exasperation

I've heard of nigging but I've never heard of this.

Um I hope you mean negging

Even if we were to produce 100 000 000 perfect replicas of our genes they would still hit the same wall— extinction.

Doesn't matter, had sex.

From their taller exes

"Mogging" as a term originated in the early 2000's and went mainstream-ish in the late 2000's when the "pickup artist" community started getting attention in places like the New York Times. The people who originated it are probably like 45-50 years old now.

Quick etymology: comes from these pseudoscientific douchebags trying to name the phenomenon where a man tries to subtly belittle another man in front of women, establishing that he's the AMOG (alpha male of group), eventually became a verb amogging or mogging, and then various specific types of this behavior earned prefixes: heightmogging, etc.

The fact that it has this kind of staying power, 20 years later, is the surprising part.

Worked for Christopher Nolan, too. Although he did make The Prestige and Inception during his decade making Batman.

Why aren't those windows aligned with each other, this is very upsetting.

It sounds like the thesis to David Epstein's book, Range. When I read it, it was a game changer for me.

If I recall correctly, the main examples were Roger Federer (who played a lot of sports and didn't choose to specialize in tennis until much later than the typical tennis pro), jazz legend Django Reinhardt, Vincent Van Gogh, and a bunch of other less famous, but much more typical examples.

Sampling is important, and has value beyond just the things they sampled and abandoned. The act of trying many different things is itself helpful.

Van Gogh wouldn't have become the artist he became if he didn't fizzle out of multiple career paths beforehand.

David Epstein's Range really explores this idea and puts forth a pretty convincing argument that sampling and delaying specialization is helpful for becoming the type of well rounded generalist whose skills are best suited for our chaotic world.

The studio laughter (or canned laughter) still adds something. I'm not a fan of any multi cam sitcoms since Seinfeld ended, but as the article mentioned, it still does something for shows like SNL.

COVID showed that some variety type shows normally filmed before an audience still benefit from having an audience. John Oliver's show without laughter seemed weird. Some standup comics have played around with the genre without an audience, and it's really interesting.

So I'm with this article. It's a legitimate style of show that uses the laughter.

Also, it's not like you'd need the power of the government to make this happen. This is the job of an event planner, not a politician.

If someone wants this to happen, there's nothing stopping them other than their own resources and their own ability.

not someone you wanna prone bone anyway

I actually laughed out loud at the specificity here. Thank you for this, you've brightened my day.

Blues Brothers and Wayne's World were successful enough that people forget that they originated as SNL sketches. And, because they were the first, they kept on trying.

The category as a whole isn't exactly very impressive, as movies.

But the originating sketches that developed the characters were...fine.