I wonder how that works for someone who is quite wealthy but lives a middle class lifestyle, like Warren Buffett. Since they have a lot of money on paper could such a person be forced by a court to provide a life of luxury to their former spouse and children even if they never would have done so while they were a…

They're not talking about adaptations for the screen but alterations of new editions of the books themselves.

How do you think this issue should be handled for writers of historical fiction? Clearly if someone is writing a Civil War drama or something similar the word is going to come up. And I suppose the author can only put the word in the mouths of Confederates but that seems like a cop out. There were certainly Union…

If there aren't any low cost EVs then the used car market will squeeze poor people for everything they're worth. At the low end of the market it'll be pandemic prices or even worse. They've never been afraid to turn the screws on people in a bad spot.

Yeah as soon as I heard about that I wondered how they would average out the data. The vast majority of gas stoves in the US are in the Northeast. That’s also one of the most heavily urbanized areas of the country and, despite the efforts of cities and states, has worse air quality than many other places. If you’re…

Refining will draw down but not go away because, aside from fuels, it also creates lubricants, feedstock for plastics, solvents and many other useful things. While there are alternatives for some of the products made from petroleum refining they are usually considerably more expensive, of worse quality or both. Even…

We are supposed to remember the crimes but forget the names of the criminals. Murderers deserve no fame. If no one had complained I’d never have remembered what this particular monster was called when he was human. I know it’s easier for me to forget all the way across the country. But changing the name would be a…

If their argument is that he’s unable to defend himself in court why are they using self defense as a not guilty plea rather than arguing that he’s not fit to stand trial? He can’t be cognizant enough to recognize and respond to a threat with deadly force but not cognizant enough to defend those actions. One or the…

We used to go with shameless adulterers and outright rapists but there's only so much you can do to get away with that when you're a red state. We may have corrected too far though. Someday Lindsey's going to be explaining to the cops exactly how some handsome young man died in his house. Unfortunately he'll probably…

So Trump was the second time we elected a fat tub of lard who was also a groomer/abuser AND was a one term president? God I hope that's as far as history repeats itself.

How much does adding accessibility options cost versus how many new customers are they likely to bring in? I work in construction and in that industry accessibility has a high price tag, especially in retrofitting, so that’s why the ADA exists.

Reminds me of a line from a song:

There were, at the time, somewhat higher paid employees who just did maintenance. Like draining the fryers, clearing the grease traps and cleaning the ice cream machine. But it demanded cleaning at random intervals. So when my manager noticed that I was able to repair my POS car in the parking lot with rudimentary…

I think the issue is that improper reassembly after cleaning or aborting the heat cycle sequence causes the errors, so they’re related. When I worked at one years ago I was one of the few people who could put it back together right and if it needed cleaning it was down until someone who could do it came on shift.

Wow. I had to look closely to see her at all. Some of that might be the camera's color correction but even if that's part of it the camera decided she was part of the couch. That's about as close to an objective opinion as you're gonna get.

Apple tried that when they built their huge circular headquarters. Demanded that all specs be within one millimeter. They also wanted all flooring types to meet smooth and flush without a transition piece. That one item caused huge delays and cost overruns. The whole project ended up years behind schedule and billions…

I love how easy it is for anyone with a platform to make dumbasses on the Internet think they're smart by parroting phrases they've heard actual smart people use. Elon's a money man and nothing else. Can't write a line of code, can't change a tire, can't use a shovel and I wouldn't be surprised to find that he can't…

Do you buy something from every restaurant or retail store you see? Do you watch an entire film or series because you happened to catch a few seconds of it? If you don't, by your own logic, you are contributing to the impoverishment of the employees of all of those businesses. Do you see why job loss is always a bad…

This is just like the fake astonishment that one of these can be taught to lie or induced to tell supposedly secret information. It's not a human mind, doesn't work like one and definitely doesn't have human morality. These programs are nowhere near sentience, they're tools. Asking it to behave as if it was is like…

I think cargo cults stand a step above normal religions because the, to the islanders, mysterious and inexplicable events that started the belief actually did happen and from their point of view assuming gods were visiting in metal birds was reasonable. As was building mock runways to summon more planes. There's a…