See, this is the kind of false equivalence that give the whole "intolerant liberal" meme legs. Calling out our allies on their missteps as a way of strengthening the whole leads to people screaming "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good you goyz!" as if that's in any way as bad as racism, sexism, or…

Florence + The Machine is that making that last one their next album cover as we speak.

Part of learning math and science is to develop the population's logic and problem-solving skills, and to not be so terrified of the expert, evidence-based opinion of scientists. Anyway, science and history/civics are not at odds (if anything they complement each other).

Of all the ways this sucks, the climate change denial scares me the most. Everything else up to and including removal of rights is, while godawful (as someone in the lgbt community it makes me sick), something we can potentially reverse down the road.

I believe the usual explanation re: TWD is that actually not a lot of time is supposed to have passed (maybe a couple years at best at this point?). Couple that with some weird explanation of the zombie virus slowing down decomposition and that would explain the (on average) fresh zombies.

That actually does change my mind. I still feel like it could have been wrapped up without a year of wasting time and manpower, but on the other hand… play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I'm reading this because I'm tired and depressed from reading all the news and implications, and I want an escape.

When the United States becomes more unstable, the world fundamentally becomes more unstable. The US has many eggs in many baskets around the world: we're talking NATO, US forces in East and Southeast Asia, countless intricately balanced trade agreements, etc. This is the dark side of interconnectedness: instability…

No, this review doesn't exist. Ceci n'est pas une Mindy Project.

Bernard in particular, as a scientist and a developer of this technology, would be very cognizant of the nature of reality and of what the hosts can and cannot perceive. The idea that particularly he is a host is not a coherent concept within this fictional universe.

None of the hosts in the park know that they're hosts. They play out prescribed loops, with some improvisation, then go back to the top of the loop.
That's not at all comparable to suggesting that there are hosts who don't know that they're hosts in the show's "real world". These would be hosts who have no narrative…

While I share your concerns and a 70% win chance is far from secure, I will also point out that early Brexit polls had remain and leave at basically 50/50 even a couple weeks before the vote, with a <2 point difference. The result itself was actually not shocking for people who were watching the polls. Hill's…

I'm a bit confused why everyone is so upset about the "plot hole" at the end (i.e. why didn't they just shut down Maeve, etc.). It has already been well-established that:

Well, people are risk-averse. You could run away screaming or try to alert someone, but you probably wouldn't want to risk being shanked by a malfunctioning robot before you get 5 feet away.

If Bernard is a host, that would be one of the main narrative points—- blurring the line between humans and super-advanced hosts with these sorts of double meanings and "half clues."

The little ipad thing he was holding made it look like he was definitely upping some quality to the max by filling up a bar.

I know that it's a motif— my point is that it's crystal clear already without the glib dialogue. In fact, it was a lovely example of the basic rule "show, don't tell," but the on-the-nose dialogue weakens those moments.

Why on earth would a vegetarian go to a ribs festival?

Excerpted from Deepak Chopra's upcoming paperback, The Cosmic Consciousness of AI

That's definitely fair. There's something about dressing the animal carcass that kinda civilizes the whole affair, whereas eating it whole is pretty metal.