progeny have been right over the last century.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 5h

This is why a lot of the discourse about AI taking jobs is somewhat misguided. This niche industry did not exist before 1987. As long as the gains from efficiency improvements find their way back to the economy, jobs usually wind up being created faster than the old ones are destroyed.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 14h

I, for one, also think Steely Dan should be free. Not sure why anyone would store such essential records inside a van.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 16h

Conservatives: Woke is dumb I add y chromosomes to my milk and jerk it to slaughterhouse footage Also conservatives: They're literally murdering me on Bluesky with mean words.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 17h

Evidence law. Admissions of a party opponent are admissible, so soneone who pleads guily can have the plea entered against them in a related civil suit (like DUI -> wrongful death suit). No contest is generally not an admission of anything so it's often not admissible in a related civil case.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 17h

"The platforms function almost exactly like traditional sports betting apps, but they’re not considered gambling because users are trading against each other as opposed to playing against the “house.”" 1. Objection, facts not in evidence 2. That describes a feautre of classic parimutuel betting.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 19h

Disproportionately the guys most worried about it seem to often look like this

Disbarred lawyer turned self appointed journalist Richard Luthmann. Chubby bespectacled white man wearing an ivory colored fedora, half unbuttoned dress shirt, dark sport coat ans dumb pocket square with a tropical urban center in the background. Very punchable face.

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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 19h

Right? Like it's random anecdotes in newspapers and I know of a few guys who should've been accused but no one who ever got falsely accused.