I can’t decide what’s more likely for Jon and the most wayward stepdragon - will Jon hate him for taking up with a group of snow nazis, or will Jon feel a bond with him because they’re both undead? Tough to tell.

Sidenote: Mother Teresa shouldn’t even be treated on par with ‘Mother Teresa’. Much like Gandhi, she earned a reputation as a hero despite being extremely flawed.

I loved everything about that horrifying memoir interlude. Especially that she claimed the children called her “the skinny Muzungu with angel hair”.

It’s curiously white neighbourhoods and schools contrasted with neighbourhoods of colour

Confederacy seems like a spectacularly bad idea. Someone saw the success of Handmaid and is not really understanding the difference between speculative fiction and alternate history fiction, and that’s not even getting into the racial tone-deafness.

I completely believe that Tom Holland fell asleep on his back with one knee up in partial costume, and the photographer took that photo and ‘shopped it to within an inch of its life to get the poster. Could even have been wearing headphones.

You know? Tyrion and Sansa might actually work politically too. They’d also be an interesting symbolic marriage: previously married, but now allied again as the Hands of their leaders, and despite the shitty circumstances they were both decent to each other. Although you know who you’re leaving out: Gendry.

It’s part of the best way to hire. But homogenous teams may produce awesome code within their own pod, then when it gets handed on it needs major revision or rework because they got into groupthink and didn’t prioritize correctly to reflect user base needs. Working with people exactly like you narrows your abilities…

I made that up, continuing torchbearer2's train of thought.

I don’t get why “relying on effective empathy [causes us to] favor individuals similar to us”. That is the exact opposite of how empathy’s supposed to work.

“But they’re the best candidates!”

Goddamnit, engineers.

Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if the production company arranged something with the school: you let us audition your kids and we’ll pay for the bathroom refit/school lunches for a year/new school uniforms. An even better approach than handing out money to children. (And then you give the cookie to the child.) Once you…

Yep. There’s nothing wrong with a slow-burn relationship where the two of them realize that they generally have the same morals and goals and work together well. Political marriage.

Dany is on that, “Kneel before Zod,” tip. She is not seeking romance. Jon is trying to convince everyone that they are going to die if they don’t listen to him. I choose to believe it was sone on purpose.

Were you never, ever pulled out of class to do something? Sometimes it was setting up tables in the cafeteria, sometimes it was for the “gifted” program, sometimes it was to clean the erasers. Sometimes you got a cool thing for helping out, like a cookie. This is like that.

“Ah, but you see, those are all WHITE children.” I feel that this is the underlying argument as to why eleven year olds in Cambodia wouldn’t understand concepts like “make-believe”.

I do not for a second believe that Angelina Jolie, a mother of six who spends her vacation time in refugee camps, did not let the children leave with the cookie at the end of the audition game. That’s not anything to do with her saintly reputation, it’s just goddamn common sense and basic childcare.

I do not know why people think poor kids, or kids with limited formal education, are not smart humans. They might not be able to work a graphing calculator, but they sure as hell understand how to play.

You people are the weirdest. Is this some sort of colonial ego trip, insisting that the white western crew are inherently evil and would give a local (starving now, apparently!) kid a cookie and then take it back?