You missed "if we just let Hitler have X, he'll be reasonable.".

You copied that from a history book, right?

Hell they already conflate the guy who shot several cops with BLM even though the shooter had nothing to do with BLM, the cops were protecting BLM demonstrators, BLM demonstrators helped the woulnded cops and BLM denounced the shootings almost immediately. The racists do care about reality.

Our local NPR affiliate regularly wins awards for investigative journalism and in-depth reporting on the border region.

The closer to 60 you get the more difficult that question becomes.

bingo!

If you disregard your values because they are difficult to uphold, what are they worth?

I can agree with you right up to "ACLU can fuck off". The ACLU isn't naive they are absolutist in their defense of civil rights, even asshole's civil rights. Nazis pick and choose who gets to have rights, we (progressives) don't.

Or one about Finns and coffee.

Here's another possibility..

I'm pretty sure that apart from items where QA/QC is a particular safety issue (like say airplane parts) the government doesn't do much to ensure quality at all. If you're in the business of making mundane consumer goods, the government couldn't care less about how you go about making your widgets. If you build…

Cryptonomicon could be a miniseries, maybe.

yea, but it's a film from 30 years ago. We've been watching rip-offs of Neuromancer for so long, the original article will look dated.

yes, the physical tech doesn't matter at all. Just have the decks be matte black rectangles and the "trodes" be a couple of wires stuck on the side of the guys head.

exactly

They did a pretty decent version of Neuromancer's cyberspace in Ghost in the Shell SAC. The biggest problem with filming Neuromancer is that the plot was superfluous. What made that novel great was the writing and the unique turns of phrase like "the sky was the color of a tv screen tunned to a dead channel". The…

Why not remake Buckaroo Banzai? You can make it all dark and edgy.

Mechanical rice picker accidents, as I recall.

"Idiot Amin" is really good.

Cheeto Mussolini will always be my favorite.