Either people will learn or the dumb ones will be culled. I’m OK with either option.

They were already working on it that way for Remake which means it would have predated all the multiverse stuff in the MCU.

I have zero sympathy for these people.

The larger issue is that vendors charge insurance companies fees that are far less than the fees they charge uninsured consumers 

You can’t refuse emergency services. That is VERY illegal. You CAN refuse to provide elective services. So if this lady needed that life flight (and nobody gets a helicopter unless things are DIRE), they can’t say no. They can’t even ask if she HAS insurance. Load her up, fly, figure out the details later

Do not ever assume your parents have made good financial or health care decisions. Pry, nag, ask questions.

Not an air ambulance, but the local hospital tried some similar bullshit when my Grandmother died. She had insurance, but the way the hospital coded the bill, the insurance would not accept it. The insurance company even TOLD the hospital what they needed to change to get paid in full, but they refused. Jokes on them,…

100% agree. We are at a point that going higher and higher fidelity is going to take a bigger increase in processing power to accomplish. Not to mention the storage requirements also going up for all those 4k, 8k or even 16k textures, and with physical copies also slowly going away, unless you have a monster…

See I very much believe we have fully hit the point of diminishing returns already. And frankly that’s fine. We are at a point where game install sizes have become MASSIVE, it’s to the point you can fit what 4 maybe 5 AAA games on the standard hard drive in either console. Is there room to go in graphics, sure, do we…

The shows sold out in my town which, believe me, was entirely unexpected. But then I live with Cornbillies who don’t have much to do during Christmas (shop, eat, drink). They’ll watch anything in a theatre and the love musicals around here (I don’t).

Hint to HBO: The dragons are one of the most boring parts of Game of Thrones, and everyone looks shitty in snow white wigs, so you don’t have to make every show about the Targaryens.

I think TV shows are also a trap because there’s a presumption on behalf of the audience that the show will get as many seasons as it “needs” to adapt the book(s), and that pushes up against the economic reality of the medium. 

I appreciate the thought and care you’ve put into your response. I’ll give it a careful read at some point, although to be frank, I don’t have the time to write the long response it deserves.

I didn’t have to read it, no. But I do have to read scripts by young screenwriters who may be influenced by that bullshit and who may decide that if HE can do it, so can they. And no, they can’t. Because he shouldn’t have either. He’s the director so it doesn’t particularly matter if the script is a bunch of twee…

I love this! I truly appreciated your comment. I live in NYC and the funny thing is that I never noticed Adam Driver was supposed to be ‘hot-hot’ until my gay male designers kept pointing it out and we all watched the last two season of Girls together while they teased me. I SO love and trust their taste. I had mainly…

My saying that it could be a better movie was honestly not a dig at Scorsese or at the movie. What I don’t want to say is that no one is capable of making a movie as good or better than this Scorsese take. There is a range of possibilities, a big one, and within that range is a better movie, not because it’s from an…

hurricanes would have no real issue on above ground track construction. It isn’t that different from regular concrete reinforced elevated tracks. The real issue would be protecting the reinforcing from corrosive salt air. 

Source: I design buildings and roads in florida.

Jamie Lee Curtis deserved a guest star nom for The Bear.

Nice post. Obligatory nitpick, the chops are usually not strictly proportional to the number of players left but proportional to the fraction of the total chips in play that each player has. E.g. three players and 100k chips in play with a payout of 1000, 500, and 250 for 1st, second and third. If the biggest stack is…

Does the 3800 V6 not count for anything? Also the Diablos are the best looking Lamborghinis ever made. The Countach is too spartan, the Murcielago is too smooth, and the Aventador looks like a 12 year old was told to design a car with a ruler.