JLo and Shakira’s performance may have been “pandemic era” in the sense that Covid had started to spread but it had barely touched the US at the point of the 2020 Super Bowl so I’m not sure it was at all relevant to that show.

The reason you can be sure that cryptos aren’t money is that you’ve never seen an advertisement for money.

The vaccine doesn’t seem very effective against omicron transmission. I’ll give you a small, irrelevant example. 9 of us got together at Christmas and one relative was getting over a “cold.” All of us were vaxxed and boosted. Within 48 hours, every single one of us tested positive. I’m sure the vaccine prevented us…

First Akwafine thought, first time I heard her talk (Crazy Rich Asians) I thought she was doing a Miley Cyrus impersonation so that’s my take on her voice.

All of the above!  (Well, I don’t share your enthusiasm for the few moments that were Fett-centric.)  What a stunning error to have Luke going down the same doomed path as the Jedi of old.  Did he learn nothing?  He saved Vader specifically by FORMING an attachment, not by abandoning one.  What the fuck?

Thats implying science and understanding isn't evolving.  Also Omikron wasn't around six months ago, he's trying to act smart while actually being dumb. 

He might not be technically wrong, but he’s also being simplistic as fuck and doing a little cherry picking here. We’ve been dealing with this for over tow years at this point. The situation has evolved and is complex. That little explainer of his barely scratches the surface.

What I’ve seen is he really provides no push-back. It isn’t like he is saying “You say vaccines don’t work, I have a report here with evidence to the contrary, how do you explain this?” It is more like “wow, you’re really smart so that seems true.”

I don’t think anybody ever claimed that getting vaccinated would mean you couldn’t catch or spread COVID, just that it reduced the likelihood dramatically, which is still true. I don’t think any experts have ever said straight up that cloth masks don’t work, just that they’re not as effective as N95's, which is still…

I think her outraged response is a little bit disingenuous. She may well have sole credit on the majority of her songs, but most of her biggest hits have been co-written with hitmakers like Max Martin. And it’s been an issue since pretty much forever that artists will make trivial revisions to a song they didn’t…

Also, real quick: I’m really not looking forward to when the editors leave and this is the only type of content we get on the A.V. Club. Scott Robson, if you’re reading this, you fucked up big time.

How twisted is that; Dan freaking Harmon was better at navigating workplace accusations than Joss Whedon.

Joss Whedon’s career is as dead as this site. Smell ya later!

Oh I wouldn’t be even 1% surprised if we eventually hear about Sorkin doing some serious shit, potentially even worse. I’ll bet Joss has heard stories about Sorkin and Matthew Weiner and thought “ah well, I feel better.”

I honestly hadn’t read the tweet—nor had I weighed on this, because who cares—but if the criticism has been that Adam McKay thinks not liking Don’t Look Up means you don’t believe in climate change, then it seems like people are just misconstruing his words on purpose. The tweet is just saying that you might not get…

Son of a gun, kid! Give it a rest. Your legal-torial pissings are becoming a drain. Why not dive dive dive into a more constructive hobby? Like cooking fine Mexican seafood? Or take dance lessons and learn to do the twist? Instead you’re just going to take this scoff-able excuse for a lawsuit and just milk it!?

I wonder what the curve is here though (how much each repeated on/off decreases effectiveness). Obviously the rules should be followed to a T in a healthcare setting. But for the average person just trying to go to the supermarket, 90% effectiveness instead of 95% or whatever is still pretty good. And still way better…

Am I the only one who finds many cloth masks actually *less* comfortable, though? I always hear about N95 being uncomfortable. But at least the 3D structure doesn’t make it feel like I am sucking in cloth every time I breathe.

I had heard of a horror/supernatural bent to the season before I started watching, and when the IT parody with that group started, I was sure it was going to be important. The fact that it was just a joke moment was so perfect.

I just finally saw that this year. I thought it was very good, but "very good" is bottom-tier PTA.