Gun companies absolutely get sued when people commit crimes with guns. The only reason that happens less now and isn’t usually successful is because a pro-gun American Congress has written laws explicitly saying gun companies must not be sued for facilitating murders.

I’ve learned several. I paint, I’ve done woodworking, I play card games competitively.

OK, fair enough. 

8 tours (half of which were non-headlining) and 2 albums is a relatively small number for a popular band in a 20-year window. The cancellation really did hurt them.

I vaguely remember the story about the sex tape, but had no idea it was stolen. It was so successful that everyone else seemed to voluntarily release theirs afterwards.

Sometimes it’s just luck. I only ever had one problem with a Sony console (the PS1 which was an easy fix), and mostly they’ve been fine. But every Apple product I’ve had in the past 20 years has been absolute garbage, and nobody will ever believe me when I say so.

“Successful actor who became a director” is a pretty common career trajectory and not usually considered a failure. 

In the updated version of the blog post, they say Sayonara is NOT supposed to be on the list. Oh well.

The commenting here has become super-ragey; you’re not the only one to notice. And a lot of people were “grandfathered” in ten years ago back when they could pass for normal, with nobody now paying attention to how far it’s gone.

Ro Khanna? This guy?

I think editorially it’s better not to have such a link. Links to buy things usually suggest a paid endorsement, which looks kind of sketchy on a news article. 

I missed it.

I think it’s trolling, an intentional provocation. “I’m taking this song and there’s nothing you can do about it, you liberal punk singer.” They like it when the artist complains. They stole the song from some commie without paying or asking permission and are making it a conservative anthem no matter what the lyrics…

The development of every AI into the Worst Thing immediately upon exposure to the internet is retroactively making Avengers 2 a better, more thoughtful movie.

I could easily do taxes on my own, but in my state it's REQUIRED to submit electronically through a paid service. So annoying.

They could easily be done automatically, but apparently H&R Block and other tax prep companies lobbied hard to prevent that.

He’s identified in several photo captions elsewhere as “an aide,” so in particular not a Congressman.

It wasn’t THAT long ago that Nintendo had a “Nintendo Selects” line that discounted their big first-party games to $20. They stopped doing it in 2015 apparently.

I’m watching the tenth vote on C-SPAN, and Huffman just did it again. 

Thank you, I was wondering about this. Consent applies to where the call was recorded, so the journalist was well within his rights to record regardless of where the other person lived.