This place is absolutely amazing, the highlight of my trip to Las Vegas this year. It’s a brilliant idea, a ton of cool experimental experiential stuff that maybe couldn’t stand alone, but if you package it like a mall, the experience becomes something entirely different.

Murder By Death is actually a favorite of mine, I find it falls flat unless you know the movies and books it’s referencing. Inspector Wang isn’t funny unless you’ve seen the old Sidney Toler or Warner Oland “Charlie Chan” movies, the references to Mrs. Marples and Sam Spade are less obscure than a series of 1940s…

I always enjoyed your posts and you’ll be missed, I wish you nothing but the very best.

Largely it’s a cultural thing, what sports map to high and low class usually don’t make much sense (with the exception of things like golf which take enormous amounts of land, water and labor, and sports that require you to own a horse).  The equipment for tennis is marginally more expensive but Snowboarding is seen…

I think the issue is that you sign it once and the copy goes with them, and you may forget what’s in it months or even years later, only to find yourself evicted (and because of rent control landlords have a LOT of motivation to evict whenever possible) because of a clause you completely forgot about like the bedbug…

The problem is that not all art qualifies even under this ruling. It has to be something that makes a political statement you don’t agree with on a moral level. It’s tough to say there’s any ‘speech’ aspect to a haircut or that it could be making a written statement you have a moral opposition to.

The part that needs to be said among a lot of bad reporting on this one is that most likely this isn’t legal— they would have to argue that haircutting is a creative endeavor that requires personally crafting a message, and that’s a long stretch to make. The ruling absolutely did not say you can refuse service to…

intentional intoxication has never been a criminal defense in the US, and in jurisdictions where it has been the legislature has quickly changed it because it means you can do whatever you want as long as you take enough drugs first.

It’s possible to hold both positions at once and believe there is a line between them. For instance I oppose the death penalty in general; but I think it should be on the books for terrorists and mass shooters, as well as people who commit monstrous crimes for which there is absolutely incontrovertable proof (think:…

That is and is not true.  A justice system has to contend with the psychology of the public, or people go outside the system to seek justice.  Overly lenient sentencing leads to vigilantism and undermines the public’s trust that they will be protected if they are some day targeted.

I just don’t see how this doesn’t have such a massive signal/noise ratio, to such an extent it is effectively more trouble for agencies than it’s worth. And as with anything that level of signal to noise means the government has to choose who to watch— turning an ostensibly universal tool into one of targeted…

just a theory but there is no such thing as the “perfect plan” they might have decided that the risk of being discovered or dropping the goods assembling some kind of makeshift lift to get them out the way they came in was impractical or too dangerous (no one wants to be hauled off to jail with a broken back and…

If you tried to make an alcopop and photoshopped a can of mountain dew for the packaging, even if it listed an ABV and the legally-required alcohol warnings and didn’t look a lot like a real can of mountain new, the BATF would still absolutely shit themselves and confiscate the lot of them.

I think you make a good comparison when you bring up alcohol. If an alcopop, a perfectly legal and popular product, tried to have packaging that was basically photoshopped from a can of mountain dew, even if it didn’t look much like a real mountain dew can and had an ABV listed on it, the BATF would absolutely shit a…

How about making it easier for parents to parent their kids by requiring potent psychoactive substances to be in childproof containers, you know, like every other drug on the planet?

that is true, there’s ONE case on record of someone giving out edibles on halloween and much has been made of it (and, I should point out as I’m sure the OP knows by their reference, zero cases of someone posioning Halloween candy to give out, the cases on record are all parents that poisoned their **own** children…

that’s the biggest part of it. I really don’t get the controversy, to be honest. Yes I get it, some people think weed is awesome. Awesome as it may be it’s NOT a completely benign substance, it is a psychoactive pharmaceutical product. It needs to be treated as such, especially edibles because of the long duration of…

If you’re worried about “what will be left for adults”, ideally, things that are very clearly medical products in form and function, but no they don’t have to be made of kale. This is basically a solved problem in the pharmaceutical industry— they make fentanyl bucal-absorbtion lollypops for trauma cases (no need to…

how is it a parenting problem, when kids are not locked up in the home 24/7. It seems needlessly risky to allow people to make a psychoactive product that is indistinguishable in form or substance from a candy intended for and often consumed by children. It’s trivially easy to change your packaging to make it…

That’s fair, but unless you never let your kids see friends and literally lock them in the house (which would be child abuse, frankly) they are exposed to the world-- you don’t have perfect control as a parent and that’s a good thing because kids learn that way.  But as a society we take some steps to ensure that…