Congrats to Corrain on her new career ghostwriting books for conservative politicians that are bulk-purchased by super-PACs.

Conservatives really do need their own widdle versions of everything to keep their feefees from getting hurt.

Right. It’s a thin niche and I gotta imagine most people who would legitimately use it recognize that it’s a luxury are ok waiting for it to come back in stock at $200 rather than the insane $350.

I think this is going to be a crash an burn for most resellers. I def see a reason someone would want this but I cannot see a reason most couldn’t wait a bit for it to get restocked. 

Apple makes great stuff, but also invests a lot of effort and money into psychological branding and marketing. So this scenario comes at absolutely zero surprise to me. They are an aspirational product company and people will “fake it until they make it”. Happens all over the place though. People intentionally buying…

“For some people, the sound quality isn’t important so long as the fakes look like enough Apple AirPods”

That’s the thing — the original website was an all-Harvard version of HotOrNot. He wanted to be able to rate and rank the women at his university based on their appearance (the “face book” of the freshman class had already been published by Harvard) all from the convenience of his year dorm room. The origin is…

Elon “myspaced” Twitter and is shocked it’s failing... A socially-inept person shouldn’t own a social network at all.

Just keep flailing until it looks like brilliance.

I don’t doubt that Musk had immediate regrets when he made the legally binding 44b offer, and that if he really could have, he would have pulled out (first time for everything!).

I’ve said before, he was given 44 billion (ish, chump change regardless) by the Saudis to squash one of the leading communication networks that helped the Arab Spring, and hobbled what had been (along with all the bad crap) a really useful source of real-time information and communication for many underrepresented…

I’d like to live in a world where we ignore misogynists. I can only imagine it is not the majority of gamers that are upset and just a small percentage of basement dwelling cave trolls. We need to stop giving them the attention they so desperately crave 

This is why user ratings are trash. Say what you will about the validity of putting critics’ reviews on a pedestal, but I can at least trust that rotten tomatoes is reporting opinions from people with a modicum of media literacy who have actually experienced the film and not just the brigading of troll or stan…

Just read actual reviews by movie critics or even your favorite Youtube streamer. Still likely a better gauge than randos posting 0 ratings on Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes.

Everybody else finally learning the lesson that Rotten Tomatoes learned in 2019 after Captain Marvel: Make people prove they saw the movie before they rate it.

I’m in the grays so I yelled into the void and said the same thing, but thankfully you are not. LOL

Don’t care.

Larry Nasser was accused of abuse many times for over a decade before anyone believed anything.

saying things like "Ms Pac-Man and Ms 'Splosion Man are just two of a host of characters named as derivatives of their male counterparts" or "Hitman: Absolution actively encourages players to kill innocent women and hide their bodies"

It's about how we have serious issues with sexism and misogyny in games, but the only person willing to talk about them regularly makes mistakes or outright wrong statements when she tries to bring them up, which makes some people think "oh my god, she's lying to further her cause." I don't think she's lying - she's…