A candle is such a bizarre thing to put in a box like this.  Since it’s a collector’s item, and it’s supposed to be stuff you keep around for a while and treasure, but if you burn the candle then you don’t have it anymore.  On the other hand, a candle you don’t want to burn is a waste of space.

The technical name for “change in acceleration” is “jerk” and we can be sure that Tesla still has the biggest jerk in the business.

I’m pretty sure they’re not going to cast anybody as the Emperor.  The Emperor is set decoration, not a character.

The thing about “posted my location which threatened my child” is a complete fabrication, particularly since there were no posts by the ElonJet bot within 2 days of the alleged incident (it crossposts to non-twitter sites, so we can verify this) and there’s no actual evidence that the alleged incident took place near…

Those poor fish.

I would offer “any large countertop appliances with limited utility.” I’m the person in my family who cooks, and some winners from my eldest brother include “a deep fryer” (I own a dutch oven and a thermometer), a countertop meat slicer (have never used, have no intention of using), and a countertop electric meat…

I mean, mashed avocado is lime and salt away from being guacamole to begin with.

I mean, I’m glad that the Steam Deck is has sold well, but I’m also very happy that it sold well enough that I likely don’t have to get the Gen 1 version.

I mean, if I was actually locked in a room and did not understand “I am here to solve a puzzle” then my starting idea is “take the door off the hinges”.

You can tell that the NFT Grift is running out since the people who love Trump are the people who are easiest to scam. You only really bother advertising on right wing media if this is obviously something everybody is going to buy, or in case nobody else is likely to buy your brain pills or overpriced pillows.

I mean,“the thing I opened randomly contained the exact thing I wanted” is more exciting and psychologically rewarding than “I got the exact thing I wanted by finding it in the store and paying the listed price.” It’s just that rationally you should be able to understand that in the long run it’s cheaper.

I mean, Twitter is free and nothing the company does creates the things I want to see on Twitter. Hulu, on the other hand is like $7/month and does produce things (Reservation Dogs is great, y’all) and I’m still not paying an extra $8 to see it with no ads.

So like the reason you use mozzarella in the actual fried food is the the structure provided by the stretchiness of the mozzarella holds up better in the heat of the fryer.  Everybody who’s ever had fried cheese curds know those things get runny.  But when you’re talking about a puffed corn or whatever, covered in an…

I feel like the way you make the locker thing work is to make sure it’s not the only option for any one thing, and not an option for several things (like ice cream.)

I just wonder how much sense it’s going to make if I never saw the first one.  It’s the only Cameron I’ve missed (Ghosts of the Abyss was great!) because I cannot handle 3D movies.

The funniest thing is that if Musk were simply able to stop posting, stop doing press conferences, and stop doing guest appearances his PR people would probably do a great job making him look, if not great, but at least not being as hated as Bezos or Arnualt. But the man cannot understand that there’s a difference…

So I’m broadly in favor of antitrust enforcement, but it seems pretty clear that video game consoles kind of work on a razors/blade model- the actual machine is sold at a loss and the money is made back on games. Normally the platform holder gets a fee from each game sold on their platform, but we’ve long accepted…

I mean, the thing is that Sony owns some 20+ first party studios. We just don’t think this is weird because we’re used to it since this has been the case for a while. But if I don’t object to Sony owning 20+ first party studios, I likewise don’t see a reason to object to Microsoft owning 20+ first party studios.

It’s telling that these people are focusing on “the use of twitter to ensure other people see your ideas” when that’s the focus of twitter for a vanishingly small number of users. A normal twitter user would do things like “follow accounts to keep up on the happenings in their interests (news, sports, music,…

“Can my tweets trend” is simply not a concern for the overwhelming majority of the users of the site.  After all, the goal of twitter is to not be today’s main character.