I expect the people of Waco are happy. They single-handedly screwed up the affordable housing market there, between direct price increases, home conversions to rental properties, and property tax bills jumping proportionately. Their Silos development has been positive for the city at large but Waco was known as a…

As a former union organizer, I have always said the best way to keep it union out of your shop, is to treat your workers, right, and compensate them fairly. Now as much as this article is trying to point out that only a few people disagree with the union, the factors as of now only a few people support one as well.…

I really need to re-read Lot, the audiobook has been loaded on my phone for a couple years as a backup. 

I rather liked that short story King wrote, “One for the Road” which delves into the aftermath of the events of the main novel, and it really drives home this creep factor, of Salem’s Lot being this desolate town, that locals from neighboring towns just avoid after dark...

Thank you, you nailed it. I grew up in rural Maine, actually not too far off from King’s real life stomping grounds, and I very much related to the book in that way. When I was younger, it was a pretty well-off mill town. Then, the mills closing combined with the beginning of the opioid epidemic - it almost did feel…

King himself is quite explicit that this is what ‘Salem’s Lot was about for him - small towns in the middle of nowhere dying out. Perhaps part of the problem of setting it in a more recent milieu is that this is only exacerbated in the modern world; I can’t imagine Ben and Susan “meeting cute” in the way they do in…

See, I think it could work, if the people making these adaptations understood what Salem’s Lot is about. Every adaptation has sought to make a movie about vampires. That’s not what Salem’s Lot is about. It’s about how the places you grew up in change and die. I always imagined Salem’s Lot as being a stand in for those…

There was another Salem’s Lot movie back in 2004 with Rob Lowe. Based on the Wikipedia, it took place in the “2000's” which could mean cell phones/internet weren’t available to everyone.

The main characters are a bunch of lower-middle-class high-school kids from Detroit. Defeating the monster through jet-setting is probably not in the realm of possibility.

What about fucking a tardigrade? I hear they live forever. Then put that Tardigrade in space. I hear they also live in complete vacuum.

Can you fuck, like, a whale or something? And what if the fuckee (animal or human) dies of natural causes? Does the entity go back to you or do you get a pass for life?

I can’t find the tweet now, but there was a great one at the time which postulated, just fuck an eagle. Good luck catching up to that eagle

Doesn’t work. The creature has a significant supply of frequent flyer miles that it accrued from clever use of timed rewards on its Capitol One card.

What if we went full depression era here, and created a new city on federal land, and set the residents to work on government projects?

Can we stop taking Ford’s word for their reasoning behind their decisions and actually bring in some real data?

We know competetively priced EVs sell. Record sales for the Bolt and Model 3/Y show this.

I don’t know, but it’s endlessly amusing. I’m not happy these lunatics exist, per se, but I’m not unhappy that they do either.

I suspect Solo bombed less because Ron Howard is a workmanlike director and more because Lucasfilm overestimated how much intrinsic interest people have in a prequel starring young Han Solo.

Laws are incantations and they are the wizards that mastered this “skill.”

It’s because they learned some fancy words so it makes them think they are actually smart. It’s no different than the “Income Tax is Illegal” folks who think because it wasn’t properly ratified when it was instituted, which I think IS technically true, that they don’t have to pay it, when literally EVERY court from…