pwnicholson

Business love libertarians. Not fascists.

Fascists and dictators might decide to take over your business, double the cost of your raw materials through tariffs, or suddenly change all your regulations without discussion.

Ask any economists what business likes most and it is certainty. They hate the unknown and risk. Even if the policies aren’t their favorite, if they’re fixed and stable, they’ll find a way to work them.

Sure. Absolutely correct for pressing down on a button or something similar

For other stuff, it’s not common, but I think it’s technically correct.

Depending on what it is, “compress” might be a better term than “depress”, though.

Literally a quote from the article:

“Not an anti-porn crusade, that’s absolutely not it, but actually understanding that for some people, a significant number of people, porn does lead to harms. And how do we actually begin to do something and address that?”

This isn’t some pearl-clutching religious group putting out the report. It’s a professional group of therapists.

Ethiopian Coptics are some of the oldest Christian groups in the world. You could (and I think they do) argue they predate Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.

Ray Charles beat them all (kinda, sometimes)

MadTV did a good skit about this years ago

https://youtu.be/FhEpv14L-b0

Right move. Wrong reason.

He’s been amazing in more dramatic roles many times. Watch “The Foreigner (2017),” “Shinjuku Incident (2009),” and “New Police Story (2004).”

That said, he’s had issues - cozied up to the Xi regime, issues with alcohol and drunk driving, a son in frequent trouble with the law where Daddy bailed him out… So you have to hold his nose a bit to watch movies. And he’s clearly got a bit of the Nic Cage in him where he can do some great stuff, but also doesn’t seem to say no to anything, so he does a lot of trash movies.

Chadwick Bowsman in anything, but I would have loved it if he could have had a real close to the Black Panther character. If I have a magic wand I’d cure his cancer, of course. But even giving him just a few more years so he could give that character a worthy send off and better set up the rest of his universe.

Don’t sleep on “A Knight’s Tale”

Spending the day working in a field, in a factory, etc you don’t do a lot of socializing.

Some of the DVD/Blu-ray versions of “GalaxyQuest” have the entire movie dubbed into the weird screeching alien language as a quirky bonus feature.

I don’t, really. But my field is also kinda niche (it’s not like some popular field like genetics or infectious diseases. There aren’t many journalists covering us at all, yet. I work in marketing for an industrial exosuit company (think practical, assistive, biomechanical wearables). Most of the journalists that are covering us at this point are used to covering news about forklifts or warehouse automation, so they aren’t used to reading peer reviewed scientific publications at all. Their exposure to papers on biomechanics and injury risk factors is more rare, and they might as well be Latin (well, sometimes they do have a lot of Latin).

But it’s also something of a joke. When I was back taking journalism classes for my communications and marketing degree, the professors would joke about how journalists covering either legal summaries or scientific summaries would say that 1 + 2 = 5 all the time, leaving out important details that were critical to the conclusions because they weren’t interesting. I think the scientists put up with it because as long as the conclusion is correct, they’re just happy to have anyone paying attention.

As someone who works in communications in a very science-heavy field: in fairness, journalists are also typically terrible at summarizing scientific papers.

You just described addiction as a mental condition. People can use anything as an unhealthy coping mechanism. It sounds like you’ve probably correctly identified it as an addiction. Now you can treat it like one.

People can become addicted to food, too, but clearly can’t stop entirely. There are comparisons.

That said, I’d say this is more like work addiction or shopping addiction where stopping completely for a time is possible while you detox, then see what feels right about reintroducing healthy versions in a safe way.

Find groups then. It’s not exactly the same, but 12 step groups are an excellent, free option. Honestly a great addiction recovery plan often includes both individual and group work.

I did love Almost Human. I’d forgotten about that show. Pretty cool concept and the leads had great chemistry

Firefly is obvious,l…

But I wish Stargate Universe had gotten to give the show some kind of conclusion to a great franchise. The other two shows had gone a season longer than they would have, so I get the temptation to not drag it out, but it sucked to leave a great franchise hanging like that.

If you mean compilation soundtracks-

Baby Driver

Last Night in Soho

Guardians of the Galaxy (the first one)

Back to the Future

If we’re taking scores –

LOTR as already mentioned.

Loki Season 1

Sneakers (1992) if I’m in the right mood.

Just about any John Williams: A New Hope, Last Crusade, Empire of the Sun, Far and Away, etc etc

Star Trek VI: TUC (the overture, especially)

Tron: Legacy

Finding Nemo

Wreck -it Ralph

You have to see the huge logical leap you’re making in your main point, right?

Just because some of Jesus’ disciples believed they saw a resurrected Jesus isn’t scientific proof that he was resurrected. It just means they believed he did.

You’re searching for facts in a realm of faith. Either you believe or you don’t. If you only believe in something that is proven, then you don’t have faith, just conviction.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Heb 11:1