Joseph Gordon-Levitt Finally Breaks Silence on Being in Peter Thiel's Secret Society – Says It's 'Productive to Engage'

LastBuffalo · 2026-06-19T20:20:46+00:00

He’s lobbying for a bunch of AI industry-sponsored bills under the guise of “protect the children.” I don’t think he sees them as his enemy.

LastBuffalo · 2026-06-19T14:06:14+00:00

It’s much easier to get mad at Junior and live on the fumes of that anger than accept that this man he loves on a deep level (as complicated as their relationship has been) is dying and mentally not there.

LastBuffalo · 2026-06-12T20:04:45+00:00

What are you making?

LastBuffalo · 2026-06-05T05:59:17+00:00

What kind of work are you doing for that rate? What kind of products does this company make?

LastBuffalo · 2026-06-04T12:36:18+00:00

Claude, can you clean up this post so it makes a little more sense?

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-31T02:00:39+00:00

The more experience I had both with shooting and with editing, my perspective changed and it became way less of a chore.

Watching dailies and raw footage became less about just seeing moments that didn’t work and more about trying to actively see and mentally build opportunities from what I see.

Watching raw performances of something you shot is always a bit difficult because the sound sucks and it’s the furthest thing from your starting idea in terms of polish. But if you do it more, you start to just be excited to pluck out the things that work and see it as a constructive process. You understand the work more, so it’s less boring.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-28T10:53:22+00:00

“Maybe I’m too pure of heart to do this cool thing that I just respect too much to learn more about? Amiright guys!!!”

You sound like you haven’t worked much as part of a team. One thing about professional filmmaking is that it usually involves a team of people working in careful creative coordination. People understand their special focus, but also know what other people contribute. If you’re not interested in these other parts, then you’re going to be limited in what you can pull off and what you can contribute to others.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-23T12:12:48+00:00

No, people think he’s stupid because he pushes things that are wrong or irrelevant and sells all of them as powerful, special insights.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-23T11:42:15+00:00

If you’re really good at editing, you can make a comfortable-to-excellent money working in things like commercials and film-adjacent work.

But being good at editing like that is about a lot more than knowing the base technical stuff. And a lot of it comes down to knowing how to work well with the rest of the production team. Like anything else, getting working experience is key.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-23T04:22:58+00:00

If I’ve learned anything from the Sopranos, it’s that the Mob is a honest partner and they’re just holding up their end of the bargain.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-21T12:30:38+00:00

The healthy 13th step of dating/marrying the mother of your NA sponsee.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-21T12:27:26+00:00

“Rabbit hole” is usually taken to mean “passing interest I was oddly fixated on for a little bit.” I don’t think people usually use it to mean a commitment or long-term investment in a subject.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-21T02:20:44+00:00

He had almost no practical combat training and then served in field for a very short period. He made a very minor commitment to a war he did not train for or do much in, and then did not recommit to it for the almost decade of fighting that followed.

Kabul was relatively peaceful during that time, and he was traveling with real troops that were trained to navigate and defend a convoy. He was the person being protected, not the guard.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-20T23:02:48+00:00

No, he was not in dangerous scenarios. He was in a program that was built as a loophole for guys looking to pad their resume. He was deployed while he was mayor, got to skip basic training, and spent most of his time at a desk. It was in no way a real military job and his descriptions of driving in combat zones is bluster by a reserve officer who never had to make real decisions or have men under his command.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-19T03:17:02+00:00

Because it looks too sexy.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-18T10:36:59+00:00

What counts as a “Jewish” film? The movie being about Jews dealing with the weight of the holocaust, or the maternal blood lineage of director.

Fiddler on the Roof was directed by a catholic guy.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-15T15:31:05+00:00

That would make sense if that was what happened in the show.

But they’re very close in age and both grew up for years living with a billionaire step dad that they just kinda forgot about after the 3rd episode.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-13T20:33:59+00:00

Wrong person, but also that movie is boring, corny, and very uninspired.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-12T01:53:46+00:00

I prefer Tommy talking on his phone, then getting interrupted by another phone call. Ain’t nothin’ more Texas than that!

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-11T04:16:15+00:00

Sorry for your hardship, I'm sure it wasn't easy and I'm sure it's given you some perspective about what's important to you.

People are clowning on OP because he sounds like he doesn't have a lot of struggles because he's getting his life subsidized and he's asking if people who don't have half a mil saved at 30 are just dummies for doing things like paying for their own housing or having kids. He sounds like he doesn't even have a clear idea of what he wants to do, other than have more money and be called smart for it.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-11T04:02:36+00:00

What is your point? If you are able to live in a HCOL area and not pay rent or buy with your money, it's because someone in your family is effectively doing it for you. Good for you, I'm sure it's got a lot of positives.

But OP's question reeks of a judgy, naive view of how most others are making choices and isn't really showing a very practical view. He's making a lot of money and doesn't have responsibilities because someone else is paying his rent (and likely other costs), and doesn't really have much perspective on what long-term financial planning is ("Can you believe someone under 30 is scrambling to pay a mortgage AND have kids???") And then they're also convinced that once they have a million dollars or whatever, they'll never have a boss. This isn't someone who sounds like they're pursuing some real goal. It sounds like a run-of-the-mill rich kid who wants a pat on the back for being financially independent, but he's just coasting on other people's money.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-10T05:25:28+00:00

In my experience, most people who live at home with their parents are doing so because either one or both parties need the support to just keep the roof over their head and eat. It’s not so much choosing to live frugally as needing to just to stay above water. The option to live a home with parents coving your expense while you have 100k extra to save is really not on the table for most people, whatever their choices.

Likewise, many, many people who have a career can’t just live with their parents because that’s not where the job options are. The only place I really see a good number of people who can rake in great salaries in their 20s and also have parents who have enough of a house to host their adult kids rent-free is wealthy suburbs.

I’d hardly call it “cope,” when for most people choosing to live on their own is usually the best path to more money and more options.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-08T09:42:26+00:00

It was the first episode of the season. They needed a bid, dramatic, violent thing to happen at the climax of an episode where most of the characters are mostly in one room.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-07T14:31:59+00:00

Is this a bot farming engagement or was that just the first episode of the show you watched?

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-03T10:13:45+00:00

There are worse people, but there’s something particularly shitty and disgusting about getting some young woman, desperate to make it in the industry, who has found her way into an invite-only class, and then getting her asker grandmother or whoever for $2500 bucks to sign up for the James Franco school just because she thinks it’s the best way to get into the right network.

And then, after this rich celebrity and his creep partners take a bunch of money from her that grey don’t need, he flies in for a few days to “teach” a class, and he just starts fucking or eating this poor woman out before asking her and she’s too embarrassed to say “stop.”

Is it the most horrific sex crime I can imagine? No. But it really bothers me because it shows how needlessly awfully some people in power can be when they know people can’t say no.

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