What’s increasingly frustrating for me about the Star Wars franchise is that the closer the shows are incestuously related to the original trilogy (aka; The Skywalkers) the greater the likelyhood is that they’ll be poo. We’ve kind of done all the storytelling around those same six or eight characters to death. Movies…

Have you watched the Shield version? The plot is a little rough, but the characterization and world building around introducing the rider is great, I think. Luna does a great job with Robbie, and I like this slightly older than the comics version of him in Shield. I also think the Robbie version fits better with the…

Starting shooting is significantly after a whole lot of other prep work. Would it have been easier to cut Ezra loose then? Yes. Did they know? Probably not.

I might argue that Batgirl - one of the Batfamily with multiple comic appearances and lines - is fairly better known than Shazam was at the time.  

This isn’t a problem just with WB and it’s a long standing one: movies cost a shit ton more than TV/animation/most other stuff (recent bloated streaming shows aside). So, there’s a lot more attention paid to the movies, since they’re larger investments. If you look at TV shows through history, you’ll see they often…

meh. there’s no need for the puritanism. It’s fine and perfectly reasonable that the creators of a particular show don’t want to run a storyline they don’t like. It’s also fine that there are folks who like to watch a (fictional) abusive relationship unfold.

This theory continues to be proven not always true. There reptiles, fish, insects and ... (not to mention the billions of years of bacteria and single celled organisms that do just fine without any sexual reproduction at all, plus some plants) who reproduce asexually at least occasionally. My guess is that this theory…

This theory continues to be proven not always true. There reptiles, fish, insects and ... (not to mention the billions of years of bacteria and single celled organisms that do just fine without any sexual reproduction at all, plus some plants) who reproduce asexually at least occasionally. My guess is that this theory…

They seem find with ignoring the fact that a lot of people had shitty teeth, Europeans in the Middle Ages tended not to bathe too much, and the food was terrible just fine.  

I also think they weren’t as confident as they are now. No one was sure how successful the machine behind tRump would be, now they have the Supreme Court, a good chance of getting more power in Congress (plus Machin and Siemma or whatever their names are, if they need them). They know they have a solid chance of…

You don’t imagine they’re not going to get rid of the filibuster the second they have any form of majority?  Of course they are.  They know that, no matter how they fuck up voting, they’ve only got about 10 or so years of power via getting actually elected and if they don’t solidify staying in power without even the…

the hippocratic oath and the ‘do no harm’ thing is not legally binding.  it’s just words and doctors can be required to report things to the police, regardless of some oath they swore when the graduated.

Well, those things would have been useful. And, so far as I can tell, he tends to fixate on things that are pointless but ‘the future!!!’ and also libertarian (re: the bit about private property owners in regards to the tunnel), cooperating to help others isn’t libertarian.

At least in the US, legal ownership of guns is not a reason to remove children. And, in many states, securing guns isn’t necessarily required either. Cockroaches on the other hand, are a health violation (though, frankly, much less dangerous than an unsecured weapon). 

But it’s okay that the Spanish, between disease and violence, killed off something like 90% of the peoples of South America?  Guess the winners do write history.

Most likely going to be an inhuman but ... could be a mutant ala x-men; puberty and stress tended to be the things that triggered the ‘x-gene’ or wahtever they call it.  And, while she focuses on the bangle, I don’t recall it doing anything like lighting up or whatever (I may have missed taht) and it’s a kind of…

The issue is that by using reported data, you are not necessarily capturing an accurate picture of actual crime and b; you create a viscous circle where you pay more attention, find more crime, pay more attention ... etc. And, since we do know that the police fairly freely fake up evidence to convict people they don’t…

I think, absence data of anyone looking into this spesfiic issue, it’s the embarrassment factor.  Wealthy white people know that wealthy white people aren’t criminals, so calling the cops makes them look bad. And it often becomes public if a case goes to court so your friends and neighbors now know you’re one of the…

Part of the frustration comes from the fact that, frankly, police tend to be racist assholes. And, even setting that aside, the more police around the more likely you are to be arrested - even for minor bullshit that would otherwise be ignored. Stealing a pack of smokes, a minor fistfight ... most of these don’t get…

Except we don’t actually know that. As mentioned above, reported crime is what is captured and reported crime is lower in white neighborhoods than POC ones. Does that mean there is actually less crime? We don’t actually know since all the research is - and there’s no other way around it - based on reported crime.