Yeah, those people are dumb. There will be no spoilers here, but if the same second act switch had happened with male characters, just about all of them would have no issue with it at all. Yeah, I said it.

While I agree that you don’t want a different app for every restaurant, I have used the preferred way of ordering for my handful of favourite restaurants, if only because I still want them to be in business after a while. If you really like that acai bowl place, I’d think about how each order you make via DoorDash…

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

The problem with the ironic racism of that era - and I am 100% not accusing 30 Rock of this - was it became a “clever” way for racists to just be racist.

Defunding the police isn’t going to change that. There needs to be a drastic change in policy and procedures.

“I built ten ships, but do they call me Seamus the shipbuilder? No!”

I think the “few bad apples” saying fits perfectly here.

Defunding the police isn’t about anarchy: it’s about justice and harm reduction. Cops are much more likely to be domestic abusers. They don’t do shit about sexual assault cases. Their unions refuse any sort of meaningful oversight and consequences for egregious professional behavior and they actively pass around bad…

The phrase ‘Bad apple’ comes from ‘one bad apple spoils the bunch’ because the bad apple releases gas that make the others go bad.

And don’t let anyone tell you that any changes are just for show or won’t last. Six years after Michael Brown was murdered by police in Ferguson, a black woman has been elected mayor. Protests get people moving. Once people are moving, they tend to stay moving for a while.

I know, right? Any time I see a single-letter substitution, I briefly forget how to read or think critically. A simple typo can send me tailspinning for days or even weeks. I’ve never adjusted to any sort of journalistic best practices in my lifetime, and I expect that when I’m very old my grandchildren will neglect…

Turning 35 next week; good call! Being in your 30's sucks ass...maybe wait until 2040 before you turn 30.

I was hoping letter #1 would be more of a trainwreck, tbh

I liked the movie, but “great acting challenge” might be pushing it. The role of Alexa-But-More-Charming doesn’t strike me as something terribly difficult for any good actor to pull off. If anything, I was struck by how easy a gig this was, after all the hype around the performance as some sort of transcendent…

I always found the film a bit problematic in that, from the instant ScarJo is introduced, there is no doubt that she is a self-aware, conscious being, and a large part of that is due to Scarlett’s unique, inviting voice. There’s never any ambiguity about her being a piece of software or a tool, she is just straight…

One of my favourite movies ever. It’s so unbearably tender, I feel bruised just thinking about it. I lowkey hate Scarlett Johannson but her voice is perfect for this role, and you don’t get annoyed by her blank emotionless face (on that note, I watched Under the Skin for the first time a couple days ago and found it…

Counter-point: ScarJo always plays ScarJo and in Her she plays ScarJo’s voice.

But you’re not calling that an exceptional performance by movie standards. You are calling it - right in the title - one of the greatest acting challenges of the 21st century, and the problem is that it really, really isn’t, especially in this era of contemporary cinema where plenty of actors perform “disembodied”…

It’s rare, but it’s not something that would be remotely difficult for any decent voice actor to accomplish, and it’s hardly “one of the great acting challenges of the 21st century.”

Korra is incredibly inconsistent, but still worth the journey. Korra’s second season is the worst one in the entire Avatar franchise. But its third season might just be the BEST one in the entire Avatar franchise (and it definately has the best group of villains.) The fourth just barely misses that standard (mainly…