I suspect that the only reason the actual store sells roses is in order to use the name.  It seems that there aren’t a bunch of different formations you can buy there, just roses.

It was always unclear to me why, in 1992, you would theme your new log flume ride after a 46 year old film that even the 90s you were sufficiently embarrassed by that you wouldn’t show it to someone.  Surely there was something else in the Disney inventory they could have used (like a Black Cauldron flume!)

I liked it, but there really wasn’t much of it.  There were, what, 12 episodes in three years?  That’s like a BBC show.

I have never cared about anything less than I care about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

I had both ingredients just sitting around so I tried just the 2:1 Pepsi:Milk thing.  It’s okay, vaguely reminiscent of a rootbeer float that has melted.  I imagine the coffee creamer is supposed to make it richer to double down on that, but this is not the sort of thing I would go out of my way to buy things I don’t…

So his pivot is of course going to be “I love everybody” there’s just going to be an unspoken “except the Jews” I figure. This man needs to be forceably helped. Whatever we undid to Britney needs to be done to Kanye.

But the thing about “you know metalworking because your a dwarf” is not because this is something innate to dwarven genes, but you’re still a person that has a history before they became an adventurer and reflecting those thematics with mechanics is good. So if you’re a Dwarf your parents were dwarves and there’s a…

I feel like the basic problem with “10 most hated christmas candies” is that I don’t think I could have named 10 christmas candies before clicking on this article.  Christmas was always more associated with baked goods (cookies, fruitcake, yule logs, etc.) than candy for me.

To be honest, I think that Paizo’s breaking “Race” into “Ancestry” and “Heritage” is better than “Species”. Both because there’s both a cultural and a biological thing that are not necessarily tied together (e.g. you’re are the kind of dwarf that resists poison because of your genes from your parents, but you learned…

The weird thing about Neuralink is that if you really think about “getting the brain talk to computers” there are essentially two problems- 1) getting the computer to understand the electric signals that the neurons in the brain send along 2) understanding how the brain works enough to build a interface with what is…

I feel like if the option is “spend $40 at McDonalds” or “Eat 30-40 Olives” I’m going with the latter and experiencing less regret than usual.

Yeah, ignore the 280m number for mDAU, there was a press release from Twitter from October (before this mess started) that said that people who log into twitter 6-7 times a week and are responsible for 90% of the tweets are about 10% of the platform. Those are the people who are monetizeable- nobody is going to pay a…

Are we still trying to pretend that Twitter can raise anything close to 50% of it’s needed operating income from subscriptions?  Just in terms of debt servicing, Twitter needs to raise a billion dollars a year, and they’re likely to have a conversion rate similar to YouTube Premium (about 2.5%).

I mean, the long and short of it is that nobody was ever going to just say “Alexa- order more soap” because “soap” is a huge category of things, and saying “Alexa- order Irish Spring Bar Soap Original Scent 24 pack 3.7 oz bars” is a mouthful. Particularly given that there’s probably a price below which I’ll just buy…

This is my least favorite Muppet-thing, and that includes the Swedish Chef’s cereal.

It feels like “long cherished character has finally entered the public domain, let’s do something transgressive” is mostly a thing because the Mouse has so thoroughly twisted Copyright law in order to protect their characters.

All of the other companies he’s in charge of have an intermediate layer of management dedicated to handling the man-child in charge- you package things that you need to do in a way that makes him think they’re a good (i.e. his) idea, and you run interference by keeping his more batshit whims away from the people who…

Don’t pay like $60 for a culinary torch.  Pay $20 at the hardware store for a regular torch and just be careful.

It just feels like “movie stars” in the sense that they’re actors whose movies you’ll see just because that person is in them, or actors who make movies better just by being in them just aren’t ever going to be especially common.  I’m not sure if most of these people in comic movies were doing other movies that they’d…

Duel is better than Minority Report or War of the Worlds IMO.  For the technological and financial limitations, Duel is incredible.