Category Archives: Popular Culture

Project Hail Mary

Peter Suderman likes it.

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Ice Dancing

This is an age-old controversy, but while it (and figure skating in general) is entertaining, it is not a sport. It’s ballet on ice, except that ballet has no judges, biased or otherwise. The American team was clearly robbed. I have no problem keeping it in the Olympics, and it’s athletics in the sense that it requires training and practice, but stop pretending that it’s a sport. Sports scores should be objective, not whimsical.

Ameliamentum

The anime style is not my cup of tea, but this could rouse the British lads.

Starfleet Academy

We’ve been sort-of enjoying “Strange New Worlds, the prequel to TOS, but this looks awful. They don’t have GLP-1s in the 21st century?

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Stephen Green almost watched a whole episode, so you wouldn’t have to.

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