One thing about the Maori: they will remind you that New Zealand is their land and they won’t negotiate on their freedom to cultural expression.
Deal with it.
Watching a Diners Drive Ins and Dives from 2008 and it’s a completely different world. A bacon cheeseburger was braggadociosly only $4.75. I looked up the website and that burger is $17 today.
The Flavortown you were raised to live in no longer exists.
in a shocking twist, climate change is infinitely more disruptive and deadly than the actions of those trying to thwart it! good job we threw them all in jail though!
So the executive editor lying "the ownership will back the independence" of reporters right after a public example of the owner not backing independence was met with skepticism by people trained to ask questions and search for the truth? Who could have anticipated that?
Two things:
1) Canceling his government contracts and security clearances isn't enough anymore. This man needs to spend the rest of his life in prison.
2) You don't pull stunts like this when you're confident about winning. This is Hail Mary desperation to stay out of prison.
western movie critics are incapable of writing about kaiju/toku stuff without a million disclaimers about how it's just so campy and silly and hard to take seriously but if you can get past that then-- and it pisses me off so bad. meet the genre where it's at or die
“Rule 0” requires experienced play to do properly. It’s not inclusive to new players. The format itself needs to be inclusive, not the “pregame convo”.
this was my entire masters thesis at berkeley, “the supply and demand of human-scale neighborhoods in america”
the data absolutely supports this. if we don’t build more walkable neighborhoods, the few that we have become luxury items—not because they are any more expensive to build or maintain (the opposite, in fact) but because they are artificially scarce and highly desirable
inspired by this complaint, which prompted English Wikipedia to switch its sandwich photo from boiled eggs to baloney, here is a thread of the photos used in different language versions of the "sandwich" article
both starbucks and mcdonalds have seen HUGE losses in revenue since the boycotts started. mcdonalds has outright admitted it's bc of the boycotts, and that they're getting hit especially hard in Arab countries. boycotts work! keep going!
I’m so sorry but Balto didn’t deliver diphtheria serum to sick children via sled in 1925 just for us to charge thousands for vaccines and withhold them from entire populations a century later
We science fiction writers went to the trouble for the last 100 years to concoct stories containing dire warnings about things just like this. Please remember Frankenstein, and Colossus, and Skynet, Fred Saberhagen's Berserkers, not to mention the Doomsday weapon from Star Trek