What happened is that when the studio decided to do reshoots because it turned out one of their stars was a sexual predator, Michelle Williams recognized the importance of this move and volunteered her time for the reshoots, while Mark Wahlberg decided to take advantage of the situation and hold the movie hostage…

Some people want poor people to stop having babies, others want those judgmental assholes to stop having babies. But poor people and assholes keep having babies, so it looks like we’ll need other solutions.

I think there would have been a lot more confusion. Thing is, North Korea’s long range nuclear capabilities weren’t developed two years ago, so I don’t know who we would have thought was bombing us then.

I called my parents during the scare—asked them to turn on the TV and look online because I was desperate for any info—so they were in on the panic. My boyfriend tried to call his mom but couldn’t get through, which was lucky for her in hindsight. However, when she called an hour later after she heard the news, she…

Scored the highest on what tests? Does he mean the cognitive test? That’s just a bare minimum to test for dementia. Like, can you recognize a drawing of a lion? Trump may have passed that, but he’s still the dumbest president.

Me too. I was really hoping the story would say that he was giving out the red and pink because he only liked the yellow and orange :(

It is a shame. Used to be fun and insightful conversations on io9, now I don’t even read the comments because it’s mostly whiny man-babies.

Thanks. Very stressful. In retrospect, I guess it is surreal—the awful alert then learning it was a false alarm was so bizarre—but at the time, I didn’t stop and ponder how surreal it was, it was just what was happening, and I was reacting. I know that the real thing happening is still very, very unlikely, but it…

You may have meant “tweet” as a generic term, but it was a statewide emergency alert that buzzed all our phones and ran on the TV. It was crazy, but yes, thank God it was a false alarm.

Ugh, you’re lucky (knowing it was false in hindsight) not to get the message! I was also worrying about how we could be set up for a “cry wolf” situation and if something real happens people might not take it seriously. But I think also some people have a better idea now of how to react. I had some vague ideas of…

Any other Jezzies in Hawaii? Today was MESSED. UP. I find myself jealous of all the people who were other places and didn’t hear about it until after it was announced as a false alarm, who could just go about their day without thinking about it constantly.

Allison Williams’ favorite Broadway show:

I mean, I agree with the sentiment, but

How do you feel about Okinawan sweet potatoes?

Of course, NBC News likely promoted him more strongly because they respected him more than his female counterparts, allowing him to be in that position to be seen as a “tentpole” worthy of such a salary. Not to mention that certain viewers surely respected and trusted him more than female anchors (because women are…

She’s horrible, but the knowledge that she has to go by “Princess Michael” brings some justice to it. It’s a stupid title—no wonder Kate more often goes by her Duchess title so she doesn’t have to be “Princess William”—and you know she knows that we all know it’s a stupid title. Must drive her crazy, especially…

Women, he added, should “sign a pledge” that if they have an abortion, they would become ineligible for taxpayer-funded contraception.

I mean, plants are very happy with carbon dioxide. But there is more than the existing plants can use. So what are the effects of all the CO2 they don’t take up—the CO2 that isn’t going into plant life? That’s the issue.

If she loves it so much, I’m sure she’d like to be sealed in a room full of it...

They need to program all the other robots to facepalm/roll their eyes/cover their ears/fall dead once he starts talking. They are far too calm there in his company.