To the layman: sleet=tiny ice. Hail=big ice.

There are multiple restaurants in Japan that are hundreds of years older than this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owariya

Business love libertarians. Not fascists.

Fascists and dictators might decide to take over your business, double the cost of your raw materials through tariffs, or suddenly change all your regulations without discussion.

Ask any economists what business likes most and it is certainty. They hate the unknown and risk. Even if the policies aren’t their favorite, if they’re fixed and stable, they’ll find a way to work them.

Sure. Absolutely correct for pressing down on a button or something similar

For other stuff, it’s not common, but I think it’s technically correct.

Depending on what it is, “compress” might be a better term than “depress”, though.

Literally a quote from the article:

“Not an anti-porn crusade, that’s absolutely not it, but actually understanding that for some people, a significant number of people, porn does lead to harms. And how do we actually begin to do something and address that?”

This isn’t some pearl-clutching religious group putting out the report. It’s a professional group of therapists.

Agreed. But the comparison was 4k vs 4k

Ethiopian Coptics are some of the oldest Christian groups in the world. You could (and I think they do) argue they predate Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.

Yeah, aside from the fact that a lot of content is only available on streaming platforms, it’s hardly a comparison budget wise. Even with regular Blu-ready discs, but especially for 4k UHDs, for the equivalent of Netflix premium you can buy maybe 10-12 discs a year, tops. And that’s if you’re not terribly picky. Some of the better titles are $35-40+. I guess if you only watch one movie a month on Netflix it’s equivalent, but that’s not how most people use the service.

I’m a big proponent of physical media. I don’t like the takeover of renting media and over-compressed streaming.

But it’s not like they’re even close to equivalents.

The downside of not having any major corporation defend his IP for infringing on their profits is that you see tons of counterfeit Calvin stuff that is very out of character. Used to see more of it. Thankfully as the strip hasn’t been over-promoted, he’s not mega popular, so I don’t feel like you see it as much as you used to

Not an expert, but I’ve always understood that what you’re describing is pansexual. I’ve understood the bisexual is general attraction to both men and women. Pansexual is attraction to any person.

Again, give or take any given person’s own chosen labels and attractions that might vary.

Ray Charles beat them all (kinda, sometimes)

MadTV did a good skit about this years ago

https://youtu.be/FhEpv14L-b0

He’s been amazing in more dramatic roles many times. Watch “The Foreigner (2017),” “Shinjuku Incident (2009),” and “New Police Story (2004).”

That said, he’s had issues - cozied up to the Xi regime, issues with alcohol and drunk driving, a son in frequent trouble with the law where Daddy bailed him out… So you have to hold his nose a bit to watch movies. And he’s clearly got a bit of the Nic Cage in him where he can do some great stuff, but also doesn’t seem to say no to anything, so he does a lot of trash movies.

Save you a click: not surprisingly, they plan to add a ton of AI features that no one asked for (“agentic OS”) tired to the cloud, etc, to the point that it will require new AI-specific hardware to run.

Chadwick Bowsman in anything, but I would have loved it if he could have had a real close to the Black Panther character. If I have a magic wand I’d cure his cancer, of course. But even giving him just a few more years so he could give that character a worthy send off and better set up the rest of his universe.

Don’t sleep on “A Knight’s Tale”

A real, functional minimum wage across all jobs (close the loopholes around tips, piecemeal work, etc). Have it pegged to inflation so it stays a living wage.

Spending the day working in a field, in a factory, etc you don’t do a lot of socializing.

Some of the DVD/Blu-ray versions of “GalaxyQuest” have the entire movie dubbed into the weird screeching alien language as a quirky bonus feature.

They’re creating their own events, separate from the official Olympics

For free.

How many other games give you as much free “DLC” at Minecraft, year after year? And the game was lower cost to begin with.

If this was any other game, every one of these updates would be $10 and/or the whole platform would have gone to an annual subscription a long time ago