This isn’t really new or surprising.

Neon signs are expensive to produce, difficult to make (especially by machine). And especially expensive to run, they suck down a hell of a lot of power. They’re also next to impossible to repair, and fragile.

While LEDs are what’s finally closing them out entirely, they were…

Even with the LED screens, Japanese cities still look like something out of Akira or Blade Runner.

I wouldn’t describe the series on the Fremen Mirage as a tirade. It’s a pretty dense, well thought out bit of media and cultural criticism. I think a pretty significant one. He’s basically identifying a trope related to and drawn from things like the noble savage, and unpacking the myriad ways it appears in media, pop…

“The FDA’s decision throws a wrench into the Biden administration’s plan to provide booster shots to most Americans.”

Almost certainly. If guests were required to be vaccinated and to get tested, that’s probably true of staff as well.

But Delta. So that end of it shouldn’t be discounted, distancing works best in combo with other shit. And it’d be an important plan b sort of thing.

If I’m buying tomatoes out of season I’ll look for those “Campari” or other mid sized cocktail tomatoes. They tend to be much better off season like cherry tomatoes are. But they’re big enough for slicing. The purple ones are good as well. 

Salting them and letting them sit for a bit tend to be the textural improvement you need. For one tomatoes are much better when they’re seasoned. But the salt pulls off some of the moisture and softens and evens everything out. So you end up with a tomato that’s less mushy or mealy, still soft but a little denser.

The…

Maybe try to find better ones? Often the culprit there is a jar that’s been open too long. But good ones are plenty firm and certainly not slimy. Whole peppers tend to be higher quality than slices or pieces.

Good roasted red peppers are nice and firm, and certainly not slimy.

And I’ve never seen a roasted red pepper that hadn’t been skinned, that’s part of why they’re roasted.

I remember the general quality of tomatoes at my college’s dining hall and various “cafes”.

You 100% did not eat those fucking tomatoes.

Disney’s approach thus far hasn’t generally been attracting top talent. Here and there. More often what they’ve been doing is signing people to very long term contracts before they get huge, or during plateaus in their careers. In most cases for actors they’re already established, but have tended not to be in…

Some level of people getting up and moving around is involved in this by nature. Though if you’ve ever watched any of things, they’re not exactly an everyone mingles sort of thing once the “ceremony” starts.

But you’d be kinda shocked at the sort of staff numbers needed to pull this sort of shit off. Not only cater…

It isn’t just “harder to spread”. It is significantly, significantly less likely that a vaccinated person will get infected. Even if directly exposed, and even with Delta.

There is always a chance, with any vaccine, that some individuals might not develop the level of immunity needed to prevent infection. But with…

The virus is airborne. If you’re in the same room, it kinda doesn’t really matter how far away you are.

They said there was a 45 day theatrical exclusivity period. Never specified what comes after that, and didn’t specifically say streaming after 45 days. Often there are deals for on demand, rental and even DVD release that need to be fulfilled before streaming release. All this shit is staged out with specific pacing…

Agnosticism is the position that it can not be known whether deities exist or not.

Atheism isn’t a “belief system”. You could describe it as a belief, but to a certain extent it is a lack of belief. A negative space, a vacuum.

A tree is an atheist. Babies are atheist. There are religions that are technically or even vocally atheist.

What I find a bit more disappointing is most of the “gotchas” from the better writers here would have at least been well thought out in the past. Cause let’s not forget this shit basically started as a tabloid. Not like Denton was looking for much more than this.

Nah. Charles is one of the better writers to float through late Gizmodo. I’m actually kinda surprised he’s still here/back, I was under the impression he left for greener pastures a ways back. And he’s written for MUCH more respectable operations than this.

Like everyone else here since a certain herb showed up. “Hot…

In particular because at this point the subject of non-offending pedophiles is pretty uncontroversial.

I know a lot of people in victims advocacy, and law enforcement specializing in cases dealing with trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children. Even the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children…