True story: It's statutorily illegal to be a member of the Communist party in the United States. It hasn't been enforced in a long time, but it's still on the books.

Agreed. You knew it was coming from the start, and it still managed to be one of the biggest gutpunches I've ever read in SF

Seveneves is a very good SF novel. I'll probably read the sequel that they included a (weirdly long) preview for, once it comes out… although, to be honest, it doesn't look that great.

From a purely pragmatic perspective, it's not a terrible idea to give people a good story to tell.

Look, Maroon, I know you got a good thing here, and you probably get more tail than me, but I still feel qualified to say: telling a girl that you can smell her is not going to help you get laid. like, maybe it's still happening, but, trust me guys, it's despite that, not because of it

That quote is actually from well before his death and in context is a sarcastic dismissal of some people he disagreed with who were calling themselves Marxist?

I don't know if Lincoln was a supporter of Marx, but Marx was definitely a supporter of Lincoln: https://www.marxists.org/ar…

The fact that I and my ancestors unjustly benefited from historical white supremacy doesn't make it okay that Chris Brown beat the shit out of a woman.

You just took me through an emotional roller coaster of "holy shit, brunching shuttlecocks is still going? I remember reading that all the time -> "was a comedy website that ran from 1997-2003" oh shit i'm old

Wait, movie? What are you talking about? All I remember is the Tron: Legacy album and the 2 hour music video they made for it!

Yeah, moving to a place where you don't know anyone and don't have any reasonably firm job prospects is a good way to end up homeless—I've seen it happen.

Yep, spot on.

Agreed. It's a song about sucking face in the grossest way possible, probably in public.

Don't act like you don't know.

Also worth noting that one of the most important edutainment pioneers, MECC (creator of Oregon Trail, Number Crunchers, and a whole suite of others), wasn't even trying to make a profit when it created its hits. It was a state agency developing software for schools. When it started making a profit selling out of…

It was actually so obvious for so long that I started to think that it was going to be some kind of reverse-psychology faux-twist and we'd all be shocked to discover that Adama was real.

That's by 2015 standards, though. I think the character's appearance was intended to be totally in line with the style of that time.

Understandable—but I do think it is interesting and commendable that Louie used that episode to explore his evolution on anti-gay humor.

Show him the second episode of Louie (the TV show).

I was going to see Buress (who I found and loved on YouTube a few years ago) for the first time in Madison last Thanksgiving. But then he canceled on us with a bullshit excuse about being cast in a movie, and no refund was offered because officially it was a joint show with several other comedians even if it was, de…