I would take this reporting with a grain of salt. I was probably the last to learn that this website (and apparently AV Club?) got the Deadspin treatment and officially became a zombified husk full of clickbait and sponsored content sometime around Thanksgiving. Looking back at they types of articles they’ve run over…

I took an early retirement in 2020 and I haven’t looked back. Sold my home, moved cross country, and livin’ my life. I exercise daily and have lost 30 lbs during the pandemic. It’s wonderful what one can accomplish with less stress.

The Gap Band was a big part of the soundtrack of my youth. That can never be erased.

Hm. Didn’t your ED tell you not to engage? Please skee yourself out.

I cant stand those people who constantly have their children attend meetings at work. They’re loud and distracting to the entire team and you waste everyone time. No one wants your kid in their meetings, so it might be fine when you want a meeting to have your kid there, it is not appropriate in most situations. Also,…

Sharing that you’re a parent and how that impacts your work is fine, just as non parents might tell a humorous story about something in their own lives, or have the occasional cat-butt zoom flash. But, parents, *please* don’t overdo it. Literally no one finds your kids as cute as you do, and very few non parents want…

*misty-eyed, like a basement-dwelling mutant with delusions of grease-free hair, as he recalls the only true horror story involving airline food he’s ever experienced*

Actually there IS A reason for her to have been arrested and lost her job. The minute she transferred the money into a new account that instantly became theft. Had she not done that then no she should not have been arrested. She knew exactly what she was doing, but working for the sheriff’s department she should have…

Unfortunately there’s a lot more to banking regulations than “someone can’t take money from your account, that’s illegal.” Federal regulations DO allow your bank to take funds out of your account to offset fraud and dispute claims they receive from other financial entities. If a bank deposits too much into your…

That’s....really quite fucking sad, really.  No, honestly, it’s sad to think that whole clusters of people are choosing to start their day with an awful sugary bowl of elf-cum than having eating a proper balanced breakfast.  

We have swung the other direction in our house. Instead of turning to childhood pleasures, we’ve gone super bougie. We have charcuterie boards for dinner. Once a week we have a splurge dinner—beef short ribs, seared sea scallops, prime rib, etc. We buy the $9 jar of Rao’s pasta sauce rather than the $4 Ragu, the…

This case gets mentioned whenever product liability comes up. Thing is, the popular take “old lady gets millions for being dumb" just isn't true. Here’s a quick refresher:

So I thought The Weeknd was pretty good, but they needed better pickup on his mike, or something, because he was getting washed out by the orchestra. Also the mirror light room gave me vertigo and a headache.
So I give Abel an A-, and the production team an F for fired.

I hate this ad with a passion. To think that people sat around a conference room table in some ad agency and were like “This is good, we are gonna sell tons of GMCs. Lets run it!”

Almost 25 years ago on Usenet, at this season, my signature file said:

I didn’t realize we were here to lecture this guy on his life choices. It’s not our money.  He wants a suggestion for a car, let’s give him some damn suggestions.

I don’t recall the ant planning for the future being presented as the problem in the parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper.

Why backhand the airline, when they did the right thing? Also, that seat does have a cost and they just booted a paying customer. If we’re going to drag companies through the mud for doing the right thing, then they never will.

I don’t think the wrong part is the acceptance, it’s the ignorance and mockery that came before. The acceptance is the cure for that “othering” of the food. Be mad at the ones who rejected it because it was different, but I would celebrate the fact it is being enjoyed by everyone now. It just seems like the bitterness…

Lol I’m Indian American so, your complaint about including curry powder in the tater salad would actually be falling on the right ears.