And that’s why I can’t get on board with the idea of “herd immunity” from letting people just catch it and recover.

This is literally the the basis of Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia

So you’re saying there is a chance we can end 2020?

Air plane mechanic here. In our industry, mostly outside the US, mechanics are referred to as engineers.  In fact the term mechanic is slowly losing usage too and being replace with technician, but engineer is a legit term for mechanic in most of the world.

Also, last I checked, a floppy disk can’t over-volt your computer and fry the motherboard.

Fun fact. USB “thumb drives” are the least secure things in the world. They typically consist of a flash memory chip and a controller chip. The controller chip is a small computer that can be programmed to lie. About anything. It can lie about the capacity. It can lie about the data that is on the flash chip. It can…

One of my first “computer” jobs was tape librarian for an oil company.

Fuck you! She did, they denied it. Don’t BI time shame like we don’t need to ultimately pay rent student loans bills. How about “don’t be a scumbag  employer and pay people their worth!”

As long as his views are no longer the same. There should be like statue of limit stations on this. People grow and learn.  

Nah, they’re completely useless. This is a Type-2 civilization. Slow, large land transports that have minimal defenses are dumb. They’d even be dumb deployed on Earth’s modern battlefields.

Because LGBT actors are often overlooked for straight roles, therefore overlooking them for one of the few LGBT roles as well could be seen as very harsh. There’s a reason many gay actors don’t come out for a long time as there’s still a stigma against them.

Nice, thanks!

I don’t discuss this in the piece, but through my reporting I learned that the radioactive core is the thing they care about the least because they’re so simple. it’s all the other stuff that introduces the uncertainty.

Katie Miller is a Nazi, you’re being easy on her.

They definitely stuck too close to the familiar in the new trilogy. I think some of the criticism of the prequels made them think, “we better stick a little closer to nostalgia and hope it carries us through these movies”. I had a lot of hope that the mystery box + safe nostalgia set up done in TFA would work as a…

The first one was great to watch in the theater. I have no desire to watch it again since the plot was so threadbare, but the in-theater experience was so immersive I’ll drop some cash to see the sequels effects alone.

Hell, The Last Jedi was one of the best things to happen to this series in decades and people are still arguing about how it was actually bad.

This is psychohistory. Asimov figured this out 70 years ago:

The US doesn't recognize the jurisdiction of the Hague court on it's own citizens. Otherwise Bush would be convicted of war crimes long ago. 

Star Wars has the best worthless villains...