I used to get really into things as a teenager (cringe) but as an adult I just kind of enjoy liking things broadly. I want to follow things well enough to get some of the references, but I don’t want to pursue some encyclopedic knowledge of minutiae to lord over other fans, or treat trivia one-upmanship as if it’s an…

Bookwalkers or Unsullied, depending on whether you’ve also read the books.

Mob bosses cannot agree with each other on money laundering strategy.

You should see the interview of Stellan Skarsgard on youtube, he was asked about Scorsese’s comments and he gives a good answer about the whole thing.

The thing about acting in “prestige fare” like Coppola and Scorsese et al. is that, as an actor, you have to disappear in several key ways into the auteur’s personality and quirks. That’s not innately bad, but when you play, say, a Tarantino movie, you have to play as a Tarantino character. Or a Coen Brothers’…

What’s crazy is that other rental companies are not jumping at this marketing opportunity. "Like renting cars and not getting arrested? Try Avis." Or hire the people wrongfully arrested to do the commercials, "I was wrongfully arrested in front of my children and spent days in jail because Hertz thought I stole a car…

Come on baby, make it Hertz so good!

While it’s hard to beat the Vega, Chevy was trying to do just that with the Chevette:

A while back there was a report on motorcycle fatalities. While it showed a bias to new riders, that was a disguise for a different cause - that the riders were often on new to-the-rider bikes and this was hitting “experienced” riders at about the same rate as new riders. It was just that new riders default to new…

Is that a trick question? Just think of Musk as an incel tech geek with a budget, and most of his actions make more sense.

It’s the little things that can trip you up.

Fuck Texas. Fuck cops. Fuck that Jeep guy. Charges should be more serious than a misdemeanor. He could have killed the cyclist. No, you don’t fucking joke around like that.

They are rich. It wont ever blow up in their face, they are immune to the hardship your average Angeleno faces.

Hospitals are clearly the problem. We need to either minimize the amount of doors or shut them down entirely.

Seconding that anybody who got any laughter whatsoever out of the rest of the exchange owes it to themselves to read the apology article.

You have obviously never flown to Alaska where half the bin space in the winter is taken up with arctic parkas. What are you supposed to do with a jacket? Put it on the floor? I pay the money for a checked bag and it is not unreasonable to put my briefcase in the overhead. The rule should be that nothing with wheels…

I think the most important thing in all of this is whether this guy’s hair is a wig or not, so the investigating is not done yet.

I didn’t have a problem with the fake marina. I had a problem with them not making it Florida enough. Where were the fake gators infesting the fake water? Where’s the clapped out fishing boat owned by tweakers?

This practice in China is not new. It isn’t now and it wasn’t 15 years ago when I helped a US company set up operations in China. Any company or person that puts IP in China is a fool and I have little sympathy for them. The allure of such a huge market blinds them.

The biggest problem is that there are millions more JUST LIKE HIM out there.