Paramore's After Laughter is a perfect album except for 'No Friend (of Mine)'.

It's not a bad song, just nowhere near the level of the other songs.

Africa will be no different than all the other emerging economies. As they achieve a certain amount of wealth, health and education, they will temper their population also. Just as every other nation has done.

People are still propagating this decades after he was wrong?

The title is a bit misleading because we are only talking about two very niche Hershey products. Special Dark and 85 percent cocao bars. Some people ITT seem to make the leap that it's the iconic milk chocolate bar.

Which makes sense, since that (the darkest varieties) is a less processed chocolate. Also, it being done in Africa, a place where leaded gas is still being used (until recently), means that it was likely absorbing it through the air as they dried out the beans.

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.8009#:~:text=Because%20of%20the%20high%20capacity,unshelled%20beans%20at%20cocoa%20farms.

I'm nearing 50 and I agree.

Nothing stays the same forever and if you're close-minded about what's happening now, you're just cheating yourself.

The only thing that gives me pause is all these festivals that are 4-day events now. Maybe that's just a sign of me getting old or I've been conditioned to 3 day events. Just seems like too much.

I never went back and revisited it, I just remember the pacing being really bad. There would be scenes I would like, but then it would just start dragging again.

That was one of the things that made Chinatown so great. It just had this energy that propelled you forward.

Memento will always be my top.

It was early internet era, so it was really hard to find information on-line for it. I remember going to the official website and click everything trying to learn all I could. Months after I saw it, I was still learning things about it and enjoying new reactions to it as people had the same experience.

In the end, most people go to a movie theater for escapism. So, Hollywood is always going to lean towards appealing to the masses.

So, that's why for the majority of film history, movies have been beautiful people, in beautiful settings saying perfectly-crafted dialog.

The 70's was a real break from this. Some of my favorite movies are from this era because of this. Early Spielberg was really great at doing it. He would ground his movies in realism upfront. People were sweaty, houses were unkempt, hair was a little messy. That way, when the fantastical part of the story kicks in (Jaws, Close Encounters, ET) you are bought in and along for the ride. But even he got away from it and his later fantasy films (Hook, War of the Worlds, A.I.) have that glossy sheen on them all the way through.

A city is so multi-faceted it would be impossible to show it all and feel authentic. There are movies that show you slices of it and do a good job.

‘Kids’ was one that came to mind, as it effectively shows what it is like to grow up white, poor and in an urban center.

‘Lady bird’ I thought was effective, because while it was centered around Sacramento, it could’ve been 100 other small cities in America. The architecture, how class was often divided by neighborhoods you lived in, the private schools that were declining, the adults that felt stuck there and their kids that wanted to get out.

Lizzo is a good recent example of this. She had the backing of a major studio, critical acclaim and even appearances on movie soundtracks and her third album went largely ignored. It was one of the best in its genre for the year. She was so dispirited she wanted to quit.

Then a few years after release, one of the songs got featured on a Netflix show, which then allowed it to gain popularity on Tik Tok. Then she blew up as people went back through her catalog and realized how good it was.

If it wasn’t for that Netflix show, it probably never would’ve happened for her.

This article is about power outages that happened in 2 very specific locations in America.

Heavily wooded areas that were affected by seasonal ice storms. Since our power grid is above ground, falling limbs is always going to be an issue.

Sadly, I think a lot of rock history is dependent on journalists, critics and newer stars carrying their banner. During the 80s and 90s there weren't really any champions reminding people about them.

An example of this is Pearl Jam with Neil Young.

Can’t go wrong with Lisa Hannigan.

https://youtu.be/TVwt2nwku0U

It starts slow, but builds into a nice crescendo.

Sounds like you're too up your own head about it. I would recommend going the other way and forgetting about music completely. Over time, you will come back around.

It's no different than food, art or love. Sometimes our brains just need a break from it in order to find our passion again.

Most of these are understaffed with overworked workers. Sales happen, they don’t update the system and then customers don’t catch the mistake.

I had it happen near me. I had an item that was 3/10 and I begrudgingly paid 10 dollars instead of the 4.75 for one. I get to the counter and it rang up at full price. Had to walk the clerk back to the shelf to show them. Came in two weeks later and the same thing happened.

> Mountains of lawyers and compliance professionals are what drive the employee count.

You would think you could just contract that out, but maybe there are government rules against that type of thing.

They’re kind of like roller coasters for me. I go and have a great time and then don’t think of them again.

This is a good example of why the Oscars are a bad metric of movie history. Public perception and media narrative have such an undue influence on who wins (at the time) that it makes the award rather meaningless. All that context is lost as the decades move on and people forget.

Basinger was coming off of a few high-profile duds and was largely seen as on her way out of Hollywood. So, everyone loves a comeback story and voted for that instead of giving it to ( the relative newcomer) Moore. Plus, Moore’s nom was hampered by being in such a big cast. Not a traditional ‘leading actress’ part even though she is the emotional crux of that movie.

Break Down was probably my favorite of the genre. It really did a great job of making you feel the desolation and hopelessness of the situation. It doesn’t end as strong as it starts, but that first 40 minutes really draws you in.

When you are bidding on a project, you are incentivized to come in at the lowest price possible. So, you skimp on 'features' and then try to upsell them (at twice the price) once you won the bid.

The other sneaky thing you can do is use off-the-shelf parts, obscure the mfg part# and renumber it with your own number. Then when the customer needs to replace those parts, they come back to you with your part # and then you can upcharge them again.

Now you know one of the reasons why projects that use public funds cost so much.

All this will seem rather pointless when we start mining on the moon.

Painfully white list. Peter Cetera and The Proclaimers should never be on any ‘party’ list.

Missing so many bangers from American R&b acts, G-funk Rap or Parliament Funk, the Eurodance era of the early 90’s, Latin freestyle dance-pop of the 80s and 90s.

The Hives.

I’m more into thoughtful, lyrically rich folk/indie music, but I love The Hives because they’re just pure energy.

• Lazy Eye -Silversun Pickups
• No One Knows - QotSa
• Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives
• Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
• Have Love, Will Travel - The Black Keys

It pained me not to put more QotSA and Yeah Yeah Yeahs on here.

Sea levels have risen 12 inches in the past 100 years and are expected to do the same in the next 30-80 years (depending on who you read).

So, regardless of how you feel about climate change, this is a needed step for future Americans.

It isn’t ‘throwing money away’. Every engineering project gives us an opportunity to learn and improve on future projects. As we’ve seen with inflation, money spent today will be WAY more affordable then attempting to do it 30 years from now.