When I studied abroad in China, our teacher taught us to say "I already bought one" when vendors were pressuring us to buy something. They usually responded "You want another? Mine is cheaper!" This is exactly how Google ads and social media algorithms function.

Okay yeah it's probably Get Out or Citizen Kane, and I LOVED Sorry Baby last year, but Big Night rules so much and way more people need to see it.

Great choice.

And if it did break, it just became a tv stand for a newer tv.

You brought me to some amazing places in Cleveland. I'm going to Detroit for the first time later this month and I'm so excited.

I gasped. This book is going to be so good.

Whenever I hear people complain about the traffic calming on Kingshighway or Gravois, their argument starts and ends with "this seems weird." As someone that actually lives nearby and walks a lot and drives those stretches every day, it's so much less stressful than before.

I'm just confused how any of that is supposed to make traffic flow better. I would bet whoever was in charge of this decision doesn't actually know either.

Wait, are they making that a legal lane to drive on or do they just want cars to feel safer speeding in the existing lanes? I don't spend much time downtown anymore, but all the bump outs on Kingshighway are to stop people from passing on the shoulder and hitting parked cars.

I don't know any statistics on this, but I would bet fewer kids playing baseball will contribute to fewer adults caring about baseball a decade from now.

I can already tell I'm going to listen to this new Robyn album 1,000 times this year.

This made my day.

One car brand sets up test drive offices in every city, and the other brands have to do the same to keep up. I have no idea why you think direct car sales would eliminate mechanics.

This is like how I had to explain to my mom that the Mike Tyson MAHA ad during the superbowl was evil fatphobic propaganda regardless of whether "processed foods" are bad for you.

Very fun hearing @whatsallthispod.bsky.social pick my entry for British Thought of the Week. I don't know why, but I just knew @libbycwatson.com would love diving into the Weights and Measures Acts.

Also, if we don't build more and denser housing, and the population continues to grow, how does that result in anything other than more unhoused people?

Hell yeah. Mine are him, Ike, Lucas, and Pac-Man.

It's very funny that they think so little of their intended customers that they picked an already extremely easy to parse sentence for the Before.

Jackie is one of my favorite comics of all time, and I have loved all of her previous specials/ albums. I'm very excited to listen to this on a future roadtrip (my preferred non-live way to experience standup), but everyone else should watch this immediately.

This is from a live show in 2019. I can't remember why my character was worried about getting sent to Pervert Jail, but this was the slide that accompanied that moment.

David Chang's Netflix show had a whole episode about Viet-Cajun cuisine and how their crawfish are so much better than the traditional, nonfusion seafood boils.

When you mentioned getting the DMs from fake Randy Orton accounts, it reminded me that I used to know his brother, who showed me one time that there were dozens of Twitter and Tumblr accounts pretending to be him. I guess for clout, or maybe to somehow scam their way into meeting his brother?

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

this is extremely fucking important, esp with what just happened in kansas. they are trying to criminalize every aspect of our existence. i try not to be alarmist about things but this is where we are and it is BAD bad

On a hot streak in terms of movies I saw in theaters this month. BTW @letterboxd.social it seems like this tag should be a default option. Everyone I've mentioned it to started using it themselves.

neither I nor my ad agency noticed that Spotify was putting nine ads in each of my podcasts when you listen to it on Spotify two before the show-six mid roll- and one post show. Over 800 episodes for about a year and I got $150. Feel free to never listen to the dork forest on Spotify.

I used it one time (needed specific socks and other camping supplies from Target but was leaving too early the next day to go there myself) and they texted me so many times early in the morning. Kept asking me for possible substitutions just in case.