I really have to disagree, especially in the case of Star Wars. The model-capture and stop-motion animation has held up a lot better than much of the early CGI. And Frank Oz and Phil Tippet’s work with the puppetry (especially in Empire and RoTJ) still looks great in the context of the films because it gives the…

but these Vizio sets would be free of any on-set apps and would instead rely on baked-in Chromecast features for its smarts.

I just bought a Vizio M-55 4K smart TV. It shows up as a Chromecast target for Netflix and YouTube already (shunts the request down to the on-TV apps, so I’d imagine that Pandora, Hulu etc would probably work, too).

I read the terms and conditions: Lyft and Uber drivers need not apply.

As a parent, I would TOTALLY endorse that stuff in exchange for cash. Some of that on my kiddo’s bottom, a little Anti-Monkey-Butt Powder on mine for a long weekend ride and everybody’s happy.

I have a great explanation for my last job’s core technology that involves TIE-fighters and ion cannons.

I think your interpretation of the odds on the prop bets is incorrect. Let’s take the Earthquake one as an example:

Yes they do. My wife just sold a condo she’d bought before we got married where the maintenance fees went up 30% in a two-year period (to almost $300 a month plus another $300 a year for a “master” association).

I’m on board with this line of thinking.

The 50" version is $600 at Costco presently. $180 for 5" doesn’t seem entirely worth it for me.

The 50" version is $600 at Costco presently. $180 for 5" doesn’t seem entirely worth it for me.

Not for cars, exactly, but a useful question when shopping for a motorcycle, especially ones with larger displacement engines: Shop a given bike around a number of insurance providers.

Another good question to ask is to see whether a specific TRIM LEVEL of the car you’re interested in has higher insurance rates than another.

In my part of Colorado, the rental market is just as nuts as the real estate market due to a lack of supply and some poorly-done maximum-occupancy laws that have a big impact on the college student / young grad renters.

I’m a motorcyclist - I understand exactly what you’re saying. There’s no excuse for inattentiveness, but let’s at least try not to make the problem worse, eh?

Bigger print needed. “Headline 1” or whatever the Kinja equivalent is. Does Kinja do “blink” tags? Perhaps the no-lights/no-reflectors/black-hoodie-wearing/riding-against-the-flow-of-traffic dinguses on my drive home might see it.

Somewhere in this article I’d have loved to see “ride WITH the flow of traffic”.

...and were completely ignored.

And this will prove to be a mistake.

Some repeats from others, but my best advice:

Most “real” motorcycle jackets have SOME level of back armor (it ain’t great, but it’s something); upgrading that to a CE-rated insert is usually easy and fairly inexpensive.