>The ban affects 26 countries and does exclude the UK for some unknown reason.

In addition to disbanding that pandemic response team, the Trump administration also disbanded a DHS task force that tracked domestic terrorists and white supremacist groups last year. And eliminated the election cybersecurity czar position the year before that. 

“I don’t trust doctors, they’re bias! I only trust information I get from anonymous randos on reddit!”

Totally unnecessary - congoing nerds are legendary for their fastidious personal hygiene. /s

9 times out of 10, the “spinning bit” design ship will be shown having gravity throughout the ship instead of *just* in the centrifuge part, with “down” facing outwards. This even goes for “hard” sci-fi like The Martian.

>”Abrams could have written two lines of dialogue to explain it but chose not to”

Is the answer ctrl+C and ctrl+V? ‘Cause there’s a whole lot of ships, but verrrrrrry little variety among them.

That belt buckle ain’t exactly subtle.

It’s always weird seeing the occasional outdoor pickup shots in Batwoman that were filmed in Chicago. It’s a CW show, where all things are Vancouver, so how can this be? (A map in Flash showed the locations of the various Beeboverse cities, and Gotham was where Chicago is, but still...)

Ironically, she’s already played Morgan Pendragon in the Camelot TV series.

As a kid, I always associated him with Ming the Merciless and Brewmeister Smith in Strange Brew.

Did they look in... SPACE?!

If they’re being directed to privately-run, for-profit detention centers, you have your answer.

I had to laugh at the Monical’s dig. I live deep in Monical’s country, and my entire family dips their squares of pizza in the stuff.

I had to laugh at the Monical’s dig. I live deep in Monical’s country, and my entire family dips their squares of…

Where I live, the reporters set up the camera themselves when out on location. Thankfully, they use actual video cameras and not cell phones. It’s clear that they haven’t been given much training with them, though, and have been told to just use everything on auto mode. This is a bad idea, because I’d say that in 9…

Oo, let me guess! Lea Seydoux’s character gets fridged in the first five minutes, and that motivates a tearful Jimmy boy to get back in the game. Because the movie industry is nothing if not original. /s

I was into the space sets as a kid in the early 80s. I just looked up the Galaxy Explorer, a set I could never afford as a kid, on ebay. Yikes.

Gotta love the ads that autoplay with audio even though the volume icon shows that it’s muted in the playback window. (An Arm & Hammer ad started blaring as I was typing this.)

Obama was what would have been considered a milquetoast Republican not that long ago, but in today’s climate he was the second coming of Mao.

Bloomberg had two terms as mayor of NYC. The city had a two-term limit for elected officials. So what did he do? Obey that law? HAH! He bought off the right person and got it changed so he could run for a third term. That tells you all you need to know about him.