DoctorAtomic

I can't watch until tomorrow, but I was compelled to comment on glorious Japanese toilets. iirc, the basic ones, like where you work, the lid would lift, and you get the water jets. I also think heated seats were common. You have plug the unit in, so you need electricity. The heat wouldn't need anything extra. There were ones with music at restaurants, but all I remember is they played running water. Hotels all had them. Fun fact. Departments stores all have restaurants on the top floor. It's not hard to find a place to eat. My apartment just had the regular toilet. The stall walls and doors all go right down to the floor and are far taller than your typical stall in the United States. I don't know why none of this has caught on here.

The toilets I'm familiar with couldn't have been expensive. The apparatus with the water jets is a separate unit that you install on any standard toilet. I'm sure there are expensive toilets, but that's not the norm when I was there.

I lived in Tokyo for 2 years, and the Japanese toilets were *everywhere*. I used to hold it in the morning and wait to go when I got to work.

I've said here before, I use it for work, and have used it as a networking tool to good success. My community is small, but it is effective for staying on top of our fields. Hasan pointed out that only a small % of people affect the content. So, don't follow those people. Don't get into twitter fights. However, I do agree with him pointing out how people are tweeting 40 times per day. What are you people doing? Is it that essential to your job? The Truman Show exit was clever though.

I've only watched Monday, Tuesday, so I don't know if this was covered last night, but on TDS Facebook page, they had a behind the scenes. Apparently, Skip Bayliss clipped the Giannis trash talk for his show about Durant, but didn't include the full part. So it only looked like Giannis was talking trash. Hasan went on a good rant.

Wolf has way too healthy of a relationship with Honeybee for a 21 y/o.

I don't have any skin on the issue, but the loan forgiveness issue is more nuanced, and I can understand hearing reasonable arguments. What I don't get is the 'I had it hard so they should too'. There's many ways to learn life lessons. Please tell me no one is getting tired of FoxNews imploding. Just goes to show you, don't text your crimes. I liked the tech segment. What I liked was the problem that you have to create an account for everything. So, no. I've deleted many accounts over the last two years. But the guy was right, you don't have to use all the apps either.

I don't think top 5 is in the cards now at this point.

That was my take as well. What does that say about the wedding spread though that these people wanted to stay around and eat again? I don't recall if Addison told the rest of the team about the reason for Ben leaping or not. I feel like there's a line from Ian to her about it, so maybe so. I did like "Don't you have a team of geniuses on the other end of that?" "Yes." "Well?" It's the first time I think Ben actually gave Addison an order. Ben seemed more take charge to me in this episode.

I was surprised they showed Ian the drawings right off like that. I think it was the right call though, especially in light of Magic saying before that maybe they shouldn't have shut Janis out. Also, clearly, we all thought Ian in the drawings was older, and Ian said the same. Using Ziggy to run possible simulations was clever, but with so many unknowns I don't know what you could predict. They all know Ben went Janis for the new code. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned. The mother was a piece of work for a while. Even Ben was getting worn out. I was really surprised the slumlord blew the restaurant up so early. With all the guests coming, even if they didn't make bank, they could have done it later in the night and used the same excuse, while still ganking the take for the dinner. I enjoyed the touch of Ben being thrilled to cook and sneaking bites. They even included Addison giving the rundown of the family this time. Again, no surprise; leaning more to the leap than HQ typically has been the better episodes. Even on this current show, in the last episode, at the poetry slam, the leapee did a whole poem about it, and then there was a scene with Magic where he said it happened to him too. That's where they got the drawings. Magic said something like, 'you're not driving the bus'.

I think the fact that Adams has a podcast is proof positive he doesn't have enough to do.

I'd suggest to train an AI just on John's 'Tucker Carlson is an old deck shoe', etc., and see what it comes up with.

