It’s dependent on a given state’s terminology. New York, for example, has villages. They’re municipalities that fall within towns, but collectively offer additional services that the town does not. So I could live in the village of Pomona, in the town of Haverstraw, and I’d need to pay taxes to the village and the town separately.

The Beach was just too weird for the Titanic fans. It was right in the wheelhouse for Danny Boyle fans at the time.

Of course the book was better, but I really enjoyed the movie for what it was.

I collect spores, mold, and fungus.

He’s just Mister Oogie-Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas at this point.

It hasn’t been decades. Maybe 15 years, though. It’s coincided with the ubiquity of streaming.

Before Netflix was everywhere, a movie could bomb in theaters and still make up the difference on the back end. Kevin Smith’s Clerks and Mallrats are great examples of movies that absolutely cleaned up on DVD sales. Comedy Central using advertising money and licensing Office Space for 20 hours per week is part of why the producers trusted Mike Judge enough to make Idiocracy.

But steamers don’t pay nearly as well as direct-to-consumer home video or as well as advertising-supported licenses. So producers are disincenrivized to do mid-budget movies or take chances on new IPs, because if it doesn’t do well in theaters then they’re not making the money back.

Just a point of clarification: the probationary period of federal employees is much longer than 90 days. For most, it’s one year. Some roles are two years.

That last point is why I couldn’t play Fallout 4. My son was kidnapped, my spouse was killed, and I need to find out who did it and where they are! Right after I save a library, build a town, and solve some detective mysteries, I guess.

or estimated net worth

Walmart credit card. They don’t need to estimate when you willingly provide it.

Where do you charge them?

“Not admissible because it was illegally captured” didn’t give me the warm-and-fuzzies this comment sounds like it should’ve.

The pressure of the water against the door would’ve prevented her from opening it regardless of the door’s mechanical features or power supply issues.

The windows not shattering is absolutely a Tesla design flaw, but there’s no way that woman was ever going to open a door from inside a submerged car.

It’s funny how recognizing the legitimacy of the world court would just instantly remove one of the world’s biggest problems.

I remember saying this about George W twenty years ago.

difficult to pin down what they really want

They want to vote for Trump and not have to tell anyone they did. It’s why Trump won in 2016 despite the polling.

They’re saying there was no measurable change in their lives driven by political leadership in the last 16 years? They’re arguing in bad faith.

This is not a joke, they believe this.

Except for the 78% of Conservatives in support of IVF. This article is literally about Republican lawmakers scrambling because everyone is in favor of IVF.

if your goal as a parent is to maximize success of your children.

“Success” is very subjective.

I have a problem if I owe the bank a thousand dollars. The bank has a problem if I owe them a million dollars.

Wait, so you’re hoping that the American government is covertly manipulating the roughly 1 in 3 Americans who watch the Superbowl expressly to retain the incumbents power because it means we’d avoid a fascist autocracy?

Ah, the Andrew Cuomo gambit. I’m familiar.

3/5 of a vote. They are only people when it adds political power.