My read on people who promote conspiracy theories about Bill Gates being evil is that those people are actually telling on themselves. They know that if they had that amount of money, there is no way they would possibly do anything to help anyone other than themselves, so they assume no one else would, or feel bad…

Oh, totally. “Socialism” is used as the boogeyman, the reductive, inaccurate name given to whoever they are told is their enemy, and they fall for it because it’s so much easier to let someone amplify and direct their anger than to actually think critically about anything.

Very true. Also, strangely, greed: they’ve been fooled into thinking giving their money to a supposedly-great businessman will somehow mean they will get rich down the line, based on nothing that makes sense. But such is the nature of a successful grifter: it’s not really that the grifter has great intelligence, it’s…

I find it funny how right wing idiots swung so strongly from one ridiculous, baseless lie (being and supporting assholes will somehow improve our lives) to another (having a Democrat president will instantly turn the country socialist). Two terms of Obama didn’t actually change much, why would one with his vice preside…

I appreciate the sentiment of people thinking differently being left behind, that science needs people who question things, but here’s the problem: anyone who at this point truly believes the world is flat is absolutely NOT going to be even a mediocre scientist. They have constructed multiple levels of nonsense, some…

Absolutely, Reagan was a scumbag, and people viewing him fondly are being disingenuous or willfully ignorant. But let’s be honest about the context here: the very premise of CoD games and their like is that you can mass murder your way to heroism using the most basic, tribalistic in-group vs. out-group justifications.…

People asking why you don’t have kids is sad to me for two reasons:

Except that adoption exists. Choosing to have a kid instead of adopt one is absolutely selfish.

Well to me the funniest thing would be to just use a scarecrow, or even just a broomstick with a pie plate taped to the top with a smiley face and upside-down U’s for eyes painted on.

I get that it was more a response to the election than anything else, but this episode was just bad. There wasn’t really anything noteworthy in its response to the election, and as a comedy show, its ostensible reason for being, it was pretty brutal.

Yeah, Carrey’s all about extreme exaggeration, but how do you exaggerate an 80-year old mannequin? Carrey’s done that weird finger-gun thing like every time, but I’m not sure that’s actually referencing something Biden did or just out of nowhere.

Yeah, we’ll have to see how things go: while they could absolutely handle this badly, if they are going with the pronouns the actor chose, then you can hardly find fault with them.

I’m curious why having the non-binary and transgender characters having the symbiont (as you mention several times, Adira isn’t Trill) is less progressive? If the show were saying that the symbiont somehow altered their sexuality into non-binary and transgender, THAT would be messed up, but from what I can tell that’s…

Yeah, very Souls game I send like half an hour making something I like, then spending the entirety of the actual game seeing next to nothing I made. Plus, you’re likely to spend a lot of your time as a zombified, even less-visible version of your character. It almost seems like a purposeful joke: here, design your own…

Yes, thank you. I have also seen lobbying for what it is: institutional bribery. It’s insane that people just shrug or stare blankly when that is pointed out.

I really like Mulaney, and his previously-hosted episodes were great, but this one was...not.

Well your comment was dumb as hell, so if you’re not a troll, you’re a moron. Pick whichever makes you feel less badly about yourself.

Che needs to watch Norm MacDonald’s Weekend Update performances, in order. While most people will blame MacDonald’s firing on the OJ stuff, I remember watching the show at the time and MacDonald was increasingly antagonistic with the crowd week over week, and while at first it was a little funny, it got cringey, and…

I’d like to add something I haven’t seen here yet: beyond whoever or whatever Pratt is, the idea of the “worst Chris” is fucking stupid. Because grouping these people by their first name is super basic and meaningless, but mostly because ranking them is dehumanizing and gross.

Oh, never, ever guess, under any circumstances. A wrong guess can propagate throughout a game but only become evident far later, and be nearly impossible to reverse. There are some solution techniques here that may be helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram.