Oh they’re idiots, I once printed a couple of old WPA posters from the 30s at the local Walgreen’s for some cheap and interesting wall decorations; when I went to pick them up the woman at the photo counter attempted to stonewall me, claiming they were a copyright violation. I laughed and said I had obtained the image…

Granted, the entire Arabian Peninsula has a grand total of zero permanent rivers, but somehow I’m sure they have the hydrological resources to pull this off.  Probably squirreled away in hundreds of sietches the outside world knows nothing about, or something like that.  

In light of the growing rise of anti-Asian sentiment within the U.S., the ESA didn’t want to endorse the old common name, especially in the context of it being an invasive species.

Amen, I hate terms that are used to evade responsibility for assholes. Even worse than “bad luck” is “accident.”  A true accident is a tree falling right in front of you as you’re driving down the road, or a landslide, something to that effect.  There are very few true “accidents”, there’s mostly just varying degrees…

For example, a buyer might have to forget about that RAV4 Hybrid but instead, go for a Subaru Forester, as I’ve seen a trend of more Subaru stores sticking to MSRP and seem to get cars in reasonable time frames.

Well, we’re going to need Mentats after the Butlerian Jihad anyway, might as well start developing them now.  

But the river is indicative of both present instability and the future we’re headed towards if we don’t take significant stems to lower greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change.

It’s legitimately one of the best films of the 90s (as is Heat, for that matter) and that sequence is insane, Means, Studi and DDL all absolutely kill it. And yes, the Trevor Jones score is spectacular as well, it actually causes a problem for me in naming the best film composer, in that as much as I love Zimmer,…

Wait until you try Instacart. I threw my back out, badly, early this year and signed up for a trial membership when I saw they did Cub and Aldi; by the 2nd or 3rd order, I had zero thought of canceling. I’m pretty sure I didn’t set foot in a grocery store once between February and last month.

Amen. Some detractors claim they only protect property, but they’re really bad in even that limited capacity. Their reputation and skills are such that only about 1/3 of property crimes are even reported to law enforcement to begin with, and of that rump remainder, they solve fewer than 20%. I’m admittedly bad at…

I think it kind of depends on the particular world; e.g. I’d definitely be much more interested in a mainline post-DS9 and Voyager Trek than what we’ve been getting since the execrable Enterpise. Conversely, while I absolutely love Tolkien, I have no interest in the Fourth Age and am glad he abandoned his plan to…

My first two cars were both ‘84 Camaros. Early 3rd-gen F-Bodies are absolute shitboxes. Run for your life.

Interesting, I will have to attempt it.

So Netflix wants to charge $20/mo and impede sharing, while HBOMax is $15, has a content library that is quite literally a full order of magnitude more impressive, and doesn’t give a shit about sharing? Bold strategy, Cotton.

Nah, $4.99 for a pound of better mac & cheese than I could make is a deal by any measure.  

Ohhh, yes, quite right, thank you.

Well, just wait a few billion years until the Milky Way and Andromeda collide, no interstellar travel required.  

Oh, also The Field.  Harris was such a dread presence.  

Affliction. Coburn’s performance especially was remarkable.

It’s pretty good, but the big problem for it is that much of their territory overlaps with Heggies, which is objectively superior.