What’s wrong with beepers that make a violently-loud noise and try to jump out of your hands when the table is ready? They’re at least noticeable and they’ve worked fine for decades.

I can understand it in certain circumstances, like traffic court. Some people are at a disadvantage when it comes to transportation, childcare, or low-wage jobs with strict attendance policies. Being able to appear by Zoom for only a few minutes and removing the time-suck of getting to the courthouse, finding the…

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I mean I get that, and those kind of vehicles are fine classified how they are in terms of emissions. But the loophole automakers have been using forever to keep from building things like SUV’s and CUV’s etc with better MPG.

I am not sure that MPG vs GPHM falls under manipulation. To me it’s two ways of measuring the same thing and since most consumers aren’t making fleet decisions, I don’t see it as concerning. The typical consumer is replacing one car, not trying to determine the relative impact of mileage on multiple cars. I would…

But that’s not always the case. There are plenty of scenarios where people compare multiple vehicles (most households having more than 1 vehicle in the US). People could, say, look at their 20 yr old v10 F-250 that gets 8mpg versus a new F-250 and see that only gets 12mpg, what a shitty upgrade that would be! Maybe…

“I read it, but maybe it’s me and everyone I know that realizes that 10 or 15 mpg is bad.”

Except it’s math that people are bad at understanding, and we could present the same information in a much more helpful way. Survey a bunch of regular people, and most would answer the quiz at the top incorrectly, which we know because the study has already been done, and most got it wrong. 

Jennifer Connolly, wife of Paul Bettany, told a story on Seth Meyer’s show that their kids troll Bettany by changing his Disney+ account’s avatar to Vision and giving the account the name “The Worst Avenger.” Pretty funny burn. I’m not saying Vision is the worst Avenger, but I’ll put this out there: “Who is?”

well they helped pay for it. as a stipulation of that they got the series version as well.

“in contrast to many of the other aspects of Canadiana that feel weirdly false in this New York-shot setting.” Really? With all the times Toronto has stood in for whatever US city the plot needs, they couldn’t actually film this in Canada?

yeah same, though i’m gonna give cbc props for blackberry last year at least.

What’s the problem?

if you’re a kid and you’ve only seen 6 movies, sure.

It’ll never not be amusing to see Americans misunderstand the term “overlander”

I think that’s arguably the core issue of the whole MeToo movement. Everyone is against the people who victimized them or their friends and sexual abuse in the abstract, but systemic change also requires people to stop trying to accuse the victimizers that they’re friends with, and that’s just a bridge too far for a…

There’s been a reasonable uptick in content quality since the sale, though.  I scrapped with Hassenger a bit a few days ago, and it was refreshing to see a writer 1. return to the site after a couple of years, and 2. actually wade into the comments section.  I’ve also noticed a decline in clickbaity outrage bullshit…

Besides being a cliche, a line like “I ain’t no spice Girl” is pretty ironic given that the Spice Girls’ movie - for all its many faults - wasn’t an anonymous biopic.

Scorsese’s wife has battled Parkinson’s for a decade or two now, I believe. Could easily explain an on-site nurse.