You know, NPR had a segment on Marketplace today where Michael Uslan, one of the owners of the Batman film rights, talked about becoming the first instructors of comic book folklore at an accredited university. He persuaded his school’s headmaster at the time to approve the course by explaining how comic books had…

It’s missing a rather notable live-action entry.

You need to provide a source, then, because every media outlet reporting on this story says his first speech on the subject was in 1987. The only mention of it he made in 1985 -I- can find was in response to a question at a press conference, where he vacillated on the subject of letting children with AIDS remain in…

First, 1987, not 1985. If you’re going to repeatedly claim people have the facts wrong, it helps if you don’t make basic mistakes like not getting the years right.

I can readily accept it being a mistake, but even out of ignorance, it’s still very offensive. And that’s a LOT of ignorance to be showing off - like, Trump refusing to disavow white supremacist groups level of ignorance.

Are you seriously suggesting she deliberately insulted an entire group of people who might vote for her? That is not a rational belief.

Yeah, she screwed up. It happens. Idk. But she apologized soon after. I really don’t know what people want her to do. Like, she’s not gonna be like “it was a malicious lie to pander to republicans” bc duh, and also I doubt that’s what happened.

It wasn’t a misstep and she didn’t misspeak. To say that the Reagans were ADVOCATES for the gay community during the HIV crisis is like claiming Henry Ford didn’t really hate Jews, he just had concerns about how they were stereotyped. Anybody with even the faintest knowledge of LGBT history in this country should know…

The plan was to distract Kilgrave long enough for Jessica to get close and kill him. That didn’t work, so she had to improvise.

The other brawls are still easy enough to make gold in, if you spend 5 minutes looking at someplace like Icy Veins for a quick basic decklist.

If you play the Tavern Brawls, usually pretty easy.

The difference between profits from comic book sales and box office sales is the difference between a glass of water and the ocean. The BEST comic book titles will sell between 100k-150k units, while the average will sell anywhere from 10-50k units. Most of those unit sales will have a profit of well under a dollar…

As much as I love seeing the various X-Teams doing their thing, the X-Men line has needed a massive reboot for at least a decade, because their continuity is just horrifying to a casual fan at this point. Unfortunately, since Marvel doesn’t have the movie rights, they’ve actively tried to keep the X-Men out of the…

So, general election polls are useless this far out, and any Democrat is going to do well against Trump or Cruz... but we’re going to call the general election his greatest weakness anyway. Why, exactly? The assumption that he’d spend the entire general election on defense baffles me - the attack of him being a…

The excellent campaign run so far by Bernie Sanders moves ever closer towards its greatest weakness: Sanders’ chances, or lack thereof, in the general election.

I do drive Lyft, as do most Uber drivers. As to finding another line of work - I have been trying to do that for the last YEAR. It’s functionally a minimum wage job, except it’s not a minimum wage job that turns you away because you’re obviously looking for something better while you work there.

I don’t believe Uber has ever said that tips are included - their standard line is usually that tips “aren’t necessary”. Uber, as a company, is fine with people interpreting it either way.

Uber does not have an option to tip drivers in the app, and it is not included in the fare pricing. Lyft does have an option to tip in their app.

In Portland, basic UberX rates are a base $1.50 fare, plus $1.55/mile or $0.30/minute (typically used when driving at very low speeds/stopped). The minimum fare is $5.35.

Uber doesn’t “secret shop”, as far as I know, but their instructional videos specifically instruct drivers to turn down tips, and only accept them if passengers insist. Most drivers don’t stick around long enough to realize that it’s a bullshit instruction.