If there was a clear cut-off point, e.g. watch Season 01 to 03 I would recommend Yellowstone. But there isn't really.

I finished the series without too much joy and abandoned Landman halfway in. Did not watch Lioness after seeing his name on the show.

Correlation does not imply causation but him putting himself into the story, the overall story itself becoming less important and the salt-of-the-earth (read real) Americans parts become the main focus of the story was all when I thought the series became boring and formulaic.

Yeah. That is a good theory and aligns with my thinking.
Yellowstone was always a bit "salt-of-the-earth American owning the libs" which made it cringeworthy.

But when Yellowstone ended up being very successful, he decided that this was the winning formula and he's gonna double down on it.

The man is consistently great in his visuals which I can absolutely respect.

But his storytelling is amazing too, even without visuals: Arrival is a movie that actually got me to tear up when the back story with the kid, the husband and the divorce reason suddenly became clear.

That was true art.

I have not seen hell or high water but will have a look. Thanks for the suggestion.

I think the guy just lost all nuance and his simping for the oil industry by Tommy breaking the fourth wall in Landman and telling us how bad renewables are was just shameful in my opinion.

I am very negatively predisposed towards Sheridan.
I was introduced to him via Yellowstone which I thought started out great. And then got really weak and campy when he started writing himself into the series.
Final season? He just called it in.

And then he sealed my low opinion with Landman.

Also agree on Del Torro. Terrific actor and really gets the character across.

Clearly not "good" per se but an absolutely consistent character. Shame they only ever did one Sicario movie. 😈

Arrival is also a great piece of art. Same director.

I do not even think Kate was "good" to start with but I get your point.
And agreed on that. I really like Villeneuve's style overall and he just delivers. It seems he can even deliver on a bad script-writer like Sheridan whose work lately has been somewhere between embarrassing and lazy.

The second movie was an unworthy successor to the first movie which was a masterpiece.

Thanks for mentioning the screen writer. That makes my appreciation of Villeneuve move up a notch because the screen writer seems to produce mostly formulaic drivel.
Turning that into Sicario must have been hard.

There are a lot of people categorising Kate as the "hero" or at least "good" but no, I think they are wrong.
There are no good people. None. Just shades of bad to evil.
Kate at best is naive. But that does not make her good either...

IMHO it's a great movie but not for what some fans like it for.

It all makes sense if you look at it as a numbers question. I do not know who Josh Barro is and believe I am happy about that.
It's not a class comment or anything but a pure math comment if that helps to make it more non-alien.

And if you mess up once or twice a year? Traffic is bad, trains are delayed or you overslept?
Well, even if it costs you a bit of money to rebook and the next flight is 6hrs later, you're still coming out ahead.

Yeah, it's a bit of a hassle, but not in the grand scheme of things...

If you can optimize for arrival at... say 40min before departure, you only do carry-on, you have fast-track access through security and can jump other queues you can still make your flight nearly every time, you've gained 34.5hrs of your life back.

That's not too bad honestly.

Boarding usually begins 30min before departure of the plane and closes 15min before departure. Reality says it's actually 5-7min later but whatevs.
Luggage check-in closes usually 45min before departure...

These are the lower bounds you can schedule around and it's what Stigler was optimizing for.

If they follow the 2hrs rule, they're now spending 52h a year in the airport, ostensibly waiting in the departure lounge or an airline lounge thanks to their frequent traveller status.
That's a lot of time they could have spent with their family or doing more exciting stuff than sitting in a lounge.

Now picture the frequent traveller (regardless if paid business travel or self-paid "leisure" travel): They might be flying to a client or maybe they're flying home to family for every second weekend.
The year has 52 weeks, that's 26 airport departures and 26 connections (which we can disregard).

Two hours is not the worst advice if you're close to never flying, you need to find your way, you are forced into the slow queues, something always goes wrong etc.
Two hours will virtually guarantee that you're not going to miss your flight and you'll have a mostly stress-free experience. Hopefully.

The general advice (over here in Europe) is to be at the airport two hours for domestic and three hours for international flights. Which is weird because a lot of countries do not have a lot of domestic flights which makes me assume this is maybe a US rule that has been localized?

That quote is supposedly from George Stigler and focuses on a math tradeoff to optimize arrival time.

But I can try to put the quote into the right focus to make it understandable. Maybe that makes it less alien for you. And the mindset is frequent traveler, it's not for the occasional traveler.

Meatcube burger?

Michaud, Sanz-de-Galdeano & Brunello (2009), The rise of obesity in Europe: An economic perspective (CEPR / VoxEU)

This is a text medium. I am sure you can read.
But if not, I'll try to explain:

First paragraph gives a bit wider context.
Second paragraph confirms that there is no EDA and the ADA means the US is more advanced in this area.
Third adds perspective to explain _WHY_ this might be.

Thank you for misreading my argument. I am not stating what you believe I am saying.

I wish well and hope you have a lovely Sunday.

Dude. He lost the election and is out.

This isn't a case of him still pulling the strings of the new guy.

This is simply a case of the election is decided but the new government hasn't formed yet, so the old bastard is still in charge. For now.

Thank you very much for wrongly assuming. It's not invisible, I see it daily.
You're arguing generic accessibility features, while the thread started specifically with wheelchairs.
And yes mobility scooters absolutely benefit from the provisions for wheelchairs, while e.g. Braille signage doesn't.

It depends on the country and the disability.

ADA is _really_ good and Europe's disability access is just nowhere as ubiquitous and also often not as advanced.

That being said, the main disability in the US is mortal obesity and you just do not need that many mobility scooters in Europe...

It was OpenBSD and they couldn't even exploit the vulnerability...

In this case, more PR Hype than anything else... And it would behoove us well to treat breathless AI PR from AI vendors with some scepticism in general...

The Paul II pope even visited his (attempted) assassin in jail and IIRC forgave him his sins...
It does not get much more "weak-on-crime" than that. And big surprise, turns out being weak-on-crime is pretty much on-message for the pope...

No surprise of course that the demented guy doesn't get it.

How is the election loss of Fidesz going to affect the global right in the future?
And considering that you have been receiving regular payments from Orban, how is this going to affect you personally? Is there a GoFundMe for you? 😂😂

The focus group has decided that it doesn't like the hose and you should assume the position as soon as the current senate filibuster has been defeated.