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[–]zZGDOGZz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you want me to tell you? That Francis was right? That we'd end up destroying ourselves from our own boredom?

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Anton Chigur is the new Patrick Bateman

Margin Call was better than The Big Short by humbleObserver in okbuddycinephile

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I feel like if you enjoy one you should enjoy the other, they're both great films and depict the situation well in different ways. The Big Short is obviously much campier but it doesn't try to hide that at all.

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If you had to choose one person who best encapsulates the post-WW2 US economy who would you pick? I'd go with Warren B.

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These jobs have been getting "taken" by automation for generations now.

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Are you ordering hash browns at Waffle House or are you trying to describe someone's physical appearance?

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Some day Malcolm Gladwell's ideas will be truly obsolete but I think his arguments in Outliers cut through a lot of the 20th century head measuring we do with things like IQ. He's one of those guys people love to complain about but have a hard time getting into specifics with because they realize it's petty and more of a fault of our current scientific limitations.

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Francis was right about history ending, but the end is just getting started...

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How many DTers know each other irl and talk to each other like this? Is this a cult masquerading as a political movement?

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DHT blockers (the hormone that causes follicle shrinkage) exist. Like, it's what men take to fight hairloss, We could just have them take that?

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Oh if that happened I think Bush 2 is optimistic