Prader-willi sounds unreal - like a fictional disease from some dark dystopian novel.

I savor your delicious sense of humor.

Man, maybe I’m too urbanized, but I read about this and all I’m thinking are funny little words like Giardia, Cholera, Dysentary, Typhoid, and things like heavy metal poisoning...hell, even not-so-heavy metal poisoning.

How the hell are the police vetting these calls?? E911 and location data needs to be attached to these calls like ten years ago. How can a random address, ANY random address be given as the location of “hostage situation” and nobody in law enforcement does anything to try and verify it before sending armed thugs to…

Self publishing/Vanity Press seemed like the only way to go for this steaming plate of offal, really. The “alt right” have their own echo chamber going there, and there’s the added bonus of playing tricks to boost your bestseller rankings (like buying out the whole first edition run of your book so it instantly…

When I see Adam Driver’s modeling shots, I always think of the photos from the mid-70's of my parents’ guy friends and relatives. Broody, handsome, long haired (and usually mustachioed) guys who are fit, but with different proportions than today’s gymrat standard beefcake.

Maybe it’s just my own echo-chamber, but has a progressive or centrist candidate EVER cried “voter fraud” in a major election?? Odd how this seems to be a crime uniquely perpetrated upon conservatives, and yet can’t ever seem to be proven.

Horrifying. I’m not scared of much in this world or the next, but dying in a house fire is not something I would wish on even my worst enemies.

I could be totally pulling this from a bad genre film I saw a long time ago, but wasn’t there an attempt to randomize and systematize code names during WWII so that the act of creating a codename for something didn’t unintentionally give away information about it? Isn’t that how we got “Manhattan Project” and “Purple”…

Yeah. You’ve basically got to ask for everything to get anything.

Nope.

Yep - at this point in the story everybody is still unsure exactly how the First Order is able to track ships through hyperspace. A spy/traitor on board one of the remaining fleet vessels is MUCH more plausible than some fancy scanning device, and had to have been a consideration from the moment they learned they were…

Yeah. In-universe (despite whatever changes to the extended canon) this culture has had access to missiles, droid-operated ships, and fighters with hyperdrive for at least a few decades. That this was the first time in the entire franchise that “fuel” issues come up (let alone the hyperdrive kamikaze run) just smacks…

My thoughts followed in much the same way as that section of the movie played out. I can only guess she had some hesitation, and then firmed her resolve when it became clear that the transports couldn’t evade the cannon fire, and then had the task of bringing the Raddus about and programming the hyperdrive all by…

I thought the Riker Maneuver was when the Enterprise used the ram scoops to suck up flammable gases and ignite them behind while being chased? As to ramming, I think Worf attempts to ram a borg cube with his ship in First Contact, and Picard has the Picard Maneuver, which is a precision warp jump within weapons range.…

Because the system isn’t usually good at sharing information with the stranded passengers so people cling to hope that the outage will be brief and they can get on about their travel plans relatively quickly once everything is up and running again. And the thing about ATL is the damn train they use to shuttle people…

Say what you will, but Frappuccinos are somewhere between a milkshake and slurpee in terms of sugar content and flavor profile. A strong appeal from both camps, and no, most of those folks aren’t coffee drinkers. Starbucks will keep churning out the blended monstrosities mainly because the recipe is half ice, so the…

Convenient that this school board deliberation didn’t happen until after the football season was over, though the incident was in the news a month ago. I wonder how long the cops and the school sat on the report, considering this school has apparently been in the OK state championships the last few years? This…

Huh? The government can barely control themselves, let alone the general populace (unless you count people in prison). Every time an institution tries to encourage people to think critically (ie teach people how to think), objectively or logically, it gets attacked by alt-right nutjobs (eg: science, academia, pbs,…

Yeah, I’ll agree to disagree with you on that.