Oh I was totally too wrapped up in what was going on at my old employer for a little while too. I used to read the viscous reviews people left on Glassdoor (and laugh at the comically fake reviews management left a day or two after every negative review). I enjoyed the schadenfreude a little too much, but I moved on…

honestly he comes across as someone who doesn’t get too terribly “deep” into his work. he’s a competent actor, he gets a role, he shows up and acts the role... sounds like he’s not exactly putting a whole ton of thought into it.

I’ve watched my team (Broncos) struggle to replace two hall of fame QBs in that timeframe and let me tell you, it’s going to SUCK to be a Packers fan for a while now. The way the NFL is these days with the emphasis on the passing game, you just can’t win without a top-10 QB (really, if we’re talking SB championship,…

It’s only important becuase our that’s always how it’s been here. 65% is a pretty big majority, but that figure isn’t what it used to be, and the trends only point to it continuing to decline. 

It really sucks how workplaces like this make you question yourself; you put up with more and more BS over time and in the end you’re dealing with stuff you never would have tolerated at the beginning but still feeling bad about not being the “perfect” employee. sounds like you did the right thing!

That recurring revenue from the steady release of Marvel and Star Wars shows is what it’s all about. Movies are a big risk becuase they may be a big hit, or maybe people just don’t show up. Subscription revenue is less of a risk becuase once people sign up they usually don’t cancel (and even if people cancel that’s…

Well they have to make these streams work with devices that output via current HDMI standards so all it takes is literally one person with a capture device that has HDCP cracked. I know HDCP was made with the ability to brick devices that had compromised encryption keys but I don’t know how successfully that has been…

That’s exactly my point, they essentially representing this recreated audio as a primary source when it’s not. And yes, the words were his but people say things differently and they’re interpreted differently when they are written vs spoken. Using a narrator calls the audiences attention to the fact that the source…

This is the answer. They have all the other parts to build these cars but the chips. So they can build them without the chips and store the partially finished cars, or they can just stop building them and wait for the chips. the second option is clearly worse, and the first option isn’t great becuase 1: you run out of…

It was a modern storytelling technique that I used in a few places where I thought it was important to make Tony’s words come alive.

So Tesla is the WalMart of cars?

I always love it when an NFL players says something mildly critical of someone on the other team during the week leading up to a game, then see them hugging and bullshitting with each other as soon as the whistle blows. During the pandemic one of the things the players were pissed off about was the NFL told them they…

If the DA has a strong case they don’t cut a deal, they cut the deal when the outcome is uncertain and the deal is the path of least resistance. In an adversarial justice system neither side needs to know (or even give a shit) whether the defendant is guilty, they just need to know how to best represent their side of…

Something needs to be done about their presence on my lawn!

real Muricans don’t need some fancy bleeding heart libural to get paid to be a defense lawyer; real Muricans use their rugged individualism to stand up to the governments like a man.

Really? Most people just casually use two drugs which are widely considered by medical professionals to be among the most addictive substances around? Well if you say so...

the transporter beams it from their colons into outer space. Or possibly to the synthesizers to be recycled into food.

My 2007 Honda fit and my wife’s 2011 Pilot are very easy, You only need to remove the the glove box and the trim panel underneath the glove box. And that’s not even a panel that you see, it’ just a plastic panel with some noise insulation, so you really can’t even screw that part up, it just pops into place.

Only tangentially relevant here but I just read an interesting take on The Voyage Home that I thought I’d share. The gist of it is that, instead of trying to communicate with the probe themselves (which is discussed briefly in the beginning of the movie), the crew goes to great lengths to rescue George and Gracie and…

Shit, you’re on to something there - ethically sourced is great, but they really ought to be making ethically sourced, artisanal cocaine! Heritage plants, faux authentic production techniques (“we traveled to Bolivia to observe the traditional techniques watched some episodes of Narcos”), chemical-free, coke straws…