And to be clear for anyone who doesn’t know the history, “got rid of” means “had them sent to concentration camps or had them brutally murdered on the spot”, not just kicked them out. You know, pretty much what you’d expect with the Nazis.

I see the point you’re making now (bolding the “would’ve” just made me initially think, “Is this some weird prescriptivist bugbear I wasn’t previously familiar with?”), but I’m still not entirely in agreement with you on whether a native speaker would generate it. I can 100% buy that a copy editor would change it, but…

Are you trying to claim that “would’ve” isn’t a word and shows poor grasp of English? That sentence is perfectly clear and that’s a perfectly cromulant word. The dumbass thing would be to use “would of”.

Know what? That we want a pizza?

But Westphalia is a real part of Germany, formerly a state in Prussia, and now combined with Northern Rhineland into the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It’s not super ambiguous then.

I dunno if you can really call Rochester “East Coast” (local joke is that it’s “North Coast”). The Genesee dumps into Lake Ontario a couple miles north of brewery, which is downtown right on the river; they have their storage tanks in wraps that make them look like giant cans of their beers as you pass by on St. Paul…

With a big enough TV that properly supports the full UHD standard*, yes. Going from SD to HD was ~6x the number of pixels, and going from HD to UHD is exactly 4x the pixels. Plus in both SD -> HD and HD -> UHD, the color gamut got widened significantly and UHD also increases the levels of contrast that can be…

They have three tiers right now.

I’d love to know too. My uncle (of course it’s an uncle) takes him so seriously that he blocked me on Facebook (which has vastly improved my feed) for suggesting that Alex Jones might be less than truthful.

Fun fact: the Boston Tea Party was actually a protest about the British cutting taxes (well, import duties) on the East India Company. The smugglers were pissed off that the lower prices on legally imported tea were cutting into their profits so they wrecked up a shipload of legal East India Company tea. America!

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The link is in the penultimate paragraph of the story. It was onstage at WorldCon in 2006 during lifetime achievement award ceremony for him that she was MCing.

“Neural nets don’t work like that” is exactly what I came to post, except I was going to try adding a Morbo meme, which will probably fail because I don’t know how that works with Kinja.

Certainly the impression I’ve gotten from every interview with the writers on the TOS, TNG, and ENT BluRays is that Paramount/CBS/Viacom/whatever has never given Star Trek a penny more than the allocated budget and loved to cut the budget even when the show was popular. One or two episodes could maybe be over budget,…

Yes, as mentioned in the 7th paragraph (as I count them; it’s hard with all the ads).

Or if it’s a manual, put it in first (I mean, the goal is to get off the line quickly, yes?) and push in the clutch.

Also, re: the article, there’s no way a Mustang “purrs”. Those lopey-ass wrong-firing-order American V8s just sound like they’re stumbling and about to stall at idle and then make a horrible racket as…

Because it peaked on the singles chart at #1 and ended up at #85 for the year, thus putting in the off limits top 200.

Academics in the U.S. are also dickish about non-drinkers, at least in my experience. If there’s a departmental event like a party for a visiting speaker or party post dissertation defense, you get a lot of shit if you won’t at least drink one glass of wine or drink one beer.

Ah, oops. I still have his 11 questions marked as unread in my RSS reader but forgot.

I get the impression from the article and Siobhan Thompson’s twitter that he’s just producing and she and Rebecca Drysdale are writing.

Finally! Someone who says “No” to the ghosts question unhesitatingly. And actually, all of his responses are quite thoughtful (except to the bizarre Sedaris question, which, what can you do with that?) and charming. I particularly liked his Jordan Peterson take. Looking forward to reading his book, which he’s been…