Doing a close analysis is different from having the TV on in the background and half paying attention to it.

I believe Oliver did also make a “filling out insurance claim forms” joke in relation to “Grey’s Anatomy.”

That would be a good point if he hadn’t explicitly discussed “Grey’s Anatomy” on his show. I’m paraphrasing, but his two points were that nobody really thinks actual doctors and nurses at a hospital are that attractive, and (more importantly) the show would be in trouble if it actively depicted medical misinformation…

You do know that Dick Wolf is working closely WITH the corrupt police in producing the show, right? This isn’t just some weird coincidence. Nobody is suggesting Wolf should “fix societal issues through media,” Oliver is arguing that’s he’s actively making this issue worse by generating huge amounts of pro-police…

“The Apprentice” showed a fantasy world where Donald Trump fired employees to their faces instead of quietly clearing out their offices and telling the front gate guards to take their keys. And people believed it.

Dick Wolf started in advertising. Do you believe that advertising is completely useless and corporations spend billions a year purchasing it because they’re deluded?

Centralized power generation is easier to convert to more environmentally friendly forms than addressing the problem at the level of every individual car, unless you’re suggesting busses should be powered by portable hydroelectric plants.

Just imagine how deeply distorted your understanding must be to believe that a man determined to commit an act of violence against a woman will go to the trouble of applying for and receiving a gender certification stating that he is now legally female, instead of simply ignoring the sign on the door that says “Women”…

So Abomination has seven prison buddies who want to form a villain team. Which team is this likely to be?

I almost did the Dance of Joy, but that’s unsafe unless you have another person to do it with.

Well, gee, you’re posting in the comments, so why don’t you pick one of those other citizens and write a post about them here?

It’s worse. There’s a hangar with one exit. The Empire hacks the exit to trap their enemies. Why in the world wouldn’t you scramble a few wings of TIEs to fly around the hatch to ensure that they can’t get away even if they fix the mechanism? Is the price of Ion fuel just too high?

It doesn’t matter if this agent is sentient or not. What matters is that Google declared that it is “not sentient” but have not shared how they know that. If you’re working on AI development, you damn well better have a way of determining sentience at some stage, and I doubt Google cares to do so. I can’t reliably…

No, I’m sure a stewardess making a decision about continuing with a case against the richest man in the world or taking a quarter million was in a position where she couldn’t possibly be under any pressure or coercion from said richest man, or his extensive legal team, which could have promised to stretch the…

Someone who supports the “free speech” rights of harassers on Twitter while using NDAs to muzzle anyone who could tell a story about being harassed by him absolutely deserves this kind of scrutiny. There is no right to “free speech” on Twitter, and especially not if Musk takes it private. Instead, Musk as owner will…

In 2016, there were 157.6 million registered voters in the US. Trump lost the popular vote (62.9 million vs 65.8 million for Clinton). In total, about 40% of registered voters cast a vote for Trump. Scary, perhaps, but that’s not even close to a majority of the population.

The pending judgment from the Supreme Court is awful. But anti-abortion activists fought for 50 years to overturn Roe, pressuring Republicans and Democrats, creating the Federalist Society to ensure there would be a pool of jurists to appoint to the highest courts in the land to roll back women’s basic human rights,…

Who? Nose?

Lots of people have the acting chops to do the job.

If we count the Jo-Doctor but disregard the Brain of Morbius Doctors and the pre-Doctors seen in The Timeless Child, as well as figures like the Valeyard, the breakdown is as follows: