Copaganda. I think there’s a lot to that idea. When people respond to ‘defund the police’ with ‘what about rapists’ they’re thinking about Law and Order: SVU not the real police who do mock survivors, victim blame, and let rape kits just sit in storage.

Just from contrast I want to show Craig Ferguson in 2007 being great.

There should be a Clippy prompt anytime someone uses “allegedly” that asks what is actually in contention. Kyle definitely shot and killed people, the question is whether he was justified or not.

No, typically both partners are consenting and find overlapping interested. The kink community does place a heavy emphasis on “safe, sane, and consenting” and tries to weed out people who are just abusive. It would probably not be difficult for a celebrity to find someone into knife play, but I suspect that's not what…

Hitchcock is a stage pick. I’m guessing Miller wasn’t consulted

I’m crossing my fingers for Chris Columbus director ends up next to the explorer

That had kinda been me. It was beaten out of me with a 1-2 punch of the by the hardest class I ever took, and a professor who was very clear that the only way to survive would be to get his help outside of class.

As an engineer, I have found that asking people who know how to do things that I don’t know how to do is a really fantastic way to not waste hours teaching myself how to do it.

It might be in the top half, but let’s go too far.

The automation that’s coming isn’t going to be like computers replacing typewriters, it’s replacing people. There’s this cyberpunk ccg post that’s stuck with me.

Liu Cixin reminds me of super dry science fiction from the 50's and 60's. The kind where the back of the book describes an encounter with an alien empire full of danger and intrigue, but is 60% characters telling each other how the hyperdrive works and another 30% about the alien biology. There’s very little in the…

Oof, I don’t know if New Mutants ever had hype. I was expecting an unwatchable train wreck, and I think it would have been a perfectly serviceable first episode in a hypothetical New Mutant streaming series.

This was my favorite take on twitter when the whole thing broke

I recommend the ALAB law podcast episode on the Michigan kidnapping case. I hadn’t really heard the details and they go over the details from beginning to end. It turns out when your first step is to threaten cops, it gets the attention of the FBI and you end up with 25% of crew being undercover cops.

I remember seeing the trailer and thinking I’d get a cavity watching it. I ended up actually watching it for the first time after listening to the Blank Check podcast episode and their appreciation for it. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s ahead of its time. I think modern bombastic, fun films like Thor Ragnarok…

The closest we might have gotten is Tom Hanks being, like, 3% nicer while playing Fred Rogers.

Among other things Trump has neglected a pandemic that has killed 300,000 Americans, so I guess I’m saying a maximum level of acceptable criticism towards Trump doesn’t really exist.

I love the Robert Pattison quote

The ALAB law podcast just put out an episode titled Gerontocracy about judges going soft on the bench. It’s distressing to hear them talk about how they’d handle an open and shut case involving a corrupt cop who has his own wikipedia page; going from an easy case to settling cuz you have no idea what’s going to…

Drawing a straight line through two data points isn’t analysis, which is in fact an exceedingly difficult task. And again, the liars were always going to claim Democrats love crime, they’ve done so my entire life. Also, the same people who weren’t happy with kneeling weren’t going to be happy with literally anything.…