...Are you actually criticising me for expecting 3 dimensional characters? And not being satisfied with literally one line of dialogue per character (as if it was rationed out at the start of scriptwriting) added in a facile attempt to add depth to them? It was a terrible script. It's been a while since I've seen…

I've watched plenty of films. The trailer looked good to me too (although it did give away most of the plot that was that coherent).

It didn't really make sense. At all. Many key things weren't explained (including some that were deliberately left out for the sequel, which I consider to be pretty bad form), the characterisation was poor (each character had 1-2 consecutive lines that served as back story, including at least one genuinely…

No. There is no vaccination-autism link. At all. It has been conclusively disproved. The only "evidence" that was ever in its favour was a badly run study by someone who was in the pay of people who wanted there to be a link.

Wait, so you have concerns about the safety of vaccines, but you think WE should all be vaccinated because herd immunity will protect you by proxy? Cheers, that doesn't make you sound self-centred at all.

Who cares if it's pro or anti science? It was fucking terrible, that's reason enough not to watch it. I don't think I've ever seen such a badly plotted film.

It's odd how this is actually less ridiculous than some of the shit adult Republicans say. You'd think that the shit moronic 14 year olds say would be the nadir of embarrassing Republican nonsense but it's not even close.

Yes, but intelligent designers also claim they aren't anti-science.

My point was a more general one rather than addressing this specific instance. I'm not suggesting we should randomly start demanding "improvement" without regards to whether or not our improvements are sensible or helpful.

Are health and altruism "popular trends"? The quality of genetic stock is not merely a function of variety.

I can't think of any reason not to improve humanity's genetic stock.

Plausible deniability?

That is the most mortifyingly embarrassing quotation I think I've ever seen. Why did the Republicans let her run under their name?

Do you not think he might be more inclined to listen to you or follow those links if you weren't so insulting?

Was just discussing this with my housemate and we decided that it would be hilarious/disturbing if one of the contestonauts went apeshit and murdered their co-contestonauts. Then we'd just be stuck there, watching the lone survivor go about their daily business, completely powerless to bring them to justice, whilst…

You know what's really depressing? That the best examples we can find are only 80%.

No. And I don't buy the languages thing either.

Cynicism: major corporations know they're fighting a losing battle over the regulation of the (edible*) crap they sell to kids and are getting in there first for the PR.

The Saudi Royal family numbers in the tens of thousands. They never quite got the hang of cutting off the outlying members from the central bloodline. It doesn't help that the male members can take like a bajillion wives, so most of the "outlying members" actually have a fairly direct line to the throne, it's just…

I wonder if one day, a public figure will ever issue an apology unprompted. As in, it doesn't take a shit ton of negative media attention for them to "realise" that what they said was offensive and they're genuinely sorry.