Minutes is also important to avoid inflated views from people who click, watch the first couple of minutes, and decide they just don’t want to watch it. Otherwise, a streaming service would need to define a “view”. People who watch for over half the runtime? It gets pretty arbitrary pretty quickly. 

Thanks for running the numbers. It was my immediate thought when I saw them and I was surprised Julie didn’t check them like this.

It still looks like WW84 is very successful as it was the film to draw in new viewers to HBO Max. Soul was simply another release on the well supplied Disney Plus.

I mean, yeah. It was the first big four-quadrants movie in forever. Of course people watched it. Especially in the US where you didn’t have to pay 30$ to rent it for 48 hours like up here.

So HBO Max is only releasing viewership numbers if they can use them for bragging rights? Okay, but now if HBO never releases numbers for Godzilla VS Kong or Zack Snyder’s Ego Presents Justice League But Even Worse, we’ll know it’s because they got fewer views than expected.

Reading some of these comments, it seems some people consider “spam” to be any promotional email they don’t want, even those from legitimate companies. I think that dilutes the definition of “spam” and just leads to confusion.

Generally, “legit” companies don’t end up being referred to as “illicit”.

How does this advice apply to Google’s “report spam” function, specifically the “report and unsubscribe” option?

There are some aerodynamic issues that constrain wheel styling for EVs. Basically, they conserve more energy if they’re flat, so less style and depth.  I don’t remember the number, but taking the aero covers off of Tesla wheels reduces range by a non-trivial amount. Theoretically this affects ICE cars too, but there’s…

And yet lifehacker somehow missed that trick. It only took me a couple minutes on google to figure it out, but it almost creates a deadname scavenger hunt while I try to figure out what Elliot Page used to be called.

By saying “Elliot, formerly known as X”, and then never saying X again. You just have to say it once, because X is the famous name, and then people will know who you’re talking about. No one had ever heard of “Elliot Page” before this moment, so obviously you have to tell people who you’re referring to. That’s the…

No, it’s not.

It’s better that a trans person portray trans people, because they are a minority and under-represented. A trans actor portraying a cis person does not cause under-representation.

If this were at all a real question I’d happily answer it. Instead, I’m just going to say stop being a d**k for no reason . . .

Page will continue playing Vanya - Netflix has confirmed it directly. As for what changes could take place with the character, who knows? As some have noted with this story, Vanya is usually a man’s name anyhow.

You absolutely can.

“there’s never a reason to publish someone’s deadname in a story”

I should have been diagnosed bipolar as a teen (I just finally got diagnosed last year, to my complete surprise), but my psychiatrist keeps trying to tell me how there are tons of brilliant people who are bipolar and that it might turn out to be a blessing. When I was a teenager everyone was too concerned with my…

I am 55 and while I was at the perfect age to have been a Wurtzel reader - I never read her book(s). I had a friend who went to Harvard with her and his description (a very good guy) wasn’t all too flattering, but nothing outright mean either. She may have been a good writer and her book may have helped many women but…

Not to mention THINNESS. The crazy beautiful MPDG girl is always thin. 

I never had too much wrapped up in the “pretty” part of this equation, in large part because of dysphoria, but there’s another angle to the pretty, crazy girl that hecked me up - the brilliance. When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a tween, everyone around me was busy reassuring me that it didn’t make me…

NYMag/The Cut have published a few pretty white girls gone rogue stories in the last couple of years which were easily their most read stories. Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Delvey, Caroline Calloway are the manic pixie dream girls of the instagram/technology age.