“No, don’t show your child this TV show full of nudity, swearing, and tons and tons of graphic violence. I’m not sure why I, a stranger, need to tell you that, but still.”

At this point, Amazon owns like 1/2 of the internet. It’s very difficult do business online and not deal with them. That monopoly power is part of the reason people criticize them so much.

But you don’t understand, he’s a friend of the working man! He was in the Obama administration! You just can’t base your assessment on him on the job he willingly took for a shitload of money with one of the most worker-exploitative companies in America and say that he’s just some corporate stooge, helping to exploit…

I always imagined that phasers and other weapons aren’t illegal for civilians in the Federation, so much as that it wouldn’t occur to a regular civilian that they’d ever have a need for a weapon, especially one that didn’t have any historical or aesthetic merit. Like, it’s going to be child’s play to build an energy we…

I think that was one of my favorite things that show did. I really enjoyed the allusions to the Klingon chef who loved to sing on DS9, too. That guy? No, he’s not a warrior at all. He might be gruff, but he’s mostly just super into crying a little bit over his favorite opera and making spicy hide noodles into your new…

Meanwhile, any other protester wearing a mask is “the Antifa,” according to shitty conservatives everywhere, even though being identified by these guys is a fast track to death threats and people hanging around outside your place of work, as the guy who went through and ID’d a bunch of open participants posing for…

That Team’s ownership generally can go play in traffic at rush hour, but I’m from the same town as Jennifer and I’m proud as hell of her.

The Hobbit always struck me as Tolkien telling a fairy tale. And it’s a good story, and a good fairy tale. I thought it was basic when I was a pre-teen and teenager and got into The Lord of the Rings, and thought I was better than fairy tales, somehow.

You know he has weird Skinner/operant responses to punishment now from mixing guilt and horniness, too.

This is a good interpretation. There’s a burger form that usually use ketchup (except for people who just don’t like it), and it’s good and not easily reproduced without it. There are bad executions and good executions of it, and variations that don’t need it, and that’s totally okay. Liking this way of doing it…

You ever think about reading articles, or like, knowing what you’re talking about in any way before you add your completely unconsidered opinion?

I can’t be the only elder Millennial who had a Chappelle’s Show flashback when I saw Wayne Brady holding a gun and looking tough?

My wife had a bunch of dipshits on her various Facebook-affiliated platforms positing that not only were J.Lo and the NFL trafficking children, they also made those children part of the entertainment. Including the little girl in the cage who turned out to be Jennifer Lopez’s kid. A few years ago, that would have been…

There is substantial need for infrastructure, at least in the Appalachian region. There is a real issue with what other economic drivers can be relied on in that region, given the relative remoteness of many communities. Of course, there’s alcohol production (historically). I’m honestly trying to think, though, other…

I swear I read somewhere that transparent aluminum isn’t that hard to do, except it has to be done in microgravity. Which is, admittedly, a pretty extreme manufacturing requirement at the moment. But it doesn’t necessarily require a whole ton of novel technology.

Oh, thank goodness! I was dismayed and confused for a minute there, I’m really glad you clarified.

You respect what the heinously racist, ableist fascist is doing? And I hate to tell you, the descriptions she was using weren’t what you’d call “neutral.”

She is getting her prayer answered on that second one. Probably not as fast an ecological collapse as she’d like, but it’s looking increasingly like we will all be praying for divine providence of our basic necessities before too much longer.

Lot of people there aren’t terribly fond of Cardassians, either.

Honestly, he comes off brusque, but like a guy who’s into very much into getting paid and having people see his work. I got a good chuckle out of it, at least.