I’m thinking specifically of People magazine. With paper magazines, the time to print and distribute come into play. If they had waited until after, the article wouldn’t have hit store shelves until late mid February, after it was most relevant.

Seriously, remember Betty White? Articles about her 100th birthday were already written when she died 17 days short of it.

It’s not until the last sentence of the article that they acknowledge what’s most likely the actual cause for the rapid fall off in sales.

Tesla is being squeezed out of the European market, in large part due to most consumers’ dislike for its CEO.

I mean, if you’re an EU trade minister, who looks like the more reliable trading partner right now?

If the Tesla board of directors was being responsible to shareholders, they’d have recognized the damage the public perception of Elon is doing to the company and either have him rein it in or outright remove him. However, Elon’s gotten a number of his cronies onto the board, so I don’t think it’s happening unless the shareholders vote out the current board.

Vermont imports a quarter of its electricity from HydroQuebec. We’ve made it very clear this past weekend what we think of the administration. All the same, I completely understand.

I most frequently encounter these when feeding the cat, so in that case I have a spoon out already.

Surprised no one’s brought up Futurama yet.

Everyone assumes Canada is super liberal country just because of universal healthcare. They forget that Alberta is basically snowy Texas, and the other prairie provinces have more in common with the Midwest than New York.

Even if Canada would merge with the US, surely it wouldn’t become a state. We all know the importance of the Senate at this point, and how the two-senators-per-state rule affects things. At the very least, each province would want to become a state to get more senators, and it may be in the best interest of some of the larger provinces like Ontario or Quebec to subdivide to gain even more, if they can get away with it. Goodness knows the idea of splitting California has been floated by some to try to get something closer to senator-per-capita parity.

Trump said he’d end the war in a day. If it’s not over by Tuesday, I may start thinking he wasn’t being honest.

Both of those mice have weights you can add or remove to your liking. Maybe you took a few out of the old mouse so it was lighter?

The data brokers can still sell your data, it’s just a lot less useful to the marketing teams or scam artists that are buying it in bulk. For identity thieves, it may become more valuable, at least until word of your death works its way through the system, as there’s no living person to contest the impersonation.

Terry Pratchett wrote, “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” but I don’t think he had data brokers in mind when he wrote it in 2004.

Shortesy is a spin off of Letterkenny. Great show, so long as you’re comfortable with some blue comedy.

I’ll take the UK version any day. Robert Llewelyn did a great job as host. Did anyone ever have a successful build using hydraulics?

Mastodon was the morphing phrase & zord of the original Black Ranger.