General rule is that I get my dark beers from craft breweries, and I get my light beers from whoever’s tasty. There’ve been exceptions in both directions though. Took a visiting relative to the Red Hook brewery, and they had a barrel-aged stout that was quite tasty. Not something they sell in stores (at least at the…

To help out, the Craft Brewers Association has started adding this label to craft beers in the store to help them stand out against the larger brands, but the logo isn’t on everything.

Not to be confused with the Craft Brew Alliance, whose name I’m just now realizing is pure evil. *shrug* Fake-micro or not, Widmer…

Depends if it’s points on the gross (real) or points on the net (not real).

He may well understand their limitations, but those limitations are kinda guaranteed if you acknowledge that lie detectors are magical nonsense going in.

If someone’s lying and believes the machine works, then it might work as an interrogation tool to lead you to actual evidence. What it will not do is find the liar…

Yeah I don’t think the storm damage makes it redundant in terms of civil or criminal liability, but it does conceivably raise the prospect of reasonable doubt that the damage was actually caused by this person.

“I just found that crushed car on the beach and parked next to it to be cool, brah.”
-This guy, to the judge

(a…

It’s also an admission of guilt that he’ll probably regret.

Is that a serious question?

You’re going to have to explain to me how paying someone who is bad at their job more will get them to be better at their job

I believe the implication was that offering higher pay will result in better quality candidates. And...I’d agree it’s not necessarily true. But a mix of higher salaries, more money spent on…

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Advice is a form of nostalgia :) I’m wise now because I wasn’t before. I assume I’ll feel the same way about my current self in a decade, hopefully for more complicated reasons.

She doesn’t want to suggest it because it seems like she’s creeped out by you and she’s not but if she asks it seems that way; you don’t want to suggest it because it seems like you’re angry at or punishing her for being a lesbian and you’re not but...

I mean, to be fair, we don’t know exactly how she feels about…

Take it from a guy who shared an apartment with a [straight] woman he was into (and I knew how I felt before the group moved in together). Believe me when I say I empathize with you. But there are only two possible moves here: Figure out how to let it go, or move out.

So many conflicting impulses.

The rational side of me admires this person’s zeal for their hobby and legal expertise.

The part of me that likes recording podcasts and letting my kid sleep and having a pleasant evening doing literally anything that requires listening to sound (watching movies, listening to music,…

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this argument, but at the moment, I’m just kinda mind-blown that Brian the Handsome Sound-Guy is played by the same actor as Russ Hanneman.

So...without an actual quote from the man, I find this story a little hard to believe.

Republicans do a lot of really fucking stupid things, like voting for Donald Trump, or tolerating Donald Trump, or making excuses for Donald Trump... But turning down relief supplies in lieu of thoughts and prayers seems a bit…

So...to be clear, judging a racist industry for not casting people with foreign-sounding names is an equivalent action to judging people with foreign-sounding names for changing them to get work.

That’s what you’re saying?

If it is, I disagree. Pretending an issue doesn’t exist solves nothing, and the racism within the…

Kal Penn and Clifton Collins, Jr. have similar stories. Best to judge the racist-ass industry they’re trying to break into rather than the people who are doing what they have to do to get a break and work.

Casting Chiwetel Ejiofor as Dr. Venkat Kapoor in The Martian, I was actually fine with, but I was pretty annoyed…

So...a podcast then? Or, as the Black List Table Reads calls it, an EarMovie?

Also:

-When someone said the weather was getting too bad for ravens to fly, I definitely said, “My ass” aloud. Ravens are straight-up gigabit fiber at this point - and if last week is any indication, their speed only improves in the cold.

-I was pretty happy with the scene between Cersei and Tyrion. She can only drop her…