In Providence a couple winters ago I watched a snow plow build up a little snow-bubble and push a stuck car through an intersection and up the hill on the other side, without consulting the car’s driver first.

I think they mean split-phase, since they said 220v (which a lot of people with “casual” knowledge call two-phase).

Yeah, I’m looking at these lists, and they’re all somehow assigning everyone a vote, except more than half of the U.S. didn’t actually vote.

- Patricia McKillip’s Riddle-Master trilogy.

This bit of casting was spot on, except not whiny enough:

Remember kids: Oregon was explicitly founded as a whites-only racist utopia.

He’s good at nostalgia and fun character moments, but not much else. ST’09 and TFA were almost identical in terms of strengths and weaknesses, right down to random out-of-place flaily monster chases and utter lack of comprehension of interstellar (or even interplanetary) scale.

Or go back, and convince the winners of WWI to handle things differently so that WWII isn’t motivated in the first place.

I feel like somebody involved in this story doesn’t know what libertarian means (but I’m not sure who without more information).

I’m 6'1" (and the shortest guy in my family) and the number of guys who tell me they’re 6'0" when I’m looking down at their bald spot is hilarious.

Hi, I’m an Ender’s Game fan, and I feel your pain.

The back button doesn’t even work on Fandom Wikia sites on mobile, and half the ads forcibly redirect my phone to scammy shit, even with ABP installed.

“Most people were left unimpressed with Iron Fist, partly because of the blandness of Danny Rand.”

It’s funny because the animation is objectively amazing, but the lighting is teetering on uncanny valley. Surely you can make their skin less shiny.

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One recent change seems to have been disabling the infinite scroll of articles, which means my URL bar works again (and I can stay on the same Kinja pages across browser restart), so that’s cool.

Especially since on Kinja articles, half the auto-playing videos aren’t even real ads, just random content from in-network.

Mostly agree with you points here, but “Afro futurism” isn’t a buzzword, it’s been around since at least the early 90s.

I’m not much into tabletop RPG, but I sat in on an Imperial Assault campaign once, and specced our medical droid for damage. “Oh, Darth Vader, how nice to see you! Would you like some help repairing your suit? *injects poison*”

If I’d been a girl, my middle name was going to be “Arwen”.