I mean, I agree, Flynn is being polyanna about Mal’s misogyny and abusive treatment of Inara; that doesn’t really mean the show has dodgy gender politics. Mal does. It’s a flaw. The problem with it, in context of the show, is the consequences were always trite for all parties, Inara was cartoonishly flattered by it…

I wouldn’t advocate for doing this at work, to a customer or a superior. Don’t lose your job over it, people can be cruel.

But it’s really not hard, and get s a lot less awkward with experience. Just: Yeah, you know how that sounds bad? Because it is bad. or just play dumb and ask. Like, “Can you explain why that…

“Hey, I get you’re not trying to be a dick, but X is bad for Y reason, you should consider Z” isn’t a battle. It’s not hard to do.

If you’re going to get punched for it, either you have no grace or are dealing with psychopaths (both likely personal issues).

I wouldn’t expect someone to do it at work, to a customer or…

It depends on their prep? If they’ve been saving their casings, in the process of converting urine/guano/chicken poop to nitrate, and have made/acquired casting molds and raided a Cabelas or the like for primers, a team of a few people could crank out thousands of rounds a day.

You could make your own primers, and it…

Couldn’t disagree more.
While they both deal with the same concept “things are fucked and there’s probably no fixing them”, REM’s seems to be more about the people who just don’t seem to get it, “offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline”, and fully labeling them as “the problem”. There’s a generalized…

Fuck, made me lol.
People who don’t think these are jokes probably yelled at other kids insisting that it’s not a joke if it doesn’t start with knock knock.

From an economic perspective, there are ways to improve efficiency - but what people need to realize is that any kind of good that has no Marginal Cost (producing the billionth unit costs as much as the 1st) and has no scarcity isn’t really what markets are for. Markets are for ~scarce~ goods. So we have a market…

Lack of a justification has never stopped a firm from treating employees/contractors poorly. Excuses are just that, excuses.

That’s obviously not true, you can just be biter it was a bad movie. Listen, I’m as progressive as anyone you’ll find - stop pretending that because there is a problem with sexism around the movie anyone who has a problem with the movie must be sexist. You’re not helping.

It’s a natural result of there not being scarcity for the good. Once you make it, there’s no more cost (no marginal cost). Markets don’t deal well with things that are completely non-scarce. It’s just not really what they do. The profit maximizing point for games publishers is whatever each individual consumer is…

Sounds like you don’t know a lot of gay people then? They’re about as shitty/good as anyone else. A little more chill, empathetic and permissive due to being socially marginalized, but it isn’t a huge difference.

Ha, thanks. I got banished here years ago for pissing off someone at Gawker. Should probably have made a new account years ago.

The problem is a lack of information, nuance and abundance of ideology; on both sides.

There’s a world of difference between Bt and Glyphosate resistant or other HT crops -yet they’re both grouped as GMO’s without any meaningful distinction made between them.

I’m strongly “opposed to GMO’s” as an…

GMO’s don’t use less water or fertilizer. There is only one drought resistant GMO crop (a kind of corn) and it’s not planted, since there are “non-gmo” crops (hybridized, not patented) crops that are more drought tolerant. 90+% of GMO’s are some combination of Bt toxin producing and Herbicide tolerant, which doesn’t…

How does the one single drought resistant, FDA approved crop, that is barely planted because the gains aren’t enough to be profitable, reduce the amount of water used compared to conventional non GMO crops, some of which are actually more drought resistant in studies? Do a quick google on drought resistant crops or…

The problem is, in practice, there isn’t much of a difference between “GMO” and Glyphosate Resistant. HT (Herbicide Tolerant) crops, which are predominately Glyphosate resistant, are almost all planted GMO crops, 90+%. The only reason for HT is to use more herbicide, there’s no other point. The reduction in pesticide…

It would be nice if when they recast Wolverine, they could get someone less than a foot taller than the actual character. He doesn’t need to be 5'3, but can we at least have under 5'10?

The 100.
Great show. Get past the first couple episodes they used to sell it to the CW and it’ll impress you.

Just wanted to say, regardless of any of this, Rimworld is an amazing game.

Yep. The DNC just kept using “Russia is trying to influence the election!” as an obvious attempt to distract from the story while changing focus to their victimhood and the media loyalists are marching right in lockstep.