I suspect that Toyota can make RAV4 Primes fast enough, but they choose not to in order to maintain a fever pitch, and to get buyers into Toyota dealerships, where they will settle for other wares.

Again, the law cares nothing for industry norms. But even from the perspective of the law, I find it preposterous to assert that Baldwin, after being told that it was a ‘cold gun’ by an AD, had an additional personal responsibility to verify that it was loaded only with blanks and not any live rounds.

Personally celebrating yet another month un-CyberStruck.

How the women he’s impregnated convince themselves to go through with the deed

The problem is that Harris helped Biden significantly with women and POC. Without her in the Veep slot I’m not at all sure that he would have won.

As long as the rulings don’t result in temporary injunctions preventing enforcement of agency decisions, this would be fine. I fear the opposite, though. That would serve the Heritage Foundation just fine.

This specific case does sound like it deserves criticism if it fails. Of course, if it even modestly succeeds, it will just serve as yet another inducement to keep mining existing IP for projects, since that insulates the people involved from taking full responsibility for their failure. I’m reminded by these projects…

It’s all an example of the Greater Fool theory, and has been happening since at least the Dutch Tulip craze. As long as there’s still hope that someone will buy from you at more than you paid, it doesn’t matter how foolish your purchase is.

From a People article:

Given the sentence immediately before this one, a comma between the word ‘employees’ and the following word ‘and’ would have helped immensely.

SAG rules cannot possibly equal a Get Out of Jail Free card. The law cares not for union rules.

I also have a big problem with movie length in a theatre setting. Yeah, I’m an old, but if a director insists on 3 hours to tell the story, I need an intermission so that I can take a piss. Streaming offers a solution for that, even if some of the viewing experience takes a hit.

I think concerts are the best model for theatres putting butts in seats beyond blockbuster films. I saw all three performances of the (supposedly) Grateful Dead finale at Soldier Field streamed live into my local cinema after failing to get tickets. And you know what? I think I enjoyed it more than if I had gotten…

This is definitely a show where rewatching the last episode of the previous season is a must before starting up with the new one, just like I did with Hacks and The Bear. I’m not sure, though, whether rewatching a single episode will be enough with this one.

No, we can’t stop. The problem is that working with existing popular IP gives the people creating the adaptation cover in the event that the adaptation fails. “Who knew?” is any easy copout for failure in that scenario, when working on something original leaves the creators vulnerable to “WTF were you thinking?”…

It’s long past time to change tax law to make fines non-deductible as a business expense. If fines went directly to the bottom line and reduced profits, they would start to mean something. I can’t deduct traffic fines from my income. Companies shouldn’t be able to either.

I got me a car, it’s as big as a whale

Either this, or set up a sliding price scale, where charging past 85% costs more than the run up to 85%. Even make 90%-95% and 95%-100% more expensive than that. If you really want 100%, you pay for the excess time at the charger.

The same thing has been true for execs at the Big 3. They’ll ask for a car in order to get a sense of what is being produced, but they’re not given a random car off of the production line. The car they’re given is carefully inspected for any flaws or deficiencies, and those things are corrected before delivery to the…

The Tour de France predates the 2CV by 45 years. It seems unlikely that they only started grading the hill climbs after the car was available.