There’s a potential folk etymology that places the usage of the term cracker (as a catch-all for white folks, particularly southerners) from those very same cracker barrels. And, not for nothing, it’s both a term and a particular item that’s distinct as Southern that regardless of the source via the founder (who,…

Almost any descriptor of a persons race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, and so on, can be used in a negative, pejorative way.

Do you think Neo-fascists use the term Jew to speak of the amazing history of the Semitic peoples? Do you think Christian fanatics use the term “gay” to speak of homosexuals in…

The problem with your N-word example is that being dark-skinned, contextually, was automatically seen as being inferior. It wasn’t innocuous whatsoever. Being called things like swarthy implied that someone in your parentage or lineage there might have been some non-white admixture. It’s why in a myriad of languages…

It’s less about the fact she’s convicted murderer and more about the willingness and the perceived hypocrisy to directly profit from your portrayal of a real-life person, who is still living, and claim that you wrote an 80-page biography of this real-life person for...reasons, yet you’ve had no actual interaction with…

Exactly.

I’m from Florida (Tampa, to be exact), and there’s Cracker Barrels all over the place, and a museum called Cracker Country which, ironically enough, sits near the Seminole Hard Rock Casino.

Cracker originally denoted the early non-Spanish European settlers of Florida. Even it’s use by non-white people, it was…

The real overarching issue is that the term Cracker was long in use to denote settlers of Florida, and wasn’t at all derogatory. It’s even used in the name of notable restaurants such as Cracker Barrel and a museum here in Tampa called Cracker Country (I’m from Florida so I’m familiar with this from upbringing).

Cracke…

My father preferred the term peckerwoods, which is used so rarely (except, notably, on the show Mayor of Kingstown) that most people wouldn’t know it’s a slur, nor would they know the meaning.

Nevertheless, I don’t use Twitch so I’m not particularly familiar with what they determine “slurs” to be. Considering that the…

Depending on the particular franchisee, it’s quite possible for the in-house delivery prices to be more expensive than using a third-party app. Also, especially on busy days. using a third-party app might be the only way to get a delivery in a reasonable amount of time.

It’s much quicker for a Pizza Hut or a Dominos to…

Pizza places might not want to pay for extra delivery drivers as employees, so it would be cheaper for them to use a third party. Not only that, but if that particular store is really busy, making a little less on each pizza by using a third-party but being able to physically deliver more due to using a third-party…

If universities are going to start firing every awkward teacher/professor/lecturer/TA who fires off emails and has awkward interactions with students, a lot of these universities are gonna have to cut available classes and reduce the amount of admitted students.

It’s already hard enough finding good talent to get into…

This is so mind-numbingly stupid it’s not at all surprising it occurred at a institute of higher learning.

It’s clear that the teacher/lecturer/professor overcorrected with the e-mail. But in certain cases, you find yourself in a Catch-22, and I truly believe this guy felt he was in one.

There’s also the salient fact…

Some of the high price for NES and SNES were outright due to the costs of producing cartridges on a mass scale, as well as many games never seeing the light of day in certain regions, but still needing to actually make money. Best selling games at a high price effectively subsidized a lot of the physical production of…

You’re right in terms of how it’s written, I just think in turns Greg into a complete idiot if he doesn’t realize how easily $250m could translate into significantly more status than merely being a corporate executive.

He’s already a part of the family. That curries status, even if his relation is rather tangential…

The problem is that if his sole goal is wealth and freedom, why didn’t he accept Ewan’s proposal from season 1 to give him $250m outright to leave Waystar? That’s more money than he’ll ever make running Waystar-Buffalo, he’ll no longer have to deal with Tom, Logan, or the kids and their bullshit, and he’ll have…

That’s the one thing about the finale that has me confused: altering the divorce agreement.

Once the court order is in, it’s incredibly difficult to alter the terms of a divorce agreement, especially when it comes to the division of property and assets (of which shares in Waystar-Royco would be a part of). By law, the…

Let’s not forget his virulent anti-Semitism, amongst other personality foibles. 

Exactly.

And even then, the only time that Spike being a bounty hunter specifically plays a role in him interacting with the syndicate involves the bounty on Mao Yenrai. Presumably, Spike is only aware of the bounty due to him being a bounty hunter. Every other interaction is, as you said, due to Vicious utilizing…

No one is saying, or has said, it’s a perfect show.

What people, like myself, are saying is that some of your criticisms are literally wrong because the anime outright showed the opposite of what you’re claiming (namely Spike’s cybernetic eye, or his few interactions with the Red Dragon Syndicate, only one of which is…

1. To your point about a job in law enforcement, a bounty hunter isn’t a law enforcement agent, nor do they enjoy many of the privileges afforded to law enforcement agents. Legally, they’re almost the equivalent of a private investigator, and depending on the state/locale, the degree in which they have to be licensed…

I enjoy Succession a great deal, never cared for any of Cody’s work, but a lot of the dialog between the two sound like awkward takes on what Armando Iannucci has done well throughout his career, with some David Mamet thrown in for good measure.