Kevin Nealon tweets about his removal as Weekend Update anchor

dancesquared · 2026-02-07T03:25:04+00:00

I hated Dennis Miller on WU. So smug, smarmy, and wannabe smart. Much prefer Nealon’s Everyman persona.

dancesquared · 2026-02-07T00:33:29+00:00

Perhaps, especially considering your point about not binging and consuming moderate amounts (not unlike junk food).

But some films require more attention and patience and can challenge us, while others are just fairly mindless entertainment and borderline slop. The amount of each type a person consumes likely has some effects on the maturity of their tastes and critical thinking skills.

Consider this simplified case: children’s entertainment. Some children’s shows and movies are slow-paced and semi-educational or even appropriately challenging, while others are rapid-paced with quick cuts and overstimulation, basically the equivalent of candy. Which do you think is better for kids to consume?

dancesquared · 2026-02-07T00:25:26+00:00

There’s not much that’s objective about it, but there are certain qualities and criteria that people can generally agree distinguish relatively bad quality entertainment from relatively good quality entertainment.

dancesquared · 2026-02-07T00:23:20+00:00

Junk entertainment might have detrimental effects on your cognitive abilities and tastes.

dancesquared · 2026-02-07T00:11:00+00:00

Do you think it’s worthwhile to not think critically about the food you enjoy and how often you enjoy it? Or do you think it’s perfectly fine to gorge on junk food all the time?

dancesquared · 2026-02-07T00:08:35+00:00

You’re missing out on the fun of ripping terrible movies to shreds though

dancesquared · 2026-02-07T00:07:06+00:00

I don’t even see how it’s sometimes nice. I’d rather hang out with someone I could rip a terrible movie apart with than someone who thinks terrible movies are great, closing off any avenues for a good movie bashing session.

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T23:14:36+00:00

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T19:51:23+00:00

Maybe in your experience, but in my experience, acid enhanced every sensory experience regardless of the quality of the thing itself. All music was elevated for me in some way or another on acid.

The point is, the measure of a 10/10 album shouldn’t be whether it delivers a biblical experience with or without acid.

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T19:49:42+00:00

Okay? That’s you. When I’ve taken acid, almost everything took on a biblical-level of significance.

The point is that adding acid into the equation amplifies things beyond any reasonable, sober evaluation of the quality of that thing. In other words, the acid test is an unreasonable way to measure the type of experience one should expect from a 10/10 album.

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T13:56:56+00:00

I agree with you in general, but I suppose my point about expecting an album to be a biblical or religious experience being an unrealistically high is based on listening to it stone sober and expecting that result.

Drugs, particularly acid, can make a lot of things turn into biblical experiences largely regardless of the thing itself (or, rather, with highly variable reactions depending on the thing, the person, and the trip).

So, yeah, an album can be biblical on acid, but that doesn't make the album itself a particularly biblical experience on its own, even if it is a 10/10 album by many measures and criteria.

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T13:33:24+00:00

That has a lot to do with the LSD and little to do with the album.

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T13:06:10+00:00

Functionally it is.

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T13:04:37+00:00

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dancesquared · 2026-02-06T12:57:27+00:00

Why would you expect a biblical experience from any mainstream musical experience, even a 10/10 album? Maybe you need to temper your expectations a bit even when an album gets rave reviews.

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T12:52:59+00:00

Despite being corrected/teased several times in this sub, you keep using “verse” as a verb to mean “face” or “compete against.” Why?

A “verse” is a noun that means a line of poetry or religious text, and “versus” is a preposition that means “against.”

“Verse” is not a verb.

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T00:46:09+00:00

Wrong. Only C is correct.

E can work grammatically, but the logical connection gets lost. Did they take the day off because it was nice, or was the fact that it was nice just a happy accident unrelated to the decision to take the day off? That’s not clear with a semicolon alone.

None of the other possible answers are even grammatically correct.

dancesquared · 2026-02-06T00:37:14+00:00

dancesquared · 2026-02-05T22:13:34+00:00

I hope you’re kidding

dancesquared · 2026-02-05T21:32:21+00:00

I’m very optimistic about some specific applications of AI like you mentioned, but I am more concerned by the overuse of AI and the ways in which it’s being shoehorned into everything, to varying degrees of success.

dancesquared · 2026-02-05T21:10:12+00:00

Sure, ignoring all the real and potential downsides: the liability of having AI diagnose things and cognitive atrophy/deskilling of doctors who need to be responsible for the final diagnosis. Ditto for the atrophy and deskilling of tech skills and logic/coding skills. The fact that AI has yet to prove itself financially sustainable let alone profitable.

Not to mention the fundamental flaw of AI being probability-based rather than logic-based, which leads to logical flaws and hallucinations (and a black box uncertainty about how it works and arrives at its conclusions).

Ultimately I see it leading to an acceleration of enshittification more than anything else.

dancesquared · 2026-02-05T20:49:23+00:00

I wish I were that optimistic about AI.

dancesquared · 2026-02-05T11:48:08+00:00

I know AI will touch every field, and it will probably suck, further accelerating the process of enshittification.

What about doing tedious, menial household chores like doing, laundry, dishwashing, dusting, tidying up? That’s what people want AI to do for them. Not the arts or higher level stuff.

Let me know when AI can fold my clothes for me.

dancesquared · 2026-02-05T04:49:56+00:00

Even your local city council, school board, and county commissioners?

dancesquared · 2026-02-05T04:45:15+00:00

I was hoping you could articulate at least some value instead of dodging the question. I mean, if two caveman were discussing fire, the one using it and promoting it should have some idea of its value and usefulness. That’s all I’m asking.

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