Theatrical version just kind of abruptly.. ends.

For me it was the first letterboxed thing I had ever seen on TV and I asked my dad what was wrong with the TV. Feels like it was on A&E? At least 30 years ago.

“The audience for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey … has always included an unusually large number of people … who felt the need to express their feelings and thoughts about the film in writing.”

This may be the truest statement I have ever read. I’m rolling.

FWIW, I like it.

Lot of people in the US called them tapes or cassettes, too. Usually the older people that also called them Entendos. Probably just to irritate the children, in hindsight.

Don’t care. I’m down 30lbs.

Books are an excellent way to spread fecal matter. Same with newspapers. I prefer everyone keeping to their own shit on phones.

Squat toilets are disgusting and spread disease

> spread disease

Where did you get that? It's not true at all. In fact, cleaning a squat toilet doesn't even require a flush, only a drain.

On the contrary, when using the Western toilet, the dick touches the toilet surface, and this chronically spreads urinary infections up the urinary tract, starting at the urethra, all the way to the kidneys. This is not just theoretical; it actually happens, and only with the Western toilet.

They won’t be satisfied until they have taken everything away.

Who is "they"?

I'm pretty sure its a joke. It's based on the thinking that "the government" is trying to remove all our pleasure of life, such as smoking, eating meat and drinking. The joke is to compare the pleasure of sitting on the toilet with these vices.

In this case, doctors. In a more general sense, those people who feel they are smarter than you and should control your life.

Very true, but then they are only trying to protect people like me from others who act out of self-interest and without consideration for others.

That's the whole rationale behind public health and hygiene policies (until recently that was taken for granted).

> (until recently that was taken for granted).

I wonder why that attitude changed…oh yeah, I remember now…it’s when our public health authorities started making decisions based on political tribalism instead of trying to actually protect people in the one moment in modern times when they they should have shined for us.

You don’t get to fail that bigly and retain your reputation.

Big Bidet

given the stunning regularity of pro-bidet discussions on reddit and HN, I'm wouldn't be surprised if Big Bidet is a thing and is pushing aggressively via online marketing

A mechanical shepherd, and one herd.

When the Apple Watches start monitoring for it, you’re going to see sleep apnea diagnosis skyrocket.

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