• “Highly advanced” Spacecraft

Hot Spock, he’ll clean up the Verse

Nobody was pretty good

If it were the case that I have a vast ignorance [citation needed], what in your opinion was the purpose of me asking for someone to fill me in on a situation that I had professed to not fully understand?

It’s just weird that you’re able to type so much, and yet say nothing that actually conflicts with what I said. It even sounds an awful lot like you agree with me!

Consistency?

There’s a pretty big moment about 2/3 of the way through the movie that people might want to see blown up as large as possible though. No Spoilers.

It looks like my theater has already bumped Haunted Mansion down to one daily Dolby showing in favor of more Barbie showings. Truthfully, any theater with an IMAX screen, regardless of if it’s 70mm (But even moreso if it is 70mm) would do well to just continue to run at least one daily IMAX showing for Oppenheimer for…

How am I lying about my own perspective, doofus? The Labour party was complicit with Bush during the Iraq War, which was just about my starting point in both American and International politics. Since it’s been out of power for the last 13 years, it’s been useless at enacting policies that could benefit the working…

It feels right for Iger to be the villain again. Those were some tenuous months with him as the antihero against DeSantis.

I love how the term tent pole very accurately describes what they were meant to do, i.e. create an environment for many other smaller things to thrive in. And then the executives, in all their creative wisdom thought, “What if we had a tent that was just all tent poles? Imagine how tall we could make our tent!”

Does anyone have a general summary of UK labor politics? Were they just never any good, or did Thatcher completely gut the unions around the time Reagan was trying to do the same? I guess I assumed, like GRRM, that a country that had a party actually called Labour would at least have some codified protections put in…

I was under the impression that through some arcane legalese, this is not the case if there’s an actual picket line to cross. Like, there’s no way to just stop working in solidarity with the union, but if you try to go to work and Patton Oswalt is outside threatening to spit in your eye, it’s considered reasonable to…

Is there any reason to expect another Republican to resign in disgrace ever again? They’d have to feel some measure of shame to resign, but if they felt shame for their actions, they wouldn’t be Republicans.

What would they call them in France?

Asking an influencer to not work with a struck company offering them money and visibility is like asking a fish not to swim across international lines. Even if they were intelligent enough to observe the boundary, their very existence is practically predicated on ignoring it.

Regardless of the merit of the complaint, can we agree that copying and pasting a formal letter directly onto Twitter is incredibly dumb, and this person should have just told one of his teenage grandkids to tweet some disparaging Zoomer insult about American culture instead.

The scene is post coital, and she basically gets up, walks across the room and starts commenting on his possessions before randomly grabbing a book off his shelf and demanding he translate it for her. It’s pretty awkward out of context, although the movie continues to characterize Tatlock as an extremely standoffish…

It’ll be interesting to see what theaters do if enough release dates get pushed back. The next few months were already a bit light, and both Problemista and White Bird were on my list. I bet if they bring back Mario they make another ~$100m through August and September if the field is mostly cleared.