DavidB

DavidB

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This bears repeating, because it was written a long time ago and is more apt than ever: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in. —Turkish proverb

I hope this is the cover to the future nonfiction bestseller Idiocracy: How America Choked on Its Own Greed

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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato #DavidRowe

The Social Reckoning had no reckoning in the film. None of what made The Social Network a great film is present here. The performances sucked, the music sucked, the direction sucked, and the dialogue REALLY sucked - which is wild because it's Aaron Sorkin again

Digger was like Dr Strangelove meets Wes Anderson but not really succeeding at either. But everyone swings for the fences and I appreciated that. Watched in IMAX. I'll watch it again.

Fun fact: assuming one million jobs lost to AI, if you took the amount of money spent on AI infrastructure thus far, each person could've been paid almost $1million. PER PERSON.

Saw Heart of the Beast as it was released in New Zealand a week before its US release (it was filmed on the South Island). I enjoyed it overall, but - The film literally spoils itself in the first 60 seconds in the opening shot. It was bizarre. And I'm wondering if it's because of test screenings.

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Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

I have been generous and donated to certain Dems over the years and now literally anyone running as a Dem anywhere is flooding my inbox. I want to never receive these emails again and I've been blocking, unsubscribing from all these different sites. Makes me not want to donate ever again Fix it.

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The War on Terror began 25 years ago today, when Congress passed the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Only one member of Congress had the courage and foresight to oppose this blank check for forever wars: Barbara Lee.