That was a really bad show. I think it was worse than Obi-Wan.

He badmouthed a car made in a developing country. Hardly speaking truth to any kind of power.

Well of course they have to shut down those old servers, they are barely making any money these days so gotta tighten the belt!

Terrestrial radio is still the best means we have for getting information out to a lot of people without relying on highly integrated networks. AM in particular is great because the frequencies and modulation allows for very long distance transmission and over the horizon signal propagation. In an emergency, people…

Parasocial relationships are - and remain - deeply unhealthy and weird.

It may have been the 4th or 5th, but this one is the deadliest. It is a death wish, a totally obvious manouver to be able to later report that the days of interest in Elvis are gone. Just as Forbes (EPE grossed US$120m in 2002), or the Golden Globes, Grammy and Oscar nomination season (With Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis”) all…

It’s a tiny market. There’s probably dozens of these sold in a month in the USA.

Orrr...and hear me out here, put all that garbage outside the screening area. Maybe even build a mall like setup. Given that malls are all dying as a standalone destination anyway, having one built into an area with a ton of foot traffic seems like a no-brainer.  Could even make a much simpler screening system at the…

If we truly want a safe and secure society, then the only real way to ensure it is to have a safe and equitable society in which terrorism can find no fertile grounds of disgruntlement in which to take root. It beats security theater every day of the week. Probably costs less than security theater in the long term…

When I was a kid, I would be standing at the exit of the gate waiting for dad to come back from a business trip. We just went directly to the gate and mom had to keep me from running onto the plane to find dad (to tell him my side of things before she could).

Think how much they could save by getting rid of TSA....

So if the game sells well you’ll agree that they’re making the right narrative choices?

“I don’t think the Americans should be moral arbiters for the rest of the world.”

The flip side of “There’s dragons and orcs, why can’t there be Black people? This is a made up story and doesn’t represent reality, you can do whatever you want!” is “There’s dragons and orcs, why does there HAVE to be Black people? This is a made up story and doesn’t represent reality, you can do whatever you want!”

The truly baffling American desire to police other countries.

Especially after you look at Meta salaries and realize 4 months pay there still puts you among the highest paid people in the country.

the boss (who is not taking a pay cut) adds

LAN parties were the best (apart from whenever the guys got obsessed about the porn collection on someone’s PC). I remember one party where we spanned to buildings and the courtyard in between, where one person had to play on a laundry machine, others were outside with a blanket covering them. Ah the struggle with so…

I really miss LAN parties :( got nothing else to say

Never stop speaking truth to power.