Just to re-iterate an unproven hypothesis of mine (because I don’t plan on digging into all parties’ financial records and emails), but I feel that the takeover of the Giz-group sites by this conservative Private Equity Group was in reaction to the Deadspin staff doing such an amazing job at stopping the SyncedLiars…

Have you given Brave Browser a try? I’m running it with no ad blocking extensions and these sites work beautifully with no ads, anywhere. To get the content to load correctly I did have to allow scripts, and since I use Twitter to sign into the G/O sites, allow cross-site cookies.

I’m not terribly sanguine about this announcement—Confederate was a rather shallow idea that got criticized for good reason. What does an America dominated by white supremacy look like? Like this one. The south didn’t need to win the war. In that vein, I think the Chinese-ness of the books is going to be hard for…

Its more so they ran out of time. GoT needed 10-12 10ep seasons but there was no way that was going to happen from a budget or actor standpoint. The story was always headed in the way it finished. They just didn’t have the time to take it there in a slow burn fashion.

The show was pretty good until they ran out of book and none of the top notch actors could save the show. 

Same. My boyfriend is Filipino and makes fun of my paleness regularly.  

Ah, I see.... May you someday find peace...

Is Jeb Bartlett Jed Bartlett’s sad sack brother?

It’s clearly a hot dog.

Is this a sandwich or a taco?

Call me when we progress to the Will Riker sitting challenge or the Jeb Bartlett jacket flip.

Give that good dog some cheese, dangit.

Why are sites still trying to sell their newsletters anyway? My e-mail inbox is already overflowing with stuff I don’t ever want to read and trying to stop coming more in is difficult enough. Why should anyone want any more newsletter from sites you can visit and scan faster than reading the damn mails all the time?

I got it once and haven’t gotten it again lol. I think that’s because it’s a site-based pop-up and not an advertisement.

My birthday present from my mom last year was several sunshirts, to keep my bleak northern european self from turning in to a lobster every time I did anything outside.

Are there still a bunch of international co-productions (France, Germany etc) running concurrently or was that scrapped for the second season?

It almost certain that the LW’s correspondent was either the husband, or someone he enlisted to entrap her. That whole bit was too quick and convenient for it not to be.

Hard disagree on letter #1. The husband is controlling, and quite possibly still abusive or borderline abusive, even if he’s not choking the LW (It’s hard to tell without more information.). I’m guessing that a guy like that will find out if the LW sexts with/ meets/ has an affair with another man (The incident with…

Picard didn’t know what it was, which was part of the problem. One moment we had old dying depressing Picard, Then we had GoT level Romulan incest. Then we had some Borg stuff. Then we had silly holograms of the same person chatting. Then we had drug addiction and loss. Then we had a time they all dressed up in funny…

but it’s not a gritty sci-fi drama like Star Trek: Picard.