In the real world, “most favored nation” status is granted. Country A grants MFN to Country B. B cannot demand it.
In #Amazon they demand every vendor grant them, Amazon, MFN. Amazon demand primacy in every vendor’s business plan. Even if they own (an) actual store(s).
That’d be funny if it weren’t so unfunny.
What's the difference between a #portableworkstation and #gaminglaptop ?
I'm not /necessarily/ looking for hard-and-fast engineering differences, but those would be neato. More like this: What bottlenecks can each tolerate that the other cannot.
The us president is using money congress spent on improving Medicare to buy old people’s votes.
Email from Medicare saying he’s ordering $90 to be sent to me, because it’s better to put the money in the hands of the people.
Payouts within 90 days of an election should be considered vote-buying.
Purge these fuckers.
Just ONE billionaire could revolutionize USian life by paying off some medical bills.
Once again, if I had moolah, I'd hack into all kinds of health care accounts and PAY the bills.
Why the fuck do I need to prove I'm not a robot to PAY a health care bill?
Where do you submit photos to identify an odd #electrical #connector ?
3-pins, triangle, automotive/weatherproof, about 18 ga wire.
Even FAKE shaving Edward G. Robinson WHILE HE'S TALKING is terrifying.
I wonder if they're using arcs or magnesium for the lightning effects. They look thick enough to taste.
Edward G. Robinson in the tub with a barely-guarded, all-metal, single-insulated, non-polarized fan right next to him ...It makes a great shot. Real nice to see no digital artifacts except for display.
Sadly, it's racist as fuck. Sexist as hell too.
Sorry.
The scale model of the yacht afloat on the pool-set is absolutely perfect. The actors rowing are completely sold by the foreground and background.
"Key Largo" (1948) has some amazing effects.
The process shots are the best I've ever seen. The combo of rear-projection and matte in Bacall's entrance took me 3 reviews to figure it out.
Even the coming-out-of-freeze at the end of the intro crawl was perfectly exposure-matched when so often they flare or fade.
A .fun address is $1400?!!!
A lot of my "About me..." is past stuff.
Here's what I might be doing now:
Fumbling to learn bass guitar and piano.
Practicing conversational Spanish
Being retired and trying not to sweat the future because humans can't predict diddly-squat. Economists do not meet the minimum qualification (human) for that assertion.
Accepting who I am (a couch potato)
Changing what I can (stop speaking like an old, cishet white guy.)
Being less reactive.
Living up to my wife and daughter's standards.
Suggest an AI and get blocked.
I'm fed up with search engines.
I want a find engine.
In the beginning, there was darkness and void. And also me.
Let there be light.
-Bomb 20, Dark Star (1974)
Long ago (which automatically means "far away") I lived 3 blocks north of the Museum of Science and Industry where I worked.
One foggy Chicago morning, visibility less than a block, I had the moving experience of watching that giant building materialize out of the gray.
Still remember that walk. Hyde Park is generally lovely as well.