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Jeff McMahon

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Los Angeles-based writer/editor/filmmaker. Movie watcher, book reader, politics obsesser. Denver native, NYC visitor. Fuck Elon/Trump/Putin/Bibi/etc.

  1. I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:

    we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts right now. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space

    “I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.

    Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’

    “I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.

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  2. Historically have people previously had a “positive view” of tipping

    Confused about tipping? A new Bankrate survey finds 63% of Americans now have a negative view of tipping. Experts explain when to tip, how much, and where you can skip it—without the guilt.

    Confused about tipping? A new Bankrate survey finds 63% of Americans now have a negative view of tipping. Experts explain when to tip, how much, and where you can skip it—without the guilt.

    Confused about tipping? When experts say you should — and shouldn’t — tip

    Confused about tipping? A new Bankrate survey finds 63% of Americans now have a negative view of tipping. Experts explain when to tip, how much, and where you can skip it—without the guilt.

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  3. Fail-Safe (’64, Lumet): The scene of the pilot’s wife screaming at him to please stop following orders reminds me of that scene in Twin Peaks in which Major Briggs says his greatest fear is “The possibility that love is not enough.”

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