That would be a great point, if it had any bearing on my comment. You should probably find someone who claimed otherwise, if that’s the debate you’re trying to start.

I just hope they don’t overdo that sort of thing with him to the extent that it ruins Spider-man’s role on the team, which is more appropriately like that.

Doing the minimum?

I agree that too few countries are doing too little, but I don’t think the U.S. can do it, especially not alone. It’s not a great situation but the Obama administration’s strategy is the only tenable role we can play IMO. Turkey especially needs to pull their shit together (seems like they finally are, but there is…

As long as we’re being pretentious twats with passive-aggressive internet bullshit like “To the English-speaking population...” to the population with basic reading comprehension, the comparison being made is to his reputation and rating as a player, i.e. “People say he’s one of the greatest, but he was never that…

Marino played fewer games than Brett Favre and Peyton Manning.

He’s saying Dan Marino has a ruddy complexion, is an asshole, and is overrated as a player.

This. Most people (straw man, I know) would probably put Dan Marino on the Mt. Rushmore of QB’s, but he doesn’t really have any signature moments. He’s a compiler. He’s great because he was around forever, and I don’t debate that he was great, but he’s overrated.

This is probably dumb, but I’ll bite.

Not exactly, I probably have less self-control than you—certainly far less patience. I just say, “Fuck off” and hit the dismiss button once I give their comment a once through to confirm boring bullshit, leaving it completely unanswered.

More or less, yeah. But I realize that it’s the Internet and at least they aren’t actually trying engage me in discussion which I would just dismiss out of hand anyway.

My reaction is something like this:

It’s easy to be cynical about their views on employee safety, but I don’t think you can argue that the powers that be won’t at the very least be incensed by the resources lost in the explosion. Not exploding your fuel reserves is good both for people and the fuel.

Or even an insurance fraud scam gone disasterously wrong—although that’s unlikely.

I tend to agree. People don’t remember how resistant to change America was. Auto makers fought adding seatbelts. Does China fight the expense of seatbelts in its cars? Nope, because they want to sell them elsewhere. World standards for exported items automatically get added without resistance. It is production where…

those white streamers... definitely looks like magnesium was a component of the second explosion.

This is the country that gave us Tank Man.

You know, they said the same about South Korea in the 1970s or Taiwan in the 1980s. As people’s standards of living improve they usually demand better regulation and safety.

Billions of yuan lost, 50 dead, more than 500 injured. Some heads are definitely going to roll over this. That’s for sure. Hopefully higher safety standards will be put in place after this.

It is kinda impressive that even with these toy leaks, there is nothing in there that spoils the movie more than the trailer did. These are all characters we’ve already seen in outfit we’ve already seen. The Mouse is good at keeping secrets, and they don’t even need to use John Harrison to do it.