I’m sure it is, but Twitter does have some extra quality filter tools they provide verified (aka celebrity) accounts with to cut down on the volume of garbage you have to deal with. I’m sure they also end up making liberal use of muting and blocking too.

Either the writers of “Black Adder Goes Forth” (1989) saw this movie or that’s an old joke they both pinched, because in the episode “General Hospital” Blackadder says to the nurse he’s trying to impress when she offers him a cigarette, “No thank you, I only smoke cigarettes after making love. So back in England I’m…

I saw the “white people and spiciness” topic come up on twitter earlier today:

Or complain that someone might be trying to build something other than single family homes. God forbid if someone wants to build an 8 story apartment building. Destroying the character of our neighborhood! Destroying the view! And the rage if the developer wants a variance on parking minimums because it’s on a transit…

There is no such thing as a sick day or PTO when you’re working on your PhD. You’re not an employee but somehow more than a student. You probably get paid a stipend and maybe even get health insurance, but pay no payroll tax, and are expected to work an arbitrary number of hours to meet your TAing/RAing supervisors’…

“He knows a lot about Sean Connery”
“It’s hardly a substitute!”

No idea how that particular guy actually feels, but keep in mind that they’ve been told that they have to read it or be fired and that they have contracts have a (probably nonenforceable but no doubt unpleasant to litigate) clause that says that if they quit or are fired they have to pay a large sum of cash to…

1989 was two years before SoundScan was introduced. At this point record sales were still being reported via the “record stores call in numbers based on what they feel they should be” system. Who knows what actually sold well if it wasn’t liked by clerks at reporting stores.

Old people watch it? That’s kind of Fox’s demo. How many self lubricating catheter companies advertise on her show?

The majority of FB comments on any broadly popular topic are going to be angry conservatives. FB is one of the sites that can be cited as evidence for “never read the comments”; it seems to be taking over for Yahoo! (as they slip down the drain) as the go to place for old cranks to go rant about kids these days.

Bezos has zero interest in Amazon making a profit, something they didn’t do for their first 20 years. Amazon Web Services accidentally caused them to turn a profit eventually, but they made sure to plow the money back into growth.

That said, like others have pointed out, the billion is for production too.

I personally liked the translation on the 1st and 3rd books (done by science fiction author Ken Liu, whose book “Paper Menagerie” I also enjoyed). I thought the translation on the 2nd book (done by someone called Joel Martinsen, who is apparently a professional Chinese to English translator) was utterly terrible and…

Here’s the connection (and it’s a loose one): The Smiths are one of the bands listed as a frequent “like” of people high on the “neurotic” axis of the Big 5 test. Tada!

It was presented as a “quiz” to make it sound more fun than “common standardized 100 question psychometric profile”. It’s called the Big 5 and it *is* incredibly boring but highly familiar to anyone in psychology. It’s the one thing that makes me more sanguine about the whole Cambridge Analytica thing; half their…

Or at the very least, if you do have some apps you do want to be able to post on your behalf, do the alternative they suggest at the bottom and go to “Apps Others Use” and uncheck every box so your friends’ apps can’t access your data. That’s a big part of what Cambridge Analytica scraped; they didn’t just grab data…

Netflix came into existence in 1997, two years after this. (I almost signed up in 1998 but held off because my local indy videostore was good.) And from the start their thing was unlimited rentals for a fixed monthly price, so the “Only $3.94/rental” thing is already unrealistic.

Leaving aside the already…

It’s not just Oregon. I live in western NY, and often at a stop light in my Subaru I’m next to a Subaru with a Subaru behind me and at least one Subaru at each of the other points of the intersection. We get over 100" of snow each winter.

There is a “vo” kana (but only in katakana): ヴォ. There are a bunch of extra katakana that have been created to represent foreign sounds. They just don’t get used much.

I really doubt it. Toho clearly doesn’t object to streaming Godzilla, as Filmstruck has them right now. But I think Toho objects to the mockery and is unlikely to ever clear the MST3Ks.

Neo-conservatives are a different group and many of them are “Never Trump”ers (e.g. Bill Kristol). Neocons big issue is more about bellicose foreign policy than it is about privatization. The main reason they supported using contractors and mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan is that they aren’t subject to military…