This can’t possibly be true. Do you know how many old people would basically just quit Costco? Not necessarily because they are technologically inept (there is that) but because a substantial number of them just do not trust electronic payment transactions that involve giving personal/credit info to an app or putting…

You know, you could totally beat this entire thing by taking a screenshot in the app and swapping the photo of the cardholder with a photo of yourself- at least at my Costco, where they don’t ask for another form of ID or actually scan the thing to see if it’s legit. I imagine this might work until one of them reads…

I’ve never had any non-member who was with me stopped, and I’ve walked in with other members who have shown theirs and not shown my card and not been stopped. I don’t think there’s anything stopping people who don’t have cards from shopping with those that do, and I couldn’t care less about that- but it is grating to…

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe dates got squishy after humanity nearly destroyed itself, the same way we can sort of guess about some things that happened in the eleventh century but might miss the mark on the particular decade....

I don’t think it’s that he’s looking down on people that can’t afford stuff, it’s the whole issue with subsidizing people who are making the stuff that we buy there more expensive- I don’t know why he should be okay with people not paying for something and not following the rules when he actually pays and follows the…

I have never had my card requested at a gas pump. Ever. In fact, I’ve forgotten my card, told the attendant “I forgot my card” and dude just scans and lets me fill without doing a thing to see if I’m an actual member.

The gas savings ALONE pay for my executive membership. In less than four months. As the person who pays for the membership, I am all about keeping out the riff-raff who don’t pay- and the fix for them is they can totally accompany a card-carrying member, they just can’t go in by themselves- and it’s $60 a year!!  

Pretty sure “turn your face to alabaster” wasn’t turning someone into a statue as much as shock at the turn of events causing all the blood to drain from one’s face. If one is a lighter-hued human. Never once literally thought it was about turning someone to stone. But fuck, I was 12 when I first heard and interpreted…

As a 12 year old in 1983 I bought Synchronicity and that’s the only song on the entire album that I skipped. For years. As an adult I more appreciate the sonic frontiers Stewart was exploring... but yeah, pretty much still hate it. It’s the flaw that makes the album perfect.

That was wonderful in its terribleness.

All of this makes me all the more amazed by what we have been able to do on Mars- a wonder of human achievement that doesn’t get it’s due from anyone who isn’t paying attention. Which is pretty much everyone.

Yikes on bikes! I had no idea. That’d make this a no brainer. Wow. 

The other thing is that at $180K no one is going to buy this thing- the actuarial tables and my genetics suggest that I have about thirty years or so left on this planet, and I don’t think I’m going to spend $6K a year on electricity. On the other hand, the prospect of being energy dependent in my own right has always…

People like this make me feel less shitty about the world. Needed this today. 

For sure. I basically haven’t been visiting on my own since Musk took over, and only go when other people I care about send me links a couple of times a month. During each of those times the unfiltered comment sections full of hate remind me why I don’t visit daily. To some I imagine that’s a feature and not a bug,…

Man I can’t wait until the Godzillas show up #chinaregrets

Holy fuck, it sure as shit is! Was operating under the impression that it was as it was originally typed! Learn something new every day. 

Also- how exactly are we defining “blockbuster”? Are we measuring it by box office success or by money spent on making/marketing the film? I mean, Slumdog Millionaire made serious bank but I’d never call it a blockbuster in the manner that I typically think about them. And also- didn’t it win an Oscar??

The answer to your “why buy an _____ when you can buy a Tesla” is as simple as I have a HUGE dislike for Tesla’s CEO. For years my dream car was a Model X- it was an aspirational thing; this giant, cool expensive bauble that hits all the right spots from a practical and fun perspective. The thing is, when it became my…

Today I learned that the person singing backup to Boy George on COTPM was white- nearly 40 years after I first heard it. Good lord.