Holy shit, they work.

There is an argument that says that electric vehicles don't actually reduce any pollution because you're still using fuel to generate that power, you're just doing it in the power plant instead of inside the car. As a result, you're not actually reducing pollution, only shifting where in the pipeline it happens. But that's not actually true, since EVs are much more efficient. Every time you're sitting at a stoplight and your car is idling? Wasted energy. So even if every car was magically replaced with an EV tomorrow powered by coal plants, the total amount of pollution would still go way down.

Of course, the ultimate goal is to replace the coal plants as well with clean sources: wind, solar, tidal, (nuclear), etc. so you have clean cars running on clean energy.

SPACE BASED SOLAR POWER!

F/A-18 Super Hornet. The closest thing human beings have ever come to building an actual X-Wing.

No.

We would watch the movie from the beginning, get up to a certain point, stop, and then when resuming, start from the beginning. As a result, we've seen the first five minutes of Harry Potter like 15 times.

I think we did Tron the same way, we just muscled through that one.

I thought it was because Philosopher has a different definition in America than in Britain. In Britain it means essentially "wizard," while in America it more means "guy who thinks about stuff for a living" and would invoke images of Socrates or Plato rather than Merlin.

To be fair, the movie does address some of these. The van works because Tom Cruise suggested he change the solonioids or whatever they are when he's on the way to check out ground zero. The reason he goes back to the van is because he knows his mechanic buddy followed through on his recommendation and thusly knows the van works. It's still kinda clumsy, in my opinion.

The bodies in the river is fine, I'm sure plenty of people that got thrown from the ferry died in non-heat ray ways and they would've ended up floating wherever that river flowed. And rivers can go from massive water ways to minuscule creeks; that happens all over the place in nature.

But yeah, it makes no sense for the aliens to plant ships millions of years in the past and then wait for natural evolutionary processes to hopefully produce what the aliens need. That would be like letting whatever the undomesticated version of a cow was to have free reign over North America but leaving guns scattered across the place and then parachuting in millions of years later to butcher them all at the same time. Just domesticate the damn thing.

Uwe Boll doesn't think his films are bad. He takes his craft very seriously and gets very upset if you question it. So does Michael Bay.

And yes, I want Shakespeare. Shakespeare is good, Michael Bay is bad. I would prefer good to bad.

But even Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare in the way you're using the term. Shakespeare used characters and material that he didn't create. He wrote for a paycheck. He threw in plenty of blood and sex because he knew that's what the crowds wanted and because he knew that's how he would get his next gig. He wrote fart jokes.

But in all of that, he still wrote complex and human characters who were motivated by desires and took action based on those desires (or didn't, in the case of Hamlet). Their actions make sense, given what they want and the situation they find themselves in. The story progresses logically and consistently to communicate some kind of theme.

He was "Shakespeare" and Michael Bay at the same time. That's why he's William Fucking Shakespeare.

Igneous Flatfoot is on the board.

Igneous Flatfoot

Mike and I were talking about doing a podcast about politics a little while back, don't know how many of you would be interested in something like that, though.

Hey! Jeffrey Harrell got a plug on Slashfilm!