Exactly.

Economically, individual firms, when seeing that there’s a discrepancy between the demand for the shipped goods, and the available supply, will move the price curve towards the new equilibrium by increasing supply via more trucks and drivers.

One of the few reasons why that wouldn’t happen both come from…

As someone who hadn’t read the books (but absolutely loves the work of Villeneuve), I thought it was, for the most part, a lifeless visual masterpiece.

I’m not sure if it was the writing from Villeneuve, or from Frank Herbert, or the narrative itself, but I just wasn’t engrossed by any of the characters or what they…

I had the same feeling, but I phrased it as “so much of nothing.” Meaning that a lot was going on, but it didn’t really have any significance due to a certain emotional distance from most of the characters.

In other words, I wasn’t made to care for House Atreides. I wasn’t made to loathe the Harkonnen’s. I wasn’t made…

At least in Florida, it was an outright goal to have a broken unemployment system specifically to deter people from using it.

While many states had systems that were simply inadequate for a deluge of claims due to a once-in-a-century type event (Covid-19), Florida purposefully contracted a system that was nearly…

It’s definitely not in all states.

I sold for Honda in Florida for a brief time back in 2010, and didn’t have to get individually licensed.

To piggyback using specifically those two games (X being a favorite and XIII being one I despise).

The other issue that hurt XIII in regards to the feeling of linearity was how the story was presented. We were thrown into a vast new world following multiple characters in the midst of a conflict knowing absolutely fuck…

You’re right, but there’s also the reality that all of the players involved, from studio executives to directors to actors to crew members, have the have the ability to synthesize the correct feedback and learning opportunities from the intervening period.

Too often we see knee-jerk reactions to pre-screens and…

True, but it’s a bit wrong-headed to think that back-to-back filming is necessarily the cause of the movies being bad.

Bad movies are gonna be bad movies, most of the time, irrespective of the shooting schedule. It’s whether or not the studio and financiers have the foresight and/or the gumption to spend the money and…

I used single-fire as a colloquialism because some people might not understand what semi-automatic means, especially if they don’t know guns. My comment correctly denoted “select-fire”, as AR-15s have had that capability since their first iteration.

That being said, were you saying that there was a scene where someone…

1) I think they’re worried about the actual spying being boring and mundane because...actual spying tends to be boring and mundane. So much fieldwork and tradecraft has been transposed into things like SIGINT and immense amount of data analysis, that the halcyon days of late WWII and the Cold War where dead-drops and…

Just have to point out that AR-15s, and pretty much their entire family lineage of rifles, are select fire, meaning that you can choose between single-fire and either fully-auto or 3-round burst, depending on the model.

I have loved pretty much everything Villeneuve has done (BR2049 brought me to tears), but I agree with this wholeheartedly.

It felt...lifeless. Granted, I’ve never read the books, so I was coming in blind except for comedic reviews of the Lynch version, but there was nothing about the movie that moved me. I’m not one…

That’s immediately where my mind went.

Dre has the resources to live halfway across the world, or bounce around to different homes across the country, to avoid being served papers. Hell, it’s a common-enough trope not to return for family gatherings, such as funerals, if you have warrants out on you, or are getting…

Truth be told, there’s so much that goes into the cost of an individual item on a menu that it’s almost foolish, economically, to use that as a barometer on whether or not wages should/could/would increase or decrease the price of that item.

Different countries have different rules regarding the composition of the…

I’d add a small counterpoint to your point.

Fast food often thrives because of the combination of economies of scale when it comes to input costs (such as purchasing food), as well as franchise models that offset a great deal of the associated overhead costs that would otherwise be born by the franchisor or the…

EVE needed an in-house economist (I used to play EVE, and studied economics, so there’s that) because EVE, unlike most MMOs, was designed to where NPCs provided little-to-no actual input on the greater economy, particularly when it came to the sourcing of raw materials and the production of said materials into…

Not much, since having read the book and watched the film, there are significant differences.

It’s basically a non-careerist Dexter at this point.

And it’s not a bad thing. Dexter fell victim to the central premise almost becoming too laughable (a Youtube creator pointed out that in 8 seasons of the show, the Miami PD Homicide Division, of which Dexter is a part of, managed to solve all of 2 homicide cases,…

You don’t need a type advantage against Brock with Charmander.

Catch Metapod in Viridian Forest. Evolve Metapod into Butterfree at level 10. Butterfree learns Confusion (lvl 10 in Yellow/12 in Red/Blue). Use Confusion against Geodude and Onyx, both of whom don’t resist it and have shit Sp. Def.

Or, as you said, you can…

You’re absolutely right, and it’s my mistake. I was conflating his case with someone elses’. Thank you for pointing it out.

It’s one of those odd things, because I’ve been a longtime fan of Dave, I’ve watched most of his standup dating back to the 90s, and I’ve gotten to see him live, back in 2014. Needless to say, I’m…