My wife insists that they usually don’t use the same person, just a very similar person. The two white guys with beards and glasses do have different voices.

I think this move makes a lot of sense for a few reasons.

Yeah, to go back to the BPL analogy, if every book included a card in the back that said “people also read...” and those connections were data-driven, then you’d create “rabbit holes.” Books about Nazi Germany would lead (quite legitimately) to Mein Kampf, and the list for Mein Kampf (if left uncensored) would…

There are definitely some situations where having an acceleration limiter would be useful, and city streets would be one of them. In NYC we have a blanket 25 mph limit - I wouldn’t mind having a setting where I could mash down the accelerator and the car only goes as fast as it’s supposed to go. Maybe there could be a…

When I saw the movie I already knew the Tears for Fears original, but like so much of their stuff the aggressive pop style just masks what the hell they are singing about (making it all seem vaguely pretentious.)

My wife grew up blue collar, was the first in her family to go to college et cetera. When she was a teenager her mom explained to her that she should pay some rent for the privilege of living at home. My wife imagined that this was going into some secret college savings account but nope, mom-in-law just wanted a cut…

Not knowing which weapon is in hand? How on FSM’s noodly Earth does a trained officer do that?

Alas, dems in Congress aren’t smart enough...

Anyhoo, I took a little time to poke around some of the sources I was reading back in the day, when I went off to college and started researching the Watchtower society. Found a ref to baby-making and divorce which is similar to what I described, in Raymond Franz’s book Crisis of Conscience. Franz was a member of the…

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Yeah I guess that’s fair. :) Weirdly my main sources for pop culture news (new york times, avclub and pitchfork) really didn’t touch the JW angle as far as I remember.  It’s not like I wasn’t interested.

Yeah, and the irony is that they are way more obsessed with sex than the average adult - they talk about it constantly.  Contrast that with someone who treats it as a simple private matter (i.e. watch some porn, have a wank, get on with your life. Maybe meet somebody on a Saturday night and have some fun.)

....being disfellowshipped for consensual sex between adults is a pretty common occurrence so they fact that they’d use such a light touch with accused child rapists is beyond the pale.

Prince was an active member at the time of his death.

Yeah, I like the idea of a tech-heavy production that draws on the talents of art and shop classes. They can pour a lot of energy into it beyond the acting and the orchestra pit and kids might actually learn cool stuff.

the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

Once I ordered one of them slim 2tb external hard drives and they shipped me a whole box of of them - it was at least four. Friends advised me of the law but I figured it was too much to just keep - I discussed it with Amazon and then removed one, packed up the rest, printed a return slip and shipped it back.

Plasticman’s arms could get long enough. I picture him stretching out until his appendage is the width of a single optical fiber and reaching right through the internet.

At the end of the day nothing else matters but your personal feelings. You got burned. Will it make you feel like a sucker to go back, even if everything is fine? What do you think the odds are that you’ll get burned that badly again? Those are really all the important aspects here, obviously “punishing” the…

In response Musk tweeted out that the SEC’s mom borders on the ridiculous.