Eh, having lived here for a while now I can confirm Texas is a pretty cut and dried law-and-order state. Perspective on business practices is “okay we’re going to start out giving you the benefit of the doubt, so don’t fuck that up or else.”

Grounds for a follow-up suit.

You definitely need some booze in your soda.

I think that partially depends on whether they’re actually marketing the larger size as a better value, or if they’re counting on it to be inferred by the buyer because that’s how it usually works.

I laughed out loud the first time I saw him on Star Trek.  That’s Clayton Endicott III, thank you very much!

Just posted something similar upthread - the few I heard so far sound entirely like a continuation of her last few albums.  Very low-key.

That was my take as well, but if the review is correct then it’s meant to be ironic.

I hear a lot of her stuff (wife, daughters) and like most of it. They had it streaming this morning and while the songs I heard were fine, they very much felt like more of what we got off the last two or three albums. Little musical variation to differentiate the tracks.  Again, haven’t heard everything so maybe there…

I can’t imagine many, if any, critics were permitted pre-release access. Swift has that shit on full lockdown so her fans hear it first when it drops.

One of the unifying themes here is don’t buy from shady used car lots.

Best part of that exchange:

It starts at the top of the dealership, and for a looooong time the people sitting at those tops didn’t give the first shit about customer service.  If you have an owner and GM who take a little pride in their work it makes a big difference.  

For sure - most assaults on homeless people are fights within camps or one wanting what another has, often fueled by drugs/alcohol.

Plus LA is bordered by the ocean on one side and mountains on the other. With the amount of wealth there it’s no wonder prices continue to rise - demand increases while supply stays the same. If CA wants people to be able to access the city for work or other purposes, it needs to build some state-owned apartment…

Jimmy’s not gonna like this.

Love to see the three of them trying to separate their guns from the holsters and using both hands to (unsuccessfully) pull back the hammer.  Eventually Scott wins by beating the other two over the head.

I’m sure his list of influences for the 10-movie limit is lengthy, but it was also probably a lot easier to say when he’d only made a little more than half that at the time.  Now it’s staring him down.

Eastwood’s still directing at 93.

I never felt that Thompson was worn down to the point of accepting death; I think the Shimmer had seduced her into believing that becoming a living part of it would be a superior existence. That’s the part of the movie that freaked me out the most, she just wanders off and joins a bunch of others as human-shaped plants…

Yeah that really came together, didn’t it? Damn.