Unless I’m missing something, the only thing special about this car is that they were able to license specific luxury colors that are owned by Hermes.... that look completely indistinguishable from normal cream and grey-green interiors? That’s like doing a stock bright red interior and then paying Louboutin a fuckload…

That has never been the case. The NFT is never the original work, it is not a numbered print. You can verify that something is a “real” NFT, but there is no way to distinguish NFTs from each other so it can’t be a “numbered print.”

He said the quiet part out loud in terms of what artists are hoping to get out of this - arbitrarily driving up the cost of their work because people already own a link to a jpg of it. Not a license, not a numbered print - a link to a jpg. If they want the jpg to be worth anything, they have a vested interest in…

Right, it would have opened the door for her usual spiel. Even if the answer was yes, because part of her grift is the “safe schedule” bullshit so she could latch on to the fact that children are not approved for the covid vaccine yet so therefore obviously all vaccines are not safe for children.

Her father had negotiated the divorce in advance under the guise of a pre-nup. The divorce was 2 weeks, but the pre-nup was like 8 bankers boxes long.

Well right. But my point is that they would have already been scanning and doing science things when she dropped it in. I can easily picture some guy watching it on a sonar screen and pointing to his supervisor while Bill Paxton is upstairs losing his shit.

If they’re already there, how is using the submersible to retrieve it any different than the plan as was when they thought it was buried? Even in the 90s, the person using technology to search would have found it as soon as it hit the water?

I think she meant at the time. I happen to be the same age as her so I remember what happened with Vanessa Hudgens and other girls of that generation. They were getting caught up in scandals for even relatively tame stuff surfacing. It wasn’t really until after 2014-15 and the massive icloud hack dumps and fully…

Most people think “for your consideration” is just fancy language, but there’s a legal reason that they “submit for consideration.” I once had a job that involved filling out entry forms on a filmmaker’s behalf. Like half of the entry forms for the oscars and golden globes are more like consent forms, formally…

Um, plenty of nonprofits pay the hosts for their events?

The thing that advanced marketing analytics and emerging fMRI data is laying bare is a truth that has been hiding in plain sight for a long time: the only people who really like what white men like are white men. Everyone else is just constantly gaslit into thinking they like it or threatened with violence if they…

I was just coming to say that she probably gets next generation medi-spa laser and deep tissue treatments every day. But even the stuff that isn’t that crazy, like using monoxil on your hair, is 100000% more effective when it’s done by a professional. Once you get to the upper end of the help out there, you absolutely…

I just will never ever understand how people fall for prosperity gospel. I actually can understand how people can get sucked into cults of personality, but just general charlettan rife prosperity gospel? It’s like literally the opposite of everything in that book they supposedly study all the time?

I think there is an entire spectrum of cheaters - a full ecosystem of occasional and lifelong cheaters - that is entirely dependent on having jobs like my ex who until the pandemic really did split his time between two cities or simply involve a lot of travel and business entertaining that had their spots blown by the…

I thought I was in a normal committed partnership with a guy with travelled a lot for work. I’m kind of an introvert and city living means small spaces, so I actually didn’t mind having the apartment to myself a lot. That is until lockdown interrupted what could have been an indefinite excuse to be able to pull of two…

I really hope they find a way to integrate the “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs” Tori Paradox- that it actually makes more sense that part of the group is friends with like one person the rest of the group isn’t, particularly senior year when people like Jessi and Kelly would be busy with applying to college/scholarships…

I think that was about the time that Harvey Weinstein style “campaigning” became the norm. It wasn’t fair before, but the awards shows were not actively gamed as part of the PR methodology before the 90s.

I think synthesia is an example where it matters more that the person who wrote/directed the movie is drawing from specific personal authentic experience than necessarily the actor, particularly in a representational dance-heavy musical starring a dancer that is probably going to involve a lot of graphics work. The…

I think we need to grapple with the idea that all of the prevention and detection methods (including rich people rapid testing themselves at the door) are insufficient at any kind of scale. A mask worn improperly or without other social distancing/quarantine measures is just a pocket full of posies. People are…

Most people who are aware of other countries at this point understand that the US is way behind in general health due to lack of coverage and cost, but I don’t think people really understand that translates to so many people who don’t have any access to very necessary mental health care. Particularly the kind of…