Also, do we even know that she *is* playing Helen, who barely shows up in The Odyssey? I kinda assumed she was cast as Calypso.

I don't know how good Ol' Chucky here is at geography or history but I'd like to point out that 1) Greece is very close to both Africa and the Middle East, which relatedly means 2) Greece has always had Black and Brown people, and 3) The Odyssey is, in fact, fictional.

Mr. Norrey bought a Eshter Perel book and for a week we both got a bunch of divorce lawyer ads.

"You have to hand it to Eva Braun for her great eyeliner" is a hell of a take.

This is a real failure of reading comprehension, I feel. "Best in set" does not mean good if the set is mostly shit. The best meal I've had at Applebee's was a plate of nachos but I wouldn't *recommend* it.

Kinda? I remember voting for Clinton in kindergarten mock elections. But my political memory begins mostly with the Bosnian war and genocide, followed by Bob Dole (lol), Clinton scandal, 2000 election and then 9/11.

Do not exchange your blood for money, blood you put on a creation you poured your soul into Jesus it's like you're TRYING to get imprisoned by a Baba Yaga.

I still remember the time I had a terrible flu and was feverish for days and you and Ben brought me chocolate and X on VHS. To this day cannot tell you what parts were real and what were fever induced delusions.

Yes! It's an epic, it needs DRAMA. It looks like Nolan raided the Gladiator II costume closet and said "this should be fine". He might be the worst director for this specific project.

Ok, but like there are a LOT of white people still using the n word. The football team for the *US capital* just changed their name from a slur 5 years ago and people are still losing their shit about it. The underlying claim is so obviously false it's embarrassing.

I need Amtrak to be more affordable - I live 90 miles west on a rail line from my home town and fares during holiday seasons are $50-$90 one-way. With a family of 4, it's just too steep when driving is an option. They need more subsidies!

Part of the reason I didn't want to know the sex of my children pre-birth. I wanted myself (and the rest of the world) to avoid creating a vision of them that probably wouldn't exist. I knew they would be in inundated with social expectations their whole life, it didn't need to start in utero.

It's a both/and - planting more trees won't compensate for fossil fuel use and cutting emissions without restoring functional ecosystems won't stabilize the environment to support human thriving.

Right!

This is a teaching/testing problem, not a disability problem. You can just give everyone unlimited time on tests. It doesn't give people "advantages" because education doesn't have to be competitive. We decide to make it competitive, and we can decide to stop doing that.

This is a man who has never shared a moment of authentic joy with another human being.

I loved it when I saw it in theaters, and maintained it was a great movie until last year when, after watching Andor, I realized I could not remember anything about it.

These guys all peaked in high school as second string football players.

I feel like I should know who this is. I mean I have guesses.