THANK YOU!! I felt like yelling at the TV as I watched this- WW3 starts in-universe in 4 years, and Rios decides to stay to witness THAT, along with his new love interest and her kid?

Yeah, this is quite different from Heather’s article on loot boxes

I often wonder what it would be like to have the current media landscape and commentary surrounding the launch of TNG in 1987. Bearing in mind the virtual nonexistence of the Internet, the absolute seething hatred of the show from some corners of the fandom was palpable, even just coming through the magazines and…

Classic example: “taking a knee” before a football game is political, but the league doing a publicity event with an Air Force flyover is something that just appears all by itself and has no political implications whatsoever.

man, that answer basically vaporized the guy. 

They’re also idiots, because they don’t even realize that what they think of as “apolitical” just means “politics I agree with.”

No mention of one of the top-tier replies in the comments of the twitter post?

They represent nothing (quite literally, in fact; they represent nothing tangible), and contribute nothing to the future.

Don’t mind me, I’m just rolling around in all this sweet, sweet money I get for negging on NFTs, paid by... paid by... um... you know... the anti-NFT lobby!

Everytime someone starts whining about this, they never explain what those things that NFTs can actually be used for are, and how they’re better than existing methods.

Does it need reprinting, or can we just all agree not to be assholes to teenagers online? 

I do honestly feel that part of GRRM’s problem is he genuinely doesn’t know how to bring the books to a satisfying conclusion, and he’s not willing to just say “screw it” and write a terrible conclusion anyway. Unlike certain other producers I could name...

Watching a couple of previous entries to understand a few references is hardly homework. Whoever is going will have already seen ‘em.

The punishment for shoplifting is not execution.

1. Complying with the police almost never helps, if they’ve decided they want to hurt you they will make up any excuse whatsoever (or not even bother).
2. The victims (yes, victims) were unarmed. In the military, they teach you that pulling a firearm on an unarmed civilian is unacceptable, even if they’re attacking you…

Don’t need Twitter to know killing a kid over pieces of paper is wrong, but nice try. I bet you’re just aching to put a few rounds in a child too from your comment history.

Oh if only it were just Twitter telling me the police were evil, and not the police literally having tried to kill me twice just for existing in their vicinity.

The police do a perfectly good job of telling absolutely everyone who isn’t willfully blind just how abominably awful they are.

They were kids. and guess what, if you pull out a pistol to shoot a non-violent offender, fuck you. I don’t give a fuck. these people wanna harp about how well trained they are? Do something else to stop them.

None of the suspects were reported to have been in possession of any weapons.