I had assumed they were related if not exactly the same too, until I read up on it last season.

Now you're just being silly.

Lassa Fever is not the same thing as Ebola.

You know cremation and embalming are two entirely different things, right?

Well, I did get all of that from the story, and it didn't take any tying in knots. A couple of people seem to have been confused about what happened to the girl, but after all that's the strange part of the tale. Also, if you didn't grasp it the first time around, that's not necessarily a flaw, much less a "huge…

Nine months after they're "having their first kid", i.e. after Irma becomes pregnant. All the other stuff happens at various points during pregnancy (they find out about it, learn that it's a girl, decide to name her Kerry), but the exact timeline of that doesn't matter, and "nine months later" is just a shorthand to…

Wasn't there another thing about Netflix having badly remastered widescreen versions of the first three seasons or so of the show, with redone and somehow even worse CGI?

Most of that left tail is gone by the time you reach 73, though. Looking at the tables here (https://www.ssa.gov/oact/ST… , which has female life expectancy at birth at 81.05), it looks like the mean total life expectancy for a woman at 73 is 87.23, while the median is somewhere between 87 and 88 (51.9% live at least…

The average female in the US lives to 81, which (if Hillary is average) puts her at 50/50 to die before reaching 2 terms.

Both.

Was Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings a remake of Ralph Bakshi's?

The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner (environmental dystopia)
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (rationalist totalitarian dystopia)

It was in the news a few years back when some of LBJ's recordings were declassified, and it turned out he knew about it (and considered it treason), but decided not to raise the matter publicly because the information had come from bugging the South Vietnamese ambassador's phone. Humphrey also knew, but thought he…

I think "enemies" is sadly an accurate term in the current political situation, and liberals might want to start treating so-called "conservatives" as such. I mean, when the GOP shamelessly engages in shenanigans like what we've seen in North Carolina, or with the Supreme Court, or this latest move transparently aimed…

That strikes me as a pretty unconvincing explanation, for all the reasons already stated.

It makes it more accurate.

Reminds me of the Racism sketch here: http://j-f-s-p.livejournal…. (second from the top, but do yourself a favor and check out the actual show)

Yeah, even if the film doesn't work, I find the idea of it fascinating, since there are a lot of different interesting ways to go with the premise, and at the same time a lot of really big problems that would have to be solved. (First of all: it needs a really convincing explanation for how the ship ends up in the…

What's this "condemn to death" business? If anything, he's condemning her to a life in isolation. Not the same thing!

… filmed as Predestination with Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook.