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a federally funded agency is doing away with an efficient electronic system, with no clear plans for its replacement.

What am I missing?

Much sadder circumstances, but Jerry O'Connell, Wil Wheaton, and Carol Kane all took the stage during the Rob Reiner tribute.

It's always seemed to me that the Firefly cast got the "best" version of Whedon.

Which in no way absolves him of anything he did on other productions - just an observation.

It sounds like they're going to be shopping out around to non-Disney buyers, which is a bit of a rarity these days.

It's hard to get a handle on what happened with the BtVS reboot, but one article I read suggested there were (unspecified) concerns with the pilot.

Sounds like that's the plan - tough to include Tudyk otherwise.

Yeah, that's the one I was looking at. I'd just like to see more interdisciplinary collaboration on stuff like this!

I understand why they're so heavily invested in a neurological model for this, but it's a little surprising that they don't appear to have any behaviourists involved (at least, not from the way the journal article is written). They would have a lot to offer in terms of the nature schedule and of the "feedback" provided.

It provided two options: continuing to change the clocks twice per year, or remain on permanent daylight saving time. Permanent standard time - which seems to be the scientifically preferable solution - was not one of the options.

The BC government is now using the results of this thing to say that permanent DST is what people wanted.

The "audience score" being significantly lower than the critic score is a red flag.

The "political alignment" (for lack of a better term) of the show needs to be considered, given that the tactic is a right-wing favourite.

The number of "reviews" that appear in a very short span of time could be telling.

The tone and quality of the discourse on platforms like Twitter could be informative, as well.

But yeah, it's one of those things that can't really be proven with the data available to the layperson.

I'm fine with them throwing a survey on to Engage MB or something, but if they do, I hope they provide full information about the ramifications of each option. The poll that was done in BC was kind of bullshit.

“We will be back in there, that was always my expectation,” Feige said. “So the need to set a dinner or a lunch to say hi, I just never do. Because we’re busy and because we’re going to have a next time. And that hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized that there wasn’t going to be a next time.”

Good advice for me...