In terms of legal consequences, you’re probably right. However the impact on his career is clearly much farther reaching. It’s possible that it’ll recover in a few years, but the turn in his fortunes has been rather staggering. I’m sure he’s raging against Jabbari for what she’s “cost him,” but he has no one to blame…

Such a shame, he’s a fantastic actor and I had looked forward to seeing him in the MCU, but I’m glad justice was served and he’s being held accountable for his actions. The full weight of any repercussions he suffers is on his own shoulders.

God, I loved Middleman. Such a bummer we only got the one season. Might have to rewatch that over the holidays!

Eh, the couple of time I’ve had them they’ve just been fine, but nothing that stood out to me. I really don’t get all the hype around them.

I like your moxie!

I appreciate your empathetic, nuanced discussion of this issue. It’s a shame that it’s largely falling on deaf ears.

What respect is due the tragedy of the Palestinian civilians killed in Israel’s response to Hamas’ attacks? Hamas is a terrorist organization, no doubt, and their actions are repugnant and should be loudly and voraciously condemned. However, the innocent Palestinian lives lost in Israel’s counter attacks are as…

Well, you’ve got the a-hole response well covered.

The Hellboy game looks awesome visually, but somehow I suspect it’ll be just one step up from shovelware...

Cool, I can post links too: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-the-science-on-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-kids-really-shows/

How is 40 hours reasonable? When I started seeing a therapist prior to my transition, it wasn’t covered under my insurance plan, so I was paying out of pocket, which was about $135 per session. If I had to go through 40 hours of therapy before I could access medical care, that would have been $5,400. Additionally, I…

40 hours is not reasonable. It’s not a figure based on anything other than trying to erect additional barriers for trans people to seek the care they need.

Yes, very well said. Just this last week, I was wondering how different things would have been if RBG had gracefully retired when Obama was still in office? How much worse off is our nation due to her insistence on staying on the Supreme Court well past any point of reasonable retirement?

30 seconds of Googling indicates pretty persuasively that this isn’t true. Kiedis presents a different account of it in Scar Tissue. The interview you link to was translated from Italian, and the general consensus is that this was a mistranslation.

You omitted what I consider the most notable feature that is due to be included (as of the last reports I saw): Microsoft is finally bringing back the native option to control combining taskbar buttons. I generally like Windows 11, but the loss of this feature was a truly asinine move. I’m glad the development team…

How have I not heard about this until now? I think cinematic universes are well and truly played out, but I did always love the idea of one for Pitch Perfect, so I’m amazed that this somehow completely missed me. Looking forward to checking it out, but that’s so disappointing that the second season has been axed.

Given how successful this has been in theaters, it seems insane to release it on digital so quickly. It just became the highest grossing Warner Bros film in history, beating out The Dark Knight. Why would WB want to undercut that by pushing it to digital while it still clearly has legs at the box office?

I’ve overall enjoyed the Witcher so far, and am probably much more forgiving than a lot of fans, but even with Vilgefortz’s line to Geralt, this still makes no sense. If Vilgefortz was going to throw the fight with Cahir, why do it in a way that could have potentially cost him his life? After all, the fall and head…

I appreciate that Rudy looks like a fucking goblin in the picture, perfectly matches the article.

Yeah, it’d be great to see it trend right next to #whataboutslavery, #whataboutjimcrow, #whataboutsmallpoxblankets, #whataboutthetulsaracemassacre, #whataboutwoundedknee, etcetera, etcetera. Japan isn’t the only country that has struggled to honestly engage with the past atrocities it’s responsible for. I don’t see…