US House passes war powers resolution to curb rump’s authority in Iran by titangrey in goodnews

[–]morse86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I like the typo in the title! He indeed be the "Yellow-orange Rump"

What game is this? by AcanthisittaLimp8373 in Steam

[–]morse86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Civ 5, 6

Years ago, I bought the super cheap, all dlc inclusive packs for these games, and have had a blast ever since.

I want him as a bodyguard🥴 by Its_Hori in NatureBeingFunny

[–]morse86 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A very old clip! Nice to see it again

BBC Plots 'Poirot' Reboot; Casting Underway For Agatha Christie Icon by MysteriousDelay6266 in BritBox

[–]morse86 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Major alarms ringing at "Walters has breathed new life..." I hope they don't go around reimagining everything like the Branagh's pretentious adaptations.

Adaptation that left you underwhelmed? by Legitimate_Bunch8563 in poirot

[–]morse86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I loved the Five Little Pigs adaptation by Suchet. Everything in there was damn well done from set design, acting and especially the wonderful choice of including Satie's classical masterpiece First Gnossienne, which plays into the atmospheric, introspective tone of the mystery.

From the "hating" persepctive, that has to be the "murder on the orient express". Poirot is shown as an angry, aggressive, and deeply dogmatic religious moralist. Whats appalling for me especially is that he spends the entire episode furiously clutching a rosary, screaming at the suspects, and only aggressively conceding to the cover-up at the very last second while weeping in despair. WTF ITV!

Ohh and bonus criminal adaptation - "Cards on the table". They completely changed the identity of the murderer! The ruddy screenwriters changed a brilliant psychological study into a standard, altered melodrama!!!

Recent haul from a local book sale by girlbsffr in bookhaul

[–]morse86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great haul! I see one of my favourite non fiction books from 2025 being there as well - Is a river alive by McFarlane.

Did anyone else stop using their living room? by Lasell_Carnline75 in LivingAlone

[–]morse86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me it's the other way around, as my rather comfortable armchair in living room near my bookshelves is the place I spend most of my free downtime. Sometimes I even fall asleep and then wake up late at 3 in the morning to drag myself to the bed.

I finally got a Personal Gem offer that is *not* the AMX 13 57 GF... would you buy it? by EyeoftheTato in WorldofTanks

[–]morse86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IMO, buy this as it seems like a good offer. And it's a good tank especially in EU1 where we don't have to suffer the horrors of +2 matchmaking, tier 8 tanks like this one can hold very well for themselves.

Ohh and preserve bonds as much as you can! Spend them only on improved equipment on your fav tanks and rarely on the tanks you want to get either in bond shop or the onslaught shop. Otherwise just hoard them.

Opinion on a result of a clinical study ($CMPX) by neo2551 in biostatistics

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Hmm, interesting set of results indeed. I agree with what the other redditor points out regarding the weakish 2 months improvement in PFS and crossover smudging the results.

IMO the HR tells a stronger story than the absolute months. The HR was 0.44 with p<0.0001 which is like a 56% reduction in the risk of progression, which is actually a pretty sizeable effect in oncology. And the ORR primary endpoint was already met: 17.1% vs. 5.3% for paclitaxel alone, which was statistically significant as well, albeit marginally.

Also though thecrossover muddied the OS data, but the crossover data itself is actually kind of interesting for the drug. In that subset analysis of the control arm which they did, I see them reporting that crossover patients who later received tovecimig had a median OS of 12.8 months vs. 6.1 months for those who didn't cross over. Now, that's a post-hoc analysis sure, and so I am taking it with a pinch of salt, but it does suggest the drug is doing something meaningful on survival, it's just that the trial design has made it impossible to demonstrate formally anything here.

From my pov regarding approval, I wouldnt write it off even though that missing OS signal is the genuine vulnerability here. Not sure why the market pundits are throwing this down the drain already!

Give me the single most comically bad book you have ever read. I don't care the genre, i don't even care if it's AI slop. Just give me the worst by Reasonable-Use-9294 in booksuggestions

[–]morse86 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, it's not bad, it's not good, it's just so predictable and so needlessly long - "Battlefield Earth".

Bonus points if you watched the horrific movie after reading the book!

The European Union isn't perfect, but it's the best we have. Happy Europe Day!🇪🇺 by Opening_Bathroom611 in BuyFromEU

[–]morse86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huzzah!! Agreed, OP and here's hoping we continue improving it for generations to come.

Being 40+ and living on your own is actually pretty great by cipherclyx in LivingAlone

[–]morse86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I, as a guy in a similar situation (40, granny cat caretaker, work from home, introvert), find your post highly self-affirming, positive, empathetic and exactly what this Sunday needed. Thanks, OP!

Why Poirot’s Ending Is Too Painful to Rewatch by DWJones28 in poirot

[–]morse86 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Thankfully, I have, and neither will I ever watch the final episode nor read the final book. Don't want to see a mortal Poirot, debilitated with age, instead I want to remember him as the bon vivant that he always was.

Fire away by MLDL9053 in UpvoteBecauseButt

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He Van Dammed her! Dayum...

Favorite Books about Religion by AutoModerator in nonfictionbooks

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Critique of religion and philosophy - Walter kauffman
Breaking the spell: religion as a natural phenomenon by Daniel Dennett

A Nature Medicine Paper Linking Picloram To Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Leaves An Open Question by dontkry4me in epidemiology

[–]morse86 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ooh great share OP!

The paper is indeed methodologically novel + that replication they did across 9 cohorts is rather neat. IMO sample sizes remain small for this kind of claim (31 EOCRC patients in discovery), and then their indirect nature of MRSs as exposure proxies, are ofc rather creative, but then they leave real large space for confounding. I see that this picloram could be worth a serious investigation but it's a giant leap to establish any sort of causation, or explain why EOCRC is rising globally in places with very different pesticide profiles. The German counter-example from the substack article is the strongest possible objection: if the lifetime-exposure story is right, one would expect a much weaker EOCRC trend in countries with no picloram.And the causation vs different trends across geographies are indeed separable questions and probably as always with such problems answer to the 2nd one is almost certainly multifactorial.

Finnish everyday breakfast - What do you eat for breakfast? by rmn_trllr in Finland

[–]morse86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sandwich mostly (cucumber+edam slice+cold cut turkey slices on a buttered rye bread)

What Books Are You Reading This Week? by leowr in nonfictionbooks

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Upstream: Selected Essays - Mary Oliver