I work in repairing facades in NYC - new buildings are utter garbage. Dealing with a luxury apartment building built in 2012 in which nearly every apartment leaks. More of the brick needs replacing than may be kept, and the apartments feel flimsy AF inside.

So I assumed this was just an idiot trying to impress his friends who messed up and jumped the truck into cyclists but:

We’re at a point where wanting to breathe clean air and drink clean water is considered a partisan issue.

Tim the K Ninja brought up a good point, as there’s a decent chance that these folks could be right-leaning. The problem, however, comes with how they were perceived. The kid had already ‘rolled coal’ on them once, and was trying to do so again when this accident happened. I guarantee this kid simply saw a bunch of…

I was a highly aggressive asshole teenager with PTSD and I never would have done this shit. Since there won’t be any legal repercussions, I hope the family is sued into homelessness they can never climb out of.

Good thing civil suits exist. Mommy and daddy are going to be on the hook for a lot of legal expenses, and more if the cyclists win, which seems likely.

This shit is why I ride on bike trails, not on the roads as I would consider that suicide.

This kid needs a baseball bat to the knees.

if we have technology to build machines or even just simple materials that can last 100k+ years and still function -- we won’t need to go anywhere. We can build anything we need right here.

Except such a civ can’t implement policy widely - its worlds are too far apart.

I’ve beaten this drum on io9 before, but I’m utterly baffled (and fed up) at the seeming obsession with prequels (and origin stories) nowadays.

He’s practically the only thing worth watching in Episode II. Jedi Detective Obi-Wan is 20 minutes of delight in a slog of a film.

The prequels were ugly, boring, static, and badly acted. The humor was forced and childlike, the love scenes were completely unnatural.

Neither do I. And this is a place to discuss movies, right?

I think the significantly deeper exploration of the major prequel characters in Clone Wars helped add some nuance to rewatching the prequels, but they’re still bad movies at the end of the day.

That said, I liked the Phantom Menace a little bit more (or, more accurately, disliked it less) after I watched it with my…

Buddy if we had the tech to make Mars livable I think whatever that would be would work to make Earth livable...

Unless our aim is to create a temporary staging point/way point for people on their way to asteroid mining, any thought of colonizing Mars is silly.

I’m not a vegan. But since watching these type of documentaries, my animal product intake has plummeted. I’ve become aware of certain issues regarding how food is farmed and manufactured. Your title, dont watch Seaspiracy, does nothing. If some of the facts aren’t air tight, fishermen weren’t interviewed or whatever…

(Full disclosure: I’m vegan myself, so you can assume I have biases in that direction).

This seems waaaaaay less a VFX reel/breakdown, and more like they did a slew of animated storyboards before they ever went into production.