No one’s saying those members of the furry community don’t exist, but they’re a vocal minority. ... Maybe not even vocal exactly, but their existence is what gets disproportionate attention. Basically, you can market to furries without deliberately marketing to people with a sexual fetish for anthropomorphic animals.…

I don’t think anyone is suggesting this software be the single tool in criminal investigation. That doesn’t make it not-problematic, certainly, as there doesn’t seem to have been any real empirical testing on it, and the criminal justice system already has enough techniques that don’t pass scientific muster. But I…

That’s not internal logic though. You can make a reasonable, general guess as to what you get out from what you put in.

Working out the actual internal logic is what large areas of the field of psychology attempt, and struggle, to do. And I say that as a graduate student in psychology. I’m not dissing the field.

Beside…

He has one legitimate complaint: the publishers didn’t wait for a response before dropping him. That’s a bit rubbish, yeah.

The rest of it? Progressive things that are controversial get published. So do conservative ones. Hell, Orson Scott Card is one of the biggest names in science fiction, and he’s basically the…

Not exactly under the radar. In the TNG days they tried to have a gay couple in the background of one scene (in “The Offspring” if you’re wondering, when Lal is talking to Guinan at the bar) and weren’t allowed. That god awful episode where Riker falls for the woman from the species where gender identity is outlawed…

I love both Star Trek and Star Wars, but I must admit I’m more of a Trek fan. ... but I’m also fully willing to admit that, much as TNG may be my favorite, it’s also when Trek stopped being a show about an optimistic future and started to be a show that pretended to be about an optimistic future. No more ground…

Pretty sure Superman is resistant to lead poisoning though, while Batman is... less so. So I guess Superman wins in the long term?

I hate it when people see the idea of autonomous machines and freak out over the robot revolution, because that’s what happens in movies.

Hence this overview of the actual reasons why it’s a bad idea is pretty refreshing.

Maybe I’m not reading “internal logic of a human being” the way you meant it to be read but.. it really isn’t. That’s not to say it’s easy to predict the logic of a complex computer system either, but the internal logic of people? It’s... virtually impossible.

That’s... not how expressing ideas in science fiction works. Part of the reason science fiction has a reputation for expressing controversial ideas is because it can use allegory and metaphor to get around restrictions. That goes for things that are too liberal and too conservative alike. At the end of the day, it…

Well, for the second part, killing him with the gun is pointless because he’s... y’know, immortal. Besides, Rip Hunter blew him up for shits and giggles anyway. If that doesn’t do it, I don’t think his dinky little laser is going to do much better. Also, Ollie and Barry reduced him to ash and THAT didn’t work. It’s…

That’s not the author’s point though. The author’s point is that the idea that people have too much digital information available is similar to earlier fears about books being too available. People might feel there’s an information overload, but that’s a relative position. People used to feel that way about much more…

Thank god! What would I do without sanctimonious book store owners to tell me I’m looking at my phone too much. Surely that’s not a decision I can make on my own. I need it enforced by my bookstore.

In all seriousness, I get the idea, but I’ve never seen this as a problem in bookstores, and it really irritates me when…

If you don’t want to buy coffee pods, that’s fine, but I’m not sure why you’re saying I shouldn’t. If you were arguing that they’re horrible for the environment... sure, that’s a reason I shouldn’t. But I use refillable pods in conjunction with biodegradable ones, so that’s not a huge concern.

The rest of the article…

I don’t watch Supergirl, but a good crossover is always fun!

Though maybe someone who has seen the show could answer some questions about what that means for the universe they’re in. Isn’t Superman already an established thing in Supergirl? Wouldn’t that mean there were people with actual superpowers well before the…

“What scares me the most? Stupidity.” This is about the most meaningless, crowd pleasing statement a person can make. Everything thinks they’re the only one who has it all figured out, and everyone else is stupid.

From my limited experience, many of the stations in the Underground don’t have stairs. Usually the escalator is the only way up or down. Circle Line usually has stairs, because it’s so close to the surface, but the deeper ones don’t. According to the maps I looked at, only a couple of stations are even handicap…

You’re part right, actually! BBC America originally aired BBC programming, but in America. Like a lot of other networks, they’ve drifted a little. The show Orphan Black IS made by BBC America in conjunction with the Canadian network Space, and not the BBC. They also tend to show a lot of Star Trek: The Next…

I’m not saying Joss Whedon doesn’t get problematic, but I’m not sure about that one. He kills more women then men, I think, but he’s killed a substantial number of men too.

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Even that might have actually worked though. The sci-fi aesthetic Guardians had feels extremely compatible with Bowie, at least to me (Maybe moreso older Bowie. ... Younger Bowie. Er... Bowie from the past). Though I guess I’m not really imagining it as a named character so much as one of the more visible background…