Throwaway dialogue explaining an impossible day isn’t helpful. I can’t think of a since reason why it needed to all happen on one day…beyond a pretence to get people to keep watching it.

They had a huge opportunity to show what a day is really like for the staff in an ER…which is never ever boring…but they chose to sensationalize one instead. It was a weird hybrid of 24 and a 90s sitcom…with ultra graphic medical scenes.

Like I said…the mass casualty event would have been more than enough for the show to step it up after they showed us what real people are like and what really happens in an ER. But instead we got a perfect storm of staff with every personal problem on earth dealing with every type of patient on earth…with contrived comedic relief as a tone-deaf cherry on top. A clown showed up in the ER to give us dry one-liners? Check.

Swing and a miss.

The show almost entirely left my head in between watching it and this post…which doesn’t speak well for the show…

…but I do remember there was a clown delivering one liners for an episode or two? Did that happen? Some of it reminded me of that terrible John Larroquette bus station show where they just thought you needed a lot of doors into a main room for a show to be good. No joke. It was half hard hitting drama…half 90s sitcom. Not great.

I felt the same. It was just “off”…structured like a 90s show complete with cast members inserted just to deliver one-liners like it was filmed in front of a live audience at Cheers.

It had major tone problems…and it was really dumb to pack every single medical situation they could think of into one shift.

The Pitt was…interesting.

It doesn’t touch Scrubs, which is by far the best medical show of all time.

This is my opinion mixed with the opinion of a good friend who’s a GP…we both thought it was “OK”.

The strength of The Pitt was that it was generally medically accurate in the moment. But, because it was structured as 24-style real time drama…the situations because absurdly compressed. It took place over what…15 hours in the ER? In those hours we saw way too many once in a lifetime events…if the mass shooting event wasn’t enough on its own.

The show might have been elevated to a top tier show if they didn’t try to have every episode play out the 90s drama formula. Somebody didn’t get the memo that the streaming wars have given writers the opportunity to write plots that build and develop character…and viewers can be ok with and often embrace the mundane…if it pays off.

It was just too much…the show didn’t need it to be the first day for a bunch of students, a staff assault/the last day for the head nurse, a mass shooting, the first day for an intern/a neurodivergent intern, a fake-out drug addicted doctor, an ambulance theft, a nonsensical ongoing father-son thing, abortion, medically assisted death, a rat infestation, etcetcetc (I got bored).

My cats breath smells like cat food.

Yet it’s still Twitter.

I wouldn’t say he’s a grifter…he’s definitely got leftist credentials…but he’s also terminally online and really cares about “clout”.

I’m sure he would argue that he’s fighting fire with fire…and I agree with that to an extent: we need somebody operating in those spaces to provide an alternative. But he’s not just reposting content there…he’s genuinely addicted. If he were to be making a coherent argument to remain on Twitter…every single post he makes should include a tagline to a competing platform where you can read his entire post until he’s banned.

If you claim to be a journalist you don’t actually need to be on Twitter…you can just use an aggregator.

…and it’s so easy.

There nothing more irritating than listen to Krystal Ball complain about how Elon ruined groups chats, or whatever she’s addicted to on Twitter…then immediately afterwards platform a leading leftist activist who also uses it.

To be fair…the site link is literally still Twitter.

They absolutely do not. As I said in my other comment, authoritarianism isn’t a leading feature of communism.

We can have a conversation about when and why it happens and what the nature of the authoritarianism is within communism…but it’s not a 1:1. Many Marxist scholars frequently argue that authoritarian communist states are not, in fact, communist because having an authoritarian class is antithetical to the concept. They argue what we saw in the USSR and what we see in China are hybrid systems where socialism is prioritized over capitalism, but they use fascist teqniques to maintain power. ie a country isn’t communist because they call their party communist. The Congo called itself a Democratic Republic…why didn’t anyone buy that label?

But authoritarianism is literally part of the definition of fascism.

Lol, no.

You can’t “both sides” communism and fascism.

The common factor is malignant authoritarianism…which is innate to fascism, but not communism…even if the USSR happened to be authoritarian in many cases.

This is key.

If there weren’t bots…Reddit would make its own bots. Reddit dances a fine line of allowing the population to be a certain proportion of bots because they increase real engagement by picking fights with its real users, as well as creating never-ending “content” for people to read and vote on. They only ban bots when real users notice they are bots - which is less and less frequently - even though Reddit has the tools and information to ban them long before that point.

Reddit could easy eliminate almost all of them, but that would be expensive and they’d lose real users as a result.

We can absolutely blame AI for everything. The reason AI took over Reddit is because Reddit fired their human moderators in favour of AI moderation. It’s basically a vicious circle of bots learning how to avoid being banned, and auto moderation learning how they’re avoiding being banned…repeat.

…the obvious problem being that bots are valuable to Reddit because they increase real engagement…if there weren’t bots, Reddit would make its own bots to do basically the same thing. Reddit only wants to restrict bots to a certain proportion of the population, rather than eliminate them.

Let’s be real…Reddit itself is moderated by AI.

People who moderate subs should be called “hall monitors” or something. It’s rare to find moderators who are actually moderating with impartiality, rather that being petty and taking sides. They also have tools to exploit the Reddit auto-mod system.

It was enshitified ages ago.

I wish we could say that - but those terminally online leftist “influencers” like Kyle Kukinski are completely addicted to it.

I’m no longer a professional chef…and I almost exclusively use a cast iron pan over a wood fire to cook (when I use a pan). There’s pretty much nothing you can’t cook in it as long as you’re vigilant. It’s simple to keep clean and seasoned.

It drives me insane. Most of the top so called leftists are fully addicted to it and treat it like it’s an essential medium.

If you hate Musk…stop using fucking twitter. Nothing grinds my gears more than all these leftists who are still fully addicted.

I mean…I don’t expect a war…what I expect is some made-for-TV explosions and some fake body counts. Then I expect the right wing to start attacking, killing, and exiling the leftists with impunity.

I don’t think he really ever had them. He was making what…250 grand a month from the Russians (some ridiculous number)? When he lost that cash he immediately changed his format from Russian propaganda to toxic centrism to try and steal viewers from people like Candace Owens…and it’s didn’t work.