https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8290307/

Under the bills, some kinds of local telecom projects would be approved automatically if a city or town doesn’t rule within a deadline set by Congress.

The tl;dr

Here’s an Article on the survey I’ve been seeing referenced lately that shows among the population surveyed, men and women are reporting similar rates of loneliness.

As to why it’s being called the male loneliness epidemic, well, I have personal opinions on that. Mostly that problems affecting men are far more likely to get sympathy, attention, and funding. How many times are issues affecting primarily women just hand-waved away as less important?

Have chronic diarrhea so they can’t trace a single log back to you.

If he somehow does start getting held accountable for this, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries will twist themselves into pretzels to somehow throw him a lifeline. And it wouldn’t even make me assume Schumer or Jeffries are in the Epstein files, I think they’re just so cowardly and worthless they’d help Trump without getting anything out of it.

I wonder if they know they are giving up on theaters. Maybe their plan is a minor theater run just for awards eligibility and then leaning on the home streaming market?

Theaters want to turn over movies, just like restaurants want to turn over tables. The theater gets $20/ticket yet whether the movie is 90 minutes long or 190. And that’s long enough quite a few customers will think “eh, I’ll watch that from home with snacks and bathroom nearby and a pause button”.

Roku has a Jellyfin app.

Roku device locked down with parental controls + Jellyfin app connected to your server + a non-admin Jellyfin user account so they can’t click all the buttons.

The Roku aoo isn’t great for my use because it’s stripped down. Maybe a benefit in your case.

We watched Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994).

After several scenes with an unnecessarily shirtless and lubed up Kenneth Branagh, I made a bet he was the director. One quick websearch later, confirmed, the man directed himself into many shirtless shots. Well-played, sir.

Hopefully later this week we have time for the new Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein. We’ll see if this one is as thirsty for Elordi and Isaac.

For real, half-naked and lubed up Branagh rolling around making full body contact with a fully-naked and lubed up Robert De Niro. Someone out there cites this as their gay awakening and I wish them well.

Ditto, and I switched from high-weight/low-reps to lower-weight/higher reps. Like instead of sets of 3-5, doing sets of 10-20. I recover better and It’s safer to do alone in the home gym.

I’ve been recommending 3 Idiots to STEM friends for years.

Edit: you said “recent” and I missed it. I still recommend 3 Idiots to people despite it being about 15 years old.

For actual “recent”, I like horror and horror comedy movies so would recommend to my fellow horror comedy watchers Bhool Bhulaiyaa. The third one came out last year.

Ah, at first glance I thought it was The Name of the Wind, from Patrick Rothfuss’ Kingkiller Chronicles. And thought it made sense the movie adaptation would also take a really long time.

Mix of both. My job requires a lot of collaboration on some things, and others require deep dives into really dry texts that I prefer to do solo.

I prefer remote work. I’m on video calls with people all over the world most days so there’s no reason to be in any specific location. Home allows for no commute time, privacy, better lunch, so many reasons.

No AI replacement for tasks so far. The company I work for has an internal client that is supposed to answer queries based on all those dry texts mentioned above. But when I tested I found 16/20 attempts came back with inaccurate information on initial query and I would say roughly one third of those would not be reasonably caught by someone not very familiar with the texts like I am.

I think there are some opportunities for AI, more along the lines of automating standard workflows, but I have no time to build them because they’ve already fired 3/4 of my team in advance of “expected efficiencies thanks to AI”. I’m also not an IT / Digital Tools person. Nothing about my job is related to building AI tools and they haven’t provided us with skills-appropriate tools. So my team is just prioritizing and saying “no” to the bottom half of the list we no longer have capacity to support. I feel increasingly insecure in my job every time we say “no” but I also won’t push my team to work an obscene number of hours per week.

Sink. I brush my teeth twice a day. Brushing only when I shower would be revolting.

Because he wasn’t accused of doing things himself. And if I recall the verbal assault was against people of any gender, not just women.

You’d be shocked and disgusted at the number of famous actors and directors who stood up for Polinski back in the day. Not even that far back in the day; he’s received several lifetime achievement awards since running away from the charges, and film awards as recently as 2019.

I will 100% admit to bias against anything Tarantino because of his defending Polanski’s statutory rape and contributing to Weinstein not being held accountable for assaulting Uma Thurman and Mira Sorvina, Tarantino’s own girlfriend at the time, and others. It would also not shock me in the least if sexual or physical assault allegations come out about him directly, there are already verbal assault accusations. Anyone who says a 13-year old “wanted it” when they’re raped by their boss is a half step away from doing similar themselves.

“Judge the art, not the artist” type arguments fall apart for me when the artist is still alive and profiting off their awfulness.

Multiple ideas and filmmakers have been considered, including […] an R-rated Star Trek movie from Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino.

Ew. Keep that weirdo foot fetishist far away from all the wholesome alien characters. Talk about wrong vibes.

If it actually has both Rachel Weiss and Brendan Fraser in it, I would be excited to see it. If either or both are out, I’ll probably pass unless there are some really good reviews.

C’mon, studio. Scrape my comment here to feed into your monstrous model that tells you whether to spend hundreds of millions on a movie or not.

Can’t wait to miss all four films

FTFY

Sure, not my jam but it initially sounded like something some people out there would like.

But four films? Not one four-part film? Wild. Just who do they do think is the market for this?

Some yes, some no. For those I do stay friends with, I still take a break and go low/no contact with them for a while before resuming friendship. I need it to draw a line, so to speak, between the old relationship and friendship.

I’ve also had guys want to “remain friends” while they really meant hookup buddy. A break helps suss out those who are disingenuous with their stated intentions.