Given the relevant characters involved, I'm not sure if having them talk to Peter about the issue was likely to pull him in the "for" or "against" direction. I know if Jackie and Grace knew me and started stating firm beliefs about the morality of something or other it would probably influence me in the opposite…

It certainly sounds like they have a case, and I'm not sure that "Oh I totally won't do that if you give over your security videos" counts as a legally binding contract preventing them from doing it.

I am an atheist and would greatly appreciate money for no reason.

The problem comes in when your only argument for whatever it is just is calling other people irresponsible drivers, I think.

Whoever first realizes that you could temporarily rent sections of road from their owners and, without marking that you'd done it, charge a really high toll for its use every few days without any pattern and then move on when someone else builds a competing road to do the same thing with that road (and/or just lease a…

Veblen goods!

That's amazing. "No no! The free market works great for public utilities we just need to have about twenty times as much publicly funded infrastructure!"

You'll never appreciate it if you only watch one. You have to watch all of them, ideally back to back.

Also because something like half of it is just watching some other movie because they couldn't afford to film an entire one and just spliced in loads of stock footage while someone explained what was supposed to be happening over top of it.

Mostly they just got hilariously scammed, lost a lot of money, and slunk back to the US in embarrassment.

I've heard but not checked that in the book there was something tossed in about robots fueled by the magic pixie electricity generator that Galt invented. Which…means that cleter is basically right. It was slaves.

This isn't entirely fair to the fire department in question. It was a house in an outlying suburb that wasn't covered by them but that, because a lot of suburbs are basically parasites leeching off of cities, they were willing to cover for a basic subscription (since the people weren't paying the taxes that funded…

Actually gas taxes are nowhere near enough to cover road maintenance: that's paid for out of the general fund and bicyclists pay into that just like everyone else.

As someone who watched all three of these movies in a row one night, and survived, there's nothing more disappointing to me than their choice not to just dump a ninety minute+ Ayn Rand written speech into the third movie. The movies already make no sense and go on forever! Own it!

Ok that's just not true about how the Saxons and Danes are being portrayed. And Alfred is ascetic (somewhat against his will) and clearly also ill*. He's not an indie rocker.

The Great Man style of history is generally a bit iffy, but we see plenty of politics going on here. And it's not like a show about Ragnar Lothbrok - a semi-mythical figure famous for his massive impact on history - is actually better as far as that goes.

Sure, but she's around for the aftermath - for after the Doctor leaves.

I had just read his reaction as having a certain amount of "look don't remind me that I do that it makes me feel uncomfortable", but that also seems plausible. The fan theory about the Doctor as we're seeing him here knowing how some stuff we'll only see later turns out would make that plausible too. Although in…

I think in some ways the show's general anachronism works against it. Ashildr comes off as modern enough as a character that it feels like you could just sort of drop her off in 1915 with a reasonable amount of money and she'd have to get used to some new technology but within a year or two she'd be fine.

I've always figured that on some level the Doctor relates to human beings the way we feel about dogs. He really thinks they're great, regards them generally with a lot of affection, and totally loves some of them. But at the end of the day they really aren't intelligent the way he is or judged according to the same…