Usually I don’t appreciate the snark around here but I totally understand why you would be attacking a website that was “floating a lot of odd language in its coverage” or being “weirdly reticent” to acknowledge something obvious.

This is us. We are in Chicago and there are far more restaurants than we could visit in a lifetime with more opening all the time. We were just at a place and the server asked “have you dined with us before?” Well, yes, but it was six or seven years ago. Being a regular means going back a second time.

Not that I have any known enemies...

I got the feeling she wasn’t calling out her specific employer for not doing anything so much as saying that people in general just weren’t ready for it, didn’t take it seriously enough, and didn’t know how to handle it in 2014 and she suffered for that lack of institutional knowledge.

500 million “users” looks a lot better than 380 million, even if the actual numbers are the same.

You are spot-on about Danny. There is no way they can resolve that plot line well.

Good! But I’m a little worried that the phrase “no reasonable person could believe” doesn’t mean as much as it used to.

Lutefisk! Lutefisk! Lutefisk!

That’s a cyclical thing. They did all of that because the market was overheated and there was excess supply when the pandemic slump ended.  It overcompensated and will change when the market goes down (probably soon) and then the cost-certainty of a mortgage will be attractive again.

I feel like this “not allowed to have more than one copy of a clone” idea has been done a lot, but I also feel like I’ll watch an SF movie from Bong Joon Ho no matter what.

The rent was $525/month in 2007. I just looked up the place online. That same floorplan now rents for $1,175/month. If the rent had just kept pace with the rate of inflation, it would be $740/month, but instead it has ballooned more then $430/month more than that.

Amazon, the company that has dutifully trained most of us to think of consumer goods as things we can get delivered to us right this very minute

Can’t explain the videos, but they are on record about the slide shows somewhere.

This is why each season should tell a story. It’s fine to leave some threads dangling in case you get a second but when the first season is only an introduction and doesn’t finish anything at all, this is what you get. If you are a creator with what you think is a pretty good story, don’t you want to tell that story?

I don’t like glitter. It’s coarse, rough, and irritating. And it gets everywhere.

#UncheckedPower

Doesn’t that describe all the “disruptors?” Uber is a cab company that doesn’t follow taxi regulations. Airbnb is a hotel that doesn’t follow hotel regulations.

I’m with you on not wanting to buy a whole jar of something for a half teaspoon, but I disagree with all your examples.

I’d argue that the ones you get grilled in a little café just off the water in Marseille with a glass of local wine are best, but the oil packed ones are certainly easier to access.

Not a lawyer, but it is my understanding that these suits against squatters are easy to win. That said, lawyers are expensive and the whole reason people do this is to get paid off. It’s not like he is going to start selling DM themed paper products - that would be work. I would guess filing the lawsuit is just…