Wow. I’m surprised because I’m definitely among the crowd who “feels like it should be true.” I’ve always used the comparison to cell phones interfering with electronics at music concerts. The sound engineers really can tell if performers and audience members have their cell phones on, and it really does mess with the…

Verizon has been providing refunds like this for the entire time I’ve been their customer. (And yes, brief outages really are valued at just a couple of dollars. It’s silly.)

While a $5 credit may seem paltry at first glance, AT&T explains that the credit is based on the “average cost of a full day of service,” which does make more sense.

“viewed over 1 million times”

Right, and the gay man who owns that pizza restaurant is a pedophile cannibal, and wildfires in California have nothing to do with campfires, arson, or fallen electrical cables because Jews are shooting lasers at us. You people are absolutely exhausting. You don’t use actual science, but you like to use jargon or…

I agree with you, though. All of us who grew up in the northeast or Great Lakes states are used to losing power several times every winter. We shrug our shoulders, we whine a little bit, we dumbly keep flicking the light switch each time we enter a room (out of habit) before saying “oh of course, oops.” We don’t think…

I agree with your sentiment, but I think you misspoke about one not-so-little thing: These morons aren’t the ones “concocting” the ideas. There are much smarter people who deliberately plant lies (as propaganda, as a strategy, or even just purely for their own entertainment). Those lies are spread by people whose…

No, this level of ignorance doesn’t come from whiteness. Most white people can comprehend this far better. The sarcastic joke “are you 12?” is all about inexperience. Even 15-yr. old white kids filling out job applications at McDonald’s know more than this guy. The question is focused on why this person has so little…

Have you noticed how most forms (medical, etc.) have those backgrounds in separate questions? First you answer Hispanic: yes or no. Then you select a box from a longer list: white, black, etc. Most of us have encountered this hundreds of times. It’s how federal, state, and local governments categorize us. It’s how job…

Even then, I wouldn’t cheer. The prior round of experiments on monkeys was a disaster — bleeding from the brain, bleeding from the bowels, paralysis, insanity.... The company didn’t retry, and they didn’t get a non-lethal round with the monkeys before moving onto humans.

You’re on a tech blog. Lots of people here are scientists or engineers.

Agreed, but I think we’re all using different measures of usefulness. The article is looking at a very narrow idea, whether closing an app makes your battery last longer (it doesn’t). Some of us close apps more for logistical or organizational reasons. I don’t need there to be battery performance improvement to…

In a world with WAY too many franchises, there are still (apparently) people who are surprised to learn there will be another movie.

A show about a woman is too woman-y, so all but one writer gets fired.

There are a whole lot of “buffalo jump” areas preserved in the plains and western areas of the USA. (People used to scare animals off a vertical cliff, then process the corpses for food and materials.) The magnitude is staggering. They remind me of this. You just have to imagine the number of animals killed all at…

I talk to dogs and cats. That example seems like the least weird line among that very long video. But even if “average” people like me speak that way, it doesn’t belong in a movie. It all comes off as too plain and boring. Superheroes and supervillains should be more exciting than that! Show me something captivating.

That very long clip of awkward scripted lines has no mention of women or gender or femininity or any of what you say. It’s purely source material.

Thank you for sharing the distinctions. That’s exactly what I’m getting at. There are many kinds of sentences that can “punish” a person without necessarily sending them to a prison cell that requires housing, food, etc. There are people here on this website who don’t understand that very basic thing. 

He only needs to find about 300,000 customers because his fanatics can buy 3 pairs each.

How many insane women are rubbing this serial rapist’s perfume on their bodies?