Daisy Ridley — I haven’t seen the new Star Wars movie but I already like her a lot from this little bit of evidence (and a few interviews with her where she seemed very smart). She rolls hard into this moron’s Instagram and uses the Force on some imbecility.

Her full response which was omitted above:

You go, Daisy. You’re much nicer than I am or will ever be, but great response. Force choke them into oblivion if need be.

What’s strange about this presidential race is that nearly no mainstream pundit, journalist or writer understand Sanders, Trump or their supporters so nearly everything you read about this topic is bizarrely inaccurate — like a space alien writing about American burial customs.

“Xyzgxian scientists theorize that humans place a protective layer of black sheathing around their pseudo-carapaces during funereal ceremonial observances because their exothermic output decreases as a physiological response to loss of a co-resource provider. Since human funerals are held in the view of an M-class stellar body, black external sheathing increases heat abortion allowing the humans to regulate their body temperatures in this physiologically hostile environment.”

This is what the NYT and others writing about Trump, Sanders and supporters sounds like to me.

I knew almost all pundits are utterly clueless about all but themselves and their upper-class friends and contacts, but damn. I had no idea it was as bad as it is.

I ordered a bunch of used physical books last night.

I don’t like physical books. I’d rather have the ebook. But most of the used books were $4 out the door shipped, while the ebooks were $12 and up with the added “bonus” of DRM. So why would I ever do that?

If publishers would price ebooks sanely I’d buy those every time. If the books I’d bought were $5 each in an electronic version, I’d’ve done that even with DRM (I can easily crack it).

But when I can get one version for $4.00 with no DRM and the other is $11.99 and up, no damn way.

And so the publisher gets nothing, the writer gets nothing — how again is this an intelligent strategy? (Not to mention the externalities of shipping, storage, etc.)

The whole idea that corporations are efficient or sensible in any way is deeply deeply delusional. This is just another example. They choose to hurt themselves and their writers and have done so for years and years now at the gain of everyone hating them even more than they already do.

That does not a successful strategy make.

It’s become accepted, uh, “wisdom” in the Fat Acceptance community that if a woman deliberately misrepresents herself in photos and/or lies about her weight, if the man then goes on to reject her then it is a “double standard.”

However if I told these same women I was 6’2″ when in reality I am 5’8″, you know what I’d be? Rejected. And you know what they’d be? Fucking right to do so.