Its still seem so insane that “The Thing” was pretty much hated by critics at the time and did mediocre at the box office.   Its my favorite Carpenter film and probably one of my favorite horror movies ever.   I guess at the time the center stage thing was the creature effects and gore but what that movie does so…

What a deplorably bad, deeply GenX take. And I say that as a guy born in 77.

We’ve hit the 1 degree increase. The extra .5 might be next year. And NO significant mitigations on the horizon. So 2 degrees within just a few more years.

Yeah, I think it plays like 45, but not 35

Hey, let’s just be happy this wasn’t a slide show.

The future republicans want.

35? Reeves was about 50 when the first film was released.

what a dull comment

OK: Republicans are openly and determinedly gunning for changing the US government into a repressive theocracy, and no doubt are studying Iran for examples of how to keep a modern, diverse country under their monolithic thumb.

Republicans want to lock people up for “disrupting the psychological security of society.”

Iran is their wet dream.

Meanwhile, Republicans are watching closely and taking notes.

Hemorrhagic fever viruses are nasty. Some of the scariest infectious diseases in the world along with things like Neisseria meningitis and prion diseases. Fatality rates are 25 - 90% depending on which one. If one of those ever developed the ability to spread like COVID it would wipe out civilization, especially since…

It’s just like a cold.

The nation shiat a grapefruit when Ebola came here.

We didn’t give our Freedumb away to a Chinese virus, you think we would for one from Africa?

They’d more likely say it’s the will of capital G God, so if you get it and die, it was simply meant to be.

This supreme court?.. they would most likely say it (As it is a lifeform) should be protected against unwanted termination.

If that virus came here, you could bet your bottom dollar the supreme court would knee cap any meaningful attempt by the federal gov’t to stop it.