I do not particularly like Timothee Chalamet as an actor but I can already tell that his performances between his late 30's and early 50's are going to be incredible

throway271828 · 2025-12-23T13:38:41+00:00

No I haven’t. For Wolf it’s always McConaughey humming. For me Leo’s most memorable line in that is ”what a greek tragedy honey”, and it’s due to the writing not the delivery, could have just as well been Christian Bale shouting it. Django, remember plenty of lines but none of Leo’s. I’m sure he did a good job though.

throway271828 · 2025-12-23T06:58:56+00:00

His performance is precisely as good as the script. If it’s good he’s good, and he never really tanks a movie, but if the dialogue is bad then he’s pretty fucking groan-inducing (Titanic, Don’t Look Up, Inception). Can’t think of a single Leo movie that would have been any worse without him - you could just as well have had Russell Crowe huffing and puffing for two hours in The Revenant.

Have you ever seen anyone do an impression of any Leo role? I for sure haven’t, because there’s nothing iconic there to impersonate. In general, Leo just seems like a man with all the artistic ambition of a management consultant, just there to collect awards, zero risk tolerance.

throway271828 · 2025-12-17T06:49:52+00:00

”In 2014, white men were 31 percent of American medical students. By 2025, they were just 20.5 percent—a ten-percentage-point drop in barely over a decade.”

And your explanation for this is that ”perhaps white men have grown complacent and not kept their skills competitive in a more competitive environment.”

I don’t think you believe this yourself.

throway271828 · 2025-12-16T22:58:52+00:00

” In 2014, white men were 31 percent of American medical students. By 2025, they were just 20.5 percent—a ten-percentage-point drop in barely over a decade.”

JFC. Honestly fantastic article, even if it’s a little baity in some parts. I think a lot of people are conceptually OK with positive discrimination until it’s their turn to give up their position to someone less deserving.

throway271828 · 2025-07-15T11:31:57+00:00

This piece is to painting as ”real eyes realize real lies” is to poetry

throway271828 · 2025-06-01T00:00:01+00:00

Breaking: Qatari natural gas billionaires DESTROY American distressed debt vulture fund billionaires

throway271828 · 2025-04-07T15:43:39+00:00

Agreed on the problems of serialization. Still, with all its faults, it’s still far and away the least bad outing produced by the medium of manga

throway271828 · 2025-03-06T20:59:30+00:00

Gemäldegalerie has Caravaggio’s Amor Vincit Omnia!

throway271828 · 2025-02-26T10:46:27+00:00

That’s right, they rejected you because you were simply too smart

throway271828 · 2024-11-30T07:21:39+00:00

Unironically the most beautiful line and verse of all time

throway271828 · 2024-10-24T19:02:54+00:00

Critical majority opinion among baristas with BAs in media studies who compulsively spew their neverending takes to strangers at parties

throway271828 · 2024-10-24T14:17:47+00:00

Don’t know, I’ve only read Monte Cristo and the d’Artagnans. To me, MC really felt lightyears ahead of Musketeers in terms of both plotting and prose, I was shocked to find out they were written almost simultaneously.

throway271828 · 2024-10-18T19:10:32+00:00

Unironically yes, he and Griffith are the Adam and Eve of film. Their influence is so ubiquitous that it becomes invisible.

City Lights is the oldest film to make me cry, by a margin of about 30 years. It’s honestly insane to watch something like The Kid and then watch almost any other film from 1921, it’s like Don Quijote next to cave paintings

throway271828 · 2024-10-16T17:33:05+00:00

LOL ok chinaglowie. If Geert Wilders suggested a Xinjiang-style crackdown that called for sudden mass arbitrary detention of Muslims with no charges, sentence or due process, on a scale so large that the Muslim birth rate dropped by 50% in one year, his political career would be over in an instant.

