What’s the over/under on how many characters (other than Axel) that Murphy is going play while covered in prosthetics?

Yes, trying to sneak into an event with POTUS would be a terrible idea. Decades ago, I was with my family in Banff, staying at the same hotel where (then) Prince Charles was there for some event. My wife and sister-in-law tried to visit the floor the royals were on, and got summarily stopped by his guards. They…

I’m up for a movie where Richard Simmons plays the lead in a Pauly Shore biopic, though.

What’s unique to China is that there is no obstacle to them obtaining the total cooperation of ByteDance, or any other company allowed to operate there. While the barriers are low in the US, there is at least some review. And it’s hard to believe that any of the socials could be compelled to feed US govt specified…

20 years ago I moved back to Chicagoland from southwestern MI. It took me about a week to realize that if I didn’t let things go while driving that I would suffer a heart attack or burst aneurysm within the month. I learned to stop treating my commute as a competition, and that someone getting ahead of me didn’t mean…

Some fisherfolk see dolphins as competition for what they are trying to catch.

Some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade. Mmhmm.

Ellen DeGeneres? Seriously? What the hell kind of film would that have been?

Dialogue can be a valid sound effect when the purpose is set the mood of a scene, or to establish something about a character’s inner life, but never when the dialogue is furthering the plot.

taylor has literally [alienated] the industry due to her tremendous success

While other social networks can be compelled to share user data with the US govt with little oversight under FISA, by and large, access to individual user data requires court approval. TT has no such limits with the Chinese govt. And I don’t think that Meta, et al, are easily compelled to push govt desired content to…

First, Meta selling your data has more transparency that TT will ever have, and western governments have at least some hurdles to clear when demanding access to individual user data. Also, more restrictions are (possibly) on the way to what Meta can collect, and therefor sell. Second, Meta has no obligation to push…

all the domestic social networks do this just as much

And a corollary to this is they won’t replace a part if it can be fixed. My wife had some kind of problem with the auto trans not shifting right. Made it into Mike’s Auto, left it and walked the half mile back home. 2 hours later he said it was ready. Some part of the shift linkage had broken, and instead of waiting…

I haven’t seen any of those ads, but I fully expect that Musk’s distaste for them largely revolves around how little his image and name were used.

I think deterring clowns does have value. But that’s a culture’s job not the governments.

I think that deterring clowns from bragging online has value in that it cuts down on making bad behavior seem “cool”, something that can encourage other people to mimic that behavior for clout.

He doesn’t really need to sell his shares to profit. He can short the stock through intermediaries and shell corporations in order to make much needed cash, all at the expense of the faithful that bought in at $70+ a share.

The problem for HSR is securing a right-of-way that is free of road crossings. This project out west works because it’s practical to establish that right-of-way across a largely undeveloped part of the country. This is all but impossible in the more urban areas, and is why the CA terminus is well outside of the LA…

My understanding is that an ICE can be designed from the ground up to run really well on straight alcohol. That has to be a better approach than burning hydrogen. Alcohol is much easier to ship and store, and it can’t be much harder to set up production and distribution than hydrogen.