Congratulations! You’ve equated AI with a vending machine. Obviously, you’ve done more research on this than anyone on TDS’ staff. [eyeroll]

Serious question as a man who does occasionally need sildenafil: that 1% who reported a burning sensation is a risk I’m fine with; but was the drug tested in vaginal intercourse? Was there any unpleasant sensation for women?

Quick note: this is a civil trial, not a criminal one. Thus, the bar isn’t “beyond a reasonable doubt;” rather, it’s “a preponderance of evidence.”

I don’t go in on conspiracy imaginations (I refuse to call them “theories,” because that implies a level of rigor they could never meet). But I had two thoughts when I visited the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza: First, the shot is a lot closer than it looked on the Zapruder film. One of the “arguments” I’d heard…

Are you referring to actual legislation or the Senate rules?

CODA is… yes, fine; that’s a good word. But as a member of the Deaf community (I have hearing in one ear, but I’m fluent in ASL), I can tell you many of us watched it and got the distinct feeling that the writers pitched it as “What if ‘Glee,’ but Deaf?”

More like how Boehner & Ryan were held hostage by these same “terrorists.” (Boehner’s words)

Or maybe… it’s just a video game? It has a story, with characters, all of which is fictional.

Regarding Mabel yelling at Theo that she doesn’t know ASL: If someone continued to speak a foreign language to you after you made it clear that you don’t understand them, you’d eventually get frustrated, too. What was surprising to me is how Theo didn’t get exasperated at Mabel for continuing to speak in English.

Who the fuck are either of these people? And why the fuck would I care what they say about _anything_, let alone each other?

I was a teenager in the 80s (graduated from HS in ‘89), attending an _extremely_ conservative church. The “Satanic Panic” was very real, as preposterous as it seems in 2022. Another fraud was Mike Warnke, a Xian comedian (and he actually was funny, to be fair) who—for reasons no one will ever understand—decided to not…

Employee sued, personally? Unlikely. What about the EMPLOYER sued?

This.

This.

Hold up.

Ah, yes; that makes sense. We don’t need to sacrifice the right to have all the cop-killing weapons we could ever want, and the police just have to die, because our gun fantasies are worth more than their lives.

I want to see the the results of the investigation, but if the first responders had standard vests issued for patrol officers, I can see why they’d hesitate to engage: it would be a suicide mission. Any modern MBR platform with a FMJ round would go through their vest like a knife through butter. They have families at…

Got that right.

I saw that it went on sale a while back, but I’m still on an XBox One X, until the Series X is in stock.

The first two Maguire Spidey films were great, but if Raimi did nothing else but “A Simple Plan,” I’d still consider him a genius director.