I honestly believe that you’re right and it was all of that, but also that he was just getting off on the conversation.

I’m offended Hemsworth’s superiority is even up for debate.

This is true. Most of my friends suspected it would be crappy because it’s DC. I only went out of Feminist Principles — we can’t complain about the lack of women in blockbusters and then not show up for women in blockbusters — and I was really shocked how much I enjoyed it. I don’t even remember the last DC movie I…

I had to unfollow Greenwald because his calls for skepticism — which, as a general life rule, I support — started to go past “let’s rationally look at the evidence” into “let’s all ignore the evidence”. I used to respect him but I have started to get real “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” vibes from him.

When all this started I didn’t know much about Putin or contemporary Russia so I read Masha Gessen’s The Man Without a Face to better understand what we were looking at. It wasn’t comforting. He’s definitely capable of all that he’s been accused of and more. 

I often think the Kochs et al are lobbying to dismantle regulations purely out of spite because operating in an environment of regulatory uncertainty makes their long term business plans so much more difficult. I can completely see why BHP would be on board with the accords — at least they know what they are dealing…

I don’t even know if this actually will benefit corporations as much as some of them think. The BHP CEO said he spoke to Trump and asked him not to do this, I sincerely doubt he did it out of genuine concern for the environment: http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-01/bhp-boss-tells-donald-trump-to-stay-in-paris-agree…

Especially when it is a meaningless mistake that would cost them nothing to admit.

I thought of tattoos too. I can see why the artist wouldn’t be that concerned about getting paid because if that became the norm it would be bad for art and creativity. However, I think an acknowledgement is actually the norm — whenever the people around me get a tattoo based on an artist’s work they’ll usually say so…

Apparently we’re all just schmucks.

Right. I could absolutely cope with the mother dying. It would be sad and awful but it wouldn’t completely destroy the whole series for me because it’s an unfortunate fact of life that people die. But they basically just killed her to get her out of the way for Ted to be with his ~one true love~ who was unbelievably…

Right. There were a couple very serious violent incidents at my brother’s bands’ gigs and they were so traumatised by it they almost disbanded, and none of those incidents were fatal. I can’t even imagine the trauma of having children die because they came to see you. It’s never going to leave her. I applaud her for…

Reports said she was absolutely hysterical. Not sure exactly how Morgan expected her to be a beneficial presence at their hospital beds. This is real life.

It was particularly bad because it retroactively ruined the whole show for me. I thought I was watching a show about a guy learning that love isn’t enough if you’re totally wrong for each other. Great thing to learn. Instead it was basically the opposite of that.

Hassle is the exact right word for it. The only people I know who are going have to for business. Everyone else is postponing it til US border control calms down (2021ish...?).

I think most people would still like to visit but there have been pretty frequent stories coming out about visa problems and overzealous border control. It’s so far/expensive for us that it just isn’t worth it.

I’m Aussie and also know multiple people who have deferred trips to the US. It just doesn’t scream “WELCOME FRIENDS” right now.

She testified that a Dreamworks rep told her she was now too divisive for family movies.

From what I recall (which is hazy) the articles also implied that her whole persona was an act and that she isn’t really a “bogan” (it’s really hard to define the nuances of this word for non-Australians — kind of like a suburban redneck, but without necessarily any racist connotations) which would be pretty damaging…

It’s not a thing and I’ve never thought about it before but now that it has come up I know immediately which is my worse boob because it is an asshole during PMS.