We aren’t going to stop being prejudiced against each other until we meet other species to turn our prejudices outward.

My first car had a cassette storage tray on the transmission hump. I made a mount for my portable CD that fit there, and ran the adapter wire underneath the dash. So fly…

To Kill A Mockingbird

And read the book.

Maybe you’re in the wrong communities. There are a lot fewer people here than on Reddit, so you’ll run into the same people more frequently.

I’m not sure what concessions you’re looking for. If someone is being a troll, or just boneheaded, block them for a month or two or forever.

The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982). Not gory, so much as gooey.

The Babadook.

The Mist. Based on a book by Steven King. King admits the movie ending is better than his own.

10 Cloverfield Lane. It’s standalone, don’t worry if you haven’t seen Cloverfield

Annihilation. The bear freaks me out.

Event Horizon. Sci-Fi/Horror

Original Ghostbusters from 1984.

Gremlins

No One Will Save You. The ending is weird, but the suspense is top-notch.

The 'Burbs. Classic Tom Hanks comedy.

Tremors.

What We Do in the Shadows

One incidental purpose of the Interstate Highway System is as emergency landing strips. But a VTOL craft should be able to make use of even the roughest roadways in the event of an emergency. Activate your hazards to alert the craft and any surrounding drivers of extraordinary circumstances.

Be prepared to render aid as necessary.

Keep in mind this is “X, the everything app”. Musk expects it to be your one stop on the internet for everything, including online banking.

Invite the Wendigo in, we need a 4th for euchre.

Elrond: At least there are fewer this time.

and also universal remote controls.

The system starts out as a big cloud of debris orbiting a central point. Each particle is orbiting in its own way, there isn’t any organization. Since there is no organization, most of these particles are going to bump into each other. This changes the speed and direction of the particles, some of them will clump together and most of them ending up gathered at the center of gravity of the entire system. This eventually gets large enough to become your star.

As the remaining particles become clumped together into larger items they will begin exerting gravitational pull on other objects. One plane of orbit will become dominant, and the remaining clumps will gradually settle down into their orbits, in the same general plane, in the same direction. Those that don’t will have their orbital speed reduced enough that the object ends up gathered into the center.

Is that a kidney? And a…tentacle?

The only reason Tom Petty was in the Wilburys was that George Harrison left his guitar in Petty’s studio, and had to go get it. He brought Petty back with him.

I’m going to say “What is Tom Petty’s studio?”

It probably requires an app to monitor the wash cycle. All they have to do is start charging a subscription to use the app. If people bought the dishwasher because they would get alerts when their dishes were clean, now they have to pay a recurring fee.

Roku pushed an update to their TVs requiring owners to agree to a new terms of service. There was no “disagree” button, and the TV wouldn’t work until people accepted the changes.

This is such a new problem that it’s never been challenged in court.

There have been instances of network-enabled devices updating to put existing features behind a paywall, unilaterally changing the terms of service (can’t use device anymore until you agree to new terms), and simply removing features that you paid for when you bought the device.

Why does a dishwasher need wifi?

I would pick something remarkably awful, like Valerian and the World of a Thousand Cities. And at the end of the movie would be a note that says “I have to live with this, and now you do too.”

Never pass up a chance to fuck with future self’s mind.

911, what’s your emergency?

I found a dead body on the side of the road.

Where are you? I’m sending police to you now.

Uhh, I touched it.

OK, don’t do that. Do you have hand sanitizer?

I may have eaten some.

…

Also, I tripped. I may have slipped inside.

What does that mean?

I…completed.

Listen just stay where you are, police are on their way.

You can’t have any pudding until you eat your meat.

“I make online honeypots.”

Happy cheesecake day!