Hideous, and typical. Typically hideous.

Oh, I’m well aware. Still, this is exceptionally depraved.

Just discovered today the hard way that the trending right-wing talking point on this clusterfuck is that Cpt. Crozier actually was grossly negligent and endangered his crew by allowing them to go ashore when they were docked in Da Nang, and that his crew like him only because of some cult worship thing despite his…

I think something in my head just snapped.

attacks on the public service grow and BT engineers grow (the latter because of the “5G caused Covid-19" conspiracy theory)

This became (more) clear to me with his reaction to Gov. Raimondo (D-RI)‘s order regarding people travelling from NYC to Rhode Island. She wanted to distribute information to out-of-state travelers in Rhode Island as to quarantine protocols and shelter requirements, and Cuomo seemingly intentionally misinterpreted and…

If everyone gets sick at once, many more people die because they can’t get live-saving medical care with which they would otherwise have survived the infection.

[...]so Trump’s tweet doesn’t change anything or have any point beyond briefly distracting the nation from some actual things happening throughout the country right now.

The dead bodies have not started hitting morgues at a funeral parlor near them. Until they do, these people will think everything is just fine, and thus leadership is effective.

Besides, Georgist arguments are better than Marxist ones when it comes to the economics and ethics of rent extraction from land.

Yeah, I think Armistice ended up in the copy of Liam’s security guy.

Serrac as Rehoboam’s puppet is very Root/Creepy Kid in Person of Interest.

Part of the point of Caleb this season, then, would be to remedy this gap in Dolores’ knowledge of humanity by being fairly consistently not terrible.

The interesting question will be whether Rehoboam is conscious (at least, in a way similar to how hosts are). The Forge AI was pretty sophisticated, but did only what was instructed; it seemed conscious on some level but not like the hosts. Does Rehoboam have higher-order desires (like PoI’s Machine and Samaritan) or…

I loved when he was taking on the second squad with the axe and three of the guards just straight-up run away, with him yelling “Oh, come on!” after them.

It was a bullet, and yes.

That last paragraph seems to have gone a bit pear-shaped. I think it’s supposed to say “comfort in” rather than “confront it”.

I feel bad for any business owner because you’re always, always, always the bad guy.

That, I think, remains a “you” opinion. Lore is fun.

I thought Sutra’s “interpretation” of the Admonition was a transparently self-serving lie, much as the Zhat Vash’s interpretation was.