You must be fun at parties.

Kill the multiverse. Nothing matters in any of these movies. 

Ah, Local Chinese Officials telling us everything is fine. Where have I heard this before.....

Woke was ugly from the start, I’m afraid. Just because bad people have co-opted it doesn’t mean that “woke” wasn’t -als0- problematic from the get go. 

Sure, but it’s used differently in the vernacular than it is used in that setting. Even the early proponents of critical race theory point out that CTR as understood by social justice activists are no longer the same thing. 

I’m going with one from a podcast I heard that was something like “hypocritically circumspect and essentialist to the point of bigotry.”

That’s the right response. 

I don’t think that’s the case at all. There are plenty of people who are simply against racial essentialism. 

It’s woke if you believe that all lives matter. 

Forget JK Rowling controversies. Fantastic Beasts is just a dull, uninspired series. The movies are not interesting, the characters feel one dimensional. It’s just not that good. Feels like “product” not “plot.”

Yeah, but does it poke into the fact that Maurice Grosse was a gullible anomaly hunter and that the whole incident was basically hokum? I mean this honestly. I’d love it for these “real life” horror shows to be a little more realistic in pointing out the absurd and often clearly fueled-by-huckster-investigators…

I’m ambivalent about brilliant man/child Musk. -BUT- I actually buy the logic behind using a very small membership fee to combat bots. And if it is indeed cheep enough to not really be a burden, then fine. Worst case it cuts out some noise. 

I don’t think this means capitalism is on its last legs. It does mean that the value of labor is about to implode. This is a huge problem for any economic system. All proposed economic systems fail to anticipate the rise of “replacement labor” in their models. What happens when I can copy a “worker” as easily as an…

Actually.... yes.

Many people have tried. They’ve all failed. The problem is that political power is -also- a market, one with more perverse incentives. The market of cash value, while not romantic, tends to be more honest. 

This is the state of lay economic education. Twitter sized philosophy for twitter sized minds. It’s not worth arguing about here at Gizmodo, where the audience is soundly mid. 

When you find the thing that generates more wealth and prosperity than markets, please let us know. There’s a prize committee in Swedes who’d love to give you a nice big medal.

Of course government programs can generate some good things. But on balance they generally are not efficient. And even -socialist- governments…

Libertarians and technologist are not the same thing. Though there are libertarians who are technologists. 

Ah yes, all that -great- work and -solid- theory from academic communists. You guys have been doing great. 

Nope. Socialists don’t want people to be happy. Your point is strong on its own.