Yeah this is bullshit. I’m so sick of how lazy io9 has become.

Ah yes, the old bait-and-switch. Click the headline expecting a text article and find a video instead.

Agreed. That sounds why more interesting because it’s something we know comparatively so little about.

Do you do children's birthday parties? Werner Herzog is unavailable. 

Step 5: Spend the rest of your life in fear of the Arby’s Hit Squad always lurking just outside your peripheral vision, waiting for the perfect moment to punish you for your hubris.  They have the meats.

Irredeemable and the spinoff Incorruptible are both damn good reads.

Mark Waid did something like this with his book Irredeemable.  The premise is that it’s this guy with superman like powers who just is not psychologically equipped to be a hero and have that kind of responsibility and he ends up turning bad and going on a murderous rampage.

Sit down, boy, you’re about to get schooled. Do you have any inkling at all of just how progressive Star Trek was for it’s time? Seriously- Do you know just what was going on that Roddenberry was directly challenging?

My pitch for the new Picard series.

My cousin’s child was literally just born with neither of those things, shit-for-brains. What category would you assign people like that into?

What about people without a brain like you?  Where do you go?

you know some people have both or neither right? Did you know many people are physically born with both or neither? How do you intend to classify them is this simple system of yours?

Go fuck yourself.

Carrie Fisher’s brother Todd revealed to Variety his family still doesn’t know how the film will handle the presumed absence of Leia

I would like to get this printed on laminated cards I can hand out at family gatherings. My one regret is that I have but one star to give

Hey, friendly reminder.

Health care isn’t expensive because it is overly regulated; it’s because its not regulated. The U.S. government doesn’t set prices outside of Medicare and the VA. We have a privatized, for-profit health care model, which has led to ridiculously high prices.

Airfare and telecom (oddly the subject of this very story!). For the former, the quality is there as long as you’re not going for bottom dollar...which was never an option before. For telecom, I remember 20 years ago when long distance was ~$100 a month. Now I get data and voice and text for less nominal dollars and…

How about we just go ahead and get rid of ALL consumer protections then? And worker protections too! Let’s roll back all public utilities. Get rid of the regulation that bans midnight dumping of poison into the waters we and our farm animals and others drink? Regulations reduced acid rain, and smog warnings have…

Yes, because corporations have the public interest at heart. If that were the case, my wages would increase to match inflation. Funny how everything I pay for is adjusted for inflation, but what they pay US isn’t.