A while back a friend posted this prompt, "Ruin a movie title by adding the letter r," and because hyper-focus will make you extra for no apparent reason, I made posters. Just stumbled on them again, glad they still make me laugh
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today.
Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called.
An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.
Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.
There's an episode of ST:TNG where Dr. Crusher claims people are disappearing from the history of the universe, and despite 0 evidence and crazy talk her friends listen and do everything they can to help her with *that* problem, the one she describes.
I think about that a lot.
NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE IN GERMANY WILL MOSTLY WORK INSIDE A DIGITAL TWIN OF THEIR COMPANY, BUILDING DIGITAL CARS WITH DIGITAL BRAINS, WITH AI ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES
No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.
Parents are facing the unprecedented challenge of handling the near-certain prospect that children will hear of or see footage of the possible livestreaming of Nidal Malik Hasan's execution by firing squad. https://to.pbs.org/4s9epMc
We neglected to blow the three kisses at reification. We hit it with an axe and the pieces kept walking. We've forgotten the True Name that will quiet its rampage. Reification is loose in the park and we are alive when it starts to eat us.
We moved the stones, but we didn't move the bodies.
Without disregarding that there are real executive/cognitive challenge tasks, both this and the OP's example are functions of the US health care system deliberately offloading that work onto patients/payers in the interest of profit
There are so many tasks in managing a household that are annoying and a time suck and not fulfilling or interesting in any way and not really outsource-able in any way that would be great to offload. Please, yes, figure out what I actually owe my dentist and pay it, thank you.
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽♀️
An undercelebrated relationship in cinema is that between Joan Wilder and her publisher Gloria. Flawless hype woman energy, flawless cosmopolitan vs. ingenue dynamic, endearing mutual support. Watching them interact always puts me in a good mood
Sure, except I'm struggling to think of any drops of pitch so brilliant that they've turned into pop-cultural zeitgeists spawning media, fashion, and aca-fandom, *William Gibson*
Just now discovering Wolfie's Just Fine's "Todd and Janelle". I think the reason it's possible for that song to have the emotional effect it does is the specific touches of reality he used to put in his movies, the little bits of dirt and lived lives. I miss seeing those things in blockbusters.
A typo I often make is questino, which always sounds to me like a cutesy word for a little tiny question. "Hey, I've got a little questino for you, won't that much of your time."
Of course, you'd probably drown that co-worker in the bathroom
The ground water in Miami-Dade is only 2 feet below the surface in some places, and I've even seen 5 inches cited. Those cities are not long for this world, and the monsters at the top would prefer the chaos of the weak suffering what they must to organized evacuation.
Nostalgia porn about the 90's and 00's is heavily daylight focused, which misses one crucial fact
We used to have night. There used to be lives lived there.
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now.
NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
when i worked at sbux in high school they kept scheduling me for like 35 hours a week and i kept saying i can't work this schedule i have to go to school. turned out they were hugely overscheduling kids to avoid giving enough hours to the adults that they would've qualified for health insurance
I spoke to a member of the SBWU boycott committee about the call to boycott Starbucks. As a reminder, boycott Starbucks! www.weareravenous.com/starbucks-wo...