A professor friend in San Francisco has a very clear trigger warning policy: If, due to a mental illness, you are disabled (in that you are unable to read and watch the same things the rest of us can without restriction) then you can register under the existing system for disability services to request an…

“All dictatorial regimes have all started by the government taking away the guns from the people.”

This kind of thinking is how ethics in game journalism gets started...

It smells faintly of frankincense, too.

This makes the existance of Soylent all the more puzzling. Unacceptable risk of deviation from strategic bathroom goals, I would think.

“If you have Stockholm Syndrome, and you think you’re company is going public, you might feel differently”

I don’t know why no one ever thinks to have a different actor playing Hyde. The novel makes it clear they do not look at all alike.

I swear by all that is holy I just don’t get why anyone likes these movies. I know the term “Worst. Movie. Ever.” gets tossed around alot, but, seriously, Phantasm IV: Orblivion - Worst. Movie. Ever.

I would love a little more detail about what exactly is meant by “active” in this context. Producing RNA? Actual protein synthesis? Etc.

I posted elsewhere but will repeat it here, my favorite analogy to explain this to the willfully ignorant:

My favorite explanation of the importance of “context” (with apologies to the author whose identity I don’t recall and so can not credit):

The headline says “assault”. The article only cites examples of “harassment”. Sexual harassment is a terrible thing, which should be sought out, prevented, and punished. But it is not in the ballpark of sexual assault. It makes all of us who would like the world to be a better place vis a vis sexual safety and sanity…

Never mind the pores, there’s no concavity whatsoever. If you crop out the rest of her body it could just as easily be her shoulder. Thank you Maxim, for allowing me to precisely identify the leading edge of my personal uncanny valley.

He got her ... wasted

Someone made a flow chart based on the AIDS-era “When you sleep with someone you are sleeping with every person they have slept with.” slogan and found that pretty much the whole 1991 campus formed a single sexual closed circle.

Oi! I went to Antioch College, we all did fucked up and highly illegal shit there, too.

Just the arms, for industrial use.

Under Buddhist dogma you are forbidden to have sex durring the daytime, making it officially more restrictive than the catholic church.

The absence of large piles of banana peels suggests that there is no primate civilization on Earth.