The only time I watched Upstream Color I was drunk, I gotta watch it sober sometime.

Crap yeah good call there!

Sorely missing “Window of Opportunity”, Stargate SG-1.

No love for “Primer?”

Somewhat off topic, but I just watched JUPITER ASCENDING last week for the first time and I...kind of loved it? It was ridiculously fun. I know Eddie Redmayne won a Razzie for it but I adored his wacked out Crispin Glover energy.

Yep.

Add Kelly Marie Tran to the “wasted” section, and the list is pretty much complete.

sure, as soon as i can afford it after i pay for all my medical stuff. someday.

every time i see speculative information on this kind of event, it’s always from a very ableist perspective. i can be prepared for a little while without power (i live where i get both bad hurricanes and outages due to ice and snow), but not months. if/when this happens, millions will be seriously harmed and millions…

There is a lot going on in that series!

That seems reasonable. Now I would like to write an interstitial story set duribg one of the earlier cycles, like during cycle three maybe, where this interation of the One and their companions accidentally stumble upon the wreckage of one of the earlier Zions (“wow, an ancient city from during the war...wait a sec,…

Maybe that is the thing I was thinking of which addresses the lack of armor. It has been a very long time since I have seen the Animatrix. Thank you for the reminder that I should watch it again!

I was struck by the genetic bottleneck issue too. But I guess there are three possible points to address that:

I haven’t watched in a long time, but I thought it was stated explicitly that Zion had been destroyed and rebuilt with each “The One” cycle. I don’t think it was clear that Zion was in the same place each time; I imagine there might be a number of underground cities (either built by the machines or built by humans…

There’s a moment in the Second Renaissance section of the Animatrix that makes a very good argument why front armor as protection was made irrelevant.   Also yikes it was a bad way to go(More people should watch The Second Renaissance.  I think I enjoyed it more than the sequels).

Valid points. But as I think about it, it is not even clear where Zion itself comes from. I had assumed the machines themselves built it and then simply allowed the humans inhabiting it to believe their ancestors had built it. For all we know, the current Zion is just the latest version and each time there is a new…

Beyond medical supports, there need to be many more institutional supports. I work with some folks who are clearly on the spectrum, and there’s no accommodations or awareness around it.

(Caveat: I’m not 100% sure all of them have been diagnosed or identify that way, and am basing my lay diagnosis on experience with…

I agree—but even in a city with a high cost of living, making $100K is going to put you above the median income, and you can definitely “live” on that much basically anywhere you want. What that “living” looks like will vary a lot, of course, but even in NYC, most people don’t make nearly that much.

And to add your list:

Scrum Master. Lol. When a company downsizes, the first to go are