“You should buy this product because otherwise the makers will starve” is not a particularly great argument; people are going to rightly respond with “Well, how about you make a product that we want to buy?” Reducing demand for a thing you’re not into, in this case sex work, is not in and of itself unethical.

If you’re at the point where they’re indistinguishable from humans, I mean, that’s the whole idea of the Turing Test. At that point you’re back to moral square one, because you’ve got no real grounds to differentiate them from beings with rights.

Watch the original anime film. It’s absolutely visionary, and definitely a more thoughtful film than the recent live action would suggest.

You are absolutely right about Estelle (the blonde). She is super intense live.

He didn’t suffer from Resurgence. The rest of us did.

I was so, so pumped. And it was so, so bad.

Uh oh, we got a strict constructionist up in here

You know, done seriously, this could actually work.

I want to believe you’re right. Same thing with Tillerson. I mean, he’s your usual corporate swine, but he seems to have some comprehension of the long view and a major clusterfuck in Korea is not exactly going to produce a fiscal windfall.

What exactly do you think the president’s job is, then? I mean, I think Nixon was right when he said the country could operate domestically without a president. I’m not saying I think it’s a great idea for us to kick open this particular front door, I’m in fact distinctly not sold on this plan, but to say the…

At least Hammurabi was intellectually honest enough to spell out different punishments depending on social standing. Our society puts on a charade of equality, but I have a hard time seeing this being done to a mentally healthy white dude without it getting major airtime and backlash.

Is that Jojo?

Also, #giveelsaagirlfriend

Hey, the repair shop two blocks from me’s working on one right now.

The instrumental version of that one’s better if you ask me; seems redundant to have the vocals and the synth follow the same pattern.

Like the Weeknd’s look; kind of Lenny Kravitz ish but it’s not over the top. He looks like he could be going to a backyard barbecue.

Is Hudgens some kind of shaman now?

I missed the Phantogram set’s stream by like 15 minutes. Was it good?? I fuckin love Phantogram, man.

As someone working airline logistics, all I gotta say, is I hope people remember asking for this the next time their flight cancels because the airline couldn’t get a replacement crew there.

You know, tall, blonde, conventionally pretty, she is the President’s type.

I suspect Taylor’s a fairly traditional business conservative, which is probably closer to Clinton than Trump. I’m curious, though.

ohhhhhhh snap

It doesn’t take much in that kind of environment. There’s a Chinese saying to the effect of “the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.” Definitely applies to Nome. There’s still places out there the law doesn’t really reach.

I lost an uncle in rural Alaska who had a beef with a local natural resources consortium to “suicide”. Sometimes the authorities don’t ask questions because they don’t want to.