Yep, she was involuntarily committed on June 29th, but released early on July 3rd after a psych evaluation. This shows one of two things: 1. She’s not insane and is doing this all quite deliberately for reasons known only to herself, or 2. The US’ joke of a mental health care system has failed yet another person. My…

Given the situation, he’s trying to say that people like living at the circus. And no, no one does. The circus doesn’t run 24x7, even the circus performers need time away from it.

If you think that’s weird, check out the rifle version. It’d fit in better on something like Lost in Space!

Star Trek: The Next Generation was wildly popular during its run. You don’t have to take my word for it, the fact that it spawned two spinoffs proves that. The main complaints were during season one about it replicating stories from the original series, (a fair criticism, for example The Naked Time vs. The Naked Now)…

Yep, I have no clue why they’re so insistent it’s in the prime timeline given all that. It’s like they’re trying to piss off old fans or something. I have yet to see anyone suggest any good reason for this. Just saying it’s a reboot focused on another ship/part of the galaxy would have been fine.

Google may put a stop to her attacking Youtube videos. She’s already gotten a warning from them that abusing the DCMA can get her account banned. If she keeps this up much longer they will ban her. Hopefully Twitch wakes up soon and does similar.

As others have pointed out, there IS plenty of hard evidence Mauer is incorrect here, and even plenty that she’s flat out lying about a significant amount of things. To be fair, it’s clear she’s having some serious mental health issues at the moment, and desperately needs help for those. She’s made multiple death…

I thought they missed a huge opportunity to jump forward again, to a timeline where time travel is common. It’s already established that this is the case. (Voyager had some episodes about it, and Enterprise had the whole Temporal Cold War.) Set it on a timeship (already established as existing) and then you can tell…

Oh people would be able to afford some of the options. It’s just they’d be paying for policies that covered almost nothing and would be completely worthless when major illness hit. Then they’d either die because they couldn’t afford the medical care out-of-pocket, or they’d end up going bankrupt due to the medical…

The individual mandate is required for insurance to work. Insurance works by creating a big risk pool where there are many people paying into it that don’t use it much, or at all, which offsets the sick people who are using it a lot. Without the mandate, people would wait till they were sick and then sign up. That…

It’s not unusual for the surviving spouse from a long-term marriage to feel lost and alone. So much so that it’s not terribly unusual for the surviving spouse to die not long afterward. (They basically give up on life.) It sounds like he wasn’t ready to die, but didn’t know how to handle the huge hole in his life, and…

I suspect the cruelty thing is largely due to the type of people willing to take jobs that require killing lots of animals. People who don’t like animal cruelty likely don’t last long at a job that requires euthanizing large amounts of animals, no matter how gently it’s done. Veterinarians and their staff have to…

Japan in general has gotten better about releasing some things quickly, but (and this a HUGE but) it took westerners to get them to this point. It was Crunchyroll, now the anime streaming powerhouse, to get the simulcast streaming started. Nowadays you have Funimation and others doing it too, but Crunchyroll was the…

She talked about the digital download, so probably not even a disc to throw.

I always figured the bald part was caused by the imperfect cloning process. Not that this saves the character (or movie) any, but that was at least understandable.

The trucks aren’t hitting the bridge itself, but a crash bar the railroad installed to protect the bridge. So the bridge itself isn’t being damaged, and at worst the crash bar has to be replaced.

They’ve already done that and it hasn’t stopped it.

Pretty much. Not like I expect the GOP to answer it, much less honestly.

My problems with the continuity issues is what it says about the people working on the show: namely that, at best, they seem pretty confused. They claim this is set in the prime timeline, not the Kelvin timeline. Okay, so why does the ship and tech all look like it’s the Kelvin timeline? (Particularly the upside down…

Funny, the GOP never seems to have a problem when SCOTUS rules in their favor. Why is it okay then if it’s not okay at other times?