Out of the whole covid segment, I liked how Hasan placed it in context to show the wide variability in all the investigations not really having any confidence in their findings, or basically the findings just have too much uncertainty. I'm going to guess that finer point is largely going to be missed. Hasan and Ronnie trash talking was brilliant work though. Ronnie looked like he was going to break at the beginning. I'm wondering how much say Hasan has in the choice of segments/topics, or the host in general. The bits with the kids were great.

I said the same when I mentioned the plot was too sitcommy for me. Beef did say he had been married already, but that was just disregarded. I can't say the plot is inconsistent. Beef copped to generally agreeing what women suggest to him which was why he 'was a dad at 19.' He panicked when Zelda showed up and started rambling about the new wife, but even the kids were trying to get him to put on the brakes. Beef couldn't get out of his own way. They just dialed up the characterizations a little too much for me. I did think it was nice that Beef's girlfriends all showed up to play the new wife just on Wolf's weird, rambly email.

That's more on Linda and Bob though. Louise is into the cards. They should know that. (I know we wouldn't have the plot otherwise). Linda did *want* to believe enough to investigate. I'm surprised Rudy doesn't know she only likes the cards too. No one asked her where she was at recess when it was stolen either.

Two games? They've been in 10th place all year.

Did they even pay for the rights to use Gangstas Paradise? I know chat gpt is a big thing right now. I actually wanted to check it out for myself, but you have to create another account. I'm not giving up more data. I've seen enough pieces on it, this included here, which are all good, but I'm not really convinced yet there's much I in the AI part of the equation. Clearly, the therapy Ed Harris gay ghost never actually rode the bus. Where does that originate? It seems just random. The part where Jon talked about 'black boxing' is pertinent. Because if you can't scientifically reproduce results, then it's not going anywhere. But this is all garbage in = garbage out. It's not really anything new. To the credit of the show, they did land on that conclusion. I'm sorry, but on the 'pale male data' segment, all I could think was Better of Ted. I'm dying to know what Eminem thinks about the cats.

He never even saw the movie! Wow though Lois has a lot of sex toys. I think the biggest surprise of the whole episode was that Peter could change a diaper.

Frond is just not a good person. The whole running gag about the booby traps make perfect sense for Louise. Who doesn't want to go to Rudyville?

Alanis is back again with her 90s memories. Is the first time Beef said he was a dad at 19? I know the family is whacky, but I liked the kids actually being the voices of reason when Beef invented the fake wife. This was a little too sitcommy on the Beef plot. I did feel bad for Judy when she had her meltdown.

One of the 'looks' in the barbershop numbers looked like a black Disco Stu. Even I know who Huey P. Newton is. Kid N Play daycare!

They still reference the movie as the Canadian war sometimes.

iirc, Mat gets the Ashandarei staff with the blade on the end after he goes into the Tower of Ghenji, the Snakes and Foxes world, you know what I mean. I don't think Jordan 'suddenly' needed something for Mat to do. He's basically Odin. It's kind of on the nose when Rand finds him hanging from the tree. That's where he gains the knowledge of the battles and everything. Mat mentioned the 'holes in his memory' several times before that. He's already been told he has to give up 'half the light of the world' so it's not hard to know what's coming there. The staff has ravens on it even. Don't forget, all three of the boys are taveren, so the world is going to bend to their will; Rand most of all. Although, I think Rand would probably say not enough, given the enormous bitchfest when he tries to do anything about anything. I'm surprised he only rained lightening down the one time. Moiraine also said a bunch of times that mega channelers would be spun out at the end of the world. That's why Ny and them are basically Foresaken class and they're finding tons of guys who can channel. This show better show them in the circus!

Why is Potter still at Chelsea? They scored like 1 goal this year.

I don't follow the royals, but I was tangentially aware of them 'leaving the family' or whatever. I still laughed a lot and enjoyed the episode. You don't need the royals per se, as these characters in the episode could be stand ins for any narcissist, attention getters, influencers, what have you. Internet fame is always a timely topic. I thought it was funny that they chose to animate them as the Canadian caricatures and voices.