And since I know it would be very unusual if she was a presidential candidate again, perhaps I should add:

I wonder if there’s going to be an uptick in left-wing interest in survivalism. Personally, having a cellar full of canned food and iodine tablets is starting to seem a little more reasonable.

So what happens to Hillary now? Can she come back from this and run again, or has this basically discredited her as a presidential candidate?

If I was an American, even if I lived in a solidly blue state that didn’t need my vote I’d still be kicking myself if I didn’t vote for Clinton. It would be like if a time traveller appeared next to me and say “Hey, do you want to go back in time? We can’t change the past, so nothing we do will have a noticeable…

I bet even some people in solidly blue states (like some of the Deadspin guys) are probably kicking themselves for not voting for Clinton, given what’s happened. It’s like a time traveller showed up and said “Hey, do you want to go back in time? We’re not allowed to change the past in any measurable way, so what you…

I said this in another post, but maybe he’s a Terminator. Like he was literally sent back from the future to destroy the human species. His speeches are just phrases selected from an internal database of canned responses, and something’s damaged his outer flesh covering so it’s started to rot.

If I was American I’d vote because I wouldn’t want to risk, even a little, being one of the people who fucked the world (and anything that detracts from Trump’s perceived legitimacy is good, like losing the popular vote by a landslide, or Kyle Reese showing up from the future and flamethrower-ing the flesh off his…

Oh, okay then.

Pretty sure everyone who has done climatological modelling of nuclear war has found that its climate effects are not nearly as apocalyptic as the original “nuclear winter” scenario. They just don’t like saying it because it can be seen to be minimizing the dangers of nuclear war.

When you say The Thing, are you referring to the 80s version as the remake and the 50s version as the old, bad movie? Because almost nobody would agree if you’re saying the 80s version was bad and the 2011 prequel was awesome.

My problem is that based on the machine guns carried by the security team when they visited the basement, everyone is well aware that when the robots get minds of their own, people die. I guess I’m just skeptical that the guy would value his job enough not to risk turning in the robot that isn’t obeying orders and…

They say there was a critical failure 30 years ago, and the security Hemsworth seems pretty worried about the potential for another. Note all the P90s the security team has when they go to the abandoned floor in the first episode.

Now that Maeve can modify her own mind and up her intelligence, we’re getting into real Singularity territory. Hopefully she’ll eventually be able to modify her physical form as well, and be able to ditch this unnatural human body nonsense and become a distributed cloud intelligence in a swarm of robot spiders, as…

Now that Maeve can modify her own mind and up her intelligence, we’re getting into real Singularity territory. Hopefully she’ll eventually be able to modify her physical form as well, and be able to ditch this unnatural human body nonsense and become a distributed cloud intelligence in a swarm of robot spiders, as God…

Yeah, I was a little hazy as to what the motivations for the ginger douche were. Like he is keeping her secret to preserve either his basement prostitution side hustle or his ability to have sex with the robots himself or because he’s scared of Maeve, but none of those things explains why he would go along with this.…

I think the impact of Dolores killing that fly is somewhat reduced if we then see the hosts beating the shit out of real people with no problem.

Some birds have penises and vaginas (ducks, notably).

You’re presuming that the actual attractions are more symmetric. For what it’s worth, male sexual orientation could very well be more polarized than female sexual orientation. Lots of studies, even with anonymous questionnaires, have found that result. Also, there have been plethysmography studies done in an attempt…

I vaguely recall the Kenneth Branagh movie did that.