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Rounders has a young Matt Damon and Edward Norton and is entirely about gamblers making their living as poker players in the late 90's or early 2000's.

It's pretty good

Edit: I just realized you said not entirely about cards, but I still highly recommend the movie. The plot revolves around cards, but it's also about ambition and knowing when to cut off deadbeat friends

I fucking love Powell's. I love the selection and the used books and the atmosphere and Portland, and really everything about it

It's honestly one of my favorite places in the world.

Fucking Onion keeps giving them ideas; the GOP might as well start paying them as policy advisors

it wouldn't be too hard to do the math.

I think you severely overestimate their ability to do math.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would say that "Sweet Home Alabama" is very different. It was not written bitterly and it was written by a bunch of Neil Young fans (and Neil himself loved the song). The point of "Sweet Home Alabama" was to show that there were people who grew up in the South who weren't racist, who acknowledged and decried the racist history of the South, but who also felt resentment at being lumped in with the racists, past and present. Being both proud of being from the South and ashamed of being from the South at the same time even has its own term, coined AFAIK by the band The Drive-By Truckers: "the duality of the Southern Thing."

There are plenty of artists and musicians that should just be written off, but I don't think Skynyrd is among them. They were actually relatively progressive for their background and were trying to paint a fairly sophisticated and balanced story; it's not their fault that their fanbase evolved into a bunch of racist assholes who preempted the song for their own causes, especially since the heart and soul of the band died in a plane crash in 1977. But that's just my two cents as a huge music fan who grew up listening to Skynyrd in the 90's.

That's because you're thinking of it like a particle moving a distance, but matter at that scale actually behaves more like a standing wave that only has discrete solutions.

Or at least that's how I think about electrons and Schrodinger's equation. I dunno, I only teach about stuff that's as small as an electron, but it's a useful tool for thinking about quantum numbers, so I assume it applies to smaller matter, too.

We all know the proper response, but imma say it anyway:

Trump is not a cunt; he lacks the depth and warmth

There are medical researchers that have MD's, but they are not practicing physicians (usually). There are MD/PhD programs that are aimed toward medical research fields (usually with the PhD being in biology or chemistry as you mentioned), and lots of biological and biomedical engineers working on certain medical fields as well (especially using stem cells and other chemical cues to regrow tissues). So yeah, biology- and physiology-adjacent sciences are where most of the actual advances are happening.

Actually practicing medicine is basically like being a mechanic that specializes in keeping one particularly poorly designed piece of equipment running.

I'm aware of and support her current work and I agree that she's much smarter than her public persona would lead people to believe. However, she still comes from a place of unbelievable privilege and telling people to "stop being desperate" is incredibly tone deaf, IMO.

Two things can be true at the same time.

"Stop Being Desperate" has a real "Let them eat cake" feel, especially coming from her.

As someone who teaches chemistry to premeds, this is not surprising at all. To make a sweeping generalization, premeds, med students, and the MDs they become are some of the most entitled, condescending, and oblivious people I've ever met.

There are exceptions of course, but in general, I can't stand most premeds and I really can't stand how our culture puts MDs on a pedestal.