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Comment Re:Actors and Hollywood are dead men walking (Score 1) 99

> There's nothing to indicate it can or will produce anything remotely approaching an interesting new take on anything.

You may be correct. I doubt it will matter much. As Mencken in 1938 said, ""No one in this world, so far as I know... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

Comment Actors and Hollywood are dead men walking (Score 1) 99

Not to mention the porn industry.

It's not just the actors, it's the whole entertainment industry that's doomed.

Look, it's all about money and synthetic actors will always be cheaper. Eventually they'll be better. Even more eventually, your humble home computer will be able to cobble up a personalized drama, comedy, rom com or whatever you want, on command and there will be no more Hollywood, Bollywood or anything like a centralized entertainment industry.

Like the T800 in terminator, this can't be stopped. It can't even be slowed.

Comment And research will be killed by loony MAGAs (Score 1) 57

Because drugs!.

There's a whole contingent of the USA population who put all drugs in one mental bucket and scream "drugs are baaaaad."

If the USA government was serious about drug harm reduction, then THCs and hallucinogenics would be legal and cheap so law enforcement resources could focus on cracking down on actually harmful drugs like meth, fentanyl, PCP and it's analogs and so on.

Eventually, less harmful drugs would crowd out more harmful drugs and drug associated health problems become relatively minor.

Comment And who is more qualified than the WSJ to know? /s (Score 1) 213

While the article does discuss a valid point which is that much of physics research is nonsense. The reason is that the whole system of grant funding is dysfunctional. It's not a conspiracy run by a secret cabal. It's just the usual case of institutional human stupidity.

Comment Re: "Probing Uranus sounds too gay" (Score 1) 36

Better than a medically illiterate fool.

Oh, but I'm sure you know better than doctors who have spent their lives studying these things like the authors of this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/b...

Just like politicians who take contributions from oil companies know more about climate change than thousands of climate scientists who've spent their lives studying weather and climate.

You're not a deplorable as much as a "gullible."

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