This should be rolled out by region as there’s a demonstrated demand for it. Both of the people quoted above about preferring the robot sample machine are from the NYC area and do not want the additional human interaction because the city is sensory overload. One of the reasons I moved to NYC was to be left alone in…

I was able to get a really good deal on my last and current leases, and it works for me because I’m in a transitional stage - recently moved from a big city with good public transit to a suburb - and so is the auto industry. I was hoping my current lease (which I picked up a couple months ago) would be an EV, but the i…

Just slap some paint on it! Maybe a cool decal or two.

“In this case, that seems to be the most likely scenario, that the two airplanes were on a collision course and the controller might not have remembered that.”

well, /s is common internet parlance for when you’re joking via a medium that obliterates nuance, so you could’ve tried that.

I cackled. Thank you.

I lease my 2022 Buick Encore for $329/month. It’s not fancy, but I feel (anecdotally) that it’s a bit more powerful than the 2020 Encore I leased previously - acceleration is better, anyway - and it has the AWD I require for my snowy Midwest state. My two primary considerations were price and AWD, and I’m happy enough…

I know what AM is because my parents were addicted to Rush Limbaugh and other ultra-conservative AM radio hosts. Which would be my guess as to why Republicans are so insistent on keeping AM radio alive - presumably dudes like Rush are still around on AM even though streaming services are starting to take over.

Came here to say this. Eric Adams is, imo, the worst NYC mayor in recent history, and that’s saying something.

God, completely agree about Mattel accidentally stumbling into Greta’s genius. I saw a headline this morning along the lines of “what we can expect from the Barbie sequel” and rolled my eyes so hard I gave myself a headache. The very last thing we need is a Barbie sequel, and Greta’s entirely uninterested.

You’re absolutely right, that’s a great clarification.

You know, I’ve never thought about the “time” part of “space and time” - never occurred to me that a society advanced enough to send exploratory space vehicles to our planet might have gone extinct.

I reflect frequently on the fact that I’ve never found him hotter than when he was Jackson Rippner (ugh, that name) in Red Eye. Scarecrow being a close second.

I loved Polly Pocket as a kid in the 80s and 90s (they’re no longer pocket-sized, which is an odd choice), but there’s just not enough “there” there for a movie. Barbie works because she’s a multigenerational icon with discourse surrounding her for as long as she’s existed. Polly’s biggest controversy is that she’s a…

Worse: POGS.

Same reason a lot of people who suddenly got real serious in their romantic relationships in March 2020 are starting to leave those relationships. Remember, we all really did have hope that we might be able to effect some real societal change in the wake of the pandemic - a lot of folks saw the pandemic as a reset…

The same thing happens in Hamilton (and many other plays/musicals)! Lafayette bows out at intermission and the same actor plays Jefferson.

I think there’s more humor (dark humor) in the juxtaposition between being excited for your first gyno visit and the reality of what a gyno visit actually entails. To be excited for something when we all know she’s going to have another record-scratch moment. The misdirection plays a big part too, as you say.

The tragic thing is that he is genuinely talented, but doesn’t know how to navigate through career overexposure. I’m also not confident in his ability (which is a learned thing) to determine whether a project is actually right for him - it seems like he goes for passion projects regardless of whether he’d be the best…

I loved Polly Pocket as a kid (you know, when she was actually pocket-sized... she’s twice as big now, oddly), but there’s no way in hell I’ll watch the movie Lena Dunham’s signed on to make about her.