Early on, Lorraine suggests that she disapproves of Scotty’s hints of being trans. Coming on the heels of the photo, it seemed like typical “it ain’t natural” conservatism. But as we’ve learned more about Lorraine (mainly last week), I think maybe it’s instead that she’s extremely pro-woman, to the point that she’d…

Maybe someone from season 3 will pop up since its timeline ended somewhere around 2015-16 with the flash forward. Wonder if it would be too easy and obvious to re-introduce Mr. Wrench.

I assumed Munch’s out-of-time coat was Mama’s, or at least something out of her closet.

A few weeks ago, I said Lorraine gives me Mom from Futurama vibes. Well, her husband could be Franklin Sherman from The Critic.

The D&D we wouldnt want to die, never will. Its embodied in the work thats already been released and that lives on in the imaginations of others doing the work on RPGs in general. The only thing that dies now is some execs ability to copy paste those works into new deals and make next years bonus.

Nah, the history of Capitalism is littered with this stuff, long before the current investor class got involved.   

Will never happen as long as the tracks they run on are owned by the railroads and the freight gets priority.  

“Y’know who doesn’t like that? The person whose work you just interrupted because you think you’re the center of the universe.”

That’s a totally reasonable take. What always raises my hackles - and what you very studiously did not do - is when people demand that others come into the office because they don’t like working from home so clearly it can’t work for anybody.

This article lets former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) off the hook by not mentioning him either. He’s the one who initially pushed for the deal despite significant criticism and evidence that the deal would never pay off for the Wisconsin economy due to shifting demands and promises from Foxconn after a massive…

Was anything involving Donald Trump NOT a scam of some kind?

If you’re British and of a certain age, the name ‘Threads’ has many connotations, none of them good.

I see that Steven Spielberg’s spin machine has successfully rewritten history. Laying this solely at the feet of Landis is exactly what Spielberg wants; nobody seems to consider that the wholesome Oscar winner could have any blood on his hands.

Yes, it would cause some additionla warming, but I wouln’t call it a problem. It produces less heat than nuclear, let alone gas or coal (which ALSO produce CO2). It also avoids the environmental impact that a wind or solar farm would have.

I think that scale comes into play here, as well as current trade-off benefits. The difference between a cloudy day and a clear day over one region of Earth is going to produce an atmospheric energy input variance that’s so great, compared to a solar-beaming satellite, that it would be like comparing a candle to a…

Top two reason probably are effiency and consistency. You can capture whatever part of the spectrum band you want in space and convert it to something that is less blocked by the atmosphere than full spectrum solar radiation. In this case microwaves which aren’t blocked by clouds, removing the majority of weather…

School buses pretty much are the poster child for electricfication. Don’t need to go fast, lots of start-stop trips, reasonably low mileage per day (depending on area served), huge platform for battery, long downtimes for charging (pickup/drop off in the morning, go back to lot to charge, pickup/drop off again in…

Whoah spoiler alert! I haven’t seen this movie yet, but great now I know the ending.

““We used two cutting edge submersibles that are named Romeo and Juliet”

I can’t decide whether to award points for resisting the urge to name them “Rose” and “Jack,” or subtract points for not naming them that.

That’s what happens when only half of Congress is actually interested in doing any governing and not just posturing. I haven’t looked at any election results yet, but I expect the next Congress to be the “Hold My Beer” Congress, in anticipation of the 2024 shitshow/presidential election.