Wouldn't eliminating parasites make you gain weight? This is sort of indicative of the idea that health is just a single variable and you want as much of it as possible — that things are either good or bad for you in every way and in every situation. So you know, if something helps people who have lead poisoning,…

The weirdest part of that is it doesn't even mention gases, the stuff there's an outside chance you might actually be bloating from.

It worked so well people stopped smoking and started rubbing nicotine patches on their feet instead. In honor of what led them to this discovery, it's known colloquially as "vaping."

I did consider this and just couldn't really come up with any other support for it. He's definitely into girls, even if he's confused by that.

Sure, he's unpopular but it's not like he's Ted Cruz in the senate.

It's a spinoff of half in the bag's "Murder Man v Captain Hypocrite"

I was pretty confused by the teen idol thing. Does Finn think PB's appeal in manufactured or purposefully appealing to the lowest common denominator? I could kind of see his crush on her being compared to the way boy bands try to sell sex-adjacent appeal to pubescent girls who are still kind of mystified by and…

Turning NEPTR into a fully inanimate microwave might be an act of mercy honestly.

I'd go further and say that dude wasn't even evil, or a hermit, until he got those eyes and was making a pretty noble sacrifice for want of better options.

I have only seen the first one, so maybe in 2. But the first one focuses entirely on a set of nouveau riche victims, and you really have to do a lot of the work for it if you want it to be an allegory or satire about anything beyond "rich people resent class mobility. " The individual purgers kind of say some stuff…

I don't even mind that part as much (since it doesn't have to be everyone out murdering to make it ultra dangerous, just 1% of people or something would be sufficient for it to be a nightmare). What gets me the assumption that violence is something you can just sort of get out of your system and that murdering someone…

To Purge a Mockingbird
The 7th Purge
Star Wars: A New Purge

It does seem like the kind of thing that just can't actually work at all like stated, so you start to think it must be propaganda and actually have a lot of unstated rules, or a side they're not showing you. My guess though wouldn't be that everyone punches down during the purge due to resources, but rather that no…

Yeah, i think a lot of Sci Fi and Fantasy ranging from total schlock to not-quite-a-classic sees some idea from it survive culturally even when the work as a whole doesn't. Actually on a long enough timeline, that might be the fate of almost everything that survives in any form. Our very language uses Narcissus as a…

Well if nothing else there's the Rick and Morty episode.

I just realized, by being a trailblazer in the field of insane twitter nonsense, Kanye could somewhat legitimately claim he's responsible for (robot) Tay's fame.

Ooh, a lady season.

It basically hasn't stopped being Fox Soccer or whatever from a packaging perspective.

I gave it a real shot in season 1 but by the time the second season rolled around i only bothered to tune in for the one centered on his sister.

Jesus Christ, what the fuck was Lassie doing for 591 episodes??