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Bullshit
2024 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Milad Alami, Bo Hr. Hansen, Molly Malene Stensgaard
Inspired by actual events - the dramatic story of a group of lost youth in late 70s and early 80s Copenhagen. They find community and belonging in the biker gang 'Bullshit' – but end up in brutal conflict.
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> So "dicks 01" or "fuck me 01" instead of a bland "check 01" or whatever. For some reason, that seems much more unprofessional than a comment like "this code is shitty but works, need to clean up."
Agreed.
Context matters a lot. People say "shitty code" all the time. I don't see that as unprofessional. But "dicks01" I would probably change if I came across it in code. Not because I would find it offensive, but because it serves no purpose other than to be juvenile... and that can easily be counter-productive if the goal is easy to read and maintain code.
With respects to "shitty code", I'm not even sure that I would personally even consider the word "shit" to be a swear word in 2025. I'm reminded of the TV show on Showtime called Bullshit (by Penn & Teller). They wanted to name the show "Humbug", which was considered profane in the early 20th century when Houdini was alive and famous. But Showtime didn't like it because they figured it wouldn't land with a modern audience. "Bullshit" it was.
That said, the article even includes the word "crap" (though perhaps they are making the point that it is replacing other, "more profane" words). That one strikes me as odd. If that is considered rude and offensive, then surely "humbug" ought to be as well. Probably very culture-specific.
There have been a lot of blind wine tastings done and the results are always interesting. Sometimes cheap bottles score as high, or higher than vintages. Other times people can spot the cheap "carton" wine easily.
My wife and I love to cook, have discussed opening our own restaurant, have eaten at lots of very expensive "haute cuisine" restaurants and have tasted lots of wines.
Part of the "problem" is that taste is subjective and can be influenced through suggestion. So the atmosphere, the price, the meal pairing can all affect a person's appreciation of the glass.
I remember an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit where they had a "water sommelier" at a restaurant who would upsell customers on speciality bottles of water and they were all filled with the same tap water from the same garden hose at the back of the restaurant. The results were fascinating. Subjects swore they tasted different from one another.
The real question, in my opinion, is whether a high-priced bottle is "worth it" by as near-objective standards as possible. In other words, given two bottles of different prices, all else being equal, would the average person prefer the taste of one over the other?
That varies widely from one wine to another. My wife and I have enjoyed a good vintage but we are also perfectly content with a $15 bottle from a local vineyard here in Ontario, which is our "go to." I'm equally partial to a $15 Rothschild Merlot or Pinot Noir and I wonder if the truly exceptional wines that I've tasted at restaurants were more about the environment, the food pairing, the company and the occasion than they were about the flavour in isolation.
This is sort of like when doctors prescribe ibuprofen without explaining the research backing their decision. Are these decisions based on research or purely ideology?
I'm starting to see my faith in these institutions erode at an alarming rate. The other day I rewatched an old episode of Bullshit, and it turns out smoking bans in the early 2000's were predicated on bad science. There was no significant evidence that second hand smoke causes cancer. Throw in COVID, political correctness, Omicron and the reproducibility crisis hitting cancer research and I'm suddenly feeling really fucking alone on the plane of authority.
The Penn and Teller series, Bullshit, features an episode on polygraph machines and interviewer techniques. It's a good watch.
Worth remembering Penn Jillette used to be a champion for obesity and not taking responsibility for yourself - I'm thinking particularly of the "Bullshit" episode where he attempted to corral science into justifying his own condition, undermining the whole premise of the series.
Perhaps he has issued a mea culpa.
As he himself says though, this is not a man to follow on this subject.
Best wishes to the author here though; moderation and discipline over the long term will be key.
Whenever I see stories revolving around this sort of thing, I'm always reminded of the Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode they did on recycling (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771119/). They argue that landfills really aren't that bad and may actually be better than recycling. Of course the entire _premise_ of that show was that you shouldn't just blindly believe everything you're told -- INCLUDING what the show itself tries to argue for. So I have no idea how valid any of their argument actually is.
Sadly, I think you're right. The Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode on recycling showed some pretty good examples.
I'm an environmentalist, but only with a little e.
Ha, reminds me of the Penn & Teller Bullshit episode where they were asking people to sign a petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw
Is your client possibly the same person who was interviewed for Penn & Teller's "Bullshit" on the "War on Drugs" episode[1]?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQS910WVlKc
The TV show Bullshit, written and hosted by Penn & Teller, did a show on AA. AA accidentally posted their recidivity rates on the internet and the numbers were shown. They showed that there was zero advantage of going to AA. That doesn't say alcoholics don't feel better when going.
