We can see it in the majority of the comments: People see a screen asking for a tip at some company/situation where they don’t want to tip, and that experience causes them to bristle at all tipping everywhere. One bad action (or one poorly designed app or screen) is enough to topple the whole culture of tipping. These…

Also, almost every leap year is an election year. (The exception is another little glitch that we introduce every 100 years.)

Maybe we don’t need to hear clips of this one particular song, but I do think more outlets should be covering the weird way that these reality/competition shows play a role in “laundering” dirty politicians. (Sean Spicer also comes to mind.) If the piece were more expansive, that would be beneficial, don’t you think?…

This looks more enjoyable than many of the live-action superhero movies.  The main villain in “The Marvels” always looked like she was wearing cheap costumes from Spirit Halloween.  And when they’re not wearing cheap plastic crap, they’re using CGI (which is essentially just animation anyway).  That garbage is getting…

Where did I say that he should be stuffed into a cell that’s already beyond capacity? You set it up as a strawman (one that I never said) so that you could attempt to dismiss every other thing that I actually did say. Lame. There are many, many other options other than the dumb thing you assume I said.

I’m even more cynical than that. I think a huge proportion of the day #1 buyers were trying to show off their wealth. Most of us saw the pricetag, and we thought, “There’s no way the tech is good enough to be worth spending that.” And then these people came in to say, “I’m SO rich that I don’t care.” This is a lot…

“Halls, a film veteran, took a plea deal last year on a charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon, and has already fulfilled his six months of unsupervised probation”

He shouldn’t have been allowed to resign. Now, and for the rest of his career, he can say that he willingly chose to leave a job. He can say he “wanted to spend time with family” or whatever else.

The headline to this story should have been the cops shout: “I’m hit! I’m hit!” Twice he claimed that the bullets actually penetrated his skin.

There are so many other solutions in front of us (rezone downtowns, build up instead of out, use this other very fancy technology called “trains,” etc.) but instead we’re trying to computerize things that never needed to be computerized. And so of course we’ll have to mine more minerals, we’ll have to dispose or…

Same. Do you ever get caught up in something, or pulled a little farther into the next room, and when you return, you don’t completely understand the jump in scenes, so you ask yourself, “Do I care enough about this movie to rewind a bit?” And then there are the times when I answer myself, “No.” This movie sounds like…

Which wife? He has a trans child, and also many test tube babies from multiple other women, so I’m trying to figure out their bizarre family tree. How many of them are bigots? Does the one trans person have anyone left?

This stuck out to me too. The information is already there, and we’re punishing people for knowing how to use it. This is like prosecuting a librarian because they know how to do research, or prosecuting a scientist because they’re good at math. (Of course, we do actually do some of that already. Ron DeSantis sent…

Elon Musk lied about some of Twitter’s coding and capabilities when he first took over. One of the lead engineers corrected the record... and so Elon announced that the engineer (a gay man married to another man his own age) is actually a pedophile. The couple had just finished moving into their new home, but there…

Nobody becomes a medical doctor primarily because their parents are already doctors. We have layers and layers of education requirements, exams, residencies, etc., just to be eligible in the first place. After taking the job, they have to meet professional ethics standards, complete continuing education credits, it…

Do you actually fly anywhere, or is this just trolling...? I’ve never not gotten peanuts. All of the major airlines in the USA still serve them as snacks. If you have an allergy, you’re supposed to ask for an alternative snack. But the “default” is still to offer and serve peanuts to everybody else. You’re not a…

Okay, so some propagandists shined a light on something, and that got all of us to pay attention. You say, “even if they are actually making these complaints in good faith...” but then you leave it at “if.” Did you stop to think? Did you come to any conclusion about their arguments? Now that you’re aware of what…

Wow, you’re seeing movies for $12 per person? Around me, it’s been $18 for several years. Extra for 3D, Imax, etc. And if I decide to wait until it hits streaming, I can sometimes rent it for $19.99... more than the theater’s price.

He already looks like a cartoon character. His barely-there neck is as wide as his earlobes. His fingers appear half as long as those of Trump. How/why does his whole face and body look like that?? You’d need no makeup or CGI to turn him into an actual villain. He’s already almost a caricature of one.

Oh, for fuck’s sake, more whining!