mike flanagan is such an absolutely mid writer/director. most of his stuff leans so hard into sentimentality that i wanna throw up in my mouth. i think his best work is probably the ouija sequel, weirdly enough, because that keeps focused and doesn’t disappear so far up its own ass that it causes involuntary eye…

Yeah and despite the snarky tone about the “internet becoming avian flu experts” in the article, it should be common sense at this point that interacting with highly contagious animals is a bad idea, as that is a recipe for the kind of viral mutation we’ve seen with H1N1, Covid, and SARS. Imagine getting a fresh new…

they met when she was like 16 lol

people like sedaris don’t have to worry about any of that shit and they consider the issue of LGBT stuff closed because they got what they wanted. sure, it may feel icky when bad stuff happens to people in the broader queer community but when you’ve got like 10+ houses it will never, ever affect you personally or…

the problem with that kind of navel-gazing self-demeaning shit is that it’s kind of arrogant. orson welles famously pointed that out about woody allen back in the late 70s when allen could do no wrong in a lot of people’s eyes, and goddamn if history hasn’t vindicated him. with sedaris it additionally doesn’t help…

yeah that’s exactly what i mean. it’s tricky to judge it on its surface even if i would say it’s often a bad idea. the quasi-religious way people react is unhealthy, i think.

it’s a weird zone because on the one hand when i remember being 20, having friends date 30 year olds was almost always creepy and ill-advised, but on the other hand maybe that’s part of the learning process? it’s a weird line and everything being called “grooming” or “problematic” can often wash out things that are…

TNG was a train wreck for like 2.5 seasons so yeah. Plus half of season 7 sucked ass. 

Blizzard: this is our policy
People affected by the policy: I’m being affected by the policy
Reporters: people are being affected by the policy
Random dipshit in the comments: but how do we know people are really being affected by the policy?

i live in an immigrant neighborhood that, despite having no genuine issues worse than anywhere else in the city i live, regularly gets shit on by other white people around me. very excited to see that kinda racism reflected by google.

This is a company that’s worked with several other big studios/publishers so I assume they’re going to be counting on funding from other sources lol

why the fuck is your response to a purity culture article to do both-sidesism

nyquil chicken is a 300 year old tradition where i’m from and i won’t see it slandered by know-nothing sickos who want a nanny state!

Careful now, you’re gonna get screamed at for being a Russian bot because that’s a far easier thing to swallow than facing legitimate critiques of our broken-ass system.

Careful now, you’re gonna get screamed at for being a Russian bot because that’s a far easier thing to swallow than facing legitimate critiques of our broken-ass system.

Any leftist that dismisses economics and sociology is essentially throwing all of Marx into the dustbin as he’s obviously extremely influential in both of those fields. But I will say that a lot of economics can be pretty bunk and overly deterministic, and there are a lot of arguments that end up having not a lot of…

frankly all of them are equal. signal, as noted by tech journalist yasha levine, was funded by a cia cutout. the idea that it is some privacy gotcha that can solve all issues compared to the others (telegram, whatsapp, etc.) is sketchy at best. just like using tor, a vpn, or any other solution it is good for most…

you are, to be clear, a fucking worm

Signal being secure or private is dubious at best. It will protect you against spammers and shit like that but it is funded by a CIA front and shouldn’t be trusted beyond those bounds: