I’m sure this all sucks for the people who work at the closing stores, but let’s not kid ourselves. Nobody’s actually done any significant amount of shopping at Sears or Kmart in 15-20 years.

Sounds like The Bad Place Janet...

He’s what happens when you spend 30 years chain smoking and drinking a fifth of cheap gin every week. Unhealthy, to be sure - but probably not the communicable kind.

I just hope that if it comes to pass, we die in the initial blast. I’m pretty sure life after a nuclear war is a lot more like “The Road” than “Fallout,” and that’s not worth surviving to see.

Target...where you pay a little more just to avoid going to Walmart.

Great plan, other than the V20 probably only seeing one more OS upgrade and maybe another year or two of security updates after that. It’s a smartphone, not a Toyota Corolla.

I would agree. I got a Pixel 2 for Christmas, and the camera has been nothing short of amazing. Stock Android with extra Assistant integration has been great. My only gripes are that the battery life has only been just ok, and the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack. The XL would have solved the battery life quip, but the…

Stupidity and malice are not mutually exclusive.

It’s one part to obfuscate their nefarious activities, one part trying to avoid angry mobs meeting them wherever they go.

Very true. Statistically speaking, one of those two illnesses will likely be my fate someday. The thing is, advances in modern medicine have blunted their impact on a societal level; they’re not the reason life expectancy in the US is edging downward. At least, not directly - you could argue that obesity and poor diet…

That’s the plan. Prescription painkillers are an insidious trap, and knowing that up front is the first step in not getting stuck in that quagmire. Discomfort now sucks, but it beats the hell out of watching my entire life fall apart later.

On a sociological level, the news is concerning. Things are all kinds of weird and broken. 

“One of the hottest topics on social media is what to do about all the literal Nazis.”

By being more interested in Star Trek and Doctor Who than SW moving forward.

When hundreds of millions of dollars start pouring in from ETFs, hedge funds and foolhardy small investors looking to make a quick buck.

That’s the point where the person left holding the bag is the greatest fool.

I would agree with you more enthusiastically, but I have my doubts as to whether PRISM was actually decommissioned, and I would prefer not to disappear in the middle of the night or be found dead of “an overdose”.

Cool story, bro.

I’m still surprised that the film ever got mode or released. I just can’t imagine any other franchise giving its hardcore fans the middle finger like that.

Or oxycodone, or meth, or crack. There are a lot of alternatives for a motivated user.