Good luck with that. Because she had a contract and business arrangement this is a civil matter for breaching the contract. Police won’t touch it because the DA/Prosecutor is rusty on his contract law and doesn’t want to spend time reading micro-print and won’t have authority to bring a case that the civil courts…

This is just one of ten million examples of the amazing complexity of duties the government performs that get no glory, no PR, no credit but are really important. And yet we have people that want to eliminate the government, it’s boggling.

the confidence in ignorance will need to be studied in this generation.

You are correct but the common name for the larvae of Cochliomyia hominivorax is screwworm.  As the scientific name does not exactly roll off the tongue, I think that we are stuck with the established misnomer.  By the way, as a large animal veterinarian, I often work with and depend on state and federal officials who…

And yet so many of them have worm in their common name:

Multiplicity 2:  AI Keaton

When that Batman movie was made, Batman had already been a toy for decades. Keaton knew he was playing a toy.

If you watch the whole thing it’s not like he’s saying that in some philosophic sense of “truth” just that things are decided on evidence/material fact, ergo bringing the truth more into focus. As compared to the media (the right wing media specifically) that contorts the evidence/material facts to further muddy the…

Having watched the clip and taken Stewart’s advice, I object(!) that he laughed at MTG ranting at Anthony Fauci about Covid being a lab leak when Stewart also claimed Covid was a lab leak in June of 2021 on Colbert’s show.

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?”

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