Even then it’s still going to require some sort of heavy legislation to be effective. Either the big investments into technological solutions are going to come from private companies (who will then have to charge a lot for those solutions, if they were so expensive to develop, which means that they won’t really be…

Japan seems to be making strides in the robotics sector as it relates to elder care. Still going to need money to make that happen, though. Other parts of the first world seem to be all-in on immigration to provide low-cost labor and maintain the tax base.

Same here. Not sure anyone’s getting ungrayed anymore.

They’re insulted that you’re lowballing them.  That might have been a good bride price a hundred years ago but you offer that much nowadays and you might as well just marry the prettiest of the three goats.

Nice. It’s not perfect but the actors are good, the world is fun if a bit inconsistent, and I love the ‘The Good Place by way of Altered Carbon’ concept.

I strongly disagree, particularly when it comes to Tish. She’s got multiple kids that are firmly into adulthood (well, chronologically) but somehow looks better than they do. I hope she’s being studied by geneticists for future anti-aging treatments (along with Tom Cruise and Angela Bassett).

In this case I’m not sure how much of that can be blamed. This murder happened in California, with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. It’s not Vermont where you can legally strap up with no licensing or qualifications of any sort. It’s harder to buy a gun in CA than it is to carry one in TX.

Expressing superstition in a thread about a baseball show.  Nice.

Doesn’t actually work if the population increases through immigration. Doesn’t really matter where the people using resources and generating pollution came from if they end up adopting a first world-lifestyle (which they probably will, since that’s why they immigrated in the first place).

I think that it’s understood that if you murder someone because you didn’t like the symbol they were displaying then you’re not the good guy and the victim wasn’t ‘asking for it’. I don’t think the headline is downplaying what happened.

The only nautical interpretation appears to be the author’s. No one else said anything about boats, I guess she just saw ‘vessels’ and her minds went to boats. (A boat can be listing, that is to say ‘tilted in one direction or another that indicates damage/change in buoyancy’ - ‘listing to port’.) Everyone else seems…

Not just ‘a movie entirely in infrared’, a Harmony Korine Action movie entirely in infrared.  It sounds like something that a modern-day 30 Rock would have as a throwawy joke.

I watched the first season, I liked it well enough that I’ll watch the second season. I never read the books, so I had no expectations that were failed by the changes from book to show. If you like fantasy then it’s worth checking out, but if not then it won’t be a Game of Thrones crossover hit.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Upload gets capped at two seasons. I liked it, but I wasn’t even aware that they were doing a third season. (I do hope that it happens, though. I’m similarly disappointed by The Peripheral being unrenewed.)

Well, people care about this because...I guess they’re really attached to old stories, hence why these ‘the same, but longer and higher resolution’ remakes pull in a billion box office bucks. Other people care because of those big bucks.

And the Seven People of Various Heights

It might also be the fact that it’s just not a very good show. Not having seen any of season 2, I can’t comment on the elements that are new. But in season 1 the good parts were Empire plotline and Lee Pace, the production design, and there were some hints of interesting stuff to come with the Demerzel subplot. The…

I think at this point, anyone preordering shit - especially if they’ve read this site for any period of time - knows what they’re getting into. (Personally, I can wait until a game is well-patched.  It’s not remotely ironic that Fallout 3's refusal to run without crashing every 15-20 min until I patched up to about…

I watched Scott Pilgrim in my 30's, and while I didn’t find the characters relatable the movie was still fun for me. It’s visually inventive with a lot of decent lines delivered well and a lot of clever gags. Part of that is Edgar Wright being a director/writer with a strongly held sensibility in his work, and part of…

It’s the same with almost any physical object. There are a tiny handful of those things that are likely to appreciate, but those are likely to be very expensive and on balance are going to offer a worse return than an index fund. A long time ago I bought a couple of guns with the intention of selling them for a…