This Google engineer sounds like a thoroughgoing bad apple … but the "ideological diversity" thing isn't utter B.S. An environment where too many people think alike seems at least as undesirable as one where too many look alike. Now, I've no time for anyone who uses the former problem to pooh-pooh the latter (which…

Doing one's job, I guess, and putting up with them so long as they don't pontificate inappropriately on the clock.

You can like a band, but also admit that its output had an uncommonly high chaff:wheat ratio. Not even many fans argue that Floyd was particularly listenable before & after their (relatively short) peak.

Yeah, WYWH might get you a argument, but it won't get you laughed out of a serious convo.

Well, I know one dog who's Team Jacob now.

If there's a fruit cart, I'm in.

More like an affricate /tɬ/ ending, amirite? What? What?
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Man, linguists always get left hanging.

Now I have to go back and replay My Brother, My Brother, and Me's ASMR episode from last year.

Relatively few Lynch analyses have much to say about The Straight Story, but I think of it as an aesthetic turning point that freed up this side of him. Lots of Lynch's recent work would be far different without the lessons he learned (taught himself?) at the helm of that movie.

Absquatulate.

Even I'm culturally aware enough to say "Asian," you lout.

Even this sort of thing—if you're determined to do it—can be done well instead of poorly. Does no one care about craftsmanship anymore?

W$10 on Grey Worm, 15 on the under, and 5 on Jon & Dany's departing sans agreement.

Roddenberry's shallowness will keep inspiring franchises unto Kingdom Come (if you'll pardon the expression). And still, no one's adapted A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Moonraker was the first Bond movie I ever saw (in '79, on the big screen), so my inner kid will always cut it some slack. But even apart from that, Michael Lonsdale and Corinne Cléry were worth the price of admission (also, Breihan's 100% right about the skydiving intro).

I'd go see a movie where it died at the end.

The Rebarbative Yet Self-Pitying Dictatortot

I'd … be okay with the DoD's funding neither?

This isn't very relevant to the show's main themes, or to Kristin Chenoweth's performance … but any actress that comes up to Gillian Anderson's shoulders ought to be forced to legally register as a halfling.

After the series finale rolls its final credits, I want a shot of Nymeria & her pack walking off into the sunset, with Ser Pounce riding on her shoulders.