Christ yes. I get really disturbed that they still make my child say it at school. I’ve thought about raising it, but I expect it will just get me labeled as “that guy”.

I do love that (assuming it was intentional), that it backfired and cost her the point.

Yeah, the role really needed someone who seemed like they were put here on earth by aliens to see what would happen, if for no other reason than to let us somehow accept that they are hitting on a 15 year old girl (in the story - I think Conelly was like 18 or 19).

If the naming trends at my son’s school are any indication, definitely Sofie or Sofia. Seriously, they are everywhere.

Also BART is a specific acronym: Bay Area Rapid Transit, which wouldn’t make sense someplace that, well, wasn’t the bay area.

A bit off topic, but did you know that Prince was considered for Bowie’s role in Labyrinth? So was Michael Jackson.

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Dude, those are the best parts...

“They’re both wrong and dumb!”

I feel like I am giving him credit for exactly he sort of insular, limited empathy you mention – I’m sure that if one of his daughters was assaulted he would feel the same grief and rage that we all would, and not believing them wouldn’t even be on the table. Others are saying that he would view an assault on his…

I mean, it is if you are trying to completely dehumanize him. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a shithead, but just painting him with the “he’s not even really human” brush is, to be frank, how we got here in the first place.

Yeah, exactly. It’s like the many cases we’ve seen of anti-abortion republicans who help their daughters get an abortion quietly because hey, when you actually look at the human cost of an unwanted pregnancy face to face, it’s a little different, but somehow they manage to convince themselves that everyone *else* is…

The answer, of course, is that only one of them cares about the difference between a geek and a nerd.

Oh yeah, now I can suck at Rocket League with a whole new stable of players!

Eh, I chuckled.

There’s a sloppy seconds joke in here somewhere but it feels in poor taste in light of sexual assault allegations...

I honestly do have a Casper mattress, MeUndies underwear, and SockFancy socks thanks to various podcasts (and fwiw pretty happy with all 3).

Indeed. And probably a bunch of other things if I were to do some research/thinking.

“...thinks that giving more power to the government to fix those ills will create even greater problems...”

Effectively banned abortion in huge parts of the country?