Shōgun Ep 7 An episode that maybe in isolation didn't sing as loudly as others, but in the full context of the show will be vital. I was not expecting to see the birth of geisha in this series, but here we are. Toranaga has to have a plan. Why he isn't sharing it with his top advisors, I don't know....

Buck fever....... for people!

Who did all of the de-aging work? ILM Who owns ILM? Lucasfilm Who owns Lucasfilm? Disney It's basically an elaborate R&D exercise (akin to the 'live action' remake of "The Lion King", but for people). Not small reason why SAG was fighting against virtual 'performers' so much; they've already done di...

That happened to me. A week after my virtual panel interview I followed up and learned the hiring manager was gone for 2 weeks overseas. Woohoo.

Is there a better metaphor for Netanyahu than bombing food trucks

Fight me. There was like a 3 or 4 model year period where the S sort of reset the baseline for many of the metrics that make a car great, and in an objective fashion in some cases. Then for reasons that only make sense to the the "go f**k yourself" guy they changed a small handful of them in ways th...

In my defense, I wasn't considering a Tesla because they're kinda crap. The S pre-2020 or so is perhaps the single greatest passenger car ever made, but you had to spend like $130k to get one. Then they changed up the interior to make it more like the other models (e.g. awful) and a big chunk of wha...

On the company’s first day of public trading last week, Truth Social’s website saw its highest-traffic day of the month, with roughly 277,000 U.S. visitors, the estimates show. That is a small fraction of most online platforms: On the same day, the discussion-board service Reddit saw more than 32 m...

Today is Demo Day 1 on our bathroom project. First World mini-rant (I'm very aware of how silly and petty and inconsequential this all sounds) Ahead of the project, I said I wanted two things (well, one of the things was sort of predicated on a third thing being true). Since this is the bathroom tha...

What sort of stylistic look are you going for? Just a wood box with shelves? Metal frame? "Dark Academia"?

Be sure to get the dark chocolate peanut butter cups.

This was literally my first instinct before changing to the 'dumb animals' line.

Taking an aerial photo without request.........???? Insurance companies have been using tools like Google Earth for 10+ years. To me, that's not really shady. Sound? Useful? Effective? I question all of those aspects of the practice. But it isn't shady. What is shady to me is operating a business mo...

It is as if dumb animals had been granted only the amount of sentience required to mock humanity.

Some of my best friends are short.

Way to go PB.

I don't think Democrats should try to appeal to anyone who doesn't want to participate in a 21st century society. Let the chips fall where they may.

It's like gingers, they can't help that they are born without souls.

Fun fact about "Iron Eagle": The USAF obviously didn't want to cooperate with a movie centered around a group of civilian teenagers stealing two F-16s and illegally bombing someone, so all the aircraft and flying scenes are IDF assets filmed in Israel. Also, Doug's girlfriend is Jan from The Office....

500+ words about the plight of being short

I am a sturdy 6' even.

It is

I've never read the book, but I know something of the actual historical events/people the story is based on. If book follows the same overarching trajectory and the FX series is faithful to the book, then I imagine we're approaching the outright end. It took like ten years to make this thing. It doe...

This is perhaps the one area where taxation in CA is less steep than nearly everywhere else. Lottery winnings are not taxed. If the prize is relatively low (six or seven figures) I'd take the payout. Once it starts wandering up into the eight and nine-figure range, then the annuity can make sense. B...

We still reflexively say it "may-o-naze".

Also, I don't think the idea is that the perception is that successful white people are successful because they are white. If that's the case, I think I might not have been on that mailing list and would like to know where to address my grievance letter. The - I assert undeniable - reality is that w...