Unfortunately people seem to be bad at comparing costs like that, if we were good at it then places that are prone to natural disasters wouldn’t have the populations that they do.

I’m not a boat scientist or anything, but I like the ‘kitesail’ concept which seems like it would be the most easily retrofitted to existing ships/ship designs, though it’s clearly more limited in how much of a boost it provides.

Which gets right back to what I was saying. “Your lives are going to have to get worse.” “Or what?” “Or your lives are going to get worse.” “Ok, well I’ll take the one where my life gets worse in the future instead of now.”

How’d they atone? Looking up Poundstone it seems like she was punished in the legal system for committing a crime (DUI with a minor in the car).  As far as I know Franken and Ansari just...had their careers hurt.

People like being mad at shit, and they like feeling important.  So if they can be mad at celebrities online they can be a part of something that ends up hurting a celebrity and that will feel important.

“The surest way I’ve seen? Atone in earnest, respectful ways. Keep your head down. Stick to a GENUINE path forward where you attempt to keep working on your trade or craft, knowing that things will not be easy nor forthcoming.”

He’s simultaneously too old and not old enough. Wolverine was much older than this guy, thanks to his healing factor. He was also younger than this guy, thanks to his healing factor.

“Cancel culture isn’t real, and it’s good that it happens.”

The people who are loudest about hating cancel culture are probably the ones who are or wish to say and do whatever they want without anyone pushing back on it. But the people who are loudest about cancel culture not being real are just mad that it doesn’t work as well as they want it to.

Cancel culture doesn’t happen, because cancel culture is stuff that people who have bad opinions are worried about and since their opinions are bad they are clearly wrong about there being cancel culture. There is, however, consequence culture, in which transgressions that people have committed at some point in their…

“he had to go lie down in his trailer [for] around half an hour”

It’s going to be the Wrath of Khan of Paw Patrol. Like that classic Star Trek film it will be a sequel to an episode, in this case ‘Paw-lice Bru-tail-ity’ which dealt with the German Shepherd police dog shooting an unarmed Black Lab in the back.

The customer base for this isn’t cross-shopping it with a a 1-ton pickup, they’re cross shopping it with a Raptor or TRX, and they’re not going to be swayed to buy it through efficiency but because of cool capabilities like crab walking/4-wheel steering.

“Make X industry more costly” is indeed the bottom line for a lot of environmentally-motivated incentives, but if you ask the average person “Do you want food/electricity/goods” to be more expensive they’re usually going to say no.

It’s also not ‘one simple thing’. Commercial ships have been designed without sails for over a century, and they’ve been optimized for cargo efficiency. Adding some sort of auxiliary wind-power is going to cost (and reduce cargo efficiency), designing ships around it will cost (and probably reduce cargo space over a…

I’ve read other Gibson stuff but not The Peripheral, so I went in with no expectations beyond ‘hope its a good SF series’.  I liked it overall, it wasn’t perfect and there are still hanging threads that I was looking forward to Season 2 addressing, but I’d call it worth a watch as a standalone season of TV.

While I haven’t watched A League of Their Own, I have seen and to one extent or another enjoyed The Peripheral, Wheel of Time and Lord of the Rings. The problems, as I see them, are twofold. One is that in recent years a lot of focus has been put on the production values of TV shows (For comparison, Star Trek The…

Comedy’s really subjective, and what’s funny for one person isn’t necessarily going to be funny for another person. I think this list did a solid job of covering bases for ‘types’ of comedy, even if I’d swap out some of these for Brooklyn 99, My Name is Earl, Future Man, Great News and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on my…

Aliens in America seemed like it had such a hacky premise (Americans do stuff like this but the foreign guy does stuff like that!) but it was just so well realized.  It’s a shame how under the radar it flew.

“his bar in Nashville never stopped serving Bud Light.” Lol, seriously? Do you have a source for that, because it’s hilarious. “Fuck Bud Light, Fuck Anheuser Busch.” “Kid, people are still buying Bud Light and Anheuser Busch products at your bar.” “Well, fuck ‘em a little but not all the way, then.”