Only tangentially related, but the ability to google a name and get a unique result is behind oddly-spelled brand names and BAND names, like Lyft, Grindr, and CHVRCHES.

There have already been articles on the various Gizmodo sites.  No, I won’t look them up for you.

Countersigned.

Based on recent show reviews they’ve written, I’d rather the current staff stick to dross like this.  I only touched this clickbait because I live pretty close to Anaheim and was curious what happened.

I’d take an ear flick every day over the emotional abuse they inflict on each other.  They’ve both earned a lifetime of those ear flicks, IMO.

Yep, the KKK wasn’t in central PA in response to Black people; there were almost none.  The KKK was in central PA in response to all the Catholics and immigrants.

Eh, based on the boilerplate recaps that pass for “reviews” here these days, I don’t think you’re missing much.

I think it’s clear from the context.

Exactly. This is where I have to disagree;

I also am not sympathetic about shorter seasons with fewer episodes.  I really am not interested in shows spinning their wheels over 22+ episode seasons anymore.

No, I’m more dispirited by the people who get famous for being not even remotely amusing.

Bravo!

Yep, I won’t feel one iota of sympathy for these scabs.

I highly recommend reading a series of articles about Soviet computer history - focused, though not entirely, on computer gaming history - by Jimmy Maher. He covers this all starting with Part 3, linked here. Long story short, Apple sounds to have gotten at the meat of it all, but would have needed a short…

Seconded

That’s because they’re children.  Goldfish are for children.

It’s actually a quirk leftover from World War II. After years of the Great Depression, the labor market suddenly got VERY tight; that tends to happen with mass conscription combined with all the military manufacturing. Anyway, the Roosevelt Administration desperately wanted to prevent any possibility of labor action,…

I suspect non-management but white-collar jobs, like engineering, marketing, dealer liaisons and such are all salaried.

Or The Sopranos. Or Mad Men. Or The Wire. Or Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul. Or, reaching a bit farther, The Americans, Halt and Catch Fire, or Justified.

Thank you. If you can push all your write-offs and write-downs into one quarter, you should. Then the tax loss carry forward can shield some future income from taxation.  It’s usually preferable to cram all “bad news” like this into one quarter, to avoid the drip, drip, drip of negative news every quarter.