I agree. Houston had tremendous success (pre Harvey) with a homes first approach to homeless veterans. Veterans were a first priority both because of course we shouldn’t have homeless vets, but also because of additional funding from the VA. The reduction in homelessness also resulted in better physical and mental…

The “home first” initiative — providing living spaces where treatment can take place — seems to help the most. They need money, especially those with dependents, but simply having a place to live, with a service provider looking at conditions in the home, will diminish both animosity and mental illness. (You’d be…

I lived on a military base for 18 years and Holdo’s actions did not confuse me in the slightest. Didn’t give it a second thought. An Admiral is absolutely not going to share all their plans with someone of substantially lower rank. This is why obedience and chain of command are so important in militaries. You might…

You must not get out much.

Exactly. I always say, when someone says they’d rather pay pretty much the same amount of money on security systems and a gated community that they would on taxes to address the problem in the wider community strictly out of some picky libertarian principle, then I know I’m dealing with a plain old asshole.

I’m ignorant to the fact that security guard robots even exist. Just what exactly is the rolling pylon supposed to do?

Listen those robots were keeping you away from these comment sections for a reason

I’m completely in favor of that and am totally willing to pay for more affordable housing, better social services, safe injection sites, etc. but that doesn’t mean that people shitting in your building, or grabbing you, or leaving empty, contaminated syringes all over the sidewalk is acceptable. There’s a middle…

The social compact has failed the homeless, ergo, they have no moral or social responsibility not to piss in our cornflakes. Should we want that to stop, we should fund the social services that would prevent it. But we don’t. So let us not whine about the consequences.

Most self-professed “animal rights” folks I’ve met are straight-up misanthropic assholes. They also all smell like cat pee.

Then the company ought to hire a person who can recognize instances of middle ground and show the accordant empathy. Maybe the company could hire an athletic white man, though it probably would have to be one who’s not a pussy about saying “Sorry, I don’t have any change” to icky poors

There is something deeply ironic/dystopian/San Franciscan about an animal rights advocacy group using a robot to harass homeless people.

Luke Skywalker - who’s kinda the protagonist of the whole thing - was on the Planet Dagobah to learn from Yoda to become a religious space knight. Yoda gave him a speech about how size doesn’t matter, and do or do not - there is no try. After that, Luke went to save his friends against Yoda’s wishes. You can probably…

Disappointed moviegoers were offered the option of refunds or tickets to later screenings,

Just to put it out there:

How about the guy who gave him the job?

this is bullshit, Funkhouser is hilarious

I dont care about super dave or whatever, but he’s probably the funniest of Larry David friends on Curb

also the more plastic surgery he gets the funnier it is

He’s probably second-best of this year’s crop, but there isn’t a stand-out scene like there is for Keaton.

Also notable: Homecoming does the fairly hoary “start with a villain origin scene” thing that usually just delays a superhero movie getting good for however long, but does it really well.

For me, it’s about the timing of that revelation, and the particular situation. It makes a Spider-Man trope feel new again, because you (or I, anyway) buy that this is a new experience for Peter Parker, even though we’ve seen similar things happen in other Spider-Man stories.

Miguel sings to his great-grandmother, Coco - A predictable payoff that nevertheless packs a phenomenal emotional wallop.