There are already at least five Senate candidates across the country effectively doing just that.

The phone thing seems like an obvious solution, but another possibility (avoiding the need for everyone to have the right app and get connected) would be flip-up mini screens built in to the table. You’d be limited to four of them (otherwise the design gets clumsy), but that doesn’t seem like it should be too hard.…

I live in NYC (Brooklyn, to be specific) - I don’t _ever_ have to touch McDonald’s, nor do I intend to. If I want food, I have more real options within a couple blocks than you could shake a stick at, all of them a hundred times better than that crap. As far as I’m concerned, the only thing McDonald’s ever made that…

This does no good when the hacks happen at the companies entrusted with our data. T-Mobile, anyone? If the “experts” can’t get this shit right, what the hell are the rest of us going to do?

What the hell actually is “gas contamination”? I mean, I can imagine it’s certain gasses used in production that end up with other gases that shouldn’t be there mixed in, but how about an explanation and some specifics, perhaps even including how this happens? Like who fucked up, etc?

First thing I noticed too. :D

Or Hero of the Soviet Union (1985) :D 

The only accurate one on that list is “cold as Mars”:

Regarding Siri, I actually have a male friend named Siri (well, more a friend of a friend, but...). I would guess it’s more common than you might think.

I made a decision fifteen years ago to never live anywhere that required a car again, and I’ve been extremely happy with that. Unfortunately, Baltimore doesn’t even come close to qualifying. I moved to DC and got rid of my car about a month later and really never missed it. I did date someone in Baltimore for a few…

Republicans being in charge of the relevant agencies at the time. It happened during the Trump administration - that’s pretty much all you need to know right there. :D

I honestly can’t believe no one beat me to that - you guys are letting me down!

I won’t argue that they should be banned, but I certainly prefer a proper chair. Pre-COVID, I always tried to get a chair if possible and let others take the booth, but I wouldn’t say I have strong feelings on the matter. LOL

I haven’t seen a $5 footlong in a very long time, at least not in NYC.

It’s the whole state in this case, but yes, I agree. Those pigs will sue either way, so we might as well build it as a public utility, as it should have been in the first place. Capitalism, it turns out, isn’t particularly good at solving these problems - not when there’s money to be stolen by doing effectively…

No. The PEOPLE grant them the right to do business provided they meet certain basic obligations, like not fucking over the people paying them or paying their employees properly or not making products that kill their users, or any number of other things we the people regulate for the greater good. Cuomo, as an elected…

Never cared for his work (not a fan of the whole genre), but I’d have LOVED to have been there for that conversation. :D

I happened to be on Flatbush (went to Oceans 8) at the time and walked through the crowd around Barclay’s. It was packed but the sidewalks weren’t impassable. Damn near as many cops as regular people.

It was probably just queued up for publishing over the weekend and no one bothered to update the post and reschedule it when the news changed.