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The Roses is a movie bound to flop.

Disney has to be intentionally trying to lose money on their movies.  In 1989, The War of the Roses, starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, was released.  In August, a remake will be released.  The Roses will star Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch.

They can’t be serious .  Colman and Cumberbatch have no humor, charisma or sex appeal.

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Jim Acosta interviews an AI ghost of a dead teenager.

Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver

This is super creepy. 

Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy on Monday when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago.

Exploiting a death like this is disrespectful, and putting words in his mouth to support a political position, is dishonest.

Imitation eggs aren’t eggs.

SciTechDaily:  Why Plant-Based Eggs Are Finally Getting the Spotlight

The team also asked participants to rate how plant-based eggs would compare to traditional ones. Unsurprisingly, expected taste and appearance still favor the classic egg.

A plant-based egg, is not an egg.  Not even a little bit.  A traditional egg comes from a chicken.  If the cook is using ostrich or turtle eggs to make my omelet, he is obliged to make that clear.

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Pythagorians

Today I learned that until the mid-1800’s, people who didn’t eat meat were referred to as “Pythagoreans”.  That’s about the time when some killjoy invented the word “vegetarian”.

This Rubens painting is Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism.

That’s from Wikipedia, and it doesn’t make sense because the painting is from the 1600’s.  Doesn’t matter, I’m still going to start calling them Pythagoreans.

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s book, Gothic Tales, he refers to a character as a Pythagorean, so the word was in usage in the 1800’s.  Back in the day, culture changed slowly and not uniformly.

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