It makes sense (for them). Explicitly knowing that multiple accounts are owned by the same person makes it easier to harvest even more data in an even more granular way, which then makes that data more profitable when they sell it. Relying on an algorithm to do it - which I presume they’ve been doing - is far from…

They love to co-opt symbols/language for their own purposes, whether it’s something they latch onto organically (the Gadsden Flag) or something they want to build a strawman/bogeyman out of (“woke”/”SJW”).

Did it end up on the screen? No, and that’s what’s relevant.

Upon seeing the headline, my mind immediately went to the latter even though I exclusively watched the former.

That is legitimately one of the best audio commentaries I’ve ever listened to.

Oh, but it wasn’t. A key difference (maybe the key difference?) between the two films is that the improv in the original was tight and didn’t meander at all.

“You got my direct deposit information, right?”

Based on the description of what was cut, I hope not. The last thing that film needed was more meandering, overlong improv scenes.

Tribalism is everywhere, unfortunately. I’m an iPhone user. Other people (including my kids!) prefer Android and that’s cool. Other people preferring a different platform doesn’t hurt me and if anything it’s a positive thing because competition is good for consumers on both sides.

That was one of the things that got me to switch to iPhone way back when. I like the consistency and having to worry about a completely different UI if I were to switch from, say, LG to Samsung just felt unnecessarily obtuse. Sure, you can stick with one manufacturer, but that negates one of the nominal advantages of…

The big beef I have with USB-C is that there’s no way to tell what charging and/or data transfer speed a cable supports by looking at it. USB-A cables either do or do not have blue inside the connector so you know whether it’s USB 2 or USB 3. Some Thunderbolt cables have an indicator on them, but I have a ton of…

Dion clearly never visited the Newhouse School while he was at Syracuse.

I’ll be dust by the time there’s a new Fallout game.

I straight-up cannot understand the thought process behind remaking/re-imagining/rebooting something that was popular because it was pure bonkers, cheesy fun and turning it into an earnest, self-serious affair.

The only thing he should’ve done differently is said “no” when offered the job. Everything else is deck chairs.

In a way, it’s even worse than what they’ve done with Star Wars because at least there they (mostly) still brought in new characters even though everything still revolved around the Skywalkers. Here it’s literally the same characters wearing different faces.

Even more galling about that is that the second pilot has several characters who weren’t present when the series proper started (Gary Mitchell, Dr. Dehner, Dr. Piper) and did not have Chapel, Uhura, M’Benga, or Scotty, so trying to put everything in place for when Kirk takes the center seat would require even more…

Like you could have a single human on that crew for the audience POV, just immersed in Vulcan culture. It would be a different take but still be Star Trek.

It’s one of the biggest beefs I had with the Star Wars sequel trilogy, too. Somehow Palpatine returned? GTFO. Snoke may not have been a particularly compelling villain, but at least he was new. And while TLJ was certainly not without its flaws (though it was still by far my favorite of the three films) one thing I…

Seems to be working well for John Oliver!