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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old Dads | A Netflix Film From Director Bill Burr | Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  2hrs of the same tired “dur… Woke is dumb!” joke over and over? Hard pass.

  Also, cleaning a cut is woke now?

  I grew up in the 80s, I’m just ten years younger than Bill Burr, and I can’t get on board with this sort of plot at all.

  As if society passed these people by, and their just now discovering decades of social evolution.

  These characters haven’t watched the news, used social media, or seen a movie in 20 years? Come on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drew Barrymore’s Co-Head Writer Says Drew ‘Will Prolong the Strike’ by Resuming Show: ‘It’s Not Too Late’ to ‘Stand in Solidarity’ With the WGA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  She and Bill Maher sure sounds like scabs to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FYI: Ed Sheeran is a scab.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d boycott his music, except I already don’t listen to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly think that music did more to hurt the show than anything else. It was the musical equivalent of starting EVERY EPISODE with a voiceover saying: “we hate all that old star trek. This is the new WB Network Star Trek, with 70% more down home, Midwestern American values! Yeehaw!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Tron: Ares’ Delayed as Director Criticizes “Extremely Frustrating” Strike Talks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only one side of the contract dispute needs to bend. And it ain’t the writers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Effects Supervisor J. Alan Scott On Reimagining The Gorn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reimagining the Gorn:

  Writer 1: remember the Gorn?

  Writer 2: are you talking about the guy in the lizard costume?

  Writer 1: yup.

  Writer 2: that was so stupid.

  Writer 1: …

  Writer 1: okay. But what if we redid the Gorn and made them scary?

  Writer 2: scary?

  Writer 1: sure. Like … remember the movie ‘Alien’?

  Writer 2: of course.

  Writer 1: let’s do that.

  Writer 2: do what?

  Writer 1: let’s do Alien.

  Writer 2: I’m not sure that I underst-

  Writer 1 scribbling furiously: shut up! We’re doing Alien.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily. You can put safeguards in place. For example our appeals courts don’t ever decide fact. They make rulings about the law.

  You can also have bipartisan panels that oversee this, with extremely limited power unless they rule unanimously.

  You also have congressional oversight adding another check.

  If the original inception and scope of all these things is cleverly drafted, we could see a lot of new media pop up that is vastly superior to the crap we have now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. And a new version of the Fairness Doctrine, and guidelines that take into account everything we’ve learned since then about media malfeasance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would be great to publicly fund journalism. And make public funding contingent on whether news sources accurately represent the full substance of their source material, practiced evidence-based fact-checking, and had rules to prevent the selective application of either of those first two conditions, and by omission bias their audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Journalism is a public good and should be publicly funded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the worst US state to live in generally?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Have the Midwest states been mentioned? Bill Bryson describes them as interminably dull. Not sure how they’d stack up against the deep south, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amorous angles!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  -Pat Springleaf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amorous angles!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a line from comedian James Acaster. If you haven’t seen his Netflix special, you are really missing out on something spectacular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “delightful”

  Not so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Scheme: a series of speeches given by Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about how the Supreme Court was captured by dark money interests.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Democrats should have been talking about packing the court with liberals all the way back to when the Supreme Court stole the election from Gore.

  Republicans are out there staging insurrections in order to gain power. Meanwhile, Democrats won’t even explore these legal means of stopping them. It’s insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel Studios' The Marvels | Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The engagement aspect looks like a clever plot device, but I don’t know how they are going to get the audience to care about Captain Marvel. The first movie really undercut our ability to care about this character. She was just a Mary Sue for the entire movie. We never see her struggle or grow. She’s always just perfect at everything. It keeps her character unrelatable.