You get used to it. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead…

It's definitely not trying to make fun of it, and IMO it's one of the weakest parts of a great movie. (It's a boring scene, and it's hard for the viewer to tell what's significant in the images.)

Nonono, I don't just mean that it's a sleek black touchscreen console, I mean it's literally an iPad on a gimbal.

Good news for you, then: forty years later, the New York subway still uses those control panels.

One of the things that bugs me about The Expanse, much as I love it, is that the spacecraft control panels are basically an iPad on a swivel mount. It won't be long before people look at that and go "Ugh, that is *so* 2015".

Has anybody done a history of the "Enhance!" trope? Who did it first, or at least popularized it? I've got a feeling like it might have been Blade Runner.

Say your family is having a reunion get-together. You save up to buy a plane ticket, but your brother just throws it onto his credit card. Afterward he says that since it was a family get-together, the whole family should chip in to pay off his credit card.

I don't think that's fair. Many Southern states raised taxes to pay off their war debts, while some of the Northern ones didn't, and were desperate to get the federal government to bail them out. It's kind of the reverse of the modern situation: today it's the poor southern states that are asking the federal…

Is it okay if I give both sides of this argument an upvote? You're both right.

Rachel was Jackson's wife, he dueled somebody because the guy said she was a bigamist. Which was probably true.

The fact that Jefferson's rapping and calling it a "musical" is where they'll go completely bonkers.

He explains in the next few lines:

or a lot of patience. (But if you play the orbital long game, the inner planets have time to respond. It's an interesting strategic problem.)

It's a disguise, they're pretending to be a gas freighter rather than a warship.

Let's have a Random Roles and find out!

First movie I saw with friends rather than family. I wasn't ready for dates yet, but some of the friends were girls and that was scary.

I mean, you're right I haven't seen The Patriot. But still,

I think it's pretty safe to say that anybody who's eating MREs has bigger things to worry about than what dinner tastes like.

Vacuum also means absolute zero temperature

A friend of mine linked that story on her FB just now. He wasn't even present yet: just the mere *threat* of Alan Rickman scared Mewes into getting his shit together (for probably the only time in his life.)