Pretty much the entire newswire is cancellations now. They also need to stop calling it news because it isn’t. Whether the writers are on the right side of the issue or not they simply insert their own assessments of guilt in all the time, like this comment, buried among a bunch of statements that otherwise look like…

Remember that Erik’s primary goal is to eliminate all cars not named the Fit, and all automakers not named Honda, so take it with a grain of salt.

*rolls eyes*

Neutral: Have fun in your disease tubes. I’ll stick to cars.

I dunno. I find this scrubbing of a show’s history a bit bullshitty. There’s a lot of sexist/homophobic jokes in shows like Cheers (or more recently How I Met Your Mother) that would never get into a show today but were a product of their times (even if those times were just 10 years ago). Just let the past reflect…

Nuance and context aren’t really the forte of the movement for this, it’s more a machete than a surgical knife— this episode is going to be pulled at some point.

With an attitude like that, I can certainly see why they’ve no longer got him writing for this site! How dare he besmirch perfomative wokeness!

A genuine question. (In other words, I’m not trying to start a fight, or even to make a point, so much as I just want to understand more fully.) In philosophy, there’s something called the “use/mention” distinction. Essentially, it differentiates between using a word, i.e. saying it to refer to a thing (as in “that…

I am, in fact, an IT consultant/engineer. I simply don’t give a shit. I pay LOTS of money for very good insurance. If my shit gets stolen, I get new shit. I didn’t even have KEYS for my house in Maine for the first decade I owned it, we literally never locked the place. When your house has glass windows, locks only…

I have zero desire for any car where I have to fuck around with putting physical keys in locks. I have my Luddite tendencies when it comes to cars, but keys are very much not one of them. I have touch code locks on my HOUSES too. Physical keys are relics of bygone days.

No one understands the nuances of comedy anymore, do they?

Have we considered that we still have books that feature these kinds of reprehensible images and ideas, or describing other horrible things — and that literature-loving children might accidentally stumble on them and get stung.

OR Denny was holding up three fingers because he was celebrating his third win of the season. I think we’re dipping into trying too hard to find offense.

Please tell me this is a joke, and I’m not talking about Hamlin giving an okay gesture.

If this is serious, you are a part of the problem, not the solution.

Sure- but why is your job to tell them what’s ok for them to want/buy?

You must be fun at parties

Not if you actually want to tow and have all that interior volume there isn’t.

So...what we’re getting dangerously close to is ‘revisionist history’! Remove any evidence of the things that remind us of what has changed in the world. Teddy Roosevelt was not conspicuously out of step with world sentiment during his life. If we fail to recognize that, we run the risk of forgetting that the world…

USS Constitution. 226 years young, and still a commissioned warship of the US Navy. And like the B-52s, there is barely an original piece left in her. The remaining B-52s are only about 50 years old.

The concern about “metal fatigue” has actually been addressed as well... most of the fleet currently flying has had all the spars and structural components inspected and replaced on a regular basis. They can keep doing that forever, at least as long as bauxite and beer cans exist.