And then the instant they turned 18 they dropped out of college to live with you, leaving all money, phones, keys and driving licenses behind? Went on a multi-month holiday with you in Hawai’i where you spent most of your time assaulting women in bars and being arrested, and then went on the run with you to an unknown…

In general, larger animals have longer lifespans.

We should certainly be aware of it; but the article’s attempts to suggest that the two epidemics are directly parallel feels rather like... well, not clickbait exactly because it’s not in the headline, but unnecessarily sensationalist. Particularly the suggestions that it might be airborne, which go against all the…

If you don’t realise that the moral repugnancy of certain acts varies with the status of the victim (and of the perpetrator), then you’re worse than a fool.

...yes, but that has no relevence to RegularGuy’s comment.

America has been a country basically zero time, relative to even modern legal history, so I’m not sure why that’s worth saying. There are probably drainpipe clogs that have been around as long as America has been a country.

The best way to avoid being tempted into “how dare you newcomers try to take over my fandom, I liked her all along!” gatekeeping is to be a fan of classical music. It’s hard to claim ownership of Beethoven when his original fans died over a hundred years ago...

...well yes, I assume they didn’t ACTUALLY murder all those children. The murders must have been simulated in some way. But I tend to assume most TV involves a large element of make-believe.

I mean, in theory you can be a manipulative liar who physically and psychologically abuses your partner AND also be telling the truth about being abused. And that may well be the case here!

I know this site hates it (because it hates everything), but I really think the new Stranger Things model (which iirc they’ve tried with a few other shows now too) is the way forward: release a batch of episodes to allow binging, but not the whole season, with a few weeks between batches to allow people to talk about…

Not just increase, but increase exponentially! Netflix is still growing in real terms - if you ignore the political and probably temporary decision to suspend trading in Russia, it’s still adding hundreds of thousands of subscribers. And it has plenty more room to grow around the world, even if not in the US. But…

Absolutely: their job is to maximise their profits, without which they cannot produce anything for anyone (so Barsanti’s mock-outrage is obvious bullshit), but maximising profits isn’t always the same as raising prices. If you raise prices and lose a lot of customers in the process, that can be a net loss in profit.…

Great performance (an not just that episode). Only downside is that it sometimes makes the actors around her seem cartoonish by comparison. Surely destined for great things!

I think it’s common for these manipulative narcissists to be terribl people in a lot of ways at once...

Adams is different, I think - he seems to have actually gone insane.

I would make a better rich person than Musk. Not a great rich person, not the best, but better than Musk.

I think the key is not seeing it as going to see F1 (or the TT, or whatever), but instead as going on a holiday that has an F1 race as the centrepiece. Yes the tickets themselves are expensive, but the cost of flights and accomodations can be spread across the entire trip. A week in Milan and the Italian lakes, for…

Well, I feel I should update my views now that I’ve seen the whole thing: yeah, it’s brilliant.

I wondered the same thing. Perhaps the song was what was tethering him to reality long enough for Vecna to run out of energy?

I did not find this.