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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Adolescence’ Available to Stream in All U.K. Secondary Schools in Initiative Backed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer: We Must ‘Tackle the Issues This Groundbreaking Show Raises’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They've said similar things before - it's not like this show invented this problem. Whatever their half-arsed initiatives were before (typically things like sending a middle-aged woman to say "hey guys, don't be mean to girls, mmkay?") didn't work, because a real solution involves acknowledging the wider role that society plays, and spending real money in places that aren't London.

  So instead they'll just blame boys - recognise that a teenage boy with low self-esteem is a dangerous thing, and give them one more thing to feel bad about. Tell them they should be different once, and ignore all the ways in which adults continue to encourage or discourage the ways they currently are.

  And instead of raising places in the North out of deprivation, they're doing the cheapest thing imaginable. Streaming a show to school kids that explicitly calls out how much modern teaching has been reduced to playing videos for them. Genius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the worst actor miscasts in TV?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It's usually best to given 'em the benefit of the doubt, as a bad performance by a child actor is often more due to the director than the kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the worst actor miscasts in TV?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The show runner for Mad Men cast his own son as 'Glen', and that kid was a terrible actor (he's an adult now obvs, so I consider his performance fair game for criticism).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Adolescence’ Sets Netflix Record With 66.3 Million Views, Best Ever Two-Week Total for a Limited Series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This show was a bit more kitchen-sinky than shows I'd normally watch - it reminded me a bit of stuff by Ken Loach or Mike Leigh, but I liked Adolescence a lot more than their films (even though I realise that their output is highly regarded).

  I've seen a fair bit of negativity about it in these kinds of online spaces, so I imagine that I'm going against the grain by saying that I'd recommend it. It's best to know as little about it as possible beforehand though - not just about the story beats, but also don't buy into the hype about it and expect too much of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, FINALLY! SENPAI NOTICED ME!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's harder to detect, but wildly optimistic if they think that people are going to manually type URLs out. It feels like this latest manoeuvre is just to score a win in the arms race against them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TV shows and movies are already compressed. If you try to compress something that's already compressed, it typically ends up bigger if anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surgeon generas warning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once did some office work for a tobacco company, where you were allowed to smoke at your desk. I don't smoke, but I had a few ciggies when I was there, because you realise that you've never really pointed at anything, until you've pointed at it with a cig in your hand. It's just a better way to point at stuff (I don't make the rules).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Novocaine" is now Certified Fresh with 80% on Rotten Tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This says more about RT's flawed ratings system than it does the quality of this movie. '80% Fresh' just mean 80% of critics thought it was watchable (so it applies if there were 5 critics, and 4 said 'meh' and 1 said 'bad'). The AVClub gave it a C+, which is the kind of rating that RT regards as Fresh from some publications and Rotten from others.

  I've no idea why people are trying to Jack Quaid a thing, he was already a thing as soon as he was born to his famous parents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about many Americans constantly calling people "black" and "white" and making such a big thing about it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched a TV show called 'Justified: City Primeval' - it's not very good, but something I found weird was how often the characters mentioned each other's race I'm from the UK, so maybe it was just badly written, or maybe Americans do actually talk like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman, 74, charged under abortion protest law in Glasgow⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well done Scotland, for drafting and actually enforcing this law.

  It's no surprise that this woman, and the others pictured in the article, are all of a demographic that they're not going to have to actually make maternal healthcare decisions for themselves.