[reading the teleprompter] And we love it when it’s over, don’t we, folks? Love it when it’s over. When it’s gone away without hope of resuscitation or redemption or reunion. When there’s no reason to look back. But we always do, don’t we, folks? We always do
The way Charles Dance walks over literally everyone involved in Game of Thrones is insane. There are some great performances in this show but good lord is he incredible
Rob Reiner news been really bumming me out. Only saving grace for my sanity on here is all the different clips of his Wolf of Wall Street performance going around. I've stopped scrolling every time to watch the one of him screaming "I WAIT AALLLL WEEK FOR THE FUCKING EQUALIZER!!"
@StutteringCraig Hollywood no longer reflects reality.
I knew they went too far when I saw modern Bible stories featuring ethnically mixed actors playing the roles of Romans, Jews, Gentiles (Greeks), etc..
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Samson a Jew?
Why do all of these guys structure their posts like this? Can none of them string together two sentences without a double line break? I’ve been seeing this more and more and would really love to know where it started.
I was watching Netflix’s new series Death by Lightning. It’s set in Chicago, 1880 - and this establishing scene pops up.
In the foreground:
•an Asian woman,
•two Black men,
•and a one-legged man - all walking together downtown.
It immediately stuck out to me, so I looked up the actual demographics for Chicago in 1880.
Here’s what the numbers say:
•Chicago’s population: about 503,000
•Black population: 6,500 (≈1.3%)
•Chinese population: 172 total (≈0.03%)
•Chinese women? About 3% of that - meaning roughly 5 total in the entire city.
•Disabled/one-legged men from the Civil War era? Plausible, maybe 0.1–0.2% of the population.
So if you ran the math on the odds of seeing all of that - an Asian woman, two Black men, and an amputee - in one random 50-person crowd downtown, it comes out to about 0.00016%, or roughly 1 in 640,000.
In other words, Netflix made a scene that’s about as statistically likely as spotting a UFO on your morning commute - but hey, at least the diversity box got checked.