Even if I didn't like Shape of You, and I love it, this would completely convince me the other way. The dancing is incredible: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I know this isn't nearly the only cause, but the anti-intellectual/anti-expert streak in this country is its biggest problem in almost every case.

I just read that whole poem. That was wonderful.

I'm hoping it's just for the trailer and they are going to murder the fuck out of that kid by the end of the film. I mean, you need Roland to care about him so that the sacrifice matters.

I tossed out the movies like I'm giving my opinion, which is what everyone else is doing.

I reread the series in the last year, and having a much better sense for British culture the Britishness of the writing comes through even in the American versions. It's actually pretty fun to parse thoughts and sentences that could only have been written by a British author.

A friend of mine loved the April Fools day thing so much, he thought it'd be cool instead of releasing the season as a whole they did an episode a month for Rick and Morty. I'm not sure how viable that is, but I feel like it would be a way to keep people excited and tuning in, while also making sure the wait doesn't…

I think that way too when I've been in the US for too long.

I find none of this impressive. Why can't the US get cheap food right? When I go vacation in Europe, every day cheap food is incredible. European cafes make better food than $20 a plate restaurants do here.

The panel shows had a field day. 8 Out of 10 Cats was so bored of it by the third episode. Almost none of them seemed to care either. Everyone on the panels were like "whatever, I'm sure I've eaten worse".

I always miss these articles so I hope I don't miss next weeks, but Bourne Supremacy is my favorite Bourne, and probably in my top 5 actions movies. Everything about it works so well, and it avoids so many pitfalls. Its pacing is incredible.

I came down to say something really similar. Julius Caesar and Augustus get a bad rap because Enlightenment writers were enamored with the idea of the Roman Republic and were sympathetic to it considering their issues with their own monarchs. In reality, the Roman Senate was super corrupt, and the Caesars did a lot to…

Not to mention that Caesar is a brilliant orator in the play.

There are very few but there have been some atheist Senators and Representatives in US history. In any case, I would say the amount of non theist people in this country is relatively low, and has been incredibly lower for most of US history. These kinds of things don't change overnight.

As an atheist myself, I find the distinction meaningless. People do what they want regardless of religion. I think religion is an easy target for atheists because it is what we are not. People act rationally or irrationally for all kinds of reasons. Singling it out doesn't make it worse than anything else, it just…

I remember that. I was there for that. You're really killing it in this thread, dood.

I guess there is always something worse.

Oh, you and I are in agreement on Maher. Hence my comment upthread: "There might be legitimate practical realities that make Islam at this moment in time more dangerous than other religions, but he isn't the kind of sensible and collected person that can parse that as that takes nuance and expertise, two things which…

I don't care for downvotes. I dislike the idea that unpopular opinions literally do not get seen unless you click an expand button.

His point, if I understood it correctly, is that the fact that most Muslims are decent people doesn't mean that the religion doesn't have issues it needs to deal with, and it often feels like we on the left coddle it because it isn't "ours". We are happy enough to criticize Catholicism and the NRA because we take…