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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Review: An Unsettling Masterpiece
Mongo 19 October 2023
Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a romance, a western, a whodunit and a lesson in the bloody his...
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Radical candor vs. Kind Candor
As many of you may know, candor was my kryptonite and the "half ingredient" of the traits from my last book Twelve and a Half. I...
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Is Tokyo really a YIMBY success story?
It is common lore in YIMBY circles that Tokyo is such an inexpensive city because Tokyo/Japan has allowed so much freedom to build.  Someti...
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Burt Young, ‘Rocky’ Actor Who Played Complex Tough Guys, Dies at 83
Mongo 19 October 2023
A former boxer from the streets of Queens, he became a scene stealer with his portrayals of mobsters, cops and working men with soul.
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‘The Delinquents’ Review: Money for Nothing
Mongo 18 October 2023
A bank worker asks a colleague to watch the cash he has stolen in this low-key Argentine feature from Rodrigo Moreno.
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Still Haven't "Figured Life Out" ?
Whether you're 15, 25, 37 or even 90, the only thing you need to have "figured out" is what you're actually good at, and g...
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Claims about the future
DALL•E3 is America-pilled "Please make me an image of the best possible future for humanity" pic.twitter.com/NGk08NcSww — Packy...
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*China’s World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict*
That is a forthcoming book by David Daokiu Li .  Perhaps it is the very best book explaining “how China works today?” “What should I read o...
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The Calverts Cliff Decision
By the early 1970s, Atomic Age dreams of ubiquitous nuclear power were evaporating as fast as those Space Age fantasies of humanity soon sp...
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Response functions for Israeli-Palestine conflict
A VAR is a clever way to model whether the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is tit-for-tat. Here is much more by Cremiaux , with some simple ...
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