That’s not a sufficient explanation. Lots of government work is kept from the public. Sometimes, a civilian can file a records request (using FOIA at the federal level and similar state laws for state government agencies), but the agencies are then allowed to say no. Other records are automatically protected, and the…

They don’t consider gay men to be men. There are plenty of harassing laws that impact gay men. You have to be heterosexual, white, and Christian to count as a whole person.

A judge said the words “fetus/corpse/body/birthing tissue/whatever.” The top legal expert in the room is using the word “whatever.”

Can a person sitting in a movie theater really tell the difference between an extra who is 5'8" and an extra who is 5'10"? These aren’t scenes with two main characters sharing dialogue. These are background extras with no lines or lingering shots. I just don’t think all of our eyes are that good. This tactic sounds…

Doesn’t the data still need to be manipulated before it can tell a story? “Number of hours watched” is a very weird metric. Movies will tend to rank lower than TV shows because movies come to a firm conclusion. Shows with 60-minute episodes will tend to rank higher than shows with 30-minute episodes. And some old TV…

Colette is a public relations worker. She has zero experience in statistics, math, science, data, computers, or any other technical field. (She also has zero experience in music, the music business, or in fact any kind of business.) You can easily find her bragging points on Google’s company pages and on LinkedIn. Her…

Explain how the offspring are impacted by this??!!

“Insurance companies would be able to charge you higher premiums or deny coverage because your genes indicated a pre-existing condition.”

They have zero biometrics. They cannot identify individual people alive today, and they certainly cannot identify children not yet born.

Avatar has no cultural impact.

Avatar has no cultural impact.

Agreed. I think that too many people conflate “money-maker” with “popular.” A movie can rake in cash because of variables like the cost per ticket (and 3D movies or other special sound/screen features demand a higher price per person). Avatar made more money because they required that we pay them more money. It’s…

Maybe Link will be played by a human, but it seems likely that the remainder of the movie (monsters, dragons) will be CG. Basically, it will be a lot like watching a video game, except you won’t even be the one playing the game.

throwing human beings into a boozy pressure cooker while dating 40 people at a time isn’t actually a very good way to produce marriages! (Who knew?)

His face sent shivers down my spine. That’s not some kind of metaphor. When I saw the opening photo, my central nervous system convulsed in such an uncomfortable way that my whole body actually twitched... and now, I don’t think I can ever see that thing again.

When I said “some,” I was excluding the Republicans who (I assume?) are mostly ambivalent. Some Republicans think so much about protecting their own money that they forget about the impacts of their party on people. I think that’s different from a pointed, targeted hatred. Is it all that different? Probably not by…

Prometheus and Covenant are creationist nonsense. It would’ve been impossible for a humanoid creature to leave his DNA on a barren Earth 4 billion years in the past, then have the DNA disassemble and slowly reassemble into human DNA. For the movies to make any sense, it means a few bizarre things: free will is an…

The “problem” with Comet Ping Pong is plain as day: The restaurant is owned by a gay man. That’s all it takes for conservatives to assume that he rapes children. That also explains why cops and the FBI generally didn’t care, why it was so difficult to get reliable security, why evangelicals and religious zealots get…

Same! I kept thinking, “If I’m going to sit and watch a video game, then I want also to be the one playing it.”

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