You’re half-right - it is to prevent people from playing to the cameras, but we’re talking Don Jr. here.

Don’t forget computer makers (I think Sony, if I remember right) donating equipment to the courtroom that turned out to have ludicrously-oversized logos plastered on it to turn the whole thing into product placement.

You know, I thought this whole idea was incredibly stupid, and then I saw your post and I’m reconsidering.  That would be fun as hell.

Great news. Rokita managed to be such a gigantic asshole in a story involving literal child rape that his will be the name remembered from all of this.

Weird that EV automakers catering almost solely to the early adopter crowd with expensive luxury vehicles and pickups are having troubles, while Chinese automakers putting out affordable sedans are accelerating their sales.  So weird.

My guess is that they couldn’t find a lawyer willing to take the case.

farrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttttttt

This pilot was so good that the pilot of Succession uses the exact same plot.

There were dozens of us!  Dozens!

“You maniacs!!! You blew them!! You blew them all!!!”

Good lord, why.

No, Crystal.

Sure thing, Crystal.

I just saw that article (and tweet) and I’m dying.

Watch how quickly and inexplicably that changes!

It’s really more of a Shelbyville thing.

It’s probably the simplest answer: because they believe the extra money they can steal make from doing it this way outweighs the PR consequences of people complaining.

As long as we’re hoping things, one would hope that these “reputation management” services whither and die sad about it.

Sounds like this guy got sprung.

“Right, the mass of the projectile means as much as the speed if not more.”

(glances over at the kinetic energy formula) uh