That story about Somalian immigrants in Minnesota not getting their kids vaccinated based on anti-vaxxers coming into their community and lecturing them, and then having to deal with a measles outbreak makes me so, so angry.

Just to be clear, I'm upvoting this because of the autoplaying. Although I wouldn't be opposed to more stringent qualifications for parenthood.

Was it the apparent lack of psychiatry? Because that's always bugged me.

I think we're just going to have to disagree on it being good. I didn't like the simplifications it made to the story or characters - which might not have been as obvious if I weren't aware they were simplifications, though I still don't think I would've walked out feeling anything but vague dissatisfaction - and the…

Well, we can't use Discworld. The authoritarian government there is actually competent.

But have you checked their Kindles?

I learned so, so much about groupthink and the lengths to which people will go to convince themselves that they and they alone are wise enough to have discerned the hidden truths governing the universe while the foolish masses carry on in ignorance from Harry Potter shipping. In retrospect, it was perfect training…

I honestly feel like the sketchy worldbuilding is more of a feature than a bug. Yeah, it does sometimes stop and make you wonder whether something really makes sense - but for me at least, it spurs some interesting trains of thought about how it could make sense. Whereas if you stumble on an inconsistency in a fully…

You were probably better off having your dad raise that question than getting sucked into the interminable online debates over whether house elves were an oppressed underclass in need of liberation, or naturally wired to serve and Hermione was wrong for trying to impose her human values on them.

The second movie is easily the worst. I love the book, which I gather is a rare opinion, but the movie leeches out all the suspense and the funny bits. It doesn't help that the kids are past the point where their cuteness makes up for any acting deficiencies but haven't yet learned any real technique, or that…

Funny you should bring up Steven King - or, as I like to call him, Potterhead Number One.

You'd get people like me popping in to tell you the film was an even more crap adaptation than the big franchise stuff, and you should really give the books a shot.

Normally I'd agree, but I feel like she'd run with the label. Literally. Not to mention that if she doesn't already voice a My Little Pony, she really should.

Honestly, I'm not seeing the problem, either. The law steps in when parents force their kids to follow some fad diet that doesn't adequately address their nutritional needs, and I don't think there's much reasonable debate it should step in when conversion therapy is on the table. If we quit acting like both sides…

I wrote a paper in college on civic myth and its role in unifying the nation, including a big section on how conspiracy theories are effectively signs of schism. I should see if I can find it and dust it off.

On the other hand, most of them probably haven't been following this, and he's running out of blank slates.

So because you're tired of the term, you bring it up yourself in a context that's confusing at best and the exact opposite of how most people would apply it at worst, thereby obscuring whatever point you were trying to make under an avalanche of "wtf are you talking about"? If you're really looking for a productive…

…Other comedians would've called him out on his shit anyway? Oh, wait, that sounds familiar.

Aw, I was hoping this would chain into a look at Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Guess he just wasn't in the mood for peanuts.