I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
🚨💣 BREAKING: Anthony Gordon to Barcelona, here we go! Official bid accepted now by Newcastle board and Saudi owners.
€70m fixed fee plus add-ons to bring final package over €80m for #NUFC.
Gordon set to travel this week for medical and contract signing at FCB. 🔵🔴✈️
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it’s december. there’s one coffee shop, one christmas tree farm, & one emotionally unavailable man named jake who owns a struggling bookstore despite somehow having perfect stubble, a golden retriever, & unresolved grief from a fiancee who left him for a private equity guy in denver.
she arrives in a black suv, wearing a cashmere coat, trying to take a “clarity weekend” before interviewing $80k/year matchmakers in nyc.
the town hates her immediately because she asks if they have oat milk.
jake says, “we have milk.”
she says, “from what?”
tension.
then a snowstorm hits. her flight gets canceled. her phone dies. the only place with wifi is jake’s bookstore, which is called “second chances”.
over the next 4 days, she helps him realize the store doesn’t need to close, it just needs a better merchandising strategy, a paid newsletter, & a tasteful espresso machine. he teaches her how to chop firewood, slow down, & pronounce “community” like it isn’t a fund thesis.
by day 5, she has accidentally saved the town’s winter festival.
by day 6, she is wearing flannel.
by day 7, the high end matchmaker calls with “an incredible candidate” who is 42, divorced, skis, runs a family office, says he’s “emotionally available,” lives in tribeca, has 3 phones.
she looks across the bookstore at jake reading to local kids while his dog sleeps under a table.
she says, “i’m going to pass.”
cut to one year later & she has opened a bookstore wine bar called “due diligence.” jake still owns the original bookstore because hallmark cannot handle cap table complexity. she’s pregnant with twins. the golden retriever has a red bow. the matchmaker sends a christmas card.
“turns out the best match was the one not in the database.”
roll credits.
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Todo episódio de Dr. House:
>Paciente chega no hospital
>É uma Prostituta ou um fanático religioso
>Dr. House entra em cena
- Doutor Doutor não sabemos o que fazer ela está sangrando pelos olhos
- Faça os exames seu imbecil
>Ele vai falar com a paciente
- Você é burra vá tomar no cu
- Doutor House eu te odeio me curaaaa
>Os ajudantes voltam pra sala
- Doutor todos os exames deram negativo ela vai morrer em 2 horas se não fizermos nada vai ser game over
- hmmm game over.... Ajudantes, tem um gameboy na bunda dela, isso é o problema
- Doutor house você é um imbecil mas vamos ver se tem mesmo um gameboy na bunda dela
>Encontram um gameboy na bunda dela
- OH MEU DEUS DOUTOR HOUSE VOCÊ ESTAVA CERTO COMO VOCÊ SOUBE???
- Os gameboys lançados em 1997 na edição do Pikachu tinham bateria com base de iodo, que se inseridos na bunda fazem seus olhos sangrarem
>Ajudantes fazem o emote do pepe Poggers na vida real
>Paciente entra na sala curada
- Eu estava errada sobre você
- Vá te fuder sua Vagabunda
>Episódio acaba
Todo episódio de The Good Doctor:
>Paciente chega no hospital
>É pessoa comum com um sintoma idiota tipo “dor no cotovelo”
>Shaun Murphy entra em cena olhando pro lado errado
- Doutor Doutor ele está com dor no cotovelo e vai morrer em 3 horas
- A dor no cotovelo combinada com a forma como ele amarrou o tênis indica claramente um tumor no cérebro
- Doutor Shaun isso não faz nenhum sentido
- FAZ SIM
>Shaun vai falar com o paciente enquanto olha pra parede
- Você vai morrer mas eu tenho dificuldade com interações sociais então vou ser direto
- Doutor eu tenho medo
- O medo é uma resposta neurológica ao estímulo de ameaça percebida isso é irrelevante me diz quando você comeu banana pela última vez
- Hã… terça?
- COMO EU SUSPEITAVA
>Shaun corre pelo corredor em câmera lenta tendo um insight genial
>Faz um diagrama no ar com os dedos como se estivesse montando um quebra-cabeça invisível
>A equipe se reúne
- Shaun encontrou o diagnóstico é um parasita raro encontrado apenas em bananas colhidas às terças no Cazaquistão
- Doutor Glassman isso é impossível
- Ele já estava certo 847 vezes esse ano seu imbecil
>Fazem a cirurgia
>Shaun opera melhor que todo mundo enquanto as pessoas ficam boquiabertas
>Paciente curado
- Doutor Murphy como posso te agradecer
- Não precisa eu não gosto de contato visual nem de abraços nem de apertos de mão tchau
>Shaun vai comer um pirulito no corredor
>Glassman aparece com cara de pai orgulhoso
Episódio acaba com música emotiva
a woman accidentally said “fuck” in a grocery store after dropping her phone and a kid standing behind her repeated it instantly.
she turned around absolutely horrified ready to apologize and the mother was crying.
her son is nonverbal and 10 years old and just said his first word ever. the word was fuck. they got invited to a pool party.
this is the most beautiful and chaotic story i have read this week.😭