GM’s position is more understandable when you think about the variety of economic factors at play during the time of the EV1 development.

Gas was incredibly cheap. GM had a great deal of competition in the industry for non-electric vehicles from Ford and Chrysler, along with the Japanese who were doing gangbusters in…

You’re certainly right about the stigma, and as a gay man myself with many gay and lesbian friends (as well as straight friends), it’s interesting to see both the general, positive shift in acceptance as well as the limits of what the wider populace are willing to tolerate when it comes to their consumption of media…

Back in my younger (and slightly older days), I broke at least 2 PS2 controllers, one PS1 controller, a PS2 system because the thrown controller hit the PS2, and a computer monitor from a thrown controller.

Now that I’m a working man with bills, that shit has ended because the inconvenience in both time and financial…

There wouldn’t be too many examples of it because if it were successful, the actors would either still be in the closet, or we’d never hear from them again, at all. Blackballing goes both ways: the threat can get someone to tow the line and stay in the closet, and succeessfully doing so can result in a person not…

You hit the nail on the head.

I put it like this. On the femininity - masculinity spectrum, society’s expectations for genders are not only different, but also different to different degrees. Meaning that society not only expects a woman to be feminine, but to be much closer to the most extreme possible example of…

Socio-culturally, the stigma against lesbians is significantly less than that against gay men. Not to mention that many (if not most) straight men don’t mind at all when two attractive women (who may or may not be lesbians) engage in lesbian activity, but there’s a more generalized aversion from women AND men towards…

I referenced three of those actors in my response, but you’re right. All three came out (or in the case of Luke, came out again), after their biggest roles. Matt Bomer after White Collar, Zachary Quinto after Heroes and Star Trek, Luke Evans after The Hobbit films and Beauty and the Beast. Same thing with Neil and Jim.…

For what it’s worth (and I’m gay myself, so keep that in mind), Neil Patrick Harris didn’t come out until after he was cast as Barney Stinson, and Jim Parsons wasn’t a mainstream, leading actor (and in many ways still isn’t) when he got cast in The Big Bang Theory. So, while people within the industry or who closely…

Only reason I recognized that name immediately is because it also belongs to one of my favorite fashion designers, Ermenegildo Zegna.

My own first name isn’t partically difficult, but it does get annoying when people automatically default to Gio (my family calls me Gino.) I prefer being called Gio, don’t get me wrong…

I suppose if you’re at the point where $15k is pocket change, then the value proposition is less tied to the nominal amount of money spent, but rather the marginal benefit (or utility) of the activity relative to an alternative (if an alternative is immediately available), or doing nothing. The reason I’m using margina…

Umm, maybe I’m misreading what 982>981 is saying, but the Supreme Court ruled in 2019 (Mitchell v. Wisconsin) that the police can issue a warrantless blood test to a driver who is unconscious or incapacitated following an accident/event, specifically to see if a person was under the influence of a substance that led…

There’s a good chance that the GPUs and CPUs in the Series X and the One simply can’t play those titles due to a variety of driver and other compatibility issues (such as DirectX). You have to remember that the Xbox and its games where developed during the Windows XP era of software and hardware. Even on gaming PCs,…

We are getting to the point where current hardware is sufficiently different to where many older PC titles are simply unplayable. Of course, most of this isn’t the fault of Microsoft, but many titles of the Windows XP-era are either unplayable with modern hardware (they simply won’t boot or immediately crash), or…

To your point, while I’m a fan of backwards compatibility (even though I’ve been fully PC-gaming since the 360/PS3 era so it doesn’t particularly pertain to my needs/wants), it does present an interesting financial situation.

As a hardware maker, backwards compatibility is a nice selling point, but it doesn’t…

Truly, the last time that Sony had any major innovation in terms of hardware was with the PS3 and the Cell Processor, which didn’t work out too terribly well because it was a pain to develop for. Sure, it was nice to play online for free (unlike Xbox Live), but Xbox Live was much more of a thing by the time the 360…

I think you might have misunderstood his point.

I believe he was saying that the criminalization of cheaters (taken to mean those who cheat and those who make the cheats) are both wrong when it comes to the nation of these things being the equivalent of theft. Because of that, your analogy seems to be off the mark,…

Dapper Dan, along with many other tailors/clothiers, have done this for decades, and while it’s understandable if the actual company (in this case Nike) was upset that MSCHF is describing the shoes as Nike’s (meaning made in a Nike factory, customized by Nike, and sold by Nike), they’re aren’t. You go to a non-Nike…

I’ll dive in.

With a lot of the early internet being dial-up, and the fact that cell phones weren’t nearly as commonplace, a lot of parents (especially black parents) saw no need for a computer or internet as it would necessitate tying up the phone line(s) whenever someone got on (and they certainly wouldn’t pay the…

Hey. Thanks for the reply. I was talking about generalities, but I appreciate finding out more detail by someone in the know. Appreciate it :)

The 2/20 structure is normal, but Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies routinely has taken over 44% of profits (above a certain threshold), Element Capital is at 40%, and depending on how oversubscribed a fund is, plenty of HNW individuals will pay a higher performance fee simply to get their money into the fund…