That’s pretty much how Disney+ is handled outside of the U.S., where they have mixed child-friendly and grown-up content in the same streaming service, except instead of using the “Hulu” brand, they use “Star” as a separate category in the app. You can see this in action if you ever try to use your U.S. Disney+…

The problem is that the executives who bankroll everything don’t especially care about “good,” “right” or “correctly”—they salivate over the idea of “cheaply.” And the only way they’ll know they’re wrong is if audiences reject AI-generated content, and thus studios lose money on this gamble.

Do a mobile deposit through your bank’s smartphone app, and you can have the best of both worlds.

My tip: the Morph Ball you get early on in the game has built-in Spring Ball functions, which didn’t exist in the original GC release, but did in the later Wii one. It makes some frustrating old “bomb jump” puzzles so much easier. With the new default controls, you either ball jump with “X” or flick the controller…

I don’t have an issue with your broader point, but I wanted to point out that influenza viruses (including the Spanish flu) are not coronaviruses, and the annual flu vaccine does not vaccinate against any coronaviruses, current or historic. There is some conjecture that the 1889-1890 “Russian flu” pandemic may have…

I’d run into an interesting article yesterday where they interviewed former RNC chairman, Michael Steele. He was quite critical of the DNC’s national organizing skills, but also said that he thought that the media was flooded with bad polling data with a clear GOP bias, and that the actual election results were going…

I suppose the main difference is that, in parliamentary democracies, a failed government leads to an early change in leadership or even early elections, whereas a failed government here just sits on its ass for 2-4 years until the next scheduled election.

Pantone colors are still important for certain professional printing applications. The CMYK color model used for full-color printing can, in some cases, look dull and, in other cases, be more expensive than just using specific spot colors, which is where Pantone comes to play.

I’m not surprised you think this way about art, because this is also the way a lot of business types think about it. And I can usually tell when these business types get their way in an organization, because when they devalue art and design and demand it be created quickly, the end result usually looks amateurish and…

If you move to a country that has arranged a tax treaty with the U.S. (and there are many), an income tax regime that is equal to or more than what you’d pay in the U.S., and you have an income that doesn’t exceed a little over US$100K, then you will avoid double taxation. Once you start making “too much money,”…

I don’t imagine anything will change. The ownership arrangements are different in Canada with HBO owned by Bell and Discovery+ operating in partnership with Corus. As it is, though, the vast majority of HBO Max already airs on Crave, so you’re really not missing out on much content-wise.

I know that opening up student loans to bankruptcy is seen as an easy fix here by some. A consequence of this, though, I imagine, is that prospective students’ credit will be scrutinized more closely, and I can see that extending to what students will be studying to judge whether their future salaries will be high…

If you don’t pay your student loans, I believe the U.S government will not only seize your tax refunds, but they will also eventually garnish your Social Security payments when you are old. It is in your best interest to try and negotiate a lower payment or formal deferment (if possible) rather than stop paying…

As long as, of course, you didn’t live in the “Rust Belt,” but the attitude then was that those people “deserved it.” It’s amusing, perhaps, to witness the Rust Belt pretty much expand to the entirety of “flyover country” during my lifetime, while politicians still largely don’t give a shit.

It wouldn’t surprise me. Canadian wages tend to be low compared to the U.S., while the country has a high cost of living. It leads to a lot of talented individuals moving south of the border.

There are fans, and they have been redesigned:

I’m not sure anyone really did believe them (aside from the ever-credulous media), but the alternative is war, and the West is, if anything else, war weary. So the Taliban it is.

Because it is filler for the 24/7 news cycle. Canadian news networks aired U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, which were quite literally irrelevant to Canada, but hey...I guess it meant a break for the newsroom.

Automatic credit card increases aren’t a thing in Canada, but banks will often send notices stating that they’re willing to give you a higher credit limit, meaning he would then just have to let the bank know that he consents to the increase.

Just be careful if the company at some point decides to abandon its pension obligations in the future.