Anyone Silicon Valley TV Series?
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bacan said:
Check out Thomas Middleditch (actor that plays Richard Hendricks) @2:11:
What a Little Bitch.
Anything HBO puts out these days promotes a different angle of degenerate (progressive) ideology, some more blatant than others (Game of Thrones, News Room). Netflix has also jumped on that band wagon with House of Cards.
Thomas Middleditch is insufferable outside of his role on the show. It's one instance in which playing a shy autistic nerd improves on character.
CH-Toronto
Kingfisher
For those who saw the latest episode.
My all time favorite line from the movie is when the billionaire Russ Haneman walks into the house and looks at Jared and says, "This guy fucks!". Every time I'm in a bad mood, I always watch that scene to feel good again.
Here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uMEE7eaaUA
Here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uMEE7eaaUA
Pride male
Hummingbird
Who watched the season 3 finale? I thought it was good, the writers really know how to keep the audience invested in the show.
Yeah, it's pretty fucking hilarious that the two most useless dipshits, Bachman and Bighead, ended up with 100% of the shares :tard:
NomadofEU said:
I recently discovered the series and binged-watched through the middle of season 2, don't think the show is that much corrupted by SJW slant.
The show actually makes fun of SJW culture by showing how the most anal character (Jared) is afflicted with this cultural rot. In fact, had the show been less objective, it would have won many Emmys by now, instead of over-the-top POS SJW unfunny propaganda crap like Modern Family.
The character of the woman who replaced the dead billionaire was IMO very good, it's a good likeness of the nerdy-bitchy bone-dry hags who rise to the top of the partner pyramid. It's actually very well played by Suzanne Cryer, who doesn't seem to be like her character in real life. She's not likeable, but that's precisely the point of the character. And the fact that she's not likeable refutes the notion that she's a SJW construct, because she's not a positive characterization of the "strong independent" corpo-hag.
Welch IRL was a very healthy and active dude who died from lung cancer at 48, a cycling nut who took care of his health. He probably died from exposure to the toxic fumes he's inhaled from volunteering several weeks at Ground Zero after 9/11. The most lethal element from those fumes being nanoparticles, which normal masks cannot filter. There was a lot of asbestos too around Ground Zero, but mesothelioma, rather than lung cancer, would have been the most likely result from asbestos exposure.
Overall, the show was pretty accurate. The current wave of online industry is more stilted, more corporate and less free-wheeling than the previous one from the 1990s, which had a great gold rush vibe and which started the gentrification of SF neighborhoods like SoMa. There were some great stories from that era, some funnier than anything you will see in this series, and there has been very little in terms of non-fiction works that did a good job documenting it, because the entertainment industry is centered in LA and NYC rather than the Bay (other than gaming, animation and special effects).
The Bachman character is great, but he's the least credible of the bunch. You might come across guys like him in Seattle, but not so much in the Bay, and even less in Palo Alto. The satanist network engineer, Gilfoyle, is a good representation of many 00s burners. Minor quibble though: Starr is not credible as a Canadian (accent, attitude etc). Burning Man is bascally a satanist cult, the 7-part, 25 hour series by Gnostic Media on the subject with Steve Outtrim, a grounded tech CEO from NZ who was a BM insider really gives you a great insight on the inner social and cultural aspects of that Bay Area subculture:
Looking forward to catching up with the next few SV seasons during the Xmas break.
911 said:
Not that this has anything to do with the overarching zeitgeist of this thread, but my autism compels me to correct you on the effects of asbestos exposure. Asbestos is much more likely to cause lung cancer than it is to cause mesothelioma.
I was under the impression that mesothelioma was the more common effect from asbestos inhilation, but you're right Higgs, lung cancer is nearly twice as common as mesothelioma, though the latter is almost exclusively asbestos related.
[img=399x240]https://www.asbestos.com/wp-content/uploads/xewg-bargraph.jpg.pagespeed.ic.rIv0rAQqYj.jpg[/img]
https://www.asbestos.com/cancer/
Still, the reason we know that asbestos was not the main culprit is that the overall ratio of lung cancer to mesothelioma in Ground Zero victims is much smaller than the 2 to 1 you would expect to get from asbestos exposure alone.
As well, forensic evidence confirms the presence of nanoparticles in the lungs of 9/11 cancer victims:
Lung Disease in World Trade Center Responders Exposed to Dust and Smoke: Carbon Nanotubes Found in the Lungs of World Trade Center Patients and Dust Samples
There's also a lot of thyroid cancers in the Ground Zero population. Those cancers are closely linked to the presence of radioactive materials, whose presence was observed in and around south Manhattan after 9/11.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-15/one-man-asks-why-was-tritium-found-911-ground-zero
[img=399x240]https://www.asbestos.com/wp-content/uploads/xewg-bargraph.jpg.pagespeed.ic.rIv0rAQqYj.jpg[/img]
https://www.asbestos.com/cancer/
Still, the reason we know that asbestos was not the main culprit is that the overall ratio of lung cancer to mesothelioma in Ground Zero victims is much smaller than the 2 to 1 you would expect to get from asbestos exposure alone.
As well, forensic evidence confirms the presence of nanoparticles in the lungs of 9/11 cancer victims:
Lung Disease in World Trade Center Responders Exposed to Dust and Smoke: Carbon Nanotubes Found in the Lungs of World Trade Center Patients and Dust Samples
There's also a lot of thyroid cancers in the Ground Zero population. Those cancers are closely linked to the presence of radioactive materials, whose presence was observed in and around south Manhattan after 9/11.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-15/one-man-asks-why-was-tritium-found-911-ground-zero
I was going to post the same thing, great info for a trick USMLE question....Higgs Bosun said:
My point must have gone over your head, ATL. The incidence ratio graphed above indicates that for every 2 cases of lung cancer caused by asbestos, there is at least one mesothelioma case. What we have instead is a much, much lower number of mesothelioma cases observed relative to the lung cancer cases, which indicates that the many lung cancer cases observed were not caused by asbestos.
What I was getting at is asbestos is more likely to cause lung cancer than mesothelioma, however a lot of mesothelioma cases are related directly to asbestos.
-Almost all of mesothelioma cases stem from exposure to asbestos.
-Asbestos also causes lung cancer (at precisely twice the incidence of mesothelioma).
-There are a lot of lung cancer cases from 9/11, and very few mesothelioma cases.
From the three points above, we can logically deduce that the lung cancer cases from 9/11 weren't caused by asbestos.
-Asbestos also causes lung cancer (at precisely twice the incidence of mesothelioma).
-There are a lot of lung cancer cases from 9/11, and very few mesothelioma cases.
From the three points above, we can logically deduce that the lung cancer cases from 9/11 weren't caused by asbestos.
^^^ I agree with everything you wrote in your last two posts. I don't think there is any disagreement to be had here. For the sake of arguing I do not think you are a fantastic guy, you are just a great guy- argue that point.
I really liked the show a lot so far. The main character is kind of a neutral, but the supporting cast was something that kept the show interesting for me. We have a new season less TJ Miller, which is a bad sign to me. My guess that from now on the HBO brass will be up in their shit with a fine tooth comb, given the reason for his firing. Hopefully Mike Judge can keep things going in the right direction, however, I would guess that the SJW twats at HBO may fuck it up before it gets cancelled.