I don’t really care why Scarver did it. Jeffrey should have been marched out of the court house, walked up to a wall, and summarily executed right there, on the spot. Instead society wasted a bunch money feeding, clothing, and housing a monster for some imagined, idiotic reason.

Vote like your lives depend on it, because for a significant percentage of Americans, it probably does. Because everything and everyone is an acceptable sacrifice to the Republican party in their never-ending quest to accumulate more wealth and power for the wealthy and powerful. Everything and everyone. Even if it…

...causing billions of dollars worth of economic and property damage...that Ron DeSantis will promptly stick his hand out to the US Government to help pay for. But it’s not socialism or anything....

7% of nothin’ is, lemme do the math -- nothin’, carry the nothin’...

To answer #2 -- greedy and really fucking stupid people.

Because the alternative is...probably more Republicans with even worse naked corruption and greed.

Maybe if you left it out in the elements for a year or three...after beating it to hell and back again. Otherwise...basically never. Crowbars are, by design, damn-near indestructible.

You also don’t have to deal with all those pesky oil and gas leaks from the pipelines used to bring it onshore. Or the risk of further leaks or explosions in refining the oil.

Ahh yes. The perpetual ‘management’ classic — The beatings will continue until morale improves.

I’m keep hearing how LED bulbs last longer, but that has simply not been my experience. Bulbs that are used regularly last roughly the same amount of time. Maybe they last longer when used infrequently. I don’t know. But typical lamps and overhead lights in places I spend my time? Nope.

You know, it occurs to me that with several converging AI technologies on the horizon, this issue might become irrelevant in the semi-near future. An AI will convert what’s being spoken into text and translate it to any other language. Another AI will then capture the performer’s voice and speaking style, then use…

When a government or a body of people respond with violence to questioning or scrutiny of their authority, it is the government or body of people who are the problem, not the questioning or scrutiny. Because what is legitimate, true, and good does not fear scrutiny or questioning. It is reinforced by it, built up and…

Hey, dipshit — benefits like that *ARE* part of employee compensation for their labors. That *IS* part of their pay. Same as health insurance, paid leave, etc. Stop being a tool and think about what you’re saying next time.

Of course it will get that extreme. To think otherwise is beyond naïve. Forever ageless, indestructible, and endlessly available all the time, any time, as often as the studios wants, even on simultaneous projects all over the world? That’s *GOLD*. All they need is to grab some random no-name not-even-c-list…

They do now. And they probably still *will*. But even though you’re being ‘credited’ you’re still basically invisible, like the countless extras and artists that nobody knows or cares about. The audience will never see you. They’ll never hear you. They’ll see and hear *some famous name* even though that ‘famous name’…

So, Sundar is taking huge pay cuts and liquidating his stocks, right? I mean, if *THEY* don’t ‘need’ their money, then he sure as hell doesn’t. I mean, he’s not a *HYPOCRITE* right??

The issue of how to properly credit the work — the voice might be Jones, but he isn’t doing the performance in any way, shape or form, so how do you ‘credit’ the work? To whom do you credit the work? This is actually an issue that is steadily building momentum as recreations of iconic actors and actresses become more…

Once again, incels aren’t. There’s nothing ‘involunary’ about them. Being a flaming piece of shit of a person is most definitely a *CHOICE* and the consequences of that choice they have duly and justly earned. They *SHOULD* be shunned and spurned by the entirety of society and their vileness silenced the moment it’s…

The only way Tesla’s countersuit could hold water is if — wait for it — the CRD’s suit pertains to legitimate illegal activities within Tesla’s operations. Hmm...

An extremely wealthy white man conspires with other white people to take money for poor people to build a ‘sports park’ that said poor people will never get to see or use. Must be a day that ends in ‘y’ in America.