The tragedy of the commons.

Sigh... it’s a one-minute hollandaise AFTER you spend 10+ minutes getting everything ready to go. My pet peeve with recipes is that they can’t just be fucking honest with us. Why is that so hard?

I won’t stand for this Diet Barq’s root beer erasure.

technically, the French tacos is a sandwich

This issue has already gone before the courts in the US. People were imitating the voices of Tom Waites and Bette Middler without permission. They lost. The method used to create those imitations is entirely irrelevant. People’s voices are *NOT* fair use. They are covered under Right of Publicity.

Yeah. There was that one commenter that basically said she was a shitty person for trying to break the contract because she didn’t want to work with a sexual predator. And accused her of being emotionally manipulative and a stain on feminism because she cried during the process.

The people providing the tools aren’t responsible for how those tools are used (see: Sony v Universal). It’s the people using those tools who are liable for how they use them. And we’ve seen cases move through the courts that involve modding and mods, so this isn’t exactly a new legal area (though certainly not…

I suspect there will be legal wrangling over this issue in the semi-near future. The Right of Publicity includes an individual’s voice, and yes, this has gone to court and been upheld. It’s the same legal doctrine that protects a person’s likeness from usage without that person’s permission.

Back in the before times, we were vacationing and for various reasons, wanted to watch a Monday Night Football game at a sportsbar/grill type place, but didn’t want to get rip-roaring drunk. I told the server straight off that we would be ordering a couple beers each and a few plates of food slowly over the next 3 or…

Like to see them try withholding taxes from the state that dictates the regulation that got them all huffy and see what happens. Server had nothing to do with it and earned their tip even serving in the cluster the current situation is.

“Buford Horn Weasel of Elmo, Montana”

People who say things like “I’m sorry the server gets screwed on this” are not just assholes but cowards too.

They sort of did... one of the founders of the company that first produced it got one in chemistry for work that likely was used in the development. 

There is no mayo in this house, because we rightly regard it as the Devil’s semen. However, a bit of olive oil will work fine.

My thought: “LUCY! Get down!”

Flying USES the laws of God, it doesn’t defy anything

This would be a decent business-class product but I can’t imagine any airline putting in more than a few pods’ worth of this kind of seating since it takes up so much space. Not that I would want to share one of these setups with a bunch of randoms anyway — that’s too much like getting stuck in the facing seats on the…

They are more likely to cut flights than cut the number of seats on each flight.

The Dark Knight is no more responsible for crap like the Snyderverse (come at me) than Star Wars is for the glut of tiresome imitator space movies from the 1980s, or Nirvana is for the entirety of late 90s rock. Innovators are not responsible for imitators.

You probably would have had the same or similar result with any sponge.  Looks like it didn’t need the abrasive element.