The Prestige TV Show Hot Take Economy is extremely bad and dumb, but so is arguing that the way that we talk about and depict our world in fiction is irrelevant and not worth talking about in general. Granted that many people do it in a way that is stupid and wearying - that doesn’t invalidate the broader principle…

They also do a pretty good take on epilepsy, with the scientist just going into an ‘absent seizure’ instead of theatrically thrashing around and biting their tongue off.

A great film where scientific method is followed, safety protocols are in place, pacing is positively a crawl, and the tension ratchets up because se elements.

Forget that you will be taken over by the alien spore. As a biologist, you would NEVER bring yourself unprotected near an unknown sample - BECAUSE you would contaminate it! That is why it was being examined in a glove box to begin with! A glove box that lacked gloves, I guess because their budget was cut? Thanks,…

And didn’t the first alien teach us all to respect the quarantine? Most astronauts have military training as well as scientific training. A break down in protocol and discipline at such a moment is a total failure that would never be tolerated for 1 second.

This was exactly my first thought!

A great looking science fiction film where a biologist is needlessly endangered by messing with a alien life form.

Not really. RC aircraft enjoy massive thrust to weight ratios thanks to powerful lithium batteries and brushless motors. Full size helicopters aren’t anywhere close to matching them for raw power. The small scale components have far lower mass as well, enabling more rapid response (they can change blade pitch or…

She basically gave a Trump answer:

Also important to note two things:

I know it was said in jest, but just to be 100% clear, Female mosquitoes bite, males do not. So those 10 million male mosquitoes they’re realizing won’t make life any more itchy than it already is.

This says nothing about any security issues, only that it was passed by Democrats - which is not, prima facie, a problem.

“Actually, Whatever You Like Is Bad” — Essentially the logical endpoint of these articles

Newsbreak!

I agree. It is funny. It’s funny in the same way that “Orange you glad I didn’t say banana?” is funny in the knock-knock joke. The lead in grows old, but the joke is funny.

its a little more than that - i feel like she’s also trying to tell us that we have shit taste in candy.

I feel like this and lots of other takes on the skit are missing the point. Lots of discussion about the silliness, but no talk of the actual punchline...

Well, Debbie Downer, you could have just summarized this entire post in one single sentence — “I got a rock.”