This is how I’ve been lead to understand it. My dad used to have a little card pinned to his desk with the details you needed to look for to determine if you were allowed to flaunt the no-guns request and tote your unwelcome weapon inside anyway.

It’s definitely an artifact of that fairly brief period of time when people primarily used contact lists on cell phones and no one knew numbers anymore, but before contacts were routinely saved to clouds and such and automatically transferred to new phones. Still something that can happen, but far, far more rare.

It’s been pretty ambiguous. There’s the occasional element that seems anachronous to a 70s-ish setting, but the overall style and production design clearly lean that way. The flashback being ambiguously the 40s would seem to help cement that as the intent.

Did you not read? It explicitly says “for clients”. The people ordering are not the ones eating. Staff should not be expected to pay out of pocket for catering for the clients.

I mostly scroll past them. I’d be more interested if each one had a small blurb after it giving it context, fact checking, etc.

It’s my understanding that there’s often an upcharge that’s used to pay whatever it is the restaurants pay to the delivery services. In effect, the delivery service charges you for the delivery, but they’re also charging the restaurant to make delivery service available.

Careful not to run afoul of Marvel’s lawyers. They’re Disney now, you know.

I would say you’re overstating the value of “formal education” on critical thinking, and also perhaps assuming more of it than is reasonable in some cases. And “politically saavy” is a REAL stretch for some of that collected nobility.

No, my point was that he wasn’t king yet when she made that demand, nothing else. Also never said he was impartial. That’s your own read.

That was during the vote, and while she was the last voice to be heard, it was not exactly a given yet. If anyone ceded the North to Sansa, it was Tyrion.

This was honestly my confusion on this article as well. I couldn’t really understand why I’d even use one of those services for a restaurant that does its own delivery.

My read on this is that he’s claiming he never needed money from banks, and in fact it is the banks that wanted HIS money. He is wanting us to believe he never took any loans, and that all his dealings with banks were to deposit his own money into them. Note that he claims they are “happy to take [his] money” and not…

Yes. Which makes Tyrion the de facto ruler. Which, come on, that’s what we all really wanted to see, isn’t it?

I felt like Bran was the perfect compromise king. He’s from a Great House, he’s a guy, so he’s got those qualifications going for him. And aside that, he’s just... completely non-objectionable. No one especially favors him, aside perhaps the North, and the North secedes. No one has anything in particular against him…

And what’s your point? Mine was that they have clearly singled out any sort of food that isn’t baseline starvation prevention to the best of their abilities. It was surely just an order of magnitude more difficult to break down specific purchases so they could call out extravagances like spices and condiments.

I have a suspicion that they included meal prep subscription boxes in that total. Because they appear to deem any non-subsistence level food as a non-essential.

I cheered for the balloon man. He was the first sign of things to come.

Well, they supposedly slipped “just” inside the event horizon. Without hard numbers there’s really no way to tell what factor of time dilation “should” have been in play.

I’ve been viewing this show as Batman ‘66 with a Burton overlay (and Nolan violence) since somewhere in the second season, and it’s what’s made me love the show. My immediate thought after the episode finished was that now they need to make a movie, and it should be a straight remake of the Batman ‘66 movie. A series…

Hah, this was pretty much exactly my friend and I’s commentary as we watched. Though I called out SeaQuest rather than The Abyss.