Do you tip at a Sonic?

It’s a service for the hotel, not for the guest.

I really liked Conan the Barbarian, although it was too bad the score was so much more forgettable than Basil Poledouris’; but the remake was a lot more authentic to the pre-historic, chthonic horror of the source material.

Uh, libertarians are Republicans, bro.

it’s more of “some people will pretend to care about fashionable causes purely for the sake of their image/ their own ego, rather than out of any genuine altruism”.

In practice, term limits pushes out expertise. And dangerously, it puts the institutional knowledge (“how things get done around here”) in the sole hands of lobbyists, because they don’t have term limits.

I totally agree that it is imperative that the MeToo movement does not lay a framework out by which these men can redeem themselves.

But one thing all of these stories have in common is that these men have chosen not to directly address the allegations against them

Cool. How do I opt out of Lifehacker’s “turn off your ad-blocker” messages?

What do you think there is to work on?

Model 3 is a large smug upgrade from an already mostly smug Prius or Leaf

Traded in a 2011 Honda CR-Z for our 3.

All the Star Wars films are dumb, they’re space opera.

You withhold based on your predicted tax liability, which is based on your predicted annual income. You actually pay taxes on your actual annual income. And there’s obviously a ton of reasons why your predicted annual income and your actual annual income aren’t the same.

I once got up to refill my soda and somebody - just some other patron - tried to “clean up” my spot, by dropping my dirty napkin on top of a fully half-full bowl of salad, in the time it had taken me to go 30 feet over and fill a glass. But then just, like, left it like that.

Somebody make the case for me. Why smart lights and not smart switches? What’s the point of a smart light if it won’t come on unless I tape down the light switch?

Somebody make the case for me. Why smart lights and not smart switches? What’s the point of a smart light if it…

It turns out that human hearing can’t localize single tones nearly as well as you can localize static or white-noise sounds, so it’s better that it sounds like that.

Or when a quarterly earnings report shows they sold less than expected.

It’s all about how the investors “feel”.

They happen at roughly the same rate as false accusations for virtually every other type of crime