Seriously! I don’t want to be an internet warrior parent so I can maybe understand the child getting away and scratching one car, but 10 cars?!

Can’t blame the toddler. But what kinds of parents let a three year old wander around a car lot (or really any public place), presumably alone? That’s just asking for her to get hit / abducted / in various forms of trouble. A ~$9k settlement is one of the better outcomes from that sort of negligence.

I think the most important takeaway is to always come to a complete stop before picking your nose.

tl;dr - people who don’t understand how technology works lose their sh*t when they achieve a minimal understanding of how technology works.

Bran the wheely deally legs no feely.

I remember the male hysteria over Janeway. It was so ridiculous. I think there were people freaking out about Sisko as well.

Racism was directly addressed as far back as TOS, even.

The difference is that fandom has a much bigger influence now thanks to the Internet, which was still largely a cultural hinterland in the ‘80s and ‘90s. I remember an Entertainment Weekly article from 1994 that mentioned, briefly, that some fans on AOL were upset because the Voyager captain was going to be a woman.…

I’m reminded of a recent quote by N.K. Jemisin about how sci-fi/allegorical depictions of racism are always problematic, because there are always going to be people who don’t get that they’re about bigotry. They might think, “Oh, the poor alien/android/mutant/whatever,” but that doesn’t make them reconsider their own…

Same thing with die-hard X-men fans. Makes no sense when the whole damn point of X-men was it’s a group of people who are marginalized and demonized for being different and not fitting in with the main stream. It’s just mind boggling to me how frigging ignorant some “fans” are. 

I mean, Star Trek: The Original Series had the first interracial kiss on TV. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine not only had a black Captain, but included an episode directly targeting racism (“Far Beyond the Stars”). Anyone who complained about Star Trek having a black female lead apparently never saw Star Trek nor cared…

“(I’m sure this happened all the time in the Clone Wars cartoon, which is canon, but the cartoons are different from the movies and you know it.)“

I dunno, it kinda reminds me of the scene in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 where the two hackers are talking about how fucked up the world is (Manhattan underwater, most people living in mutual aid societies, rich minority owning everything), but then one of the guys says that on the bright side you can usually…

I would say foreshadowing Anakin’s turn to the dark side was dramatically the wrong choice. We all knew he was going to turn into Darth Vader, it made no sense to foreshadow it. Had they made Anakin a great guy it would have upped the tension and drama by making everyone anticipate what would make this great Jedi go…

io9 writers:

When I saw the headline Goose Became an Icon I assumed you were talking about the kleptomaniac star of a certain Untitled Goose Game.

As a movie snob I do find myself sympathizing somewhat with Scorsese’s comments about modern blockbusters and the state of modern filmgoing and movie distribution practices. (Note to Marvel fans: It’s a foregone conclusion that he wasn’t referring specifically to the MCU. I doubt he’d make any distinction between Endga…

This might seem like a silly thing to complain about, but didn’t 2019 feel like the year it officially became impossible to keep up with every TV show on your watchlist—and still function like a normal human who needed to work, sleep, and occasionally enjoy the outdoors? … Viewers have had to become more selective…

A little ruff but otherwise good.