Gawker never did. I wrote an article for io9 back before Hulkgate and what I submitted as my rough draft was published with no changes, including the pictures I had used as placeholders which came with a note that said “I didn’t get permission to use that pic and I don’t really know how so could you do that please?”

Don’t forget the part where its only for 90 days and you need to do 3 paid (not point) round trips during those 90 days to extend it to a year.

io9 is a faint shadow of its former self.

This whole fucking website has been lousy with grade school-tier typos and other spelling/grammar errors for YEARS.  New management may have exacerbated the problem but they sure as hell didn’t start it.

I feel like there are an awful lot of non-boomers suffering from Boomer Stockholm Syndrome.

Gen X’er here , the only 2 OK Boomers

Their story is depicted in the excellent mini series “The Pacific”.

Yea, fuck you for needing/preferring the flexibility while knowing you’re being exploited. Why not go to Fast Food, an industry rife with wage theft and intentional variable scheduling so you can’t plan your life in more than a week or two in advance.

Moooooo!

True - the better joke would have been “New construction? In Berkeley?”

Peter Jackson has also been working awhile on the new Beatles documentary. Hopefully, that’ll be amazing as well.

Had a chance to finally see Peter Jackson’s 2018 documentary They Shall Not Grow Old - in an actual movie theatre, no less - and it left me in tears. Absolutely stunning. The moment when the footage goes from grainy, jerky black and white to natural-looking colour - all the jerkiness smoothed out - had members of the…

While we do still have our share of clan members and other bigots, this is not generally the case as long as I’ve lived down here, even in the more rural, good ole boy environs. People may tend to run-in their specific racial or ethnic circles, but most people were raised well enough to not think about race when they…

*wrong

Leafly has an interesting article about how vitamin E ended up in so many THC vape cartridges here:

Yep, totally agree. Midway was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, and is to the Pacific war what Gettysburg was to the Civil War. What the American divebombers did in 1942 was as significant as what the 20th Maine did at Little Round Top in 1863. Each battle’s impact on history and the resultant course our…

I went through the whole gamut of emotions from huge excitement to crushing disappointment upon 1) hearing that somebody was making a movie about Midway and 2) finding out that fucking Roland Emmerich was that somebody.

The misquote of Yamamoto is a bit of soundbite to his actual feelings. Having trained and traveled at Annapolis as well as Harvard, Yamamoto was impressed by the sheer size, the standards of living, and the huge industrial capacity of the US. He is also attributed as saying that Japan could run wild for maybe 6 months…

At least they didn't ruin the battle off Samar?

War gets weird. The first medium tank we sent into combat was the M3 Lee/Grant. It had a 75mm gun (like the Shermans but a tad shorter) The British were all excited because they could fire a 75 mm at the Germans instead of their 40 mm (2 pounder).