I mean, that is definitely not true with regards to the Fourth Amendment, and the massive level of secret, unaccountable spying that the government does via digital technology.  But I imagine that’s not the point that poster was making...

Gab is a small network of people who are already dedicated internet Nazis. That’s good for one use case they have (making sure everybody is on the same page). But it’s bad for a number of other right-wing use cases (harassing normal people, getting new recruits, boosting tweets to be popular enough that lazy…

“Searebro” is pretty great

I feel like the actionable bit is that seismology tells us that a certain area is more likely to have earthquakes (or just stronger earthquakes) than previously thought, so we know that we have to include stronger requirements in building codes in order to withstand those earthquakes. Also maybe routing very…

It seems like a lot of people are talking about this season as being too static, or too similar to previous seasons, or Bojack being stuck in an unchanging loop or whatever. But that just seems crazy to me. That’s what personal trauma is - it’s a pattern of ingrained reactions to stimuli, which may have been helpful…

The Princess Carolyn moment (and her entire relationship with Bojack) made sense to me, because her particular issue is that she’s codependent. She grew up with an addict who she cared about (her mom), and derived her sense of self-worth from helping her mom cover or compensate for her addiction, without being able to…

“Like a fish needs a bicycle,” in our world, is an absurd statement because fish don’t have legs or live on land, so they have no need for a bicycle.  In the world of Bojack, however, it’s not absurd (because fish have legs and can go on land and use bicycles).  The lack of absurdity underlines the absurdity of…

I think it’s specifically about the way that male showrunners can be praised for their genius (which sometimes even actually exists! not Flip though) by critics and fans, while ignoring their shitty interpersonal behavior. Think David Milch, David Chase, Dan Harmon, etc.

I feel like the show’s point of view (as expressed by Diane) is explicitly that “irredeemable” is an empirically false concept, though. People aren’t definitively good or definitively bad - they just do good or bad things. Bojack did a really bad thing, for sure. But that doesn’t mean that he’s irredeemable; it just…

Would Diane have accepted a hug, though?

I like the song, because as other people have said it’s a Cabaret reference. And Cabaret is a musical about a person who refuses to seriously face her problems, and instead prefers to disappear into the fake world of art. Just like Bojack!

I really like that one of the graffiti says “Anal Glands.” Because human tagging serves a similar purpose to animals marking stuff!

I think the key with Bojack is, every time he’s a little bit better. He gets a little bit further before he craps out, or he hurts people in a slightly less severe way than he would have in the past. It’s happening at a snail’s pace* with lots of backsliding, but I think that makes it a much more realistic and…

Per the Bojack wiki:

Bojack was born in 1964, which makes him 45 in 2009 and 54 now.
Mr. Peanutbutter was born in “the late 60s,” which makes him about 40 in 2009 and almost 50 now.
Diane was born in 1980, which makes her 29 in 2009 and 38 now.
Katrina’s age is only given as “50s-60s,” which would put her in her late…

I like the Todd/Princess Carolyn roommate situation, because I think the root of it is, they both just like having somebody else around. Doesn’t have to be a deep relationship - they just like low-key human interaction. That’s why they both fell into Bojack’s orbit; because he attracts people like that by making…

With regard to your specific points:
1) I saw it as, there was an organist there to do normal funeral music, and he was just willing to go along with Bojack’s request for accompaniment.
2) This is Bojack, OF COURSE he was so completely self-absorbed that he wasn’t paying any actual attention to the audience.
3) I don’t…

I don’t think this is right. Specifically, I think that in Season 4 (and some of the earlier seasons), Bojack’s struggle was about processing the bad things that happened to him, like his relationship with his mom and all her cruelty. It was about airing out and acknowledging the past. Then Season 5 is about him…

I don’t think that’s right. “Kid sadly waits alone after sports practice for a parent to pick them up” is a common visual trope. I know the Simpsons has done it before, and I’m sure there are other examples I’m not remembering at the moment. The Archer episode has (almost) all of the cast there talking over each…

The worst thing for me is that the left side of the screen has a bunch of reviews for episodes that are later in the season than the one I’m on now.  And those reviews frequently have extremely spoilery headlines or cover images on them, which is so terribly dumb!

I mean, I really don’t think the point of firing people was “so that we can go back to doing more substantive criticism,” but I sure do wish that were true!