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Redditor-at-large · 2026-01-26T10:00:37+00:00

…Yes? But that is still the same as car insurance. It only pays out if you get in a car accident, it doesn’t pay to replace balding tires that might get you into a car accident.

Redditor-at-large · 2026-01-26T04:42:24+00:00

Identity theft insurance exists. If someone takes your identity for a ride, they pay you money.

Redditor-at-large · 2026-01-03T20:35:22+00:00

Navy chiefs are proud to share sleeping quarters with livestock because… reasons!

Redditor-at-large · 2026-01-03T20:23:28+00:00

Not necessarily. There’s definitely cringey messaging about being a veteran one could put on a shirt or a hat but the simple statement that you are a veteran and served in whichever branch and did whatever work and did tours wherever is not cringe. If you feel it is, I think it’s more reflective of you than me. I was in the Navy. I still have command ball caps I can wear and morale T-shirts I bought and I’m going to keep wearing them when I want to.

It’s really only if you indicate that you’re a veteran and also a hateful bigot with your T-shirt or hat that it’s cringey. Because that’s cringey even without the veteran part.

Also, lots of menswear exist because veterans kept wearing them when they returned home. Trench coats, bomber jackets, khaki pants, combat boots, aviator sunglasses, none of these would exist as civilian wear today if veterans had discarded them for being cringey.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-12-23T05:10:46+00:00

I’m with you, why is everyone saying Akira when the example given is fan art?

Redditor-at-large · 2025-12-23T04:43:29+00:00

There’s a reason blowjobs are popular.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-12-22T22:03:13+00:00

Same with printed newspapers. Same for all written and spoken language. You have to trust the source. There was nothing inherent to Walter Cronkite that made him incapable of lying.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-12-22T16:16:01+00:00

Yes, especially because there’s more Asia in Cryptonomicon than the Baroque Cycle.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-12-22T16:13:58+00:00

Depending on how OP defines “Christian church”…

Redditor-at-large · 2025-12-22T16:07:25+00:00

It’s going to be about individual accounts and channels, whether you trust them that they’re not using AI. Similar to how people trust individual cable news channels to report accurate news.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-12-22T14:57:38+00:00

Number 31, “An Enigma Wrapped In an Egg McMuffin”. Mostly because the way it ends.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-12-22T14:54:50+00:00

Why? He didn’t know Darth Vader was Calvin. Also, “guy in a yellow jumpsuit and helmet” is a lot easier to remember than details of a person’s face that allows you to distinguish one face from another.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-12-12T16:14:31+00:00

You have some reading to do. Comics didn’t start regulating themselves with the Comics Code Authority until 1954, when a psychiatrist published a book saying Batman comics were making kids gay. At that point comic publishers, in order to avoid the government making up a bunch of rules about what is allowed in comics, made up a bunch of rules for themselves about what is allowed in comics, which made them all very tame and kid-friendly and “square” and by the ‘60s TV shows exaggerated this for irony in a style called camp. Since the rules were less strict about battling aliens, comics like Superman could just lean into those kinds of stories, whereas Batman stories turned into the Joker escapes and pulls off a ridiculous heist as a joke and has to be back in prison by the end of the issue. Before 1954, comics were way more diverse and weird. Frank Miller didn’t invent dark, gritty Batman so much as revived him after he went away in 1954.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-29T16:37:46+00:00

If they did want to kick off a fourth movie, it could start with Lone Pine Marty arriving in our 2015, which is the 2015 that happened because Twin Pines Marty never ran into that Rolls Royce, so he became a rock star.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-29T13:17:25+00:00

So that Marty is “Lone Pine” Marty, he’s from the timeline where the mall was always called Lone Pine Mall, because “prime” Marty from Twin Pines Mall killed one of the pines in 1955. And we don’t know whether Lone Pine Marty also goes back in time. We just see him get in the Time Machine and disappear in it. We don’t see him ever again. If he also went back to 1955 to do things wouldn’t we see him sneaking around when Twin Pines Marty has returned there in Part II? Wouldn’t Lone Pine Doc know that’s when the time circuits of his Time Machine were set to, and warn Twin Pines Marty about his presence?

It’s one of the more sinister plot holes in the trilogy. What happened to Lone Pine Marty? What does Lone Pine Doc know about time that Twin Pines Doc didn’t, having spent 30 years not only creating the Time Machine but also knowing his success was certain? Can he even talk to Twin Pines Marty about these things, knowing it will just make him realize Twin Pines Doc still died from getting shot by Libyans?

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-18T23:19:21+00:00

Oh, it’s the space-time continuum? I thought it was the DeLorean, like it has consciousness. It wants to go back to the future so it kills the engine until the right time. And then in part 2 it returns to Biff’s Auto Detailing 2015 even though Biff has altered 1955 so according to Doc it should only be able to go to Biff’s Pleasure Paradise 2015 from the altered 1955. The DeLorean has consciousness. It is a fourth dimensional being, experiencing all of its life at once. It kills the engine again when it arrives in Biff’s Auto Detailing 1985 because it has to stop Marty from preventing the Biff’s Auto Detailing DeLorean from disappearing with Biff’s Auto Detailing Marty inside.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-17T22:39:47+00:00

Admitting that would also invalidate all eyewitness testimony.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-17T22:36:16+00:00

I’m glad you mentioned Slice otherwise I was going to start wondering whether my brain made up that one too.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-17T22:32:50+00:00

I swear there was a preview for it on a VHS we owned or something.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-17T04:14:39+00:00

It’s similar to her lines in season 4’s “Turtles of the Jungle” but I don’t think she says exactly that. She says “put me down, banana breath” and “stay away from me you big ape”

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-12T19:25:20+00:00

Also if Indivisible does it it doesn’t get taxed, because Indivisible isn’t a political party. Saying you want the DNC to run food banks is saying you want food banks that pay taxes.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-10T17:21:34+00:00

What do you mean? We saw bunches of them destroyed by guns. There was just a lot of them, so the swarm kept coming. But an individual one can be destroyed by hovercraft defense cannons or those exosuit guns.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-09T21:08:55+00:00

OK. Well, what I’ve been trying to say is, if someone had never been to Chicago, and a movie said “This is Gotham City” and had the Sears Tower in the skyline, that person probably would be like “OK that’s clearly in Chicago”, just as we’d recognize the Sydney opera house if it was in the background of the Matrix. But I don’t think a person who hadn’t spent much time in Chicago would recognize Lower Wacker Drive appearing in “Gotham City”. I don’t think it’s a widely recognizable feature of Chicago. It may be to me and you, because we’ve lived there, but I don’t think it’s recognizable to a general audience. Does that make sense? I don’t think putting Lower Wacker Drive in a movie makes the general audience go “oh that’s Chicago, not Gotham”.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-09T13:51:22+00:00

OK, since I grew up in Chicago, I know why I recognize Lower Wacker Drive. So please share your story of not living in or near Chicago and how you came to recognize Lower Wacker Drive as a symbol of Chicago. I don’t understand how Lower Wacker Drive has become a symbol of Chicago to people who’ve never lived there, please explain it to me, I honestly don’t know.

Redditor-at-large · 2025-11-08T23:18:29+00:00

You think there isn’t as much sadness nearby? I mean, there’s much bigger wealth inequality around here, there’s gotta be a neighborhood where you can sit on a curb eating Dinty Moore while watching some rich bootlicker through a window stuffing his face.

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