The number of whiplash incidents from contradictory dictates after you left was...something.

Mine would be 18 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds on the virtues of the first three, and two seconds (and two words) on the rest.

Would not those same traditions/bodies make violent coercion more difficult?

It's frightening either way, but if I'm a devoted Yarvin reader working to make America more illiberal, I'm taking a slow erosion of the system as a safer bet against unrest than the FBI literally snatching people up.

Do you then anticipate a push for a Stalinist/Putinite form of authoritarianism rather than the Orbanite one Vance has fawned over?

The cult of personality isn't transferable, no. The GOP probably would look more like a functional political party.

The danger is, Vance, Musk, & others are more ideological than Trump, so that functioning party might well end up even further into the far right.

Thank you.

Last question - wouldn't underestimating GHG sensitivity mean models would be off when compared against paleoclimate data? (I know enough to know that can be tricky to recreate, but my understanding was that models within the accepted sensitivity range matched up well with paleo ests.)

OK. But still unsure how underestimating sensitivity would explain models matching the past and failing now - shouldn't a major underestimation mean we should be a lot warmer by now, even with SO2 spiking in the late 20th century?

For a non-scientist - what does this mean exactly, that underestimating sensitivity would explain both model matches and model failures? Isn't sensitivity based around a doubling of GHG?

Still, I'm glad Eggers found his way to the same place Herzog did, using the NOSFERATU framework to express something from himself. It makes NOSFERATU the only piece of cinema I can think of where every version is a worthy and (mostly) successful artistic effort.

The immersion into the period is fun, as is Dafoe's take on Von Franz (one of the best takes on Van Helsing). But I'm not sure giving a backstory to Orlock & Ellen was necessary, or added meaningfully to her story. Depp's performance = fantastic, but the writing was heavy-handed, esp. at the end.

I'll have to see Eggers' NOSFERATU again before I settle my opinion of it. It's the best of his films - in some ways, it feels like another/better take on THE VVITCH as much as it does another NOSFERATU. It's more aggressive, and in some ways more viscerally scary, than the other two.

The Herzog NOSFERATU is probably best "tribute" remake out there (for what I mean by that, and for an example that's not so good - shameless plug time): collider.com/peter-jackso...