I agree, which is why I don't see why people are saying the answer is 16. You add in the parentheses, you multiply, then you divide. The answer is 1.
This left-to-right business linked below is complete nonsense when it comes to equations. That's how westerners read books, but not how math is communicated. Am I that old? Like Mr. Incredible said, did they change math!?!
Luckovich is a badass.
"I didn't say she was crazy, I said she was fucking Goofy!"
So, she shares a name with The Walrus of Love himself, Barry White. Cool. There's a joke in there somewhere...
Excellent point!
In Star Trek, their run-of-the-mill, rarely discussed deflector is doing way more work than anything in the Star Wars universe. The one exception is the world-ender planet lasers which have been a big plot point in too many films and STILL have no plausible means to exist IN THEIR OwN UNIVERSE!
I hope they licensed this footage appropriately and paid the voice actors scale, but I'd bet good money they didn't.
I definitely felt the trauma of that time coming back and felt like crying at the end just due to the release of it all.
The commercial: https://youtu.be/uMwFWDIFVCU
The spoof: https://youtu.be/fhfcWTZeP1k
10 years ago! Geez.
Tri Repetae.
I finally watched Contagion after hearing about it since Covid. It's eerie how many things they got right about a global pandemic: the blogger with his BS treatment, vilifying the head of the CDC... The list goes on.
I also watched the Deathstalker remake. It was okay, but that was to be expected.
Those of us possibly even older may point to the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in '87. From Wikipedia, the fairness doctrine "required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints." In short, it's repeal paved the way for Fox News and led all the way to CBS under Weiss.
But to your point, there are 3 things on my platform that I tell anyone who wants to hear it. 3 actionable items:
I didn't say it would be easy.