The cast really does seem overstuffed. Aidy, Kate, and Cecily have all been there 8 years now, and while they’re all great, the only one I’d hate to see go would be Cecily - still feel like she’s been underused. And was surprised to find out that Melissa has been there 4 years already, but she seems like the most…

Completely agree. Being an actor does not require much intelligence in general, and it absolutely does not make anyone qualified to speak on anything that actually matters. No one in the world should care in the slightest what any actor has to say about anything that is not explicitly acting (which will only be boring…

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…

My prediction:

My main problem with this is it writes Charles as an absolute moron. He lives in a world where people have not only been killed and reborn, but depowered and repowered, over and over and over again. Franklin is basically guaranteed to get his powers, which are beyond probably any mutant, back at some point, so this is…

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.

Atomic Robo addressed this rather well:

I also like the idea of a finite number of alternate universes, but hate the idea of infinite ones, mainly because it sounds like unscientific, magical thinking. What is the deciding factor in differentiation between them? Is it measured every second, one-millionth of a second, one-billionth? Are there trillions of…

Another trope that really should stop being used: AI being sentient minds, on par with human beings, but just in different bodies.

In the sense that an ant is closer in size to the earth than it is to the sun.

Something to bear in mind when hearing what an economist says: economists do not exist to be stewards of the economy, they exist to be vultures of it. They are not interested in the slightest in its overall health or its outcomes for the majority, they care only for how they can directly profit themselves off it. This…

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.