Realistically, if Boeing wanted this guy silenced, they would just make him disappear into nothingness, not stage a rather public suicide. It is VERY hard to prove a crime with no body.

We have no idea what else was going on in the guy’s life that could have contributed to his mental health. Going straight to “boeing corporation assassinated him and made it look like suicide” is edging into qanon territory

The BAC that prevents you from boarding is 100%. As long as the person isn’t going to die as soon as they drop the pressure from alcohol poisoning, you let them stagger on.

“and I’m sure the result has been arranged beforehand”

Some athletes are physical and genetic anomalies, and that doesn’t just end once they cross a certain age. Not saying Tyson is one of those

I guess so. It still baffles me just how you can get hit by an object on a fixed route. Ah well anything short of getting arrested and left on the tracks.

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…