Also having a diverse leadership team, where people from different backgrounds are reading and approving things makes things like this less likely to happen.

Probably too close to the game. The mind set of the people working on the cards is so tuned to thinking about “black cards” that the racial connotation likely never crossed their minds.

Mike Schur has mentioned it a few times since last season’s finale (to Rolling Stone and on The Good Place podcast). The reason that they did a whole bit about it was because they set up in the pilot that Chidi was a French speaker from Senegal, and, at the time, they hadn’t intended to spend a lot of time on Earth.…

I don’t want to be that guy, but we do know of one real person in the Good Place. In the Pilot, Michael said Lincoln is in there, and he’s the only US President who is. 

It’s also a troubling comparison because Kavanaugh isn’t facing a criminal conviction and jail time, he’s gunning for a promotion to the highest court in the country, for life. We’re talking two entirely different evidentiary standards, or at least I would hope we are. If he gets voted down or withdraws, he’s still a…

He’s a Republican. They’re always scared shitless.

His sentence should be equal to the total sum of the sentences of all the people he framed.

If Kingsman 3 isn’t about Roxy/Lancelot returning from barely surviving her ignominious write-off in the 2nd movie hell-bent on righteous revenge against everyone who left her for dead, then don’t bother.

Yeah, I’ve done regular interpreting but these specialized fields are really killer even for the multilingual. Much respect.

Those two have to be some of the hardest interpretation-type jobs out there. Even without the slang, it’s a huge ask

Thought the exact same thing.

I think at large, between the Dixiecrats and whatnot that the GOP at large has always been like this, at least in the last 40-50 years or so. Maybe even longer, but back then, it could cost them politically so it went underground where the common man didn’t realize it and thus, might punish them for it.

It’s overspending on headcount. Their burn rate eclipsed their income, and they didn’t have enough in the bank to keep the company afloat long enough to correct the situation. They tried to develop too many games at the same time, and their licenses probably put contractual obligations on delivery dates, meaning they…

It would also be interesting to see how they respond to those pushing for their own groups versus other groups. Do they respond differently to Jewish BLM activists and black zionists?

Exactly. I can’t tell from this if colleges are discriminating against black student activists or all student activists. I mean, intuitively I feel like they’d probably respond positively to white activists at a higher rate than black activists but, as the author pointed out, “peer-reviewed research is different from…

Triggering epilepsy.

We didn’t get as much Peter/Sam personal involvement, but at least we got the uncommented-upon moment of Peter deciding to tell the Turd Burglar that he knows his identity before going to the cops, getting a cool moment for his documentary and also giving the culprit time to release his files and fuck up four peoples’…

This pretty much deconstructed every argument I had in conflict with the article. The police in Spider Man aren’t the police in reality. It’s just another part of the setting.

My solution to reconciling all of this was to just treat it as another fantastical element of the setting. If I can buy that a guy can run on walls then I guess I can buy a world where the police deserve the level of trust the game gives them.

Yeah it’s been a while. It’s a real thing though, HP webcams wouldn’t pickup darker skin for face tracking and it made press a few years ago. I can understand it from a technical point of view, coming from both a tech and photography background.  Makes for a great Ted episode :)