Third, which is connected to your point #2, is that companies have tremendous sunk costs in their facilities, be they long term commercial leases or huge campuses with lots of bells and whistles, and it’s driving them crazy to see them sitting there empty.

On the big tech front, a lot companies put a ton of money into new campuses with a bunch of bells and whistles in the years before the pandemic to encourage employees to stay onsite even longer and work those fabled 16-hour days they crave. Apple and Google in particular opened or announced huge, multi-billion dollar…

I feel like if this was real they’d be making a much bigger deal about it than a random Twitter post. Putting a chip in someone’s head that improved their behavior or made them better/smarter/whatever would be a huge freaking deal.

“The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?”

The best is still “which machine did you think we were raging against?” response to Paul Ryan.

I saw one recently. They’re freaking gigantic, and seem to have the same visibility problem the Prius has out the back but this time out the front. What could go wrong?!

If that’s true it’s hilarious.

Are cybertruck owners able to file a class action lawsuit the way Honda Hybrid owners did after they lied about their MPG, or did they sign that away in their ridiculous contract in addition to all the other stuff?

I think of the Razzie’s as being for films that intend to be good, but are not. In that vein, justice for Blood & Honey!

Yeah the original Brat Pack designation included more or less every actor between the ages of 18 and 24 who’d been in a prominent movie between between 1983 and 1985. Check out the Wikipedia page - it was a pretty broad list.

I only watched the first season, but quite enjoyed it. It seemed like a stretch that they could even make a second work, though it sounds like they did. Either way kudos to them, it could have been a ridiculous trifle but turned out quite meaningful and good. 

All technological advancements since the beginning of technology have replaced labor with the goal of increasing productivity, which ultimately creates better jobs. Computers replaced scads of white collar workers, while also creating much better new jobs to replace them. And if you don’t think people were panicked…

It is hot as balls where they’re building. They’ll probably need to put the city in a dome so they can air condition it. It can also be at the bottom of the ocean and be built in a 1930s art deco style.

It’s the same in places like Hartford, which has completely hollowed out its core, but has a powerful suburban economy. All those insurance brokers commute in during the day, then flee at night. The population of the entire MSA is the same-ish, but the city itself is struggling.

Many of the cities on this list have already been shedding population for quite a while now. Detroit at one point had lost something nearing half its population from its peak in the late 1960s.

Alexander Skarsgard is 6'4". Nicole Kidman has never towered over him.

Also birds aren’t real, and there are birds outside most stores that have self check. Open your eyes.

It was like that before self checkout, though. Grocery stores have been massively understaffed for multiple decades now. Understaffing didn’t start with self check, and if it was outlawed tomorrow stores wouldn’t hire more workers to make up for it.

It’s not a comedy, and everyone involved with the show knows it’s not a comedy, but in recent years the Drama category has been stuffed while the comedy section is a wasteland; hence, it’s entered as a comedy so as to better its chance of winning awards.

The best thing they could do to improve the self checkout experience is not an item limit but an age limit. Bring your whole damn cart in, but if you’re over the age of 60 you’re stopped at the gate.