I don’t have the background or vocabulary to properly explain why I’ve loved Daft Punk so much, especially their later catalogue, and why this is a pretty good encapsulation
but I’ll try ...

Seriously underrated post. This is not about “unchecked corporate power,” it simply maintains a land-use scheme that has been in place for over 50 years and has worked well for both sides — Disney and the public alike — for that entire time. This just means the wife of the state party chair, and a pastor who thinks…

The reality of the Reedy Creek Improvement District was that it gave Disney the rights to avoid the permitting process for renovations and new construction, avoid having to bid out projects to justify costs, and they retained the local portion of sales, property, and hotel occupancy taxes, which were almost entirely…

Now testify!

All these new flavors from Coke and Pepsi have been awful, and that’s putting it nicely.  Starlight?  Ugh.  Byte?  Gross.  Dreamworld?  Gag me.  Soul Blast?  Terrible.  And this past weekend I tried the Pepsi Peeps, I spit it into the sink almost immediately.  

Dwight?

Oh wow hey guess what I did grow up with a gas stove that we had to manually light and I did have asthma, so maybe anecdote is not data.

As of publication, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had lost a fifth vote to become speaker of the House on Wednesday

Seriously thought that was the real one because I figured only a municipal government would choose Comic Sans.

“That all sounds well and good, but the lack of the names Boyd Crowder and Walton Goggins is very concerning”

He’s the actor version of video-game character default setting

“Name’s Bland, James Bland.”

So spell it right.

I don't even know if this is slow motion. 

I mean, he’s objectively a quack. I don’t know anyone who’s blaming Oprah directly for his decision to run, but she gave him a massive, legitimized platform and has never, not once, spoken publicly about how that was a mistake. I know it’s bad form to speak out, unprompted, against a friend or former friend, but he…

I’m here to add to chorus of people saying that setting it up beforehand is a terrible idea. Setting up your new... anything, is half of the excitement of getting a new thing. It’s part of the process. Maybe you like to just have an opened box ready to play, but you shouldn’t recommend that people do it as standard…

Seriously. Let people enjoy their stuff fresh. It’s part of the experience. Unless it’s a little kid or person who literally can’t set it up themselves... don’t.

Given that the most disappointed I ever was on Christmas morning as a kid was when Dad had opened up and set up all the electronics and toys ahead of time: