I was kind of surprised to see that no one mentioned that beef is one of the not-so-good meats to eat if you’re trying (as the US is) to reduce your per capita or national carbon emissions.

Is now a good time to talk about the economic, environmental, and health benefits of reducing our meat consumption?

It is a way to give “cosplaying” children Maui’s tattoos without printing those water-based things on your children from neck to waist and all down the arms. If it were too light-colored (to match other skin-tones) you’d be offended. If it was just the leaf-toga then little boys’ wouldn’t’ve wanted it because the…

I’ve found that among my German-speaking distant relatives, there was a shift around 1900 from, beforehand, changing the English spelling to match the German pronunciation, to, afterwards, changing the English pronunciation to match the original (German) spelling. So people named Elise early on were known as Eliza or…

I doubt it will be better. I think they were picked for the original show primarily because of an ability to smile and being the same age group as the intended viewers; someone the audience could empathize with.

Cliff from Cheers? So good of you to drop by!

Also: World of Warcraft, Warlords of Draenor and onwards. Completely unnecessary and non-contributive to the stories they could tell.

Lets everybody calm down. If anything, pointing out where ST draws influence might (I hope) point some of the younger viewers towards seeking out these films. Owing a debt to genre films isn’t a crutch unless it’s done poorly, which certainly isn’t the case here.

I dunno. I get your point that we know about things that happened far away, but we didn’t know as fast, and I’ll see your fairly tame magazine cover and raise you cell phone footage of some guy plowing a truck into a bunch of people in France.

This video is superb.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Yeah, a system built around the temperature of an arbitrary winter in Danzig, Germany and an inaccurate estimate of body temperature makes way more sense than one built around the temperature at which water freezes and boils.

I don’t have anything snarky or funny or insightful to contribute. I just want to say that this was an incredibly well-written article: informative and epic in scope and style.

Whoever was in charge of the music on the show deserves an award. They found the perfect match for songs/scenes. I made a playlist of all the songs from episodes i liked.

Here’s what happened:

Well, if we’re taking this to the macro scale, imagine Hitler giving Churchill a big bear hug, then Hitler’s stomach starts ripping apart Churchill’s stomach, then Hitler injects his organs and DNA into Churchill, who then begins creating clones of Hitler inside himself, then EXPLODES copies of Hitler.

funny because I came away thinking it was the best game to film adaptation by a longshot (which still isn’t much praise I suppose)

First its Catan, then Shadows over Camelot and the Game of Thrones strategy game, then you fall into Betrayal at House on the Hill, before you know it you and seven other “friends” are eight hours into a game of Twilight Imperium trying to figure out if literally stabbing someone in the back is a valid way to win the…