To all the people grumbling that the term shouldn’t still exist, just edit the Wikipedia page to rename it and let the wisdom of crowds sort out the edit.

I would have gone with “completely devoid of feck”

(I think he is starring his own comments)

It is interesting to consider that possibility, e.g. that Russia or China would have actually fired an advanced weapon toward a carrier group, or whatever the F/A 18's were patrolling.

Now that the subtext of townies vs students is clearer to me that’s a less knee jerk sounding point than “colleges admit liars and polling places staff with elderly people and so college ID’s-hurr-hurr” which is what “Edna” as an inherently incompetent entity fooled by the implied deluge of fraudulent student ID’s…

If, by moving goalposts, you mean shifting the question from the validity of college ID’s to actual drivers’ licenses as you shake that RealID tree, sure, I’ll accept you’ve moved them.

yea, I’m not buying the whole “there’s a whole universe of difference between an accredited college, which everyone knows is as leaky-as-hell unsound and the ironclad professionalism of every DMV in America” rationale.

Psst- don’t tell, but I knew a guy in high school who had, like, a fake driver’s license and could buy beer and stuff.

Yes, notice how everyone wants to avoid saying why, exactly, College IDs should be “meaningless” but a driver’s license handed out in your DMV isn’t.

I’m curious why everyone says it “seems unlikely” to have been sterilized. Is there some sort of strangeometer pointed at Elon Musk’s Tesla that’s given us that likelihood? I have no idea, but if SpaceX is competing with NASA’s SLS I presume it might have similar protocols if it’s been certified to launch.

That’s interesting that the Romani people are from Northern India. I have always wondered if Romani people were descended from the Hunnic people that arrived in Europe in the 5th century and then dispersed after the death of Attila. My understanding is that they spoke a variety of central asian languages as multiple…

I kind of agree here, but in the context that just as the message to men is to relentlessly pursue because it’s romantic, women are heavily instructed not to ever directly say “no” because the “male ego is fragile so he must be let down easy”. Ending concern for male ego is indeed one part of it.

If it’s any consolation, in season 2 Ansari becomes highly irritating.

wai-whu.. Hollywood is concerned about optics?

They are now reporting that the laptop was actually her own, not his,which makes this less ethically clear cut. Whether she sold it to him with the spyware still on it intentionally is the question.

Midsummer Night’s Dream is overrated? OH MY GOD YOU SO DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT Titania and Peaseblossom and Cobweb are totally symbols for psilocybin and Shakespeare was telling all those anti-witchcraft priests t0 lay off the pagans and just take apart your head and don’t let some concept of “civilization” stop you

Have you considered that the explanation is phenomenological? More mundane yet in it’s own way possibly more disturbing than your homonculus theory.

Is it worth mentioning that the “historical pride” argument is even further belied by the fact that the “Confederate flag” was not even the actual Confederate flag? It’s the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, i.e. inherently militant. Apparently, no one ever really flew it since the Civil War until Brown…