We're digging The Mitchells vs. The Machines for the most part but it suffers a lot from Sitcom Dad Syndrome, where the writers are willing to give so much slack to a white male patriarch that they don't appear to understand they made an actual awful person.
It's like "oh, everybody in this family has their quirks and foibles" but the rest of the family... likes stuff? And part of his deal is that he doesn't like that they like stuff.
I also have... questions... about the geography and the routes the two families took on their road trips between the east coast and Kansas, and I have concerns about the college students setting up a slip-n-slide indoors, but the dad is just awful.
Her dad's response to Katie's movies is "Can you really make money doing this stuff? You need a backup plan."... buddy, the backup plan is that she works on other people's movies. The skills she's going to school to learn are still skills.
I feel like the filmmakers *think* they're telling a story about the dad and daughter both mutually not getting each other and drifting apart and... that is not this story.
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So the thing that these right-wing cosplay economists like Burger King Is Full Communism Lady keep missing about the "employment crisis" is that the reason businesses are foundering isn't that they can't compete with an imaginary UBI, it's that they don't want to compete, period.
An employer who says things like "If you have time to lean you have time to clean" but can't find any Standing Up Straight Money to pay their employees... that person isn't suited to compete for employees' time because they think it is beneath them.
The right-wing cosplay economists are pretending that slightly enhanced unemployment insurance *that you specifically cannot collect if you voluntarily quit your job* is close enough to a UBI to get people to quit their jobs because the alternative to believing that is reality.
What if... and I'm just spitballing here... but what if we brought trains forward in time with improvements and investments in technology, the way we did with planes?
I am taking Amtrak at the end of this month and I am looking forward to it. Private room? You can't get that on a commercial plane outside of very select class of international flights. I can retire to my compartment. Who wouldn't want to go back in time to be able to do that?
When I go to the Amtrak station, I will be traveling backwards in time to an era when commercial travel didn't require me to have my body electronically imaged or my groin patted down while I stand bare foot on a novelty welcome mat.
Holmes: So we agree, my dear doctor, that the world must know nothing of the events aboard the Matilda Briggs at this time.
Watson: Yes. Quite. This is why I wrote the paper and told them that you said the world is not ready to hear about the giant rat of Sumatra.
Holmes: WTF.
Sometimes I see there's a reply that I can't see, so I open a tweet of mine up in an incognito window to see what the person I muted was saying, and every single time I do that, I immediately think, "Oh, that's why." and am annoyed with myself for having gone around the mute.
I swear that I, the person making the giant rat of Sumatra reference, understand Watsonian canon meta. You don't actually have to fact check the joke I made about Watson spreading Holmes's private business.
In fact, you don't have to fact check any jokes. Jokes are not facts.
Googling how to say "Duo, are you okay?" in French.
Five minutes into Duolingo and chill and the second vaccine dose hits.
It told me the correct solution was "Je suis professeur" but then immediately glitched again and gave me the solution of "I am a teacher", which is that translated back into English.
Man, I love how much they give Scorpion the BDH moment in Mortal Kombat (2021). He was my first main, and when the kunai started glowing it was like the portal scene in Endgame all over again for me.
I'm not sure if Cole understands Japanese or if he's just really good at contextual clues.
Kind of bummed that in a movie full of people Saying The Thing, Cole didn't Say The Thing when they had their opponent down in the final fight scene and his fighting partner requested the honor of the kill.