Ok, I like coffee, and I like cotton candy, and this is cute, so I almost hate to criticize it.

But isn’t the cup just going to get all sticky? The bigger the cup, the quicker it will cool, and the more coffee you’ll need to fill it. You’ll only get a few “raindrops” of sugar before the steam stops coming off the cup. That’s barely any sugar, especially for a large cup. What do you do with the rest of the cloud? Are you supposed to smoosh the rest into your cup? Because that seems like too much sugar. Or do you share the cloud with people at your table?

I think this concept would be better actualized as part of a dessert. Maybe like a hot peach cobbler or a sticky toffee pudding. Something that stays steaming for a minute, and you want to wait for it to cool, and it won’t need sugar but the little drops of sweetness won’t make it too sweet.

I haven’t been there. So how could we possibly know?

Nobody is actually claiming it doesn’t exist. It just isn’t available for streaming because everyone involved doesn’t want to stream it.

I think it’s just the font, but XKCD would have recreated the table and added a subtle, obscure reference to acknowledge in the alt text.

It’s weird how people act like star power is bringing viewers to theaters. I haven’t seen the movie, but I will, and I’m sure he’s good in it. But I’ll see it because it looks like a great movie, not because I want to see the latest Michael B. Jordan film. I’m old enough to remember a time when an actor’s name would sell tickets, but that was ages ago.

I always love her in whatever role, but I can’t help but feel like her name is one of those fake names created to seem almost real, but definitely isn’t. Like Bort or Englebert Humperdinck.

I have to think this is more common than we might think among actors. Watching the show you poured your creative heart into and seeing all the flaws, all the edits, all the things you wish you could do over, that’s got to be tough.

A rebellion series running concurrent with the Holy Trilogy that has the same quality as Andor would be quite welcome.

Clicking the link opens a series of uncloseable popups and tries to trick you into downloading viruses.

That website is mobile cancer.

Why? There are parental controls, and you can adjust the content you see. If you don’t want mature themes or coarse language, you should adjust the settings on your account.

All of the Netflix Marvel shows were made prior to Disney acquiring Marvel Studios, and were created to tell the heavier mortality stories. Daredevil, JJ, Punisher, even Luke Cage dipped into some heavy shit. And they were all pretty good at it. All those characters were complex adults with real world issues and traumas. Kingpin was as human as he’s ever been in the comics. Cottonmouth and Mariah Stokes were people doing what they thought they had to do. Kilgrave is the answer to “what’s the worst that could happen?”

Disney wouldn’t make those now (as evidenced by all the punches they pulled in Moon Knight and Agatha All Along). But Disney owns them. Why pretend they don’t?

Edit to add, David Tennant and Vincent D’Onofrio gave some of best performances of their considerable careers in those first two seasons. If you haven’t watched those shows, it’s worth it.

Or you switch to caffeinated seltzer, because fuck you, brain. Fuck you, body. Not coffee, not water, not sugar, just do your fucking job and maybe we’ll get snacks later.

Sometimes a mentor is teaching you by example what not to do. So, y’know… You’re welcome.

I like to imagine I am a Troy or a Jeff or even a Shirley, but I’m really just a Leonard.

I feel like Luca and Elemental were produced with international audiences in mind. A lot of visual gags, simple language, basic plots, easy to translate, inoffensive stereotypes, etc. Coco was vibrant and fun with complex characters and a twisty plot. They even dropped in plenty of adult humor and mature themes.

The article paints a different picture than the headline. She doesn’t regret doing the show and isn’t holding a grudge. She’s mad that they used kids for the show, giving them false hope, which is one of the larger points of the show.

SOAP. It was hilarious, ground-breaking, and a generational touchstone. It was pushing boundaries and challenging conventions, all while ostensibly a parody of soap operas.

I am not an Australian, so I can’t speak for specific local cultural issues, but it’s important to understand that Instant Runoff elections still have a lot of the same problems as First Past the Post voting. We could deep dive into the sociology and math of it all, but the short version is that politicians seeking power will always seek an unfair advantage. A two party system is easier to game than a multi-faceted, multi-party confluence of issue-driven voters. The specifics are unique to Australia, but the underlying causes are the same.

How badly do you want true democracy? Are you willing to vote for it? Are you willing to donate money and time to it? Are you willing to stand up and protest the people who would keep it from you? Are you willing to run for office? Are you willing to fight for it? To kill for it? To die for it?

Because there will always be someone who wants power and is willing to go the distance to take it.

The most successful democracies are forged in the crucible of tyranny. Rebellion against a dictator unites the people in the common belief that people should be free. But a free society will fall again to fascism as free people become complacent. If the subtle seduction happens slow enough, then the people will not rise up until fascism has already taken hold.

A two party system provides some semblance of “balance” as power is rocked back and forth like a boat on the waves, moving from left to right and back, but never leaving the deck.

I use it sometimes because the app sucks and there is a trove of old posts containing valuable discussions. Old lets you access everything without logging in, including the dtuff they marked as “adult” content.

Daredevil Reborn, Andor Season 2, Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman, Tales of the Underworld, Doctor Who, Disney has been doing well delivering good content from seemingly exhausted IPs.