"The old man thinks he_{2}'s in love with his_{1} daughter."

There you go, fixed it for you Tom. No need for humorous misunderstandings now

But my eyerolling there is somewhat a response to the lazy "edgy Atheists are bad, therefore theism is good" narrative I've seen cropping up online, more so than to anything in the movie.

The closest they got was a scene depicting that the Church can offer a shoulder to cry on for those suffering alone. But... so can any secular community? Ideally with SIGNIFICANTLY less harmful baggage?

It resulted in an acceptable, but soulless detective story. Some viewers apparently found a compelling message about faith within, but I didn't parse anything coherent out of the words wasted on the topic.

When cameras are installed, they issue many violations in the first month, followed by a steep decline in the second month. This suggests that the cameras effectively deter speeding by changing underlying driver behavior rather than relying on sustained revenue extraction.

🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something

Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said

I don't know how we get past this moment without ejecting its perpetrators and fellow travelers from society in some way. I don't know how we muster the public will to do so, nor what shape that takes.

But, if we don't, the stochastic parrot will be one big nail in the coffin of liberal democracy.

As can @npr.org's reporting, which just presents RFK's pseudoscience without comment or contrast.

Be better.

It is a testament to the failures of our gif indexing services that there is no gif for this film's most memorable moment.

youtu.be/wGMzTfKUKx0?...

There has to be a term, concept for how the virtues of a free society fall apart in the face of nothing but advertising, soliciting, and propagating, and glorifying vice.