Though, I did have a mechanic who didn’t have a driver’s license for a while, a long time ago. But it was mostly because he was an expert on rotary engines, and I had a finicky old Mazda RX7 that was constantly in and out of the shop. The fact that we all knew he had lost his license for repeated DUIs was a little…

Good point. And just because it doesn’t kill you doesn’t mean you won’t be miserable for a couple weeks and/or face long term cardiopulmonary or neurological problems.

Welcome to the new malaria of the industrialized world.

How did a huge company like Disney, with their army of lawyers, not realize this was going to be a problem and get ahead of it by renegotiating ScarJo’s contract ahead of time? I mean, this was a highly visible, big-budget MCU movie, not some random unreleased little arthouse film from 20 years ago they just realized…

I totally get the nostalgia for simpler times that aren’t *too* far removed from our modern conveniences. But I would much rather have a single iPhone in my pocket capable of doing just about everything well than have to schlep around a backpack with a flip phone, an MP3 player, a PDA, a point and shoot camera, a…

Whenever I hear anyone say, “YoU caN’t AsK mE aboUt muh vaksInAshun! ThaT’s A *HIPAA* viOlashUn!” it really make me want to grab them by the lapels and shake them vigorously.

I second the sentiment. They should have kept Black Widow as an intense, intimate spy thriller. If they wanted spectacle, maybe keep it relatively low-key and introduce the cloning element of the recent BW comic run in an Orphan Black kind of spin (not the ScarJo has the acting chops to pull it off, but it might be…

Whatever happened to studies being peer-reviewed *prior* to being published in a major medical journal? Or is that not a thing anymore?

It hasn’t been all rainbows and unicorns, but the past six months of not wondering “what fresh hell is coming out of Washington today?” every time I load up the news has been a welcome change.

I have no doubt that my two cats would use this thing just enough times to make it impossible to return, get freaked out one day by it turning on as they walked by and promptly refuse to set foot in it ever again. They’d demand their $15 old-school cat boxes back and I’d be stuck with a $500 WiFi-connected doorstop.

It’s the Fyre Festival of telecommunications equipment.

The possibility of this all being a backdoor data mining operation for cybercriminals or foreign governments is hilariously ironic.

That’s assuming they even bother with more than a cursory check to see if it’s a scam/malware/ransomware program.

The problem with engagement as a metric is that it doesn’t qualify what’s positive, productive engagement and what’s obnoxious, destructive engagement. It’s really just a tally of eyeball time for selling ads.

Well, they just opened the door for everything to go full comic book meta.

This!

The video may have been blatant pandering to Marvel fans, but it was still fun. Looking forward to a legit Deadpool MCU film.

The episode was a bit of a detour from the titular characters for sure, but I’m guessing the Hera/Omega dynamic ends up becoming an important part of the storyline moving forward. So, I feel pretty good assuming that this is setting up a major character arc and isn’t just sloppy storytelling or some random fan…

Every once in a while, I get the urge to get caught up on this generation’s Nintendo exclusives. The OLED upgrade might be nice, but doesn’t justify the higher price tag. If I do bite one a Switch, it’ll be a Lite. But with the recent rollout of mobile streaming for GamePass, I feel like I’d get more mileage out…

I’d be terrified to take that thing up narrow switchbacks in the mountains, but it would make flatland camping 1000% more enjoyable.