"Hate needles? This ingestible pill painlessly injects drugs into your gut." Again, way too early in the development cycle to get excited, and mostly a search for investment capital. Plus there's the question of accurate dosing. Injections work most every time, your stomach doesn't need to be empty, and you can control dosages. (Grokked from Dan)
Media obsolescence by decade. Just in case you think, "we'll always have this." Note these are just media types, no encoding software or data formats. (Grokked from John)
"When I first called Melissa Leonard, she asked, 'Can you call me back? I have Action News here with their cameras and everything.' Leonard is the Philadelphia-area Coldwell Banker Realtor whose listing, '50 Shades of Maple Glen'—a lovely brick colonial with five bedrooms, an updated kitchen, and a 'private adult sexual oasis' in the basement—has been viewed more than 500,000 times on Redfin since it went live less than 24 hours ago." But it is staged very nicely. Of course the neighbors are upset. Not really upset, but ticked off that these images have been posted of a house that's in their neighborhood (obviously, this isn't the first rodeo for the owners). I've seen people upset about fences, about barking dogs, about neighbors with trashy lawns, but having neighbors up in arms over a sex dungeon is a first for me. I hope the realtor snags a buyer real soon, because I don't see her keeping her position unless she does. (Grokked from Matt Staggs)
And now Amazon. "Amazon at times dips into the tips earned by contracted delivery drivers to cover their promised pay, a Times review of emails and receipts reveals" (Grokked form Annalee Flower Horne)
"Average tax refunds were down last week 8.4 percent for the first week of the tax season over the same time last year, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Dipping refunds are inflaming a growing army of taxpayers stunned by the consequences of the Trump administration’s tax law — and the effects of the partial government shutdown." Welcome to my life since the first GW Bush tax cuts. Mostly low-income workers and people expecting refunds file this early. High-earners and complicated return filers take until March, or have already prepared their extension requests. "In addition, the changes complicated payroll withholding, so that not enough money was withheld by employers in many cases, meaning that people now owe more taxes." My W-4 has me paying at the highest rate (1-deduction, married withhold at higher single rate, plus and extra $20 per pay, this is on both jobs where I receive a paycheck). Except for increasing that $20, there is no other option to have more withheld. (Grokked from Chip Dawes)
"Candace Owens of Turning Point USA, speaking in London: 'But if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize.'" Oh FFS. There's this routine Eddie Izzard does that the West is all fine when people kill their own, but then "Hitler killed people next door. Well, stupid man. After a few years we won't stand for that." Turning Point USA, everybody. (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)
"Having watched what is his last testimony before Congress as Acting Attorney General of the United States, I can say for certain that, while it is not provably true that Whitaker got the job because he's in the bag for the president*, it is provably true that he was selected because he was an entirely predictable conservative meathead of 21st century design. Between guzzling water, breathing hard, and puffing himself up to appear brave, Whitaker looked less like the country's top law-enforcement officer than the chairman of a local Tea Party group in Story County, Iowa." Meritocracy my ass. (Grokked from Elizabeth Bear)
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