Spoopy! I liked it.

I know you’ve seen the whole series, so this isn’t a spoiler for you, but.

Great piece. Also revolting.

Way, way too many subplots and characters that the show tries to do justice through flashbacks at the expense of a compelling narrative in the present.

There’s a pretty rad Japanese found footage horror film on Shudder called “Noroi: The Curse.” It’s from pretty early in the days of found footage (2005) and makes some neat choices with a multimedia format.

Mike Lee’s tweet doesn’t make any sense. The excessive accumulation of power in the hands of the few is far more likely in a republic than a democracy.

Is Heather just some rando on Twitter? A bot? We already know Trump spends time tweeting rather than working, but how much of that tweeting is just looking for bots that say nice things about him.

Also seems, to this layperson anyway, that they’re being more strategic than they were in 2016.

Holy hell. So sorry you went through that!

“wish to merely sweep their penchant for racist humor under the rug rather than examine why they found that particular well of comedy so enticing in the first place” - I can see this comment applying to Aqua Teen, sure, but The Boondocks? Making racism look stupid and celebrating Black culture was, y’know, the entire…

Tenure is still kicking around, but as you indicate, Universities keep trying to offset ballooning administrative costs with low-paid adjunct professors. It’s awful. I’m really, really grateful that I was able to get out of that cycle and into an “independent” research group at a university. I don’t have the…

That Venn diagram is a circle, my friend.

People who say, “French fried potatoes” instead of just “french fries” are 100% serial killers.

Roving bands of ANTIFA supersoldiers?

I’m a traffic safety researcher, and pretty much all of the crash data we use in our models and analyses come from police reports on crashes. If it’s any consolation, there’s a lot of talk right now about the role of law enforcement in our field and who might be better suited to respond to crashes. I don’t see any…

I read through this whole thread, and I think you and others make compelling arguments for why or why not Trump won’t step down if he legitimately* loses the election.

No, you’re right. There’s definitely some misunderstanding of systems dynamics at play.

As someone who actually does research for a living, it annoys me to no end how conspiratorial thinking is framed as “research.” To your point, though, online literacy and healthy skepticism are learned skills, ones that many people do not even develop until graduate school (full disclosure, I’m definitely guilty of…

I’m also real cagey about polling after 2016, but you’re right, that does look like good news.

Do you think this is helping or hurting him with potential voters, if there are any undecided at this point?