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This is a great photo, Andrew. A perfect flex of good taste in old gaming. Read more

Sounds like they went with Jeff Bergman over Eric Bauza for Bugs here. The man just sounds totally exhausted, I’m sorry to say, like he’s hungover in a rabbit costume doing a child’s birthday party. Read more

You can still use a modest bit of toilet paper (to dry off your newly clean butt, after you buy a bidet).
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I thought the cold open was a little ham-fisted too, but I think there was a novel thread running throughout, driving home the idea that the biggest threats from AI come not from their potential sentience or apocalyptic unintended consequences, like Elon Musk’s frequent paper clip analogy, but from the fact that Read more

Judging from those sleazy texts in Making a Murderer, it’s actually not that hard to get unprecedented access to District Attorney Ken Kratz. Hey-YOOOOOOOOO! Up top! Read more

This is the most unimportant comment I’ve ever written (maybe), but I forgave Chipotle almost immediately. Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.
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This sucks. I am sad. This was the only good social media.
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I guess, keep your eyes on the remaining, as-yet-unaccused, newsmen from this list, circa-2009 era Gawker.
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Friendly Counter-Point: Every successful intervention that Elon Musk stages into a field that has been traditionally dominated by the bureaucratic institutions of a democratically-elected society (be it space exploration, climate change, or the electric grid) is a net benefit for “the Libertarian Idea” that every Read more

I have always wondered if I should go back and check out FX’s Golden Globe award-winning police drama “Da Shee-uwd.”(This was a fun post to read, also. Thank you.) Read more

I just wanna thank you for taking the time to expertly paint that dystopian portrait of modern military life. (Your main point is duly noted too!)
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Pink Skull is correct here. If the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had been waged by conscripted troops instead of ROTC kids and outright mercs, the War on Terror would be over by now. There’d be like a Weather Underground-esque wing of Anonymous under FBI and DHS investigation. Mass protests in D.C. on the reg. Etc.
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I think if everyone thought about this real hard, they would all agree with me that Peri Gilpin (who played Roz on Frasier) is the only woman who could reasonably step in to replace Carrie as Leia.
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LOL. The newscycle around this is basically Zootopia IRL.
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