Ok, the rich have gotten too influential when people start making expensive symbolic offerings to them with the faith that their mere notice will bring the supplicants fame and wealth.

This is the most verbose, well-though-out, and obnoxious example of blaming the victim I’ve ever seen. Bravo.

He was probably wearing something that encouraged people to spill hot coffee on him.

She thinks she and her friends are objectively great when the whole of celebrity culture (even whether someone is a creative genius) is subjective. Just like every businessman who thinks their wealth is a result of their unique genius, they believe their success was an inevitable result of their abilities and…

This is what celebrities and politicians don’t get or refuse to accept about “cancel culture”:

You are famous and popular because lots of people like you. If you do or say things that make lots of people dislike you, you lose your value and people no longer want to pay you lots of money to be associated with them. As…

Look, the galaxy-brained idiot who loves shooting off his mouth is incredibly silent about this issue that is 100% his fault. I feel like people need to be spamming Elon’s account with these same links to illustrate the point.

Maybe that should be the answer. He wants to make all the decisions about Twitter content?…

The only reason she’s getting 11 years at all is because she screwed over rich people. If she’d skimmed from a pension fund or defrauded the government for the same amount, she’d probably have gotten that 18 months house arrest.

She’s a sacrificial lamb to give the illusion rich people are subject to the same justice…

Because of you, I got to follow what happened without subjecting myself to the suffering.

Thank you for your sacrifice.

Did anyone else see them get spray-netted and think “Stokhli sticks”?

There are so many great little touches that add to the universe and canon in this show without lore dumping or knowing deep cut backstory.

Loved those aliens and their particular dialect. The whole interaction between Luthen and the patrol ship probably did more to illustrate how smuggling and imperial interdiction…

I’m a little surprised with all the theories of Luthen being a former Jedi thrown around, that you didn’t make mention of the mysterious object that was found while searching him for weapons. “Put it down or give it back.”

Of course if it’s not a lightsaber but something else important, then I feel like that line…

You just made me imagine a really dark commercial where a mission to the Moon fails in tragic fashion because they used Gorilla Glue to connect the stages of the SLS.

I absolutely despise this sort of blatantly hypocritical “rah-rah” work crap from the ultra-wealthy. Out of one side of their mouth they talk about how they work constantly as an ethic and lifestyle and their success flows from that but then out of the other they say you can’t raise taxes on the rich by 1% because…

Is it bad that my brain mixed this up with Twitter, then mixed Zuckerberg up with Musk, then corrected myself and realized the reaction is the same, they and their companies are totally interchangeable, and everything sucks?

I think this illustrates that despite the fact we’ve been doing it for 60 years, going to space is still cutting edge technology. The “crappy” RTV sealant is probably the end result of countless hours of prototyping, testing, and research. Given how the space program often works, I wouldn’t be surprised if they spent…

Because by obscuring the plate they aren’t being punished for repeated dangerous behavior that would normally result in them being taken off the road, rendering them unable to continue to engage in the same dangerous behavior.

That’s how laws work.

It may be petty bullshit but he’s just a guy. I’m more concerned about the cops who responded to it with charging him. I can’t think of a good reason for doing so that doesn’t constitute some form of harassment or retaliation on behalf of the driver. That raises so many red flags that even if there’s a totally…

I wondered about Phase 4 myself but after reading your article I wonder if everyone being separated everywhere was intentional.

You’re right it doesn’t follow the same blueprint as phase 1 but maybe that was never intended. If the first saga was about the first team of heroes coming together to save the world, this…

You’ve described every recurring villain. The Daleks were pure doom before. Now they make Star Wars stormtroopers look like Space Marines.

I think your response is pretty good because it’s apparent you care and are listening but maybe let go of the idea there’s a “party line” or any other implication there’s this big, organized cabal looking for victims or to score points.

Now I’m entirely speculating here, but I think part of the problem is you’re…