Any more if the headline is seemingly designed to provoke outrage, I’m simply shrugging. Trust is a hard commodity to regain, and the media’s been doing their best to destroy it with clickbait headlines that don’t have enough backing them to justify the lead.

Except the article explicitly says she had no say in the purchase.

From the article:

It does seem odd how the folks complaining about the problem seem to insist that any effort to solve the problem mustn’t actually do anything that they don’t approve of... and they don’t seem to approve of a whole lot of things. Can’t have a chance of harming fish - but the fish are being harmed by the plastic trash…

Fuck ‘em. They act as if once you vote for a particular party, that’s it - you’re locked solidly into the particular party ideology for life and nothing they’ll do will ever make you change your vote.

I’ll admit it’s giving me severe pause on whether I’ll ever vote for a Dem again. Yeah, he’s not a ‘traditional’ politician, but I’m thinking by the results he’s getting (Economy hot, trade deals being negotiated, NK announcing Friday they wanted to denuclearize by the end of 2020, which may be bullshit but... wow...)…

Which is why we have the electoral college. There’s 51 separate elections for President, not just one. This is so California and New York and Florida can’t decide for the rest of the country - the other states have a say also. Hell, my son lives in a state that has fewer residents than the county I live in here in the…

Five are geriatric. Warren, Biden, Bernie, Kerry and Hillary. I think Bernie’s out of the picture, with him shoving forward a Socialist model that has collapsed in Venezuela. Kerry - can’t see it - he’ll be 76. Campaigning’s tough - I doubt any of the rest are going to try it.

That IS the usual method.  Maybe these folks were new at it?

It was pretty spectacular at times. But other times... holy shit. A slow-speed starship chase that allows enough time to get to another planet and back.

Wait until the next movie. /sarc

The problem is that small numbers of people (like the fuckheads making death threats) can create a disproportionate amount of stink. You get 100 of those shits, and we’ll spend literally months on how they’re wrong. Great amounts of ire and loads of Toxic Fandom articles - it gradually cools and then those fuckheads…

I’d like to see Urban do more Dredd movies.  Seems there’s a lot of untapped stories there, and it’d be good to see them.

It does, according to the agent I talked to when I was wondering where the PreChek number was. HOWEVER, she was kind enough to put it in for me before the flight, and it was on the boarding pass on my phone app.

Why would you trust airport wifi in the first place?  Maybe I just have trust issues, but there’s no way I’d use public access wifi for something at all sensitive.

So they tell us. What do you do when direct experience shows otherwise? (Looks at bridge designed by ‘diverse’ company in Fl that collapsed across a highway.)

Does your ship have an intermittent clank in atmosphere while going about 130-190?

You might want to check with a dermatologist on that.

One must have priorities. Clearly, once the massive mounds of discarded straws are cleaned up, it will be easier for the city to deal with the shit and discarded syringes.

A bit less uncanny valley...  It works surprisingly well.