The Root is playing a bit of a joke on its readers. Have a look at the actual post; about halfway down the Schadenfreude begins.

It’s a particular brand of condescending / concern-trolling bigotry rather than garden variety hatred, and she hasn’t made the logical connection to see why that approach is *still* bigotry.

We’re miscommunicating the timeline here. Part of that is my fault. The card was published in 1994, not the essay. The essay was published in 1995. That’s what I mean by it not being a thing.

Again, though, the numbering of the card didn’t occur in 2004. That’s when the online database became available, but the card-sorting methodology on which the numbering was based was already in place long before that. The sorting system was present in the Magic: The Gathering encyclopedias.

The “14 words” weren’t published until 1994. The numeric ID of the card comes from a sorting schema whereby cards are sorted by set, color, then English name. Both the card and the sorting schema predate 1994.

Worth noting that a dance isn’t copyrightable under current US law and precedent. A choreography is, but a short string of dance moves is not.

She’s a US citizen.

It is unfortunate that the actress apparently outed herself as a raging pro-party nationalist.

“Perhaps they’ll put all three up for sale individually?”

Trill are more analogous to religious concepts of reincarnation. The soul has no specific gender; that’s a totally physical thing.

It might be “seeking out” that type of plot, but *Insomnia* was a remake of an already-existing film.

White supremacy and related ideologies had hundreds of years to sink in. People are getting generally better at recognizing personal prejudice and racism, but we all have a long way to go to undo the racist assumptions that are embedded in many institutions. 

If they already renewed Drunk History prior to canceling it, what costs are they actually saving?

If it’s not against the TOS, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just as likely occurring on the rare occasion when a seller has run out of stock for a given item but they didn’t update their eBay listing correctly.

The markup would have to be quite high, as the eBay and PayPal fees would eat into that.

Several eBay merchants, as well as merchants on other sites, use Amazon’s fulfillment center network to store, pack, and deliver goods, even if they’re not bought on Amazon specifically. It’s a program that is completely above-board, but it’s also a potentially example of Amazon’s vast vertical growth.

I’d never owned a PlayStation of any sort prior, so I was mostly spending my time with the PS2 launch window playing Final Fantasy IX and other titles I’d missed out on from the original PS.

They actually did revisit Iotia later in the Star Trek NES video game.

You’re mixing up two episodes. There’s one with an Ireland planet and a ton of offensive Irish stereotypes, and there’s the episode with Dr. Crusher and the sex ghost on a Scottish colony.

I’m sure 45 is too Islamophobic to care, but China is currently laying the groundwork for Uighur genocide. None of that excuses the president’s goons in Portland, but we’re talking about a VERY different scale of evil here.