You have to kind of admire an approach that’s based solely on making arguments so outlandish and bafflingly stupid that it’s impossible to coherently counter them without providing several minutes of background details on just how nonsensical said arguments actually are before you can build your own case. That’s some…

I’m thinking it’s more likely that it’s Ultron from a reality where he was able to transfer his consciousness into the vibranium android body before Stark and Banner could upload Jarvis into it to become Vision.

Yeah, the only way he’s going to make the situation not suspicious and potentially awful is to accept that he has to own some piece of it that’s still going to be uncomfortable to some degree or another.

Two words: ad blocker.

Cue the “BuT tHe ChIlDrEN!” antivaxxer argument.

Counterpoint - it’s one less thing I need a wallet to carry around. All I need now is a car that supports an Apple Wallet key, and I’ll be able to walk out of the house in the morning with only my phone in my pocket and not panic that I’ve forgotten something.

That’s where store-bought prepaid Visa debit cards come in handy.

The way things have been going lately, that really doesn’t sound all that bad. I mean, at least it would mean I could actually start going to the doctor again, and I might be able to retire before my mind and/or body give out without having worry about living out my golden years in abject poverty.

They probably could have gotten away calling it an “s” year, rather than a whole new model number.  Decent incremental improvements, but nothing that screams “upgrade now!”

They seem…fine. If you really need a new phone, at least you end up with some iterative improvements over the 12 in terms of the display, battery life and overall processing power. But nothing about this year’s iPhone feels especially compelling to upgrade for if your iPhone from within the past 2-3 years is still…

I’m on the fence on this one. I think we’d get a lot more bang for the buck getting shots into people who haven’t been vaxxed yet than we would from providing boosters to the fully vaxxed. And the science around the benefits of a booster still seems kind of up in the air for most people under most circumstances.

But a 3D printed mask would, at best, look like a rubber Halloween mask. Which would be weird AF and not even remotely convincing as a doppelgänger.

I swear to God, we would still have regular outbreaks of smallpox and polio if these dumb MFs had been in charge back in the 1950s and 1960s.

The fact that it’s come to this is evidence that we truly live in the dumbest timeline.

Exactly. I will never be able to suspend my disbelief for another horror movie about zombies or plagues unless half the population actively minimizes the severity of it or outright denies that said zombie apocalypse/horrific plague even exists.

This could be a big convenience factor in terms of reducing my need to carry a wallet.

This may be a universe with a very different variant of Kang, and no TVA.  Remember - the TVA only existed to keep He Who Remains’ timeline from ever intersecting with another universe’ version of Kang.

That may not be entirely true. Yes, there’s a universe where she didn’t die…but not necessarily a timeline within *that* universe where she didn’t. The thing about the multiverse is that it’s not just one big branched tree; it’s a potentially endless void of branched trees that sometimes intersect.

Don’t know if it’s reassuring that they’re not just putting the least competent employees in charge of the online orders, or if it’s frustrating that they’re intentionally shorting customers who choose to order online.  But either way, it does explain a lot.

“…but pretty much any major city has a bunch of underground shows full of bohemian performers doing variety acts in a skeezy run-down theater or bar somewhere. They’re usually advertised as ‘burlesque’ shows, but most of them also have comedy, magic, circus acts, musical numbers, etc.”