One bit that seems missing in the “increased demand” narrative is that demand for gas has increased simply because it is cheaper than oil. One could limit capacity and make a portion of the market continue to get by on oil heat in the short term while we pivot to something else.

And if they don’t get to it (or don’t know because a CUSTOMER did it which is usually what happens), the next guy grabs from another table, and the next guy, and the next guy.

But hands off the silverware, glasses and napkins...some one has to reset them. So you’re just making extra work for the staff.

These are different things and I can be upset about both of them in different ways...

Yeah, the cops get a little too excited about “finding the motive” sometimes. The guy’s string of priors for violent behavior in the same mall tell you everything you need to know, we don’t need the exact flavor of bullshit he was spewing.

My own “I can’t believe they are this stupid” moment happened on this site, when someone was rhapsodizing about his childhood and hunting with his dad and claimed it was unfair that I wanted to “erase” all of those memories. Unfortunately, the incident that sparked this discussion was the Jason Dalton case, an uber…

I mean, if I saw this tweet without context I would assume it was satirical, since this is something critics of the NRA point out all the time.

I don’t blame the airlines for the seat recline “problem”. I blame selfish and/or clueless people...

I think he played it pretty well. He stole AMI’s thunder by preemptively announcing that the pics exist, and he’s put them in legal jeopardy.  That’s better than just doing nothing and watching the pics get leaked.

At least in skimming the article it looks like it’s not one of those hostile takeovers by some conservative douchebag, so that’s good?

Yeah, there is a whole thread in the grays where I argue that the door probably wasn’t really locked, and these people were probably just too scared to open it and see what was making these random sounds. So they called 911 instead.

I’m taking the point to be that it wasn’t really locked, since no one was in there. As you say, the Roomba couldn’t have done it, and how would the real homeowner have left it locked? (Probably it locks from the inside, right?)

That is a good point. This is a story about people who heard sounds in the bathroom and were too afraid to open the door.

Think of all the requirements you have if you want to drive a car - you have to pass a driving test, have decent eyesight, have your vehicle in working order, and carry an adequate amount of insurance. “Oh that’s easy,” you say. “You have to do those things because you want the privilege of driving. You could just not…

One thing that I’d like to see banned is offering extra companion services (as trials or addons) and then failing to cancel that extra service when you cancel the original account.

Pitchfork is posting about this too. Apparently one of the answers was “What is Pitchfork” so there’s that.

Like, almost EVERYONE has encountered someone who is some shade of this - whether it be a bad boss or a school bully or just a general stubborn idiot you have to work with.

And what is that bullshit they say about cops being held “to a higher standard”?

Lately I’m thinking about how I can reduce my dependence on Amazon. Just this week I rediscovered Google Books, which might help wean me off of Kindle. I might even try Jet (even though it’s Walmart.)  Basically it seems like diversifying my spending between giant corporations is better than sticking with this one,…

On android I like Rocket Player. I am kind of an old-school poweruser who still lives and dies for .m3u playlists and is constantly pushing files around. (I use dropbox + dropsync rather than plugging my phone into the PC to keep tracks synced.) Rocket Player makes it pretty easy to find tracks and assemble playlists,…