https://babylonbee.com/news/james-cameron-releases-testosterone-free-cut-of-t2-where-arnold-schwarzenegger-is-replaced-by-kip-from-napoleon-dynamite

“At publishing time, James Cameron announced that he would be releasing testosterone-free cuts of all his other movies too — starting with Titanic since he didn’t need to make any changes to that one.”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2022/12/08/karine-jean-pierre-storms-out-of-a-white-house-briefing-in-a-huff-n1652100#comment-6061198510
“You can leave in a taxi. If you can’t get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that’s too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff”. – Rufus T. Firefly

Here’s one candidate contributing explanation. The drug market has shifted to cheap, ultra-potent, non-organic, always-synthesizable forms of opioids and amphetamines, i.e. fentanyl and P2P meth.

So users now die or go brain-damaged much more quickly than in the past.
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Both of them are intensely addictive, and both of them do a masterful job of what every drug of abuse has always done, and that is to hijack our instinct for self-preservation. These two drugs come in such enormous quantities and have such staggering potency that they do the job far more masterfully than drugs have done it before. So you have methamphetamine that is driving people to homelessness, and becoming incoherent and irrational and delusional and paranoid.

–“How Frighteningly Strong Meth Has Supercharged Homelessness”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-frighteningly-strong-meth-has-supercharged-homelessness/ar-AA14YlBr

Rufus T. Firefly:

Many people disliked Cameron’s “Titanic.” Including neo, as I recall. That’s OK.

I can understand your point about “men behaving badly.” Although in the larger measure, the film included Leonard DiCaprio, a man, behaving magnificently and changing Kate Winslet’s life irrevocably.

I saw “Titanic” not long after I started attending Tony Robbins events. DiCaprio’s interaction, while Winslet is contemplating suicide by leaping overboard, was a pure Tony-style intervention.

I was not surprised. However one assesses Tony’s merits, he is a behind-the-scenes influencer, directly and indirectly, on many in Hollywood.

There is always a political context, and for James Cameron that is a leftist context, but the appeal IMO of “Titanic,” beyond the effects, is the story of personal transformation.

When I saw “Titanic,” it hit my Tony buttons hard. I practically rushed out of the theater to live the life I was given.
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To making it count.

–Leonard DiCaprio’s/Jack Dawon’s toast in “Titanic”

Re: Alberta Sovereignty Act

That article is profoundly useless. Unless one already knows what the Act is; even if I blindly assumed its purpose/result was in the name (an unimaginably naive move in this day and age) that still wouldn’t tell me much. It’s expressing the province’s sovereignty how? And to what practical purpose?

On reading Wikipedia’s summary of the bill (the article there does not have a copy of the bill itself; on the other hand, the article still has copy that refers to it as a ‘proposed’ law) it’s effectively Alberta giving itself the ability to ignore Canadian Federal law on a case-by-case basis, for two years at a time. And demanding the same of any governmental entity (using a fairly broad definition) operating within Alberta.

It claims it’s only for ‘unconstitutional laws or those which harm Alberta’ but that’s a big enough carve out you could drive pretty much anything you like through it. It’s also entirely unclear that it has any practical effect; activating the Act seems pretty much the same as passing a law, although I may be missing something through ignorance.

And TR is right. Griner had been in Russia before. She knew that the drug was illegal. If you go abroad, you are covered by their laws, not ours.

I have not. I’ve only heard of “A Night to Remember*.” Of course, my brothers and I created some mischief on a steamer in, “A Night at the Opera.”

*also unseen by Rufus T. Firefly