Totally agree! Part of the reason I highlighted apps required for work is because a lot of people (myself included) need to have some apps on their phone to be able to do their jobs, which is how they can acquire food, water, and shelter.

Agreed. My dislike for clarkson outweighed my enjoyment of the show. 

For intellectually and emotionally stunted men sure. This isn’t college-age ballbusting, this is a grown-ass man being an irredeemable piece of trash at all times. I’m 52 years old, I don’t have to take that shit, or listen to it.

Current TG has actually benefited no end from Covid; the whole last season was good because they couldn’t just drive about in an exotic location and they had to raise their game creatively. The new season has just started and they did a whole sequence about driving your dad’s car (admittedly an area the trio have…

Counterpoint: he has a Sun column.

“They” are often full of shit. And even though, yes, many men (not all) think ribbing each other is fun, there’s a difference between giving a guy shit, and treating him like shit. Clarkson definitely leans toward the latter.

This is exactly it. In my industry (tech) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is what almost every new product is based on. The spin here is that *generally* it’s dont for non-hardware products, for obvious reasons..

“Cricut has filed with the SEC for an IPO”

See also: Glowforge.

Couldn’t agree more. Clarkson’s shtick had gotten old even before he decided the correct way to complain about his meal was to punch someone.

Yeah, he’s devoted at least one column to picking on Greta Thurnberg. I used to love his writing, but I really hope I have aged better than his articles.

It’s not just about the budgets though, it’s about the personalities behind the show. A lower budget doesn’t decrease the outsized ego that Clarkson has developed and the entitled smugery that comes with it, or the tendency to overproduce and overscript everything. Early shows were low-budget and folksy, but you can’t…

In a case like this, I think it’s more that they’re confident that they’ll make enough money on users who DO pay that they’re willing to take the hit to their goodwill from those that they’ll alienate.

Grand Tour has always seemed like the three of them are vaguely irritated at the fact that they have to make a TV show. For all of the new Top Gear's issues, they at least seem to be having fun. 

This is such bullshit. The only reason I haven’t bought one to do simple stickers is THIS shit. I know many people with them who say the required software is total shit, buggy and now THIS? Fuck Cricut. I hope they get sued out of business for this, seriously *I’m not a sue everyone person at all) . What a sham.

The “everything is a subscription” model that’s been growing and growing for the last 20 years needs to die yesterday.

I don’t know that picking on teenagers who simply want an inhabitable planet makes him a good writer.

Yeah, I quit Top Gear until they were gone, and tried but couldn’t stand Grand Tour because he’s just constantly bullying everyone, even his costars.

Admittedly, TG was also better when we thought Clarkson was just playing the part of a douchewaffle for the show. When it turned out that he actually *is* a raging asshole who treats people like shit, it got a little less funny.

“Could Signal Overall Skyrocketing Inflation” how? This makes a pretty incredible leap from goods with supply limitations that exist for known reasons to potential widespread economic inflation with no substantial evidence for that claim.