At my first serving job, I was forced to stay five hours—three and a half after I’d been cut—for a table. We weren’t allowed to transfer tabs to other servers because tables occasionally complained about it. We weren’t allowed to ask them to leave if they weren’t ordering, because it was a chain, and management didn’t…

Regardless of legality, it seems like the company had a policy not to cut people’s electricity if they were medically dependent on it. Otherwise they wouldn’t have had a registry.

According to the article, it looks like the family says that they had made an effort to register her medical issues with the electric company, but the electric company said they had no record of it.

I think the article answers the questions pretty easily, or at least points to some pretty obvious possible conclusions. It says she was in hospice care, so being moved somewhere else may have been detrimental to her health (or her daughter may have lived with her to help take care of her). She was never supposed to…

It is the electric company’s problem. They’re legally required to keep records on who can’t have their electricity turned off for medical reasons.

I can understand why King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is bad enough to keep someone away, but I can’t understand why that same someone simultaneously admits to having no problems with a band named Wooden Shjips.

Why does it help MoviePass to make people see different movies than the ones they were planning on seeing?

For what it’s worth, a new theater just opened up in my town, and MoviePass emailed me to say that this new theater will allow you to reserve seats ahead of time with MP, rather than having to wait ‘til you’ve checked in at the theater. I wouldn’t expect the established chains to jump on board with that, but it seems…

It’s similar to what happened every time Netflix raises their prices—some hardcore users complain and threaten to cancel, a few do, most don’t, and the company continues to add more users regardless.

I’m wondering how many people actually do use MoviePass to see blockbuster movies on opening weekend? In my city that’s not even an option; they sell out far enough in advance that you couldn’t use MoviePass to see them even if you wanted to. (Or maybe if you want to show up first thing when the theater opens to get…

Right, but the point is that they didn’t turn up any violent or illegal acts in their investigation. Even if they strongly suspected that he abused his power and/or had evidence of him doing it more minor, non-violent ways, it’d be hard to get rid of him unless they could find somebody accusing him of something…

I thought the whole “bot-written” thing was so clearly a joke that it’s been baffling to watch people buy into it.

As far as I know, Diaz has tenure, so my guess is that MIT can’t actually fire him unless their investigation turns up some kind of evidence of misconduct. The Boston Review, not so much.

Sororities aren’t doing this.

I wouldn’t say she was a minor character overall, but she came on the show pretty late compared to everyone else in this video . . . and I don’t see any other actors who came on the show as late as she did. So it’s a little weird.

There were plenty of people on Twitter and other social media harassing Argento for either dumping Bourdian or cheating on him based on assumptions they made from some inconclusive tabloid pictures. (A few days before Bourdain’s death, a paparazzo snapped some pictures of her hugging and holding hands with another…

Yeah, I’ve been in relationships with guys like this when I was younger, and unless you have really great boundaries and really realistic expectations for romance . . . you want to believe. Especially if you’re young, especially if you just got out of a bad relationship. You’re feeling that first crazy rush of…

Adjusted versus unadjusted gross. It’s the largest unadjusted opening. It’s the smallest unadjusted opening. (Ocean’s 11 didn’t actually open at $61m; it opened at $38m in 2001, which is $61m in 2018 dollars.)

It skewed older than the audiences most of the bigger movies so far this year, but still pretty young in general (86 percent of the audience was under 45). It just depends on how you’re defining “young,” I guess.

It would have to make something like $500m to cover the production and marketing budgets (aka become profitable-ish). But the “production budget” is still just $250m (assuming no fancy accounting, which is obviously not always the case).