Is this really what Hollywood is doing/saying, though? Nothing in what I read above indicates that studios can’t release in theaters and on their streaming services concurrently. And even if the studio holds the streaming release, the time between theatrical release and streaming release these days is so short. Yes,…

Especially when the overwhelming likelihood is that the vessel imploded and everyone died instantly.

I was glad to see the Gizmodo article calling them what they are: adventure tourists. I’ve seen so many articles calling them explorers and, c’mon. They are not Magellan traversing uncharted territory. They’re rich people who paid an obscene amount of money to do a very dangerous, very stupid thing and now have likely…

I was expecting basically anything derived from Agile: Scrum master (eyeroll), information radiators, story splitting, timebox, anti-pattern, and so many more. I swear, the people I know who work in Agile environments spend more time meeting and talking about how they’re doing Agile than they do doing their actual…

Then shift the conversation to discussing a plan you and your boss could put into place to help you reach your salary goals. What timeline is reasonable to expect for a raise? Six months? A year? What kind of performance might they need to see?

It’s funny, I would consider the things on that list to be idiomatic expressions, sure, but not jargon. Jargon, as Dr. Wilson notes, is exclusive to a professional field, which forms the discourse community (a bit of jargon from my own profession) for that jargon. It is language used by practitioners and not the…

I think one of the issues here is that these weighted sleep sacks run the gamut from just a few ounces to like 2 lbs. One of the ones I saw on Amazon was advertised for 6-12 mos. at two pounds. That seems extreme to me. But the ones that my nieces and nephews had when they were 6-12 months had a “weight” of 60 grams…

I don’t get it, either. But I’ve never been bothered by going out to pick up my own takeout, especially not when the alternative is paying essentially double. I’ve got two friends who love doordash and uber eats and I don’t understand. When we’re hanging out together and they want to order food, I always say that I…

I put cilantro in a lot of stuff. I really like it. My parents also live with me and I do the cooking (and have for years). About six months ago, I made carnitas and my dad asked if next time I could “leave the green stuff out.” No problem, I said, but out of curiosity, what does it taste like to you? “I don’t know.…

I saw the same thing. That really makes me wonder what kind of weirdness is going on. Like maybe they’re discontinuing these and so the replacement filters will become very hard to come by. I was thinking about pulling the trigger on the bundle, but something just doesn’t feel right. 

We supported each other. Which is why when she came on my show, I said, ‘Let me not have you standing there by yourself.’

As far as I know, Holmes and Evans have never actually confirmed if they’re legally married. There have been reports (not from any major news organizations) that they married secretly in 2019, but even then no word if it was a legal marriage or just something ceremonial. The two seem to very consciously use the term…

TERF may be shorter, but it is not a good way to sum up when you’re writing a news article because most people don’t know what it means. That’s why AP is saying to avoid it—because it doesn’t help create clarity in your story. If someone has to navigate away from your story to Google what a TERF is, you’ve failed in…

Absolutely. I saw the headline here and I knew exactly how Jezebel (and the very un-representative handful of tweets that they were going to pull) was going to misread what AP had actually done. AP isn’t saying, “be nice to TERFS.” What’s they’re saying is, “Don’t use TERF, because most people don’t know what it is,…

Yes. One of the AP Stylebook’s main tenets from the get-go has been to avoid jargon, and TERF is definitely jargon, and worse, it is jargon that the vast majority of people do not understand. Only very, very online people know what a TERF is. It is better to explain who these people are in plain language. This is…

If you happen to have the benefit of an office with a door (rather than a cubicle), then I highly recommend a door hanger. The one I have says “Do not Disturb” on one side and “Welcome, please knock” on the other. I find that being this explicit was the only thing that worked at my last university. I dug it out again…

This. I firmly believe Seimetz’s version had something substantive to say along with a coherent tone, whereas all Tesfaye and Levinson had to say was “Boobies! Boobies! Look at this Super Cool Guy who is just like me engage in all my sordid wish fulfillment with a girl with boobies!”

I thought the bar for “moron in the presidency” couldn’t get lower than GWB, and then the country went and proved me very, very wrong. Remember how much of a dumb dumb everybody thought he was? He’s Einstein compared to Trump. 

I’m seconding everyone else who said don’t start with Blood Meridian. It’s dense and quite frankly, one of my least favorite of McCarthy’s works. Everyone says it’s his masterwork, but it doesn’t resonate with me (I think in another AV Club article on the possible adaptation I called the novel “up it’s own ass” and…

I had the same questions, since I have no kids. So I asked my mother, who had three kids and who is in fact the world’s smartest nurse (retired). Apparently, preeclampsia often times has symptoms leading up to it, but it can come on very quickly, in a matter of hours, and it can be accompanied by seizure or stroke. If…