I am hoping that before they left, the Obama’s installed in the White House three animatronic ghosts programmed to visit Trump on Christmas Eve.

Bloodline is a great read; wonderful look at Leia’s transition from weary Senator to badass freedom-fighting general, though some of the politics do fall a bit flat. But it was still an excellent read. The only thing that marred it for me was that about a week after I finished it, Carrie Fisher died. :/

You know, I can’t fathom how some people can see what’s supposed to be a fun and harmless easteregg and just get so offended or feel anything negatively.

you had problems with a realistic interpretation of war?

Ok, but these reasons are pretty much WHY I liked this movie. Rebellions are dirty. The Skywalker trilogy is like the main heroic history the rebels tell after they won. Rogue One is the shit the sweep under the rug (kind of like Han shooting first, scrubbed away in a “we have always been at war with Eurasia” way).

I’m about to the point where I turn off NPR. Every fucking morning lately I have to listen to them interview another Trump stooge who does nothing but normalize this asshole and every stupid fucking thing he has been doing lately.

I get it now. 2016 isn’t real, it just refuses to break kayfabe.

Baseball is the only sport that actually looks like America.

I’m going to texas in January, and no lie, I’m most excited to go to Buc-ees.

I’m a Fed scientist at the USDA. We’ve had steady growth since a reorganization of 2008 (while others had layoffs) and finally started hiring again in the past year and a half. I don’t know what this does but the heads say the outlook is not good.

Clearly, it’s the all time greatest smuggling movie in American history.

Counterpoint. As “essential SF in a visual medium” there is nothing wrong with this list.

In his defense, removing himself from her life forever was one way to cure her of a cancer.

Does anyone remember the Wpix game. They would play an atari video game and a person would call in and say the word pix and the missile would fire or whatever. People would be just be saying pix as fast as they could over and over. I tried so many times to call in and be on that game,…

Yes, this. It was a fairly big plot point, and it ties into Bridgit (firefly) and Selina is caring for them because Bridgit did. It was a fairly big plot point last season. A decent recapper would remember that. But this is io9 and the smart folks jumped ship long ago.

It’s the inevitable endpoint of the service economy- we all give each other Uber rides to farm stands to buy ingredients to make the recipes that we sold to each other online, which we then make in other people’s kitchens, which were rented on AirBnB. Someone from Handy will be over to clean up when we’re finished.

It’s great, because they don’t just fail as Star Wars movies, but much like Batman v Superman, as movies plain and simple. The defenders seem to think only Star Wars fanboys hate them now, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. People who enjoy movies and think about them critically hate them. They fail on so…

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That's funny, I thought it was obvious from the get-go that Mike Judge was mocking eugenics, an idea that has been totally discredited. Obviously, if that dystopia was possible we'd never have any advances in culture, we'd already have found ourselves in a deep well, but we see more books and education that at any…