just a reminder that that is daniel craig rey just used the force on james bond
OH MY GOD THIS WAS DANIEL CRAIG’S CAMEO? HOLY SHIT
Still pretty sure this was the stormtrooper actually being so 1000% done with any sort of Force-related bullshit courtesy of Kylo Ren’s outbursts that he pretended to be mind-controlled in order to peace-out of the situation.
“Shit, shit, she thinks she can mind-control me with the Force, what do we do, JB-007?”
“Well, Other JB-007, do we want to get Force-Lightninged or Force-Strangled to death when she figures out that mind-control isn’t working?”
“No, JB-007, we do not.”
“Let’s just do what she wants and then hijack a TIE fighter and get out of here. It worked for that FN guy last week.”
“That is an excellent plan if I do say so myself, JB-007.”
Under ancient Jewish law, if a suspect on trial was unanimously found guilty by all judges, then the suspect was acquitted. This reasoning sounds counterintuitive, but the legislators of the time had noticed that unanimous agreement often indicates the presence of systemic error in the judicial process, even if the exact nature of the error is yet to be discovered. They intuitively reasoned that when something seems too good to be true, most likely a mistake was made.
In a new paper to be published in The Proceedings of The Royal Society A, a team of researchers, Lachlan J. Gunn, et al., from Australia and France has further investigated this idea, which they call the “paradox of unanimity.”
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The researchers demonstrated the paradox in the case of a modern-day police line-up, in which witnesses try to identify the suspect out of a line-up of several people. The researchers showed that, as the group of unanimously agreeing witnesses increases, the chance of them being correct decreases until it is no better than a random guess.
In police line-ups, the systemic error may be any kind of bias, such as how the line-up is presented to the witnesses or a personal bias held by the witnesses themselves. Importantly, the researchers showed that even a tiny bit of bias can have a very large impact on the results overall. Specifically, they show that when only 1% of the line-ups exhibit a bias toward a particular suspect, the probability that the witnesses are correct begins to decrease after only three unanimous identifications. Counterintuitively, if one of the many witnesses were to identify a different suspect, then the probability that the other witnesses were correct would substantially increase.
so…jews argue so much there’s something WRONG if we agree?
When someone’s life or liberty is on the line, then, yes, that is exactly the logic behind this, and that’s it’s better to err on the side of caution rather than condemn an innocent.
….this is why we need more detective novels written by jews
ooh can anybody who happens to see this rec some existing detective novels written by jews?
Yes! Said they preferred a complex textured friendship for her and Steve and that a romance for Nat would’ve felt too predictable. Also said she viewed Fury as a father, and that Civil War would be really emotional for her.
They also said to keep pushing for a black widow movie, it can happen, but you have to push it. Come on, guys! We can do this.
Do you know who doesn’t get enough love from the Harry Potter fandom?
Madam Poppy BAMF Poppy
Escorted a teenage werewolf to a deadly tree each month.
Took care of that teenage werewolf after every full moon and you know that she probably fussed over him and mothered him and gave him a bunch of chocolate.
Literally didn’t question things.
This boy has a bite that’s turning green and he says is from a dog? Okay.
This girl is half-cat? Alright
Had to put up with Harry’s excessive injuries each year.
Took care of and cured a bunch of petrified students.
Didn’t put up with Malfoy’s crap.
LITERALLY YELLED AT DUMBLEDORE!
YELLED AT THE MINISTER OF MAGIC!
KICKED DUMBLEDORE AND THE MINISTER OF MAGIC OUT!!!
Was the one who took care of Cedric Diggory’s corpse.
Refused to resign under Umbridge’s regime because she was afraid of what would happen to the students.
Took care of everyone during the battle in HBP.
Fought in the Battle of Hogwarts and tended to the wounded/dead.
Probably had to deal with hundreds of students who misused the Engorgio Charm.
Honestly I will always be grateful to Brooklyn 99 for giving us “cool motive, still murder” as a quick, no-frills response to all these weak white boy villains with woe-is-me backstories that fandoms inevitably try to woobify.
Finn is my favorite character in the entire Star Wars universe.
Finn lived through a lifetime of indoctrination, he’d been stripped of all identity to the point where he was literally nothing more than a number. Its amazing that he was able to break free of all of the conformity and indoctrination, to actually think for himself and realize what was happening was wrong.
But he did more than that. How many soldiers throughout history had moral doubts about what they were ordered to do, but followed orders out of fear, because the alternative was too enormous to contemplate? How many ordinary people, when faced with the choice of speaking up about something wrong that was happening and staying silent, choose the latter for exactly the same reasons?
So not only did Finn have the compassion, but also the courage to do the right thing. Even though it would mean abandoning everything he’d ever known. Even though it might very well have meant certain death.
But there’s more than that.
Finn is terrified of the First Order. There are some who see this as a weakness, but not me. Because the minute Rey was captured, Finn was ready to charge right into the heart of the thing he’d been running from the entire movie.
Think about that. Think about how much courage it takes to face the thing you fear most without any hesitation or even a plan. Think about why he’s doing it. He’s doing it to save Rey, someone he couldn’t have known for more than a few days.
Finn, who grew up without any compassion or love, has such an enormous capacity for both that he would face the thing he fears most for someone he just met.
So lets be clear: Finn is not a token character, he isn’t a bumbling idiot and he certainly isn’t comic relief. While Finn has ordinary powers and abilities, he has such a stunning capacity for courage and compassion that he is in fact truly extraordinary.
It's not that white/straight/cis people shouldn't have comfortable lives and a sense of security. It's that people who aren't white or straight or cis SHOULD have comfortable lives and a sense of security.
i keep seeing posts about the way the “hand-holding” arc developed in the force awakens, with finn unable to function outside a team (hence finn’s compulsive need to watch his partner’s back and check their safety when he’s vulnerable) and rey unable to function when working with companions (hence her being confused at finn’s habit of watching her back and checking her safety) and eventually the two of them end up learning from the other and i love it because finn’s vulnerability and rey’s guardedness are perfect complements and watching them come into contact and blend created some chemistry that was really fun to watch
but then i also see the comments and honestly i’ve really grown tired of hearing millennials talk about how racist their parents and grandparents were and then turn around and basically say “get your hands off that white woman” the first time they see an interracial couple. you’re making your racist granddaddy proud.
and don’t think i missed how some of these same people have mistaken kylo ren literally kidnapping, torturing, and attempting to murder rey as “sexual tension” but see finn reflexively, involuntarily making contact with his teammate when he feels threatened as predatory. apparently rey’s boundaries are being violated when a black man touches her without being cognizant of doing so but when a white man literally knocks her unconscious, straps her to the table on purpose, and tries to forcibly rip thoughts from her head it’s hot. i honestly don’t care how many buzzwords you dress it up in, if you feel this post describes you, you don’t give a shit about rey’s boundaries or autonomy and you’re just using that as a smokescreen so you can dismiss anyone who acknowledges your hatred and fear of black people and interracial relationships.
It’s both hatred of black people and the normalization of white male violence and domination against others as the standard for romance
