“incredibly angry folks with keyboards”

Yeah I don’t think there’s anything unique about Facebook or its algorithms that makes it directly responsible for January 6th etc., other than it’s the social media site that Gen Xers and Boomers use the most. Not to be all “guns all people, people kill people”, but I feel like 1/6 misinformation was gonna happen…

For a sec I was mixing Annie Potts with Annie Murphy and I got really confused

Sure but if Zendaya limited her sexy love triangles to people as hot as she is she’d never have any sexy love triangles

Remember when the trailer for Brexit starring Benedict Cumberbatch came out, and *everyone* on social media was baselessly confident that it was going to be Brexit propaganda

Good, this’ll free Mandy up to do season nine of Homeland. (I am presumably the only commenter here who wants that.)

Seems like that difference gives Confederate even more of a justification to exist, if anything. Almost everyone understands Nazi Germany was evil, but with a third of America believing the Civil War was about “states’ rights”, it might’ve been nice to have a show that takes off the nostalgia glasses and shows the…

It’s not quite apples-to-apples, but I’ve honestly never been clear on why we’re all okay with The Man in the High Castle but not Confederate, especially since we never even got the chance to watch the latter before condemning it. It’s not like Civil War alt history was anything new, either.

But making fun of Killers of the Flower Moon in any way is Violence.

I don’t know how true it is, but I’ve heard that writers like cliffhanger season finales because it makes producers slightly more reluctant to cancel the series before the cliffhanger is resolved.

I honestly think they cast Pedro Pascal because he’s one of the few nonwhite actors you can cast in a traditionally white role without right-wing nerds screaming about wokeism. (Reed is also probably the only character they could’ve race-bent without causing online whining—the Storms have to be the same race unless…

Yeah, certainly I buy that Israel’s crimes surpass Hamas’s in terms of total casualties, but it is also true that Israel has never, say, massacred hundreds at a music festival (with the specific intent of killing civilians and only civilians), or used gang rape as a weapon of war, or filmed themselves murdering a…

Meh, no clue on the legal ins and outs, but as someone who almost exclusively uses Prime for the free two-day shipping, I can understand why they wouldn’t want to hand out ad-free streaming to people for whom it’s not very valuable. Makes sense to me that it should be two separate services.

Yeah I’ve been down on a lot of Marvel lately which is why I was so surprised when I saw The Marvels and thought it was the best of their recent batch. Maybe benefitted from low expectations, though

Oh wait really? When I turn subtitles on, I’m frequently annoyed when they cut words out like that, but I always assumed it was for the benefit of the deaf, since a lot of superfluous words can take too long to read before the next sentence replaces it. And I don’t know a lot about ASL (or anything about it, really),…

Ah, that’s a good point. Still feels unnecessary occasionally though; like, did we really need it filling a third of the screen during Kathy Hochul’s COVID updates?

More time has passed between the release of The Happening and this (awesome, correct) article than the posting of this article and today. God, I was a dumbass teen when The Happening came out, but now I feel (and am) old.

Maybe a dumb question but what’s with this recent trend of having live sign-language interpreters for everything televised? Is that really preferable to simply offering closed captioning? (Edit: As the article notes, this isn’t a recent trend for the Super Bowl, which has apparently done it since 1993.)

Nailed it—this article is a great example of why non-profit advocacy groups should just generally be treated with a lot more skepticism, since polling reveals that their stances frequently clash with those of the people they purport to represent. I’ll admit I don’t have any polling in front of me as to whether people…

Yes give us a sequel with King Daario (nobody wants that except me)