Nothing new there. Here in Hungary last winter our authoritarian government passed a bill that dramatically increases the number of unpaid work hours employers can legally inflict on their employees - so much so it became known as the “slave bill”. This was hushed/portrayed with extreme bias in the “public”(actually…

No, I think the problem is, and has always been, the uncertainity. American TV shows never know how long they can plan for - will they be cancelled after 1 season? 2 seasons? 3 seasons but with decreased episode count? This uncertainity makes it impossible to plan properly, resulting in shows ending with unresolved…

Whataboutism aside (and this is coming from someone who detests smoke) chainsmoking hookah is a thing. Some of my friends are doing it all the damn time, which makes gatherings insufferable, as every damn room fills with smoke within minutes, and the smells make my head hurt. 

Frankly, Tumblr did have a porn issue - not people posting porny art and whatnot, but it had an astounding number of incredibly intrusive porn bots. I haven’t been seeing those for a while.

I’m kind of boggling over anyone deeming these worthy to display in a gallery. Like... these artworks are just kind of embarrassing, and they don’t do justice to these powerful and iconic (in some cases, anyway...) characters at all. Which sucks because the idea is really cool.

I can relate! I never learned how to use make-up, and in fact I haven’t even worn make-up (other than foundation to hide my terrible skin) until I was well into my 30s, and even then it was only mascara.

Driving. Oh, at one point I did learn to drive, got a license, and then proceeded to not use it for 20 years. At this point I pretty much forgot everything I ever knew.

It’s not just Japan, to be honest. A lot of the times reports of tragedies happening outside the US has Americans reacting with a flippant tone (like “this is like something that would happen in Florida” or making puns on place/personal names) or making it about the US (“but gun control is/isn’t the solution,…

I’d love to use cups but handling them is just way too cumbersome and unhygenic anywhere else other than home.

This is ridiculous and also potentially dangerous. But it’s Apple so people are going to eat it up, and it will become the next trend in car design.

Do they even make 90 minute movies anymore? I’m old enough to remember when a 120 minutes movie was insanely long, but by now it’s pretty much the minimum. Way back in 1997 the movie Heat was showing in my local movie with an intermission because wow, you can’t expect people to sit for 170 in one sitting. Today,…

Nah. A Bollywood aesthetic “look, here I am and I’m awesome” kind of song would be something like this, something dynamic, energetic, tongue-in-cheek and self-aware, with a cheering crowd in full bling, and a charismatic star commanding all attention on himself:

She’s not a little kid anymore, though. For one, she’s actually an adult, the character and the actress as well. Two, she spent the entirety of the show, all seasons so far, losing her innocence in every possible way other than her virginity, and hell, likely the only reason she hadn’t had sex yet is simply because…

Seriously, I don’t know why people keep fixating on that point. Even if she wasn’t a Targaryen, it’s not like aunt and nephew having sexual relations has been ever been shown as being taboo or something in the world of GoT. (There’s Cersei and Jaime and their relationship does get judged, but they’re siblings. I don’t…

Not really. Making a reference to Jorah would have needed an entire digression both in the speech and in the scene itself. Lyanna was talking about Jon but Jorah belongs to Dany’s retinue, so Lyanna would have said something like “and you come back with this so-called queen who has my disgraced uncle as her advisor”,…

But that’s the books and this is the show. In the show riding a dragon was never meant to be a huge deal other than “RIDING A DRAGON HOW COOL IS THAT”.

I think the only reason why people expect Jon riding a dragon be a huge deal is because based on the books they have this expectation about only Targaryens being able to ride dragons. But that’s something that was never mentioned on the show, and we’ve seen the dragons carry people, so in the show’s context it’s not a…

It matters, because assuming they want to win the war they have to think of what happens after they win. You can’t go into a war like that with your leaders being all “WE’LL SORT IT OUT LATER” because anyone with half a mind knows that this means either a) more wars or b) lots of people being disappointed ->…

Yes, I know that people want to see and know everything, and logically there’s a lot of smaller details that have been overlooked (like Jorah’s or Tyrion’s presence being just taken in stride), but moments like this would have seriously bogged the episode down, killing the momentum of scenes. These are the type of…

Is there a way to apply this globally for all Google services? I’ve had Calendar set like this for ages, but I still can’t, for example, get Google Fit or Keep to start weeks with Monday.