I think it’s important to distinguish Game of Thrones from A Song of Ice and Fire, because which one you’re talking about greatly determines how correct you are. David and Dan, I think it’s fair to say, didn’t really understand A Song of Ice and Fire, and they thought of it more as a collection of really amazing…

Yeah, my first instinct is to side with Lauren, that this is just tokenism. However, I think it’s also really important, for lack of a more diplomatic way of saying it, to remember how important tokens can be, if they also demonstrate savvy and skill.

Thanks, sir or madam. I really appreciate it.

Witcher 3 was so good that upon completion, I immediately had to restart the game to attempt a slightly-modified playthrough, one where I definitively decide this time to stick with Triss rather than, as was the case last time, stumble ass-backwards into a relationship with Yen.

Admittedly, my only exposure to Kuhn was to sit in on a “Philosophy of Science” course, and based on the class, I’d say I’m far more in the camp of Karl Popper than Kuhn (yay, falsifiability criteria!).

Didn’t see the article. Just one of those guys who was way too invested in his philosophy studies in college, and still thinks epistemology and philosophy of language are incredibly cool subdisciplines of study that totally are useful.

Given how post-modern the evangelical movement’s conception of truth is, that doesn’t really surprise. I mean, post-modernism as an academic theory of truth was never taken all that seriously. The main insight and value of the post-modernist movement was to note that there is a fundamental distinction between what is,…

It’s one of those diseases where your bill is either small, because there’s nothing that they can really do, or it’ll cost everything you own. It attacks the lungs, and while a lot of people will just get, effectively, the symptoms of pneumonia (which is not a bed of roses, but can be dealt with essentially by eating…

Because sometimes its not an ex that you ghosted?

Manning always seems to believe she should be able to do civil disobedience for free.

Yeah, I do have to wonder (idly; not enough to watch the show and find out) how much the formula would be disrupted by a man or woman who has separated from their parents because those parents are toxic. Do those people just not have a place in the Bachelor-verse, or could the show incorporate such a void of drama?

Yeah, it’s a self-esteem booster for people who forget that “statistics” is the bookend for “lies, damned lies, and . . .” And I’m saying that as one of those kids who did used to use their IQ as a self-esteem booster. It’s really a lot healthier to base your self-esteem on something you do, not on some trait which…

Well, part of the problem with doing that is that it highlights how . . . um, let’s say “variable” they are about what they’ll adapt, and what they’ll just chuck in the vault, never to see the light of day again.

The Book of Revelations: The framers of the New Testament can never be accused of writing a boring ending, though whether it’s bad depends on your state of mind.

Yeah, the Stanford-Binet IQ Test that groups like Mensa use to select for membership have a really fundamental problem: there’s no clear understanding of what exactly these IQ tests actually measure. It’s literally the “Underpants Gnome Problem”, except in random distribution form. You can test people, and their…

“I be fine with a woman as President. But I just don’t want Christine LaGarde to be that President.”

I don’t disagree. But I’d also note that your description could just as fairly describe Dumbo, which Bob Iger was perfectly willing to rewrite and cash in on. If you’ve forgotten how much “holy shit, that’s racist!”-level racism there is in Dumbo, please review:

I’m torn on this. Because everyone who gets this disease then becomes a vector for spreading it to other people, who might well not be guilty of anything other than having to spend time with Trump fans.

And yet, he’s the candidate we have, regardless of what we want. And unlike beef, you can’t just wrap Joe Biden up in cellophane and stick him in a freezer in hopes that you can defrost him come October. Biden is supposed to beat Donald Trump. And Donald Trump isn’t going to go easy on Joe.

Yeah, the argument that Sanders put forward during the campaign was “We have a bloc of voters that will show up, and will put us over the top, who will vote for me, but won’t vote for just any candidate.”