I always confuse her with Holly Robinson Peete.

She didn't learn it from her own book. She learned it from studying Heptapod, and only then did it take effect. The non-linearity is not retroactive, which suggests that it's not truly non-linear.

Doesn't everyone have the power to arrest and press charges?

But ideology is everything now.

That movie was an act of cinematic vandalism. Making a remake of a classic film so horrible as to overshadow the original with its badness.

What is the difference between that and private security?

Ah. Here in Los Angeles, the main thing people do on the train is wear illegal over-the-shoulder speakers so everyone has to listen to their shitty demo.

Your heart was in the right place.

We're less screwed with Pence. Pence has a vested interest in keeping the country from total collapse. Trump doesn't care.

I thought you were supposed to lean back, purse your lips, and wince.

Because the Trump presidency is so awesome for minorities?

Having an idiot evangelical as President is far more recoverable and livable than an unstable, internationally compromised failed state/kleptocracy with a leader who ignores the law, is quick to anger, has no attention span, and has ready access to nuclear weapons.

The never-made sequel to Awoken was supposed to be a YA Dystopia parody set in a matriarchy.

Better him than Trump.

Well, it's not a Scorsese movie, so people are 50% less likely to demand it hold your hand and say "THIS IS WRONG."

Where do you live where people are so literate? And have such common interests?

Reading Canadian literature!?

Nah, the influence of the Christian right has been on a consistent decline for a decade. The hardline bigots are mostly secular now.

I was referencing The Big Short.

But time hasn't actually gone away, we just perceive it differently. You're just assuming something the film doesn't say.