The Latest for February 18 2024

  Prompt the First: Put on Your Sunday Clothes Hello Dolly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064418/ Wall*E: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/   Prompt the Second: The Young Adult Suicide Chart Here's the tweet with the initial chart https://x.com/armanddoma/status/1758375001030627750?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA Shows increase and peak to 1994, sharp drop through 2003, then mostly show increase to 2013, spiking from there to 2017 CDC says " ●  The suicide rate among people aged 10–24 remained stable from 2001 through 2007 and then increased 62% from 2007 through 2021 (from 6.8 deaths per 100,000 to 11.0) (Figure 1). " That's "in the United States" CDC version is 10-24, and peaks at 11/100K in 2021 There is, incidentally, no noticeable bump from Covid; the recent peak is one the trend The chart is really rather misleading, as it shows a change from about 12/100K to 14/100k Prompt the Third: The Starship Troopers discourse This tweet appears to have kicked it off this time around https://x.com/HariSel57511397/status/1758251273617375340?s=20 But this is more my attitude. https://x.com/hEnereyG/status/1758926167376368089?s=20 Still, not complaining if it works for you. It mostly didn't for the professional film critics who viewed it in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)#Reception