So your argument is that only people who have made movies are allowed to have and share critical opinions about movies? Does this extend to other aspects of life? Like, are people who have never been elected to office allowed to hold political views? Are people who don’t write for blogs allowed to leave negative…

Well, it took the trailer 30 seconds to make a joke about how men and women like the toilet seat in different positions, so... Look, there’s nothing wrong with liking dumb, mindless humour, but I don’t think you can blame fans of Star Trek — a franchise that was built on well-written characters, meaningful social…

It literally took the trailer 30 seconds to make the standard “women want the toilet seat down and men want the toilet seat up” joke.

“Its reputation is seemingly forever cemented by those old Mac vs PC commercials”

Is a bear that falls in the woods Catholic? I don’t know, dude. You make some deep, meaningful points and I have a lot of thinking to do now.

This... doesn’t really add anything. Sometimes we think something is obvious “water is wet” - level common sense, and it still turns out to be wrong. Especially when it comes to long-standing cultural assumptions about sex and such.

God forbid we ask questions. Never mind that for a long time common sense told us that women just don’t like sex very much, and there’s no point in asking questions about it — and then we come up with empirical evidence that actually, they do, and common sense was quite wrong, and it’s a good thing we asked questions.…

I think it’s more that SG-1 hit a good balance of silly and serious. The later seasons got a bit too silly, and were less enjoyabe because of that — for me at least, I couldn’t take the show seriously enough towards the end to be able to bring myself to care about any of it. In the earlier seasons, the show wasn’t so…

Reminds me of the Sagan quote — “They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

Feels like in a few decades people will be writing retro mysteries with this train for a setting.

We have very big surveillance of our citizens. The biggest surveillance.

Microwaves that turn into cameras, no less. The perfect gift for food bloggers and Transformers fans alike.

On the one hand you’re not exactly wrong, in that vote-splitting helped doom Hillary Clinton, and that she would have been by far the lesser of two evils.

I have never seen a virtual keyboard that comes anywhere close to actual physical keyboards when it comes to comfort, speed, or accuracy. I’m sure there are technical reasons why more smartphones don’t incorporate physical keyboards, but arguing that virtual keyboards are actually “better” makes little sense to me.…

Saddam Hussein also ran a dictatorship in which many people suffered. Many of those people are suffering much worse now, though, and a much bigger threat to American security emerged from that war than existed before it.

Silly Pioneer should have just named their 720p tv the “1080p” and solved their problem

Oh, I thought lying was a problem because intentionally deceiving people for your own gain is immoral. But since I guess in corporate-world silly notions like “right” and “wrong” and “not being a jerk to people” are irrelevant to begin with, okay: How about the fact that a free market is supposed to work through…

That’s some crappy regulation then. It’s painfully obvious why they’re calling it “5G” and not “4G plus” or “Improved 4G” or “Our New Super-Fast Network that’s Totally Better Than Before (TM).” Arguing that calling it 4G would be “technically just as deceptive” is, uh... certainly very technical, yes. I see a future…

When the name is really, really, really obviously designed to mislead consumers, yeah, there should probably be truth-in-advertising rules to prevent them from branding their network that way. I mean, it’s hilarious to argue otherwise. Can I sell you a car with a 600 HP (TM) engine? Actually a 26 HP engine from a…

Lying for profit is OK as long as (in your judgement, not in that of the person being lied to) there’s no “negative impact.” Gotcha.