It really is confusing. Like...she’s not bad, but neither her songs nor her story seem particularly unique or ground breaking or really anything beyond “better than average I guess”.

Question: Do world leaders and their immediate family members no longer do the body double thing in situations where they’d only be seen and not heard? Would this really be that weird?

Do you know what the most economically efficient medical treatment is? A kidney transplant. Getting a new one instead of needing to go into the hospital every week to have it’s effect replaced by a machine. You know how we know it’s so good from a finance standpoint? Because a company made kidney transplants possible.

B…

Where’s my freakishly tall and misshapen champagne glass cupsona.

My trouble with things like IFTTT is that I can never think of a single actually useful thing to do with it. Sync contacts to a google spreadsheet? My phone backs them up automatically, as does my email. Get a weather report every day at 7? I’m inside pretty much all day, all the time, in an area where the weather is…

I’m sorry, suggesting that everyone who ever met him at all knew all about this seems like a pretty spurious accusation, both here and in the article at large. I can get the “whispered secret” thing for inside the industry, but outside? Nah.

In my eyes, it’s much easier to classify them: no, they’re not gambling, for two reasons:
-you are *guaranteed* to get something
-the monetary value of what you get will always be $0
If loot boxes are gambling, if it’s only a question of “do I get exactly what I wanted to get for my money”, then those little…

The “me too” stuff is fine, in that it can turn the rock over for some people who might be unaware of the issue - but then the proper next step is to take actual tangible action, *not* just have another hastag in response. This is exactly like that trite “safety pin” nonsense from earlier this year, except even less…

I’m not sure, but in a way that doesn’t try to compare it to gambling, because it’s not at all like gambling.

I didn’t see much in the post connecting it to gambling, just what you said. Why mention gambling at all? It’s not relevant to the discussion, as an admonishment or a defense.

That a lot of people are acting like “it’s not like gambling, therefore it doesn’t need discussion or regulation” - something of a faulty premise, and one I got from your allusions to something being gambling or not.

Yeah, seriously, wtf was that? Kimmel has been doing great work, he’s stuck by his guns, he sticks up for things which we know are important, but no, gotta get in that ball-kick of a last paragraph because oh no, the late night comedian had a joke about having the president on his show.

Why would something *only* need further control if it was specifically gambling?

I thought it was that the men assume that they need to explain *because* a person is a woman, that they, as women, are therefore less informed, not just that the guy in question doesn’t know the [unmentioned] history of the woman.

As opposed to everyone else, who *does* have the insight and intelligence to comment on things outside the specific purview of their job..?

And they call it Inland Empire.

Oh sure. I should say that it’s possible K died, but everywhere I’ve seen makes it out to be like this big obvious thing, when it’s really not at all - he’s been shown taking grievous wounds, not blinking, and moving little the entire movie. But oh well.

I felt Luv was great. You could tell that she didn’t enjoy her orders, but was forced to do them anyway, and that in the stress of stopping the individual who might bring about the freedom of her kind, kinda snapped.

Also, I have absolutely no idea why people are saying that K is dead. He seemed pretty alive to me, and…

A few things:
-the “new model” Wallace killed was played by another actress
-the giant nude Joi was a generic version, and it’s use of Joe helped echo that fact that some facets of K’s Joi was engrained, and that it just told him what he wanted to hear - not necessarily that this made their love fake, but rather that he…

Did you miss the obvious implications of the scene with the Joi ad and what he meant when he told Deckard he died or