When George Lucas wrote “So this is how liberty dies; with thunderous applause”, I thought it as a hack line.

No other market thinks like that.

Telling 100% white crowd how awful black players are and how stupid white billionaires are... a day after 7 sitting senators were in Russia for the 4th of July kissing the arse of tRump’s handler. And they laugh and applaud while the trade war starts, babies are lost/in cages/separated from parents, and he’s under…

I’m always fascinated by the fact that we, as women, are constantly called upon to show “love” and forgiveness. Even in the face of abuse and the absence of contrition.

Yeah, this is some tiresome apologia bullshit right here. Sometimes after someone goes deep into apologia I start thinking well yes, it’s important that we allow people to evolve and change and update their views with the times... and then I think no wait, all of that is bullshit. Men have always been capable of…

“You really have to have a plan for truth and reconciliation. We can’t put every man over 30 in jail. We have to love our brothers and fathers and come to an understanding about how we got here and who we are going to be together.”

The problem is, niche phones are often quirky, which is not very desirable since most people just want a bar phone.

No, LG hasn’t had a removable battery for the last 3 or 4 generations. The last one was the LG v20, which is arguably an excellent phone. Everything since has been a poorly done Samsung knockoff, and when accessories and cases for the Samsung are abundant and easily accessible, why by the LG knockoff in the first…

HTC (and companies that aren’t samsung and apple) should focus on niches. The smartphone market is huge- nearly everyone on planet earth. There are plenty of specialty niches you can market to. Thing about this way, how about making the best phone possible for doctors? Find out what doctors need from their phones and…

I was honestly more shell shocked than anything else. I’ve been to a bunch of “midnight” opening night showings, and while the crowd has been raucous beforehand, it’s generally the diehard fans in the theater who are SUPER invested. Because of an overfull schedule, I saw Infinity Wars in opening night (it was the only…

Opening Thursday might have been pushing it, but usually when you’re in a theatre and can’t enjoy the movie for whatever reason, a chat with the manager will get you passes to a future showing, especially if you walk out halfway through.

This happens at every movie screening (almost) ever in LA, even for older movies, because all the film nerd tryhards in the audience just HAVE to let the whole theater know that they’re a big fan of the casting director, or whatever bullshit.

The worst is seeing a marvel movie opening weekend. Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon but those people that cheer and clap every time a character is introduced annoy me so much. In the new movies they’re basically introducing a new character every couple minutes. Cool it people!

For years I tried to decide which was worse, kids talking during kids movies, or old people talking during, er, old people movies. I was always leaning toward old people being worse becasue they should know better but what really put geezers over the top was when we saw Darkest Hour and during the scene where people…

I went to go see The Last Jedi on opening Thursday at 11pm. It was literally the worst movie experience of my life (I liked TLJ, so please, no painfully obvious jokes about how that was the movie’s fault).  The two guys next to me were high as balls and just talking to each other at a normal volume, like they were…

It shouldn’t, but humans are limited, flawed beings. I haaate conflict, though I won’t hide from it, so I just try to get done as quick as possible. I suffer from depression and social anxiety which causes a lot of irritation and stress for my friends and family. Sometimes also the people I work with. I look at it as…

Ah, but isn’t the root cause in fact trying to assume something about the other person? ie...”you’re upset”....no, no I’m not...but you haven’t asked what IS the problem, you just see that there is a disturbance in the force, and you’re not really interested to know more.....see what I mean?

Empathy is important, but I don’t think “simplifying” this set of skills by removing four out of the five categories is an effective way to do this. For starters, the bulk of what we’ve talked about here is actually dealing with your own emotions. You don’t need empathy to deal with those, but you do need a lot of…

The tl;dr on this is, Learn empathy. I know it’s a familiar LH trope but it really is the key to a happy life. It nips so much trouble in the bud and you will be a hero to people just because you listen to them and give a shit. And you will feel better once you step outside yourself and realize, hey, nobody gets…