Gavin Newsom is the epitome of the liberal elite who talk the talk but don't walk the walk. He criminalizes homelessness instead of working to address its systemic causes and is deep in the pockets of corporate and wealthy donors. His whole appeal is just posturing against Trump. It boggles my mind that my mom likes the guy.

One "scandal" and he resigns drops out. Reminds me of Al Franken. The best ones with actual principles fall on the sword. I'm not super opposed so long as the replacement Democrat candidate still wins I guess. But whoever that is will likely be further right which sucks.

Imagine buying a "Pro" laptop that can't even play HEVC videos without software transcoding. This is insane penny pinching and infuriating

I've heard of those referred to as "busy boards"

xQc truly is one of the dumbest streamers around, and that's a race to the bottom.

Always have been. Kudos to Heath for sticking to his guns; 2007 was still a very backwards time concerning LGBTQIA+ rights and acceptance. Brokeback Mountain really helped open the eyes of some sheltered Americans.

That and Dyson might just be preemptively killing it in the wake of the FTC forcing Razer to refund buyers of its smart mask

They really beat that joke into the ground throughout the course of the episode, but honestly I thought it was funny everytime and didn't get old 🐕🔫👧

That and personal privacy and freedom from despotic and fascist government

Also:

On Linux Firefox uses less memory and no longer requires a forced restart after an update has been applied by a package manager

Super minor QoL update but I am all here for it!!

In 2023, a woman who went missing for five days in the Australian bushland was found alive after surviving for five days on lollipops and wine.

Yet another reminder to keep a stockpile of food and water in your abodes and cars just-in-case. I haven't been stranded out and about yet, but there was a blizzard a few years ago that I was unprepared for and I nearly ran out of food.

Ah the Roman numeral tattoo is 666

beatings and kickings, or how he deliberately set broken bones with insufficient levels of anaesthetic. They also told the court how the doctor had poured flammable liquid on their wounds and parts of their body – and in two cases, including that of a 14-year-old boy, on their genitals – and set them on fire. He injected one prisoner with a deadly poison while the man had been trying to defend himself. He died in front of fellow prisoners.

The court also heard how he had beaten and kicked a young man suffering from epileptic seizures, knowing he had the condition, which led to it worsening. He later administered a pill, which caused the man to die in the presence of his brother

Glad this guy will be behind bars for at least the next 15 years. What a sadistic piece of shit

I haven't fact-checked whether this quote is legit attributable to Alan Parsons but considering his production mastering pedigree it's believable. My dad used to sell audiophile equipment in the 80's and he would play Dark Side of the Moon and Alan Parsons Project to show off their hi-fi equipment. He said customers would put on their lower-quality records and it wouldn't sound as good (obviously), making their gear a harder sell.

EDIT: Parsons didn't say this, a web commenter did on an article about an interview with Parsons:

https://boingboing.net/2012/02/10/alan-parsons-on-audiophiles.html

Netanyahu addressing the US Senate

What is the charge?! Eating Boofing a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?

I really loved Gargoyles as a kid

Where are you seeing such a high figure? This article from 2025 says $150 million. I know he has Celsius and wrestling but 2 billion seems like BS

In a nutshell: 1) Fandango buys rotten tomatoes in 2016, 2) they expand/widen the critic reviewer pool to include nobody bloggers, and then 3) movie studios court/bribe small fish reviewers to inflate their scores so they can get the fresh rating as a marketing point for their latest flick.

Nice to finally have this all spelled out. I've been burned several times over the last few years watching movies with like 79% ratings on RT that I thought sucked. Now I know why.

What's the alternative? IMDB is owned by Amazon and has a super dumb recency bias. I use Letterboxd and that might be the best at the moment. But the user base there is smaller and sometimes it feels like the only people reviewing movies are the select few who went out of their way to watch it so they are inherently skewed to like it.

Drake is too busy trying to clean up his work with child processes