True. But I'll take Pence's Handmaiden Tale over Steve Bannon being in the National Security Council and I bet Steve Bannon gets kicked out the moment Trump keels over.

I like it. Not to convince anyone but to drive the Tweeter in Chief to an early grave because he gets so mad and loses sleep over it.

Most of the episode's problems probably had to do with the terrible script but what did Kevin Smith even bring to this episode? There's just one good action shot of a van tipping over and even then, I kind of wasn't buying that a laser hit from the back would cause a van to tip forward like that. The scene with the…

Nothing about this movie keeps Japanese Americans from watching the original. But it is a lost opportunity to have one more movie that represents them and one that is being remade because of its name recognition amongst non Japanese people. What's wrong with having one more movie?

It featured a Japanese looking woman and this movie will become American culture, which Japanese Americans partake of and in which they wish to be no more or less represented than other Americans. The anime also came to America at a time where anime was not as mainstream as it is now so there's this special ownership…

Not to the extent that it reminds them of World War II. But the Japanese Americans have always lacked power and respect within America. Internment camps were the worst example. Then yellow face was a thing. And now just plain erasure is a thing. The history of the Japanese and Japanese-Americans diverged which…

My friend working in Japan explained that the Japanese people feel that they control their culture. They are not in danger of Americans taking over their manga and anime businesses. And so they don't worry about things like white washing and cultural appropriation. The Japanese American audience, which never had that…

Well it's the "I would not have let that happen" line from Alex which led me to read it that way but fair point.

I think Supergirl may be the dumbest show I'm watching right now but paradoxically, it's also the one that's giving me the most joy. Most of that joy is related to the Maggie/Alex storyline which is by far the best coming out storyline I've seen to date. I love that while it's tropey as hell, both Maggie and Alex have…

I liked the movie a lot but I thought it ultimately played in the shallows of whatever themes it was trying to put forth. I love the idea of Maui hungering for adulation and his self esteem being bound up in the fish hook but I didn't feel it to my core like I did with Wreck-It-Ralph. Probably because he's in the…

Doctor Strange is my favorite MCU movie now.

Apparently fandom has gone with Malex or Sanvers for a shipper name for Maggie and Alex. Which is a crying shame since Algie was right there and would have been hilarious.

The monoculture of bananas that we have exists regardless of GMOs. It's not a problem exclusive to GMOs and is in fact highly prevalent in traditional crops. See also Irish potato famine. Where GMOs are unique and not simply like other traditional crops is that the gene vector could jump to other organisms or that a…

"Plus, he's a shill for Monsanto." Your explanation doesn't line up with your quote suggesting that Neil deGrasse Tyson is in the tank for Monsanto or is being paid by them. I assume that was a joke that I didn't pick up on, so Poe's law in action.

The programme to take expired drugs back to the store is for those drugs to be disposed off properly. Those drugs can also be disposed off yourself by other means, http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/Re…

To each their own. I like him on his podcast where his enthusiasm is fun and he's part of a back and forth with other thoughtful scientists. Most people here cite his Twitter stuff as annoying them. Guess it's good that I hardly use Twitter for anything.

I need more context for that. Anti-GMO activists like to call everyone who believes the consensus that there is no evidence that GMOs are more dangerous than conventional crops a shill for Monsanto. Bill Nye got called this too.

I would recommend trying out his StarTalk podcast but fair warning, if you're not well disposed toward him, he will come off blowhardy there too. I don't mind it myself. And he gets a good range of guests on interesting topics. I used to listen to a bunch of different science podcasts like Invisibilia and Radiolab and…

I don't think he comes off as smug. Not when it comes to nitpicking movies. Part of the fun of being an expert watching media depictions of your field is picking up on the inaccuracies and discussing them. So long as they don't hurt your enjoyment of the movie, it's a fun intellectual exercise not meant to be taken…

"Those multicoloured nebulae are not real objects, they exist only in fantastic pictures overlaid with Neil deGrasse Tyson’s face and some vague sentiments about how wonderful the universe is when it’s very far away from human life. The images are digitally stitched together, the colours are fake, the shapes are not…