Kubrick carefully removed all the context from the spacebaby stuff, because he thought it was boringly straightforward. In the early drafts of the screenplay, the first act played up the international tension between America and Russia—both sides had orbital satellite platforms capable of raining nukes on every point…

No, but I said you didn’t need to, because I’ve already heard everyone’s petty bullshit about [insert female celebrity whose real crime was being successful without depending on a guy here] before. But I guess that didn’t stop you, huh?

Then I assume you haven’t read any comments other than mine.

Thank you for indulging in exactly the behavior I described, so I can point out how sexist it is to minimize her career as an actress and model as not ‘really’ making money, so that you can fit her into the ‘pampered, spoiled heiress’ box and diminish her accomplishments and subtly (or not so subtly) demean her as a…

“Independently wealthy” was in this case intended to mean “has control of her own funds and is not reliant on a male partner to maintain her standard of living.” So Paris Hilton is independently wealthy, but Melania Trump is not, for example.

So you did need to leave that comment after all. Good to know.

She’s got a net worth of $300 million. I’m not sure how much more she needs to make than that?

Everyone in this comments section is making a ton of assumptions about this woman’s life. At least mine don’t involve her being gullible and stupid.

I suspect that #2 is your answer to both of the other questions as well. She either couldn’t get surgery, or the surgery went badly and exacerbated her condition. She got desperate, probably because sex was unpleasant or painful for her and it was causing strain on her marriage because her husband was shitty and…

We’re supposed to hate Taylor Swift because she’s an independently wealthy woman. Everything else is window dressing.

Would? No. Should? Absolutely.

Says a person who can’t even manage the instructions on “I’m going to give you the last word” properly. You know that you can’t give me the last word if you keep talking, right? I mean, I know that by your standards this is practically quantum physics, but talking involves words. It should be pretty simple even for…

I think there are a lot of ways one could fuck up the execution of a public option, certainly, but the idea that there should be a public alternative to the for-profit ISPs is an unalloyed good. Currently American ISPs have found it easier to acquire their competition than to improve their services or set competitive…

I think it was Martin Gardner who said, “Yes, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at the Marx Brothers.”

I look forward to the final step in the chain’s evolution, “Hootees”, staffed exclusively by women with concave chests.

Yeah, that’s the weird thing about it all. Like, Hooters appealed to a shitty kind of person, but at least it appealed to someone. This is taking their only selling point away and replacing it with nothing.

It’s the “if you manage to treat a woman nicely enough” part. The kind of men who go to joints like this enjoy having the economic power to force a woman to be friendly to them even when they’re assholes. Not all of them exercise that power to the same degree, but the majority of them love knowing that they can stare…

Your adorable “I’m just going to flounce in here one last time to tell you that you’ve had the last word” has been noted and mocked.

“The only reason I keep replying is because you keep insulting me and pointing out that I don’t know how science works, which is apparently a ‘self-own’ in my limited vocabulary! Please keep it up!”

I think even that cedes an important point, honestly. “I think you have to come in legally” is a shibboleth created by people who outlawed non-white immigration. If playing by the rules allowed them to immigrate, assholes like Trump would just change the rules again.