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Month: February 2023
I’m a big fan of retro-futurism. In particular, how the people of the mid-20th century saw the future developing. *Popular Science* magazine and other magazines showed us the flying cars. I was eager for the TV show, *Hello Tomorrow!” to air on Apple TV+. When it did, it seemed familiar.
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TV Show “Shrinking” is worth watching.
Shrinking is a show worth watching. The premise is that Jason Segal is a therapist who goes off the rails, and starts treating his patients the way he wants, rather than the way he should, rather than the way he should. It’s mostly a comedy with some dramatic elements.
Jason Segal is the least appealing of the characters. Harrison Ford has great comedic timing, and always owns any scene he’s in. The rest of the actors also do a phenomenal job. Every character is plausible, with some negative and positive traits. They all act like people you might know, but a little overboard to make the show engaging.
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It only took a month for the federal government to propose rules to ban gas stoves. Do you suppose the gas stoves that can still be sold will be the expensive ones?
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Covid came from Wuhan lab
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.
It isn’t clear why the Energy Department is investigating the Covid origin, instead of building nuclear reactors, but at least they got to the answer that the rest of us figured out a long time ago.
