The Coen Brothers made THE ODYSSEY long before Christopher Nolan. O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000) is one of the funniest and most inventive modern retellings of Homer’s epic ever put on screen.
Air travel is a modern marvel. You have unemployed, depressed people posting from their parents’ basements 'everything is broken' and 'the end is near' nebulously while back in reality, global infrastructure go brrrrr and normal people are enjoying their lives
MrBeast did a 14-day water fast and got a different result than the internet promised.
He went in for a video, not weight loss. Online claims said extended fasting mostly burns fat and spares muscle. A DEXA scan before and after told a different story: roughly 13 pounds (about 6 kg) of fat and 7 pounds (about 3 kg) of lean mass gone. The muscle didn’t bounce back the moment he started eating again.
By day 5–6 the energy crash hit hard. Standing up and walking around on days 10–12 felt brutal. The much-hyped mental clarity never showed up for him, he was simply exhausted the whole time.
Theo Von had just done a 72-hour water fast and found it manageable. Fourteen days was another level.
A real-world data point that didn’t match the Reddit consensus.
The novel behind BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA (2007) was written by Katherine Paterson to help her 8-year-old son cope with the death of his best friend, who was struck by lightning.
Years later, that same son, David Paterson, produced the film adaptation.
Robert Downey Jr. explains why he almost turned down Tropic Thunder
"Ben called and asked me to do this movie. I thought, 'Yeah, I'll do that after Iron Man.'"
"Then I started thinking, 'This is a terrible idea.'"
"I had to ask myself, 'Where is your heart?'"
"I realized I wasn't trying to mock Black people. I was trying to hold up a mirror to the insane, self-involved hypocrisy of actors who think they're allowed to do anything."
"Ben Stiller knew exactly what movie he was making. It was impossible to make it without people thinking it could become an offensive nightmare."
"But 90% of my Black friends were like, 'Dude, that was great.'"
@MelFuller2001@SenSanders I mean, if you watch the clip, he admits that private jets are the only way to properly get around when you're doing several rallies a week and talking to tens of thousands of people. That sounds less like pride and more like just logistic indifference.
@Alconaut05L@SenSanders You do understand that local shores are not all the exact same height, right? Therefore, would it not stand to reason that perhaps the rising sea levels haven't really affected that specific area?
@Nancey_Peloser@SenSanders Something to consider is that we've been actively making efforts during that time, which have been delaying things and gradually expanding that timeline.
@Kenjatina_og Look, I'm not an Elon Musk hater, but the guy says this shit about timelines like on self-driving cars all the time and he's never been right about it. Why would he suddenly be right now? The guy is full of it.
@CountryFirstRep Bush looking back was certainly not our worst president, but he made a lot of mistakes and really didn't advance America in a meaningful and helpful way.
@TONYxTWO I'll put it this way too. I didn't agree with Charlie Kirk probably even a majority of the time. I am at heart just too much of what would be classified as a (centrist/sane) Democrat. But he was always respectful of people, and I thought he carried himself very well
Bill Burr explaining why he thinks women are overrated on live television is wild, and honestly I would have crawled under the desk right then and there.
Bill Burr: Women are overrated, right?
Conan O'Brien: We went from not listening to them to now it's just, you know, it's just ridiculous.
Bill Burr: Like that believe women. It's like, all of them? How about 85 percent? 87 percent, all right? But that last 13 percent that keys your car, sets your shit on fire.
What are your thoughts, drop them in the replies because there is no way he actually got away with saying this on late night TV