I’ve never had a problem voting. I’ve always had access because I’ve always been fortunate enough to live in affluent areas.

I think the funniest thing is this movie has the only role Christopher Eccleston hasn’t complained about.  He greatly enjoyed playing a psychotic black market merchant with a furniture-making hobby.

That’s a weird one. They called it Drive, but I don’t think they meant it to be a “car movie”. It’s like they decided to focus on the driver, and threw in the car sequences just to show that the driver is good. But the movie isn’t about driving, or cars.

I’d argue that Tokyo Drift actually is a car movie.

She does go on to explain that if she sells the property in the future for the same price, she’ll owe taxes on that $3 million again. But until that day, she’s basically getting an interest-free loan from the government.

Actually, it’s all Ohio.

2. He has college aspirations. What part of that don’t you understand?

To be fair, it is heavily modified. Including stuffing a couple Walbro 450s in the tank, which may affect the fuel level sender. Those mods were done a couple years ago and the sender worked fine up until a couple weeks ago though, so it might not be their fault. I don’t think the mods would do anything to an oil…

While we’re discussing usage and etymology, let’s also do diffuse vs defuse. I see more and more people misuse diffuse in “to diffuse a tense situation”. Diffuse is already a verb meaning “to spread out”. You want “defuse a tense situation”.

Nate reminds me of myself, and it makes me uncomfortable. Life has taught many, many times that letting my ego run rampant is a recipe for disaster, and hinders my success in the end. Insecurity and doubt inspire me to do my best work. Overconfidence and hubris make it impossible for me to see my own mistakes and…

Heel turn, as a description of motion or metaphorically, say “he turned heel and ran away” is quite old, sure. But “heel,” as a contemptable person, only goes back to 1914, and the oldest cited usage of heel-turn I could find was 2000. My suspicion is that it goes back to at least the mid-80s in wrestling context, but…

Heel turn, as a phrase, way pre dates wrestling terminology. I’m not sure it’s even used right here. A heel turn is a sudden change in direction... Nate has been a closet asshole on this show LITERALLY since his first line ep 1 season 1

“Face” and “Heel” have been used in wrestling slang for at least half a century, and the specific phrase “heel turn” in this usage has been around for at least 20 years. Probably considerably longer, but slang etymology tends not to be all that rigorously documented.

I just hope they give Nate a handlebar mustache next season. I really need to see him twirl it a bit so that I can be sure he’s a bad guy.

I hope Nick isn’t getting trashed by people on social who can’t separate art from reality, because his work in bringing Nate and his arc to life has been absolutely stellar. Even when Nate is at his worst you can see layers - Nick communicates them so well.

People have been calling her an attention whore since she writhed on the stage at the VMAs- this is what she does. It’s her brand. It’s like how you can count on Cher wearing a fishnet bodysuit and Dolly Parton to wear gravity defying wigs- Madonna is going to be overtly, physically sexual. Why change what’s worked…

The tone of that blurb is very off putting. Like he doesn’t have a right to have discomfort about the way people reacted. Compare it to the Adele article a few days ago.

I know Dirtbag is snarky, but that blurb about Kumail seems rude unless I’m misinterpreting it. He was excited about his body transformation and shared it with the world. He never had people focus on his body and looks before and realized how uncomfortable it makes him. For him to acknowledge that, I think is…

Indeed. Don’t get me wrong—David the mad adventurer dragging a cloud of Prestone-soaked rust particles to Moab and back is amusing in a horrifying sort of way—but David the actual engineer taking deep dives into interesting technical topics is what I want more and more of.

Damn, David, I’m not one to gush, but this is the kind of content that keeps me coming back. It’s not just a report of “Here’s something that happened” but rather it’s a dive into why it happened, complete with sweet sweet math to back it up!