Carl eating pudding on the roof was the most emotionally realistic tv scene since the death of Buffy’s mom.

I agree, of course, yet I still imagine an arcology to be run by the people who ran the one in Larry Niven’s Oath of Fealty, and I would live in a oligarchy run by those people.

I would live in an actual arcology, with shops and restaurants and theaters, in a heartbeat. If I had my own apartment.

I agree, this sounds sensible on the face of it for those who can afford it. However, there is an important caveat: “no credit check” and “no proof of 40x income” are features of their offer. That’s great, because credit check/proof of 40x income is what screws a lot of people trying to get housing.

I supported her thong choice, as I support her in all things.

I used to have to go to LA all the time, cause my husband worked there. Now I live in Berlin with a new husband and I never have to go to LA again. Thank you for making me even happier about that, Kara.

I was just admiring my Catwoman Barbie from that line not half an hour ago. The Elektra, tho...questionable.

1. I miss the heyday of RTM!

Ah ha! I moved to Minnesota when I was 22, from high crime 80s NYC. I always assumed the “wait til they’re in the door, wait til the car starts” custom was related to crime, and adopted it accordingly. You have opened my eyes!

Yup. GREAT casting.

It boils down to semiotics. As much as we ALL love a good Slave Leia, it’s bad cultural signaling to be constantly seeing a bunch of slave girls on chains.

I refer to many sexual experiences I had as a young, alcoholic woman in NYC in the 80s as “non-consensual one-party sex”. For me it’s the best description of an experience where I shut down, froze and submitted to an unpleasant physical experience I’d been psychologically but not physically bullied into accepting.…

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My husband and I moved to Germany last spring. Now I have to go to the US tomorrow for a short visit, and I’m terrified. I’m staying in my old neighborhood in Oakland, just a couple blocks from where a toddler was shot in a drive-by. I’m so grateful my friends are putting me up there, but also can’t imagine how they…

I was thinking exactly that when I saw the photos from all the Snuff Games premieres- that she looked noticeably sad and tired. I felt bad for her.

YES. It’s amazing how invested people are in that particular fallacy, and how defensive and angry they get when one attempts to inform them that actually cooking out all the alcohol takes more time and more heat than anyone wants to subject food to. I have never had people get more determined to poison me than when I…

I agree- you can’t walk for ten minutes in Berlin without being aware of the war and the responsibility Germans feel. Our street has “stumbling blocks”, the beautiful and painful memorial cobblestones, next door and down the block. As I said downthread, we saw the trailer for this movie recently and it was weird. We…

We live in Berlin, and we saw the trailer for this movie before “The Martian” recently. I had no idea what to think or do. It was weird and awkward.