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The Heartbreak Prince

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When the ebay listing is for the frame only but the fork and tank are in the background but never in focus but clearly there and you check the seller's listings and they are indeed separate listings

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Boycotting the whole deal just because they had to make it annoying

I want all the bits that are important for my project specifically and none of the ones that aren't, is that too much to ask?

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You can't reason with capitalism

When a minority of individuals is doing much better over time while everyone else languishes, the capitalist's retort is a summary statistic that pretends that minority's success is everyone's: they'll say wages overall are rising, society overall is better off, if you don't personally feel wealthier you're imagining things or undeserving or unlucky or just complaining. But that's not what has happened: inequality has dragged up the mean to hide the median

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You know that whole bit in 7th or 8th grade when they're teaching averages and they're explaining the differences between mean, median, and mode, and then "average" becomes shorthand for "mean" because "mean" is meant to be the most accurate average

That's literally training

They're training you to prefer the number that is more easily influenced by outliers over the two other, less manipulable measures of typicality

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Let's say you've got a hundred people who make 4k/month and one person whose income is 4,000k/month

The mean income of that group is $500k/year and the reality is 99% of the dataset is pulling not even 1/10th of that

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The Acolyte reviews are like "well it's definitely not as exciting as Andor and we really wish all Star Wars was as good as Andor from now on" and like,

Andor is a freak, its story framework (Les Mis) spawned a better film than any of the feature length Star Wars movies

It's just a completely unfair standard

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It's like hoping the new Star Trek series will be as good as The Irishman, you played yourself

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So if you watch the original Star Wars and pretend you know nothing about it, there's a little bit of setup in the beginning where Luke's whining about wanting to see the galaxy and how all his friends are leaving and Owen needs him to stay on the farm and that's final

Which is a believable enough setup that you can kinda move on to the rest of the movie but then he meets his friend Biggs in the rebellion and they make comments about "back home" and it makes zero sense BECAUSE

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There's a deleted scene from the beginning of the movie where Luke has friends and Biggs is there and tells Luke about the Rebellion and this gives us a picture of how Luke interacts with and relates to his peers (he's the geek) and provides context for the conflict between staying on the farm and going to flight school

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Maybe more than any scene that made it in to the final cut, this scene is obviously from the director of American Graffiti. There's even a mean babe

https://youtu.be/BBp6PEHV_MU

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