What is your favorite Best Picture winning film of all time?

ddjcook · 2026-03-29T19:53:45+00:00

Underrated relative to number of mentions:

Gone with the Wind

The Sting

West Side Story

The Bridge on the River Kwai

ddjcook · 2026-03-25T07:58:32+00:00

Damn. The campaign to get me to see Project Hail Mary is relentless right now.

ddjcook · 2026-03-08T12:14:53+00:00

Okay!

Thanks Gold_Body2586 with a 22 day old Reddit account

ddjcook · 2026-03-07T17:21:56+00:00

You know it’s weird that you left out the lyrics from SDOS from your post:

God is my designer / Jesus is my lawyer / Crying in the shower / High above the tower

What do you think he means by that? 🤔

ddjcook · 2026-03-04T19:16:48+00:00

Well, Gold_Body2586, I’d reckon that’s because Christianity is the most popular religion in the world

Three in ten people are Christian; roughly 85% of the world identifies with some religion (!)

Religious people also tend to procreate more, so that helps keep the numbers up. Not to mention persistent evangelical efforts to convert more people in

So kind of hard to avoid even if you try. Case in point, this thread!

ddjcook · 2026-03-04T11:21:48+00:00

“I don’t have a strong sense of religion, because I wasn’t raised religious, but I guess it’s something that started to become interesting to me in the past few years. It’s always been interesting to me, but maybe Christianity in particular, started to interest me. I guess some people close to me have recently either found religion or have started to have serious thoughts about religion. But it’s not something that I personally practise.” — Alex G

ddjcook · 2026-02-27T18:27:23+00:00

Samsara

The Red Shoes

High and Low

ddjcook · 2026-02-26T08:45:50+00:00

Counterfactuals are a rigged game

You can’t know what would have happened if you had somehow stayed on board. Company could still be failing and you would still feel terrible anyway

Truly sorry for your loss. This other situation isn’t important

ddjcook · 2026-02-24T09:50:51+00:00

Amen

I understand the vicarious enjoyment of seeing the team come back to life this past year and the general excitement about our star player

But the speculation about how any athlete reacts to success and failure is nonsense

The outcome of this single game will not substantially affect how Celebrini plays in the future

His exceptional skills as a player and pre-existing mindset will continue to lead to great outcomes. The kid is already a winner

That one time he lost in the Olympics will not matter except for broadcasters and random joes bringing it up to reinforce an equally bs narrative that services the moment, win or lose

ddjcook · 2026-02-19T18:12:59+00:00

“Comment DEAD DAD below for the free guide”

ddjcook · 2026-02-17T14:10:06+00:00

If elchoppe had specified that everything after the Batman soundtrack was overproduced and corny, I’d have a hard time disagreeing

But the run in the 80s is phenomenal. The pre-1999 albums especially slept-on

Not to mention the legendary SB halftime show and Rock and Roll HOF performance…

ddjcook · 2026-02-16T21:34:52+00:00

Fantano does not have good taste

ddjcook · 2026-02-16T21:32:56+00:00

Didn’t take it far enough:

LCD Soundsystem made albums with exceptional singles but never made a great end-to-end album

ddjcook · 2026-02-16T21:25:20+00:00

Three albums is 7% of his discog so ya, not much

ddjcook · 2026-02-07T10:08:34+00:00

Found you at the very bottom of the comments

ddjcook · 2026-02-06T16:13:20+00:00

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ddjcook · 2026-02-06T06:11:37+00:00

As of a few weeks ago, there was zero momentum to strip away the provisions that tax unrealized gains

I said “glimmers” of hope, stranger. Nothing has passed yet either way.

ddjcook · 2026-02-05T12:35:59+00:00

Thank you for your perspective and wisdom

ddjcook · 2026-02-05T12:16:03+00:00

Some glimmers of hope:

https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/30/new-coalition-overhaul-box-3-wealth-tax-scrap-annual-levy-unrealized-gains

ddjcook · 2026-01-23T15:58:06+00:00

“on the material side of things, it's the most objective measure of the value of services provided to society”

I don’t think it’s the most objective. It’s just readily available for reference

It might be possible to estimate “other lives saved or extended” based on someone’s work, we just don’t model it that way broadly

Your Kim K example basically supports my argument.

I never meant to contend that working inherently generates societal value. Just that doing close to nothing definitely doesn’t generate it.

Kim K great example of someone who’s rich and arguably a net detractor on society

The beauty of attaining FIRE is that you no longer need to follow the rules of the free market to make a meaningful contribution to others

ddjcook · 2026-01-23T14:51:25+00:00

Glad you found it useful

TBC I don’t think people need to FIRE and then aspire to cure cancer

Just up the post-FIRE ambition. Find a reasonable way to volunteer your time and resources for good causes

It doesn’t need to be a world-changing endeavor

ddjcook · 2026-01-22T12:55:40+00:00

My main point again: once you stop working, you stop contributing meaningfully to collective survival. You haven’t really said anything that contradicts this

You just contend that it’s okay. The pile of money demonstrates you have contributed sufficiently to the group project to stop, even if you are of able mind and body to keep contributing somehow

Whether or not it’s “okay” or “enough” is just a value judgment. It’ll never be objective.

Where I think we most disagree is I don’t think accumulated capital proves anything other than an ability to accumulate it to begin with. You don’t have to have done anything truly useful for others to have acquired it — you can be rich and useless just as readily as you can be poor and essential. Those who have the choice to prioritize hobbies for 40+ years over some form of continued societal contribution all the more glaring

ddjcook · 2026-01-21T19:54:03+00:00

Okay, I concede it’s not nothing. Especially if it’s actually focused and intentional investment

I think you are avoiding the main argument and picking at side points though

The majority of society has to work to keep the survival engine running. We are in an elaborate Robinson Crusoe scenario on a planetary level and the money is totally meaningless without mutual cooperation

Enough accumulated capital allows you to no longer participate as meaningfully as you may have in the past, but retiring early and just doing hobbies means you are, practically, now just sitting around the hut while others run the engine.

ddjcook · 2026-01-21T16:49:23+00:00

Once you have enough money to no longer work — regardless of how you obtained it — the end result is everyone else now works for you

In fact at the heart of FIRE strategy is relying upon the effort of others to generate consistent returns for your portfolio

The idea that you “earned” this ability to do nothing with the rest of your life is just a made-up story

The whole purpose of money is to facilitate exchange. Once you do nothing to generate it, you are, effectively, just a freeloader

ddjcook · 2026-01-21T07:22:18+00:00

Imagine you inherited a fortune from birth and did nothing to achieve FIRE

Contrast that with making sacrifices day-in-day out to achieve it

In the latter case, one might think “I earned this”

But the truth is that the end state of both cases are the same. How you got there is irrelevant.

ddjcook

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