No blade? So, more of a Swiss Navy Knife then?

My first reaction to this article was “welp, somebody is short of their quota for the month”. And then I checked the date and its only the 2nd.

Eh. I just want to see Carter and Rogers: Agents of SHIELD, in which Peggy and Steve bust supervillains while Steve is careful not to reveal his true identity to anybody but Peggy, and also has to avoid changing the future so that he doesn’t accidentally branch into a different timeline and is not able to pass on the…

I’ve shifted without the clutch before on several cars I’ve owned, but that’s only been because either a clutch cable broke or a clutch hydraulic cylinder failed, and it was never really ideal. Especially trying to get into first.

Fun fact: “STELLANTIS” is an anagram of “FCA USA LLC” and “PSA”.

I don’t see how enough higher ups got behind this and thought it was a good investment.

Considering it’s been in “preview” with Comcast victims customers for weeks, it’s pretty shoddy technically. The navigation is baffling (I lost count of the number of times I accidentally exited the app while trying to navigate back). The program guide makes no sense. (Bonus: you won’t find today’s live Premiere…

Fun fact: Americans with dual citizenship can thank Israel.

Decades ago, the State Department would not allow US citizens to have a second citizenship, and if you became naturalized in the US you had to renounce your other citizenship. After the founding of the modern state of Israel, Congress passed a law allowing…

No it isn’t. It’s the bare minimum of courtesy that you can show to other human beings. Mind you, that is a significant threshold of achievement for Trump.

Sounds like it might have a common technology platform with NBCSN

You think you own something...

...or the islanders made the trip to the Americas, and brought pre-Inca [to be pedantic] pottery back with them, along with a couple of Americans.

The lede here is pretty misleading, with its bold assertion that South Americans reached the islands. Alexander Ioannidis, the lead researcher, says very clearly that the DNA evidence could equally well be interpreted as the islanders reaching the Americas before returning, perhaps bringing some South Americans with…

There’s a long tradition of blaming “inadequate” mothers for the way their sons turn out. Not so long ago, the medical world used to blame autism on “icebox” mothers who were insufficiently affectionate.

This paper is a good starting point:

Little known fact: “Kobe” is actually Japanese for “Without”. That’s why it was so cheap. The whole “kobe” thing is actually a very long-running joke by the Japanese on the Americans, and you finally reached the punchline.

The fundamental problem here is that if you’re looking at your webcam, you’re not looking at the other participants’ eyes, and that will feel creepy to you. If you’re looking at their eyes, not the webcam, they’re not looking at your eyes. Either way, it feels “wrong”.

Just to spice things up a bit: a lot of people are saying that the “you” at the other end is not the same “you” as the one left behind (and presumably destroyed in the process). The problem with this statement is that we have absolutely no idea what it means.

It’s pretty much a rule that if a movie includes a robot whose “formal name” makes a “cute” acronym, the movie will appeal to people of all ages from five to five-and-a-half.

Exactly. What people want is an appropriate experience on each device, not the same experience on each device. What Apple has the opportunity to do is to make it easy for developers to deliver that, with common code (as appropriate) under specific experiences across a wide range of formats, without having that “hard…