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Here's the great thing about toys: they can't ask me to call them anything. I can get a Buzz Lightyear doll and call it Woody. I can build a Millennium Falcon out of plastic blocks and call it the Serenity. Since they are toys I own and not sentient beings, I am not offending them.

There is no "correct." Language is constantly evolving. The only thing that matters is being understood.

The whole list is kind of sad, but "It will get better" is the most infuriating bullshit. Like, the others are all demonstrable: I am in the middle of a TV series, I did hear about a new album coming out, and my dog might starve if I died suddenly and without a care plan. But, especially going off of data trends, blind and brainless optimism is uncalled for and patronizing.

I don't think Valve really wants to be in the hardware market. That said, with the success of the Steam Deck and the numerous Deck-alikes like the ROG Ally or Legion Go, I have to believe they'll try to talk manufacturers into doing a Steam Machine 2 at some point.

The show is a very loose sequel to the 1992 Kristy Swanson film of the same name. It's not critical to watch by any means, and plenty of details are ret-conned, but the first couple episodes of the show do make passing references to the film.

The film has a very different tone than the show, but it's got a stellar cast and I've always thought it was a lot of fun.

In a similar vein, my first thought was "did they control for economic factors?" Lower-income families are less likely to have adequate healthcare, less likely to enroll a child in pre-school or daycare, less likely to see an educator intervene if the child is missing milestones.

Especially in the US, there's a history of conflating economic factors for genetic factors because of who has historically held wealth. Turns out playing golf doesn't make you live longer, it's just that if you can afford to play golf, you can probably afford healthcare and more nutritious foods.

Absolutely this. Ever since Nolan, we've been getting grimmer, darker, more "realistic" reboots of the character as directors try to figure out what Batman would look like in the real world. Burton and Schumacher asked the much funner question of, "What kind of crazy nonsense world worships a vigilante in a furry suit?"

The TV movie standard of everything being available

TVs and movies are not universally available. Dogma is a pretty famous case of being universally unavailable for over 15 years. It was only announced this year that a new licensing deal had been reached. There are plenty of lesser-known shows and movies that are just gone forever.

But that is a case in favor of piracy and physical media. Films like 1922's Nosferatu only survived to today because of bootlegging. If we're expecting Netflix to: one, be around as a company for 80 years until their films enter into public domain; and two, maintain their originals on their servers for that entire time, then we're setting ourselves up for some pretty big disappointments and some rather huge holes in our cultural history.

Rights-holders can make these products available whenever they want. Nintendo added many old "abandonware" games to their subscription catalog that had been unavailable for much longer than ten years. If someone else is putting them out for free, they're stealing Nintendo's lunch.

There are very few cases where copyrighted material would have no owner and no legal mechanism to determine ownership.

Not saying I support the current system. I think current US copyright law is ridiculous and a net negative for our culture. Just clarifying that "Well, no one was selling it" is not a legally defensible position when it comes to copyrighted work.

I remember a lot of mid-2000s hipsters trying to use the N word ironically.

...Democratic Socialists of America Fund, a political nonprofit organization that funded the survey...

I trust this survey implicitly.

That's actually a very bad argument in court. Taking things off the market to drive scarcity and boost sales at a later date is a normal and common business tactic. See: the McRib, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and the Disney Vault.