This is amusing considering that apartment was laughably huge compared to those of everyone I’ve ever known who lived in New York. I knew people whose two bedroom apartments were literally the drywalled landings of the building floor they lived on and the “wall” between bedrooms was a sheet of fogged plexiglass.

Found the drone trying to convince us everything is alright, and this story couldn’t possibly be true.

This story seems like utter bullshit. Are they really claiming the AI could figure out *what* a comms tower is, reason how the tower is responsible for sending it commands, and then destroy the tower?! I’m guessing this ‘simulation’ was actually a *real person* tasked to imagine they were an AI, and then act…

There is one good-faith argument against this: the entire Lord of the Rings series, as well as the Silmarillion and other related books, was explicitly intended by Tolkien to be an “invented mythology” of the deep past of England and the British Isles. To some, making Aragorn Black would be the same as making a hero…

There is a fraction of folks on the left who make using the “violence” to mean “inflicting any sort of harm or distress” to be a sort of in-group signifier.  In-group signifiers are often goofy, and this one seems particularly so.  Occasionally someone will try to mainstream this definition of “violence”, which…

Don’t know about that... there’s a lot of red...

Nah, I gotta good lawyer.

In Tolkien’s canon humans “awoke” fully formed without evolution. They haven’t had hundreds of thousands of years to resemble modern ethnicities by eons of migrations. Making any of them specifically white or black or brown is a choice.

Are sentences included in that tally?

You must drive a very large car.

The largest NASA location, the Marshall Space Flight Center, has been there in Huntsville for decades.

It’s not just Boomers, it’s a lot of younger Founding-Father-Constitutional-Originalist wackos as well. Taking on the stylistic and linguistic particulars of documents from the mid-1700s is their form of worship, apparently.

Agreed. If the college wants to create a policy against intentional misgendering, fine. It’s an unkind thing to do that borders on hate speech. But violent? Nah. 

Have you read the original fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, you well versed defender of Western culture and history? Have you spent even the time to read a text that’s just 20-page long? Because (SPOILER ALERT) the mermaid fucking dies.

How conservatives imagine college instructors: “Hi class, today we’re going to be discussing how capitalism is the root of all evil and the US should pay every Black person $1 million per year in reparations. And all cops should be shot in the streets.”

lmao sadly “Canon is a fool’s stricture” is a 100% Linda Codega original phrase, and sadly I’ve wasted it in the dek of an io9 blog.

“It’s about ethics in [movie] journalism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!111!!!!!1!11"

“Canon is a fool’s stricture” Is this yours or an older quote? I ask because it sums up how I feel about a lot of the stupid complaints (not just racist ones) about entertainment properties I’ve seen, so I’m going to steal it.

I was looking at the last statement about how “could these come to America?” Which I agree with you, would never happen.

The small quadricycle segment is a Europe-only legal classification where you can drive one as a young teenager without a license. There is no mention of any attempt whatsoever for this to be sold in the US, because there is no intention for that to ever happen. Also it sounds like you are an adult, and these are…