Are these not intertwined?

Meanwhile, Netflix is $8 a month, you don't get to keep the shows or movies, and most of it is garbage filler content.

eBooks are on sale all the time and you can carry them with you everywhere in your pocket.

Another weird thing about the anti-city / "Coastal Elites" thing is that most of your big cities are former ports or railroad junctions.

Those cities were built on blue collar jobs in manufacturing and shipping. Yet you're picturing wealthy socialites because that's what's on TV?

They also often start from an inaccurate, unchecked assumption about how much is being spent.

Biggest example—assuming people are buying Starbucks every day, instead of maybe once a week when they run errands. Previous generations might've run through that monthly coffee budget in one bar visit.

Halo's story is not really right wing, it just has military stuff.

The story is largely about a fight for survival against a technologically superior force of zealots, whose leaders know their faith is founded on a lie.

The White House PR team does not care about the meaning of what the co-opt.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the other big one.

But it's about them working through that clash of expectation v. reality.

The tech that makes them forget each other fails because they'd both rather talk it out, though they've had bad past experiences of that not being an option before.

Thinking it's a Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie is like thinking Kangaroo Jack is really a talking animal movie.

It's just going by the previews.

Anyway, 500 Days of Summer literally has a split screen comparison of the difference between reality and expectation.

It also repeatedly blames pop culture for contributing to the idea that being in a relationship can magically solve all your other problems, including general dissatisfaction.

I'm 500 Days posting again.

Jonah, the Particular — deeply upset about the switch to New Coke.

Mint and Ubuntu are popular. Mint is supposed to have a user interface sort of like Windows.

I dual boot with Ubuntu Studio b/c it includes lots of free multimedia software. But my 12 year old laptop runs plain Ubuntu now. It came with Windows 8 and I didn't feel like buying a new Windows license.

Maybe it's like Gomez Adams failing at failing.

Heard it through the grapevine that Swift has a great typhoon.

Or something like that.