Yep. I'm guessing that they chose "Alexa" because it has distinct phonemes that work even with different regional accents.

YES. There was a period of time when I dressed very androgynously, thinking it would make me safer on the street. NOPE. The harassers I encountered just became more vicious, and also more physical.

I'm a white woman in her early 30s, and I recently had a first-time experience — a random dude came up to me in the bar and ran his hands through my hair. I've heard and read, so many times, that hair-touching is a frequent occurrence for women of color and thought I grasped why it was such an issue. But, when it…

Holy smokes. I almost forgot about Garth's shirts. Oh, Garth.

THE JUDDS. Man, the Judds. The Grand Duchesses of country music fashion. (The queen of course is Dolly.)

Demonstrating yet again that feminism is not compatible with capitalism.

I'll never get tired of "boob" as an insult.

"Is it ever acceptable for two people to sit on the same side with each other in a booth or similar table setting?"

Have you never been in the cantina/bar area of a restaurant, sir? WE BOTH NEED TO SEE THE TV, THE FUCKING GAME IS ON.

NO. This is the universe we did not need. We never needed to read fascist revisionist history like 300, nor see the hyper-fascist film version of the same, nor did the director of that movie need to be unleashed upon the world (and the DC Universe) like a swarm of Goebbels-engineered locusts.

Hitler is masturbating in…

This is heartbreaking.

I know that there's no way to replace some of the technologies that were on board — another commenter mentioned the RACE CubeSat, for example — but how about the financial implications of this? Is there some sort of insurance for space travel?

Perfect.

EDIT: We have 100% established that the Land of Oooo is post-apocalyptic, right? Isn't that canon at this point?

"The consensus Batman masterpiece is an argument for vigilante fascism"

Aaaannnnd you forgot to add that Batman is responsible for making the creator of his "consensus masterpiece" — Frank "I Not-So-Secretly Love Fascism" Miller — into an A-list comics writer. That was the exact moment when our universe veered into the…

PAYDAY LENDING. The ultimate "prey on people when they're vulnerable" business model.

"However, the scene with Johnny Depp in wolf fedora howling is weird and I'm not sure if I'm ever going to get on board with that."

I'm gonna have to go against the grain here and say that I LOVE the idea of The Wolf as an overly persistent, PUA-type weirdo who wears awful shit like a giant fedora and zoot suit. "It's…

Opie being killed off really was the beginning of the downslide for this show, and (spoilers?) Tara's death was where they hit bottom. I don't think they're climbing out of the hole they dug for themselves, either. We're down to a bunch of largely unlikeable characters making terrible decisions in a way that is just…

The smaller they get, the more evil they get. Tiny goats are bastards. Terrible bastards.

Signed,
Former owner of tiny goats

I'm in the same boat. I've watched literally thousands of horror movies over the years, most of them from back in the day when they were still scary (not just gory). I like horror games. But I just CANNOT HANDLE jump scares. Can't do it.

"the idea of marking email as "done" rather than "read" makes so much sense I frankly wonder how it took this long to get here."

Is that a feature of Inbox, or Google Apps? I could really use that.

Not gonna lie: I actually like my Flex's clasp. Things with buckles give my brain this weird, tactile "IRREGULAR OBJECT ON WRIST" error.

Boom! Exactly.