I think it is fairly safe to say that The Mandalorian would never have existed without Boba Fett. It is Fett’s character in Empire who brought attention to Mandalorians and inspired the further elaboration of their culture in subsequent literature. So, at the very least Fett should be given credit for that and his…

If defamation were based solely on what Americans know and care about, there would be very little protection at all.

but it’s tough to see how U.S. media can continue to argue that the American response has been more humane

You know, if they held onto all those cars nobody was driving for a year at the start of the pandemic this wouldn’t be happening. But because of the demands of our economic system they dumped the cars and now we pay for it. That’s how the system works and we can bitch about it as much as we want, but in the end, it is…

It is important to put this into perspective, especially in relation to the countries to which this is compared. In other countries, public health is something that the government takes care of. In the United States, public health is not something the government takes care of. It is something the government has never…

Athletes were told they should assume any and all communications would be monitored by the Chinese government during the Olympic games. 

Spoitfy has 172 million premium users and a 381 million active users worldwide. Even if all 11 million people listening to Rogan are premium users (which is unlikely), that accounts for roughly 6 percent of their premium users, and only 2 percent of their active users. I’m sure someone there has done this math. The…

We are headed straight back to the 1800's with this court.

I wonder what percentage of these kinds of incidences are on flights originating from or going to Florida. We might have a partial solution staring us in the face.

Wish I even had the option of bypassing printer cartridge DRM. My Canon PIXMA printer just doesn’t even turn on anymore.

I tried the VPN route with CBC and BBC last winter olympics and it didn’t work. The one before that it worked like a charm, but it seems they figured out how to block people coming in via VPN. Or at least that was my experience. Which sucks because their coverage is so much better than NBC. NBC coverage is absolutely…

The only chance these assholes have of winning elections is by making sure as many Americans hate each other as possible. I would like to assume that at some point it would turn out to bite them in the ass, but it doesn’t appear like we are getting there, if that point exists at all.

They are aiming for this cryto to be the confederate currency of modern times.

Me too.

There are certainly those who are conned by his bullshit. But I’m fairly certain that the majority of them are not. They know exactly what they are getting and they go along with it because he represents everything they want to be and everything they are. Every horrible, hate-filled, petty, fail-your-way-up, racist…

Sounds like a cheap way for Kraft Heinz to get out of doing the work themselves.

but narratively it didn’t break any different ground than most of the rest of the MCU roster

Conservatives love nothing more than playing victim. Of course they shame anyone else who they deem to be “playing victim,” but when it comes to them, you won’t hear the end of how they are persecuted and cancelled and all that other bullshit that isn’t true.

Here’s Dick Clark promoting hot Dr. Pepper ca. 1968:

I dunno. We need to make sure women are forced to give birth so we have enough children to slaughter in classrooms.