What was wrong with Artemis? I didn’t notice any glaring faults in it.

The president I’m thinking of gets applause when he signs his name to something because people are so relieved he still remembers how.

You’ll absolutely be judged.

Why no headphones? Seems like that would make the job more enjoyable.

Speaking from experience? How many generation ships have you travelled on?

OTOH, you’ve yet to encounter any conclusive evidence that you’re mortal.

I’ve given my reasons, how about you give yours?

If a creature that size existed, it wouldn’t be made of ordinary flesh. Its bones would have to be something special just to hold it up, and its tendons would need to be extraordinarily tough to keep the muscles from just sliding off in a heap.

I can’t leave it at that. I have to add some details.

Both the empire and the rebels repeatedly made tactical decisions so stupid a five-year old would know better. The opening battle involved sending unprotected bombers against a ship with anti-bomber defences and keeping the enemy commander talking on the phone to delay his response. That works in a Mel Brooks movie, not in Star Wars.

They killed a fan-favourite character off-screen. What, was the puppet too old to reprise its role?

The empire’s main guy decided to chase the rebels down instead of destroying them immediately. For fun, I guess.

Phasma’s a badass. Except that she capitulates at the first sign of personal danger.

All Holdo had to say was “yes, there’s a plan. Not telling you what because of operational secrecy”. Instead she expected Poe to blindly follow orders when he’d already shown he couldn’t do that.

“Oh no, the sacred texts!” …that you attempted to burn a moment ago.

The Last Jedi.

I left the theatre angry that they spent enough money to take mankind back to the moon on something that stupid.

I’ve been dumber, but that was when I felt smarter.

What I don’t get is why you guys drink and let off fireworks like you have healthcare.

The user experience. The Windows user experience just gets worse and worse while Linux gets better and better.

Someone flammable, I bet.

How many people go days without drinking tap water?

And it’s not like the books changed. Just the people reading them.

It’s the ratio.

People will swim in the sea, even though it has corpses in it. They won’t swim in a swimming pool if it has corpses in it. It’s the corpse/water ratio that makes the difference. In your case it looks like a seagull/seaside-proximity ratio.

Hey, I just realised that if Brownian motion carries all the water molecules away together, I won’t need a towel after my shower.

Sorry, what? Your point? I suppose not.

“Always Listening Always Here” sounds like a threat.

But is IA a real thing, or just an implicit bias towards dualistic thinking? What if not everything has its opposite?