Because there’s a lot of crossover between the groups of people that trust public USB ports and the groups of people that can’t tell the difference between two externally-identical cables.

Sitting in airplane seats isn’t exactly comfortable for a lot of people.  They’re built for a relatively narrow band of body sizes and types, and have shit for adjustment.  A good number of people are probably standing up to get more comfortable.

This.  The reason I don’t “sit and relax” is that airplane seats are NOT relaxing when you’re tall, and have been sitting in them for hours.  I’m standing up so I can stretch.

No, that’s not even remotely what I was saying.  I was saying that the reason Ackbar was killed off was because the voice actor died, and they decided they wouldn’t recast the role out of respect.  That’s why he has so few lines in Last Jedi.

It’s a shame the voice actor died, I agree.

That’s Karls Urban you philistine.

I don’t normally partake in criticizing clickbait titles, but YIKES.

I’m really struggling to remember if any of the movies don’t have a villain with some technological doodad. Even The Man With the Golden Gun, a movie where the villain is ostensibly just an international assassin, featured a crazy solar death ray.

From Russia With Love seems like it’s the closest?  The MacGuffin was…

As much as I hate to remind myself it exists Die Another Day’s villain is supposed to be North Korean, and there’s definitely some ideological stereotyping going on.  It gets super weird because that movie is a dumpster fire, but it’s definitely not apolitical; just a mess.

Minor nitpick: there really was a counter-intelligence agency in the USSR called SMERSH (and the acronym did stand for “Death to Spies”).  It just wasn’t part of the KGB, because it only existed during the war.

She is pretty clearly drunk by that point.  He didn’t force her, but it’s not like he’s above reproach either.

They definitely seem to be going to the Orson Welles vibe with the dinner ad in the middle of the trailer.

That’s really more of an indication just how deep the Pay to Win goes in the CCG business model than an argument that random packs is a good thing.

LCGs exist. They are less wildly profitable, but I’m sure Wizards can figure it out.

Companies have been using “temporary contractors” to dodge labor costs for decades.  The gig economy did not come from nothing; this style of abusive labor management predates cellphones, not just smartphones.

It’s a really open secret that all the tech companies (and in general, most large corporations), have been dependent on vast armies of “temporary” contractors, and have been for decades.  The “gig economy” is just the ultimate expression of that outsourcing model.

Pure gold.

People give him money for the same reason microtransactions work: humans are really shit at economics.

What qualifies as more serious than filming totally random strangers in a bathroom and streaming it live to thousands of people?  It's literally a crime.

That implies there was a court case.  There was not.  AMC found there wasn't enough evidence to proceed, which is not remotely the same thing as an exoneration.