open carry is only legal for white people

Legal open carry is only for white people. White guy video shot in Oregon; black guy video shot in Nevada. If you don’t want to watch the videos (or the originals, linked at the website) - white guy, talked to by single officer, no weapon drawn. Black guy: six car response, screamed at, videographer screamed at until she’s down on the ground too (despite being seven months pregnant), interrogated over 10 minutes by at least seven officers. He’s eventually allowed to leave, but his (legal) weapon is not returned.

(Most of the interrogation, et al, are in the unedited video linked in the description of the above video.)

super terrible

In addition to being brutally terrible, Pixels is also deeply misogynistic.

I'd seen other commentary to that effect in reviews, but this article gives examples and reasons.

Enjoy some quotes from other reviews. My favourite is, "an overwhelmingly sad experience" – Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.

minor spoiler eta: "So Pixels ends with the only likeable character and the only non-bullshit incarnation of its own premise [Q*Bert] blinking out of existence so that one of two vaguely prominent women characters in the entire cast can serve as a literal trophy. Holy fucking shit." -- MovieBob pulls no punches.

well, that’s my fault then

On the Hugo Awards voting page, I thought you had to save your Hugo ballot categories individually. After a while, I noticed you didn’t, that any save was save all, but since we have greylisting going on our mail server, I ended up getting the, um, 7? confirmation mails all at once. (Once per save!)

Here’s DS Moen’s slightly-out-of-date Puppy-free voting guide – don’t forget that The Three-Body Problem was elevated to the ballot after a Puppy nominee withdrew. Read the notes included with the Hugo Voter Packet, they are useful.

Since I may go back and change a couple of my voting stacks, I’m not posting my ballot yet. That’ll give me something to talk about on Monday, anyway. Deadline is the 31st.

Remember, you can vote now and still change your vote later, up to the deadline, when there will be a rush. So you may as well get that done. Vote!

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