On their way out they’re passing laws to force you to burn more oil. Ain’t they lovely?

I figure employees of GM may not be able to simply switch employers but this policy is so fucking dumb, I would never work for a company so fucking petty.

I’ll tell you what it is.

I think I still have one in a closet somewhere. I remember converting that sucker to a linux machine to make it outlast the planned obsolescence. Battery on those suckers was NOT good, which is why I think the trend died so quickly.

Trump cheered on the opening of a new coal plant during his run, but what they failed to say was that it was a plant specifically for steelmaking, which is a massively smaller scale than power generation.

Oh, are Republicans done with using Coal Miners as political props now? 

Aye. Shipping can be fun if done with the base knowledge of “My assumptions are almost certainly wrong but it’s fun to pretend” that a lot of head-canon stuff should come with, but it is easy to go overboard with it.

Even talking to actors about the entertainment products they’re featured in is a mistake, though probably an unavoidable one. I was also irked by Colbert (?) asking Rita Moreno about colorism in In the Heights. An actor is a craftsman doing as they’re told. Only if they get to major star status and can be listed as…

I half agree with you. I think that fans shouldn’t NEED to read queer subtext in everything, but when there’s so little ACTUAL queer subtext (and heck, text) to read into, people will scrabble at scraps and pretend it’s a buffet. Maybe once we actually get to a point of parity, or at least a robust mix, between queer…

I agree with Mackie’s larger point that fans should stop trying to read queer subtext into every close male relationship in film. People have been doing the shipping thing for a long time now in fandom circles, and it’s really not great. When there’s this push to say “oh, Frodo and Sam are definitely gay,” it degrades…

There’s two problems here. The first is a lack of queer representation in mainstream movies and television series. The second however, is saying every close male friendship is “queer bait” and this site is guilty of it. I watched the whole show, there was nothing in the show that implied Falcon and Winter Soldier were…

Between the smoke every year from the fires as everything burns to the ground as the Jewish Space Lazers power up once more (funny how they only have power during the summer months), and the fact that we managed to eradicate several Influenza strains in the last year, it’s pretty clear masks have and should continue…

There is a “number’s game” element to it. The more civilizations there are, the more likely one of them will spread across the galaxy in a way that might be noticeable to other civilizations.

Yeah, there are three different vaccines. Shots are readily available from virtually every pharmacy, hospital and public health department in the US, with little to no wait time or scheduling headaches.  Zero excuses anymore.

“Florida is one of five states that never implemented a statewide face mask requirement throughout the pandemic and was among the first to throw covid-19 restrictions out the window.”

I genuinely hope that we someday get a good and deep study of just how much Covid Florida managed to export around the rest of the…

A bitcoin conference and Florida — the perfect convergence of differing forms of stupidity.

I remember the first laptop I really dug into didn’t even have a mobile specific CPU. Like, I stole it for my tower at the time because that chip had the reputation for being able to overclock like a champ. But it’s been 20 years since laptops and desktops shared sockets like that. The last laptop I got into was a…

But Aukey was still better than the random Chinese market-flood stuff. But maybe because of the Chinese renamed market flood crap, their stuff was getting pushed out by people just buying the cheapest bulk stuff they could grab.

Or the review indicates just how incompetent that person is, or that they didn’t read the actual description.

“Go read the one- and two-star reviews to check a product’s potential deficiencies . . .”