The only ‘good’ thing that makes Trump a better option than Pence is that Trump is so blatantly odious that it’s easy to get a resistance going. Pence is a rank and file conservative, the kind we know sucks but that we don’t effectively rally against especially if we are so grateful that Trump is gone that we’ll…

It wouldn’t surprise me if that was the plan all along: Rather than try to get a man like Pence elected, bring him in on the coattails of the demagogue that the Republican base has begging for for years, let him make all the truly awful legislative decisions they *know* that the country is going to hate, let the…

Notably, they want freedom for *themselves* to say anything they want with impunity. But nobody else. Which means they don’t want freedom at all, but compliance and worshipers.

There’s also the fact that the kind of freedoms these people are clamoring for isn’t really free. It’s free with a very specific set of monocultural beliefs which brooks no competition or dissent of any kind.

I think the issue is rather that, theoretically, a particle at Absolute Zero would violate the Uncertainty Principle, since the position and the momentum would be set at 0.

Oh, certainly birds are the real heirs to the dinosaur lineage.

I think that 150 million years very well could have been part of the problem. The Mezozoic Era was a time where the Earth was much warmer and resource rich in terms of raw biomass than today (how else could the environment have supported ridiculously gigantic sauropods in substantial herds which would have literally…

Of course not. To them, literary analysis is the purview of feminist killjoys and milquetoast betas. That’s why these people go on about ‘plain talk’ or ‘telling it like it is’. They lack the barest mental capacity to think beyond anything but the most obvious, superficial level, unless they’re using one of their…

Nothing puts the lie of these people having a problem with ‘political correctness’ than when they get publicly called out as racists, liars, and generally despicable, hateful wastes of humanity. Especially in their own forums. Suddenly then they’re all about curating their safe spaces and wanting to call for a more…

People forget how much time skipping happens in DB. Must of the arcs take place over very small periods of time, despite the number of episodes involved, and then have native time skips of months or years, usually.

In DBZ times, sure. Super seems to have the opposite problem. Other than the movie rehashes, its pacing has been streamlined to an absurd degree. Things you’d like to actually have more time on get completely rushed through. Seventy episodes in and we’ve had four arcs. I know GT had about that many arcs in a similar…

While I applaud you not doubling down on a wrong opinion, you’re not alone in your original sentiment. A *lot* of people have similar thoughts along those lines, thinking that the FDA are a bunch of moustache twirling interlopers seeking to interfere with heroic drug companies’ from curing cancer (I know that wasn’t…

Well, it’s not as if there isn’t precedent for this type of unregulated market for medication. Less than a century ago medication was a free for all of ridiculous claims, unfounded quackery, huckstering, and misinformation. Its the reason the FDA was created in the first place.

Also, by leaving the train, doesn’t Maeve consciously break her loop? Isn’t that scene supposed to be when she finally, truly cuts her programmatic strings?

Ford didn’t do anything Arnold couldn’t. Ford just had the advantage of the Hosts having time and experience to bootstrap themselves. Fords only contribution was reintroducing Arnolds code for the reveries at the right time for it to actually work.

Armistice did the Terminator proud, didn’t she?

Battlstar Galactica. Late in the series, the question of ‘Who’s a secret Cylon?’ was the question of the day, and the showrunners had left enough narrative clues that the internet at the time was all over the likely candidates and guessed to much of the master plan.

While I concur with your overall point, remember that the age of the flying saucer was only twenty years prior (Kenneth Arnold’s alleged UFO encounter was in 1947). It’d be hard to call that concept ‘age old’ in only 1966. In many ways, one might consider the Enterprise design a fusion of the two prevailing taxonomies…

That’s my opinion. Outthinking the internet is a fools game. I’m fine with the writers just ignoring it as a factor and just focusing on execution with their plot. Even if it’s often predictable, the speak is in the reveal than the actual answer.

My feeling is that they shouldn’t. Like Westworld seems to be doing all along, so far, the draw isn’t the shock or surprise, but the execution. And I’m ok with that. A well told story doesn’t necessarily need to be surprising. Trying to strive for shock or worse, letting surprise me your main metric for quality, is…