Penn&Teller Bullshit episode on Polygraphs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bScv6kfxRyE
If you want the snarkier, video version of this argument: Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit” episode on recycling — http://www.sho.com/sho/penn-and-teller-bullshit/home?episodeid=s2/r
I wasn’t quite convinced, but they make a few cogent points.
the “Straight Dope” rebuttal to the NYT article: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2346/is-recycling-worth-it — among his points is that recycling is effectively an experiment. Twenty years of ensuing data should be regarded before taking anything in the NYT piece at face value.
That episode of Bullshit kinda missed the point, IIRC.
Energy consumption is an important thing to pay attention to, but the point of recycling is about not taking more stuff out of the ground.
"Most recycled materials should be cheaper than virgin commodities"
Surprisingly this just isn't true. It takes a lot of work and chemicals to clean inks and glues out of paper for recycling.
Penn & Teller looked into this in an episode of Bullshit! a while back - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExEVZlQia4
Aluminum and clear glass are very efficient to recycle, plastics and colored glass depend on commodity prices, and paper is just a terrible idea to recycle. It's much better for the environment to farm trees for making paper, then put that paper in landfills and harvest the methane gas the paper emits when it decomposes.
Penn&Teller covered the ADA in this episode of their TV Series Bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLfo979TDaY . The sue first model of accessibility is sickening especially in this case.
I agree completely that if you are a rationalist it is a waste of effort to throw someones beliefs back in their face, often they don't truly believe themselves anyway if you have a proper conversation.
What i have seen of Randi he seems to avoid this and look to educate rather than humiliate. The Penn and Teller show "Bullshit" ended up in a shaming of "fools" for certain episodes in the later series which was unfortunate.
I will say there are definitely people that deserve attacks. These are usually the career* psychics and deceivers who make money off the layman's beliefs; they certainly don't believe themselves.
*TV and large show types
Don't forget one of my favorite Bullshit episodes: Lawns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx9jKv6pgP8
(nsfw)
Yes, basically. It's ok to call the woo-woo stuff bullshit, I don't care about alien abductions and crystals. But to take that and then apply it to gun control and so-called "environmental hysteria" (their phrase) is no good, I say.
I mean, shit, they called the episode "environmental hysteria" and they pulled the old "dihydrogen monoxide" thing. In so many words: We found some dumb people that care about the environment, therefore if you care about the environment you're dumb.
There's an episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit on this very subject. I'd guess 10-15% of gym members go to the gym regularly.
Myth #6: The Polygraph Test is an Accurate Means of Detecting Lies
On Penn and Teller's "Bullshit" show they did an episode about this. One of the more disturbing things I learned is that, despite internal research that showed no effectiveness whatsoever, Sandia National Laboratories went ahead with the decision to require random polygraph testing. Also, apparently you can use your anal sphincter muscles to outwit a polygraph test.
Recycling is bullshit even if you do try to reduce waste as much as possible. (In fact, there's a TV show called Bullshit that did an episode on recycling.)
Not all of it, but enough of it to be pretty heartbreaking. Recycling metals makes a lot of sense, because mining is energetically costly. Recycling glass does too, because there's a lot of refining that goes into getting glass into a usable form. And both of these are easily separated from the junk they come in with.
Plastics, on the other hand, are a total nightmare. There are so many different types of plastics, some of them are completely unrecyclable, and people are usually too lazy or ignorant to sort correctly. What it means is that a ton of energy and pollutants are devoted to separating them from each other. Some calculations say that more energy is involved in recycling plastics (incl. transport, etc.) than to make them from scratch from crude oil.
Paper I'm still up in the air on. The end product isn't great, which reduces its viability. Plus, the vast majority of trees used in paper production are from tree farms. I don't know much about the rest of it.
You should watch the episode of Bullshit! where they get people who claim such differences to try and differentiate between local/organic and 'regular' fruit and vegetables.
Yes, this point of living a more holistic lifestyle would definitely cut down sleep problems in America. If anyone is familiar with Penn and Teller's show "Bullshit," they spend of their episodes trying to de mystify different sleep remedies and solutions. The go into how the sleep industry (mattresses, pillows, etc.) is a multibillion dollar a year business which attracts many con artists promising you a better sleep than you normally get.
During the show, they had an insomniac test out different mattresses and sleep solutions and they fittingly concluded that it was, well, bullshit. They ended the show by saying that the best way to get a a good nights sleep was to eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly. Its funny how living healthy can help with just about an physical or mental problem these days. Too many people are looking for the quick fix but all they really need to do is adjust their poor lifestyle decisions.
Penn & Teller just did an episode of Bullshit! on a related subject, parents who are paranoid that their kids might get abducted. See
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/previous_episodes.do?episodeid=s6/stranger
The episode is widely available over bittorrent as well.
Exactly. Correlation does not imply causation.
Whenever I hear about various things that supposedly make children smarter, like listening to Mozart as a baby, playing a musical instrument, or having a fish as a pet, I can't help but think in almost every case it has much more to do with the type of environment the child is raised in.
There was a good "Bullshit!" episode (Penn and Teller) about exactly that.