The Broligarch's are reading the wrong philosophers. If they read Polanyi they would know that you can't build a tacit knowledge system based on explicit knowledge. Its summed up in the pithy "we know more than we can tell". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polanyi%27s_paradox
Amen. Everyday I get closer to a small acerage in nowheresville. I'd rather be close to cocktail bars and the opera, But running away is looking better and better.
I was looking at the hand holding the cup.
It's too deepfried to tell, but there are a bunch of messed up areas.
It's interesting to me how Blazing Saddles get a pass on the language, it other satirical films don't. Similarly Tropic Thunder doesn't get pilloried for Downey Jr's blackface, but it's the kiss of death for so many other films.
$20. I don't enjoy gambling.
I wish Trading Places could fit here. It is a genuinely hilarious comedy with one of the smartest takes on class culture ever laid to film. But there are some parts that the culture has turned away from...Dan Ackroyd in blackface is something that is just not tolerated these days. I wish it could be viewed for the satire that it is.
Sweet summer child. We learned FORTRAN on punch cards that we would send off to the regional office for them to run. Our punch cards would get returned to us with a fanfold printout of errors/output. I'm not sure I ever saw a program work correctly. Mostly because the bad kids would slip fucked up cards into other people's programs, and comment cards remarking on the teacher and her physical unattractiveness. It was a major relief when they put in a micro-lab stocked with these.
Again, fair. I haven't read Ms Daniel's comments directly. I can fully accept that there was something other than aesthetics driving the change.
Fair. And it's true that I haven't watched all the porn that out there, but it was my first sight of naked pudendum. I'm confident it wasn't the first ever. But the 60s and 70s were known as big bush era.
With full respect to Ms Daniels I think it predates DVDs. My first sight (and many others I suspect) was an actress by the name of Seka who was shaving in the 70s and possibly earlier. As she tells it she was an early innovator in glamming up porn with good hair and makeup. Shaving was part of an exotic look.
The issue of when you are an adult is a trickier question than you might imagine. I have written in a previous answer about how children in North America would leave home around 13 or 14. There would be transitional spaces such as rooming houses or boarding houses before they were fully Independent, but they were fully functional "adults" by 15 or 16.
You can see this in the coming of age rituals for various cultures. The bar/bat mitzvah at age 13, the quinceanera at 15, the sweet sixteen for white folks. I do note that many of these are female centered and signal availability for dating/marriage. Boys just became men without much ceremony.
We still have a gradual introduction of rights and privileges with age. In my jurisdiction courts will consider a child's wishes in divorce starting at age eight. You can be charged with a crime at age 12, you can work for wages at 14, you can drive at 16, vote at 18. Alcohol consumption is 19 where I live but is 18 in many parts of the country.
So why 18? It matches up with other markers of maturation like graduation from high school. Could it be 17? Probably. Should it be 16? Possibly. But 18 used to be an age of independence. You could expect to be leaving home and starting a life separate from your parents. That has certainly changed. If we were to keep things in alignment maybe we should push the age back into the mid-20s? ๐