I think there’s a strong possibility that he sees any question like this as an attack, and he assumes she’s been sent.

Considering the number of people quitting or turning down appointments, as well as the caliber of the people who have accepted, I think it’s more likely that only terrible people are willing.

Yeah it’s racist AND incomprehensible. It’s not just the spelling, either.

Yeah that’s absolutely right - but the point is the reason it’s confusing to read or isn’t spelled “Latinex” or “Latin-x” is because it wasn’t written for saying it out loud, it was just replacing the final letter in “Latino/a” with a variable.

Not my intention to be passive aggressive! But “asking how not to offend people” is literally requesting sensitivity training, i.e. guidance regarding a particular sensitivity, and she says the word out loud in the video a bunch, as well as discussing the differences between terms like “Latinx” and “Hispanic.”

Yes. Like “Latino” or “Latina,” but with an “ex” instead of a final vowel.

“Well that just makes no logical sense. Of course it needs a pronunciation.”

The thing I’ve always thought was cool about “Latinx” - which is usually pronounced “Latin-ex” by the way - is that it was clearly created for textual communication; like “Latin@” before it, it’s a word that came from conversations that were mostly happening on social media, and so didn’t need a pronunciation, or at…

“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…

That said, new canon has been doing a pretty remarkable job of integrating the universe, so we can expect things like KotOR-era capital ships and Naboo fighters.

Could be. I wondered briefly if this was the Death Star II throne room and they were both about to die. (Remember that old Tales of the Bounty Hunters story where IG-88 uploaded his consciousness to the Death Star II?)

I’m actually having a really hard time understanding what’s happening there. Looks like Biggs, but might not be. And the Guard...pulled him up from that pit? And then tossed her end of the rope into the pit?

Is that Clancy Brown’s voice?

Here’s Donald Trump getting asked about God.

This game also allowed you to target specific parts of enemies’ bodies, which was still pretty novel at the time, and it allowed you to torture them, if you chose to. They’d beg. I remember being disturbed by it even then.

Forever in Your Mind looks like they were created by melting One Direction together in a vat and creating three men from the resultant goop.

TFA is a movie about Star Wars fans suddenly dropped into the Star Wars universe.

Yeah - then watch after as Finn runs after the shuttle when he sees Rey being carried away, and above him, Poe’s fighter swoops around, *as if they’re running after Rey together.* This movie, more than any of the other Star Wars movie, nails this intense closeness; the three characters at its center are so stoked to…

I like “driveat” if we can agree to say it like “caveat.”