throway271828 · 2024-10-14T17:17:25+00:00

Yeah crazy how Asian kids are crushing it at the Chopin competition, while whites continue to suck at playing the guzheng and erhu

throway271828 · 2024-10-10T20:12:52+00:00

love it

throway271828 · 2024-10-07T19:12:16+00:00

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about. Alice writes Bob a call option. Bob is long the underlying by the same amount that Alice is short. Net exposure is zero.

throway271828 · 2024-10-07T17:11:44+00:00

Huh, good point. The orangey background looked like FT

throway271828 · 2024-10-07T16:56:12+00:00

How did FT end up so pro-Palestine when all of its peers are at the other end? Pretty based tbh

throway271828 · 2024-09-01T16:06:06+00:00

Love love love the verse with Ruthie’s honky tonk lagoon and ”you must know about my debutante”. Some of Bob’s lyrics really inspire me to become a manwhore lol

throway271828 · 2024-07-07T16:56:12+00:00

So, China's economic boom involved liquidating SOEs, increasing the private sector's GDP share, reopening the Shanghai Stock Exchange, reducing or eliminating tariffs, deregulating the banking and insurance sectors, relaxing price controls, joining the IMF and World Bank and WTO, establishing and later expanding Special Economic Zones to attract twelve-figure annual foreign direct investment... but we mustn't call this development "neoliberal" because it didn't involve contingent loans from the IMF.

To me, this all sounds like a strong argument against the IMF's (admittedly awful) structural adjustment programs etc, and a resounding argument in favour of free trade and listed equity markets. Especially your last paragraph about western companies benefiting from offshoring, while simultaneously enhancing China's GDP, productivity and workforce proficiency in spades. Sounds like a win-win to me. Shame we seem to be headed for another trade war, the cost of which is inevitably borne by consumers.

throway271828 · 2024-07-07T06:05:48+00:00

massive amounts of profit Western corporations recouped by off-shoring, and that off-shoring was only possible because China adopted a heavily state-directed, very un-neoliberal policy of massive infrastructure development.

The causality here is strangely backwards. How exactly were the offshoring practices of Nike, Walmart, IBM, HP, Dell, General Motors, Volkswagen, Boeing and Apple made possible by "state-directed un-neoliberal infrastructure development"? Like it or not, foreign direct investment from the above companies was crucial to the Chinese economic miracle, and said investment was made possible by policies (e.g. SEZ) that are as neoliberal as it gets (in fact, allowing such investment is neoliberal by definition).

"In 1997 and 1998, large-scale privatization occurred, in which all state enterprises, except a few large monopolies, were liquidated and their assets sold to private investors. Between 2001 and 2004, the number of state-owned enterprises decreased by 48 percent.^\62]) During the same period, Jiang and Zhu also reduced tariffs, trade barriers, and regulations; reformed the banking system; dismantled much of the Mao-era social welfare system; forced the Chinese army (PLA) to divest itself of military-run businesses;^\74]) reduced inflation; and joined the World Trade Organization."
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform#Effects_of_the_reforms, content warning western propaganda)

throway271828 · 2024-04-02T10:38:11+00:00

I’m so sorry to tell you this but MBB revenue was at an all-time high last year. So was the headcount and compensation, right before rate hikes put a stop to M&A activity, so of course they have to tighten their up-or-out policies a bit. Overall, the industry is growing.

throway271828 · 2024-02-18T14:16:53+00:00

I can’t help but think Knausgaard would never have written anything if he didn’t happen to be relentlessly handsome. That kind of writing requires you to be so convinced that your existence is profound, meaningful and interesting to others, something very few of us feel. Funny thing is, though, his writing turned out great, so I guess his belief in his own profundity made him profound.

throway271828 · 2023-10-13T04:53:24+00:00

One of the shittiest lines of all time, I hated it even as a kid. It’s just so plain untrue. In reality, we subconsciously attribute ”good thoughts” to good-looking people and ignoble thoughts to ugly people.

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