An understandable reaction! May I helpfully suggest never *ever* watching "Welcome to the Dollhouse?"

Patel is making a late run for 2025's "most Kendall Roy" award

Damn, looks like I've got some reading to do. Thanks for the primer

Hey I know it's not your job to educate a stranger on the internet, but can you recommend an article or essay that expands upon why this terminology is changing? Thanks

My half-assed theory is that the smarter (but no less evil) people in government don't believe in AI but still see it as a way to prop up the stock market, like a New Deal that saves them a step by bypassing those pesky citizens.

This is on the Dad Movie Mount Rushmore, alongside "Heat," "The Fugitive," and "The Hunt for Red October."

Quite possibly his best, definitely his most ambitious.

If any of his movies could contend with it for the top spot, I'd say "Carrie."

OK, that's nicely done

His ghostwriter said in a 2016 interview that, for all of Trump's crimes and abhorrent behavior, the absolute worst thing you could call him is a "fat failure."

Salieri Syndrome

Dear god.

I really, really try not to be too snarky or knee-jerk negative about modern Star Wars, but what the fuck are they even doing anymore?

Babu Frik: the character they thought for SURE would be a huge hit in the toy market, but no one did, so they'll keep throwing him out there until the warehouses full of Babu Frik merch are finally empty. They even tried to cram a variant of him into the Star Wars Hotel in Orlando.

Since he's such a big fan of war, I'd love to see a press conference where Hegseth starts "battleshipping," which is when "you're so fucked up that you start firing from both ends."

Nah, he just hasn't gotten enough attention in a while and PTA recently released an absolute masterpiece. In another six weeks he'll be talking about how Boogie Nights is inferior to The Smurfs.