Basically every episode of Columbo. The mystery isn’t the crime, but how he’s going to solve it.

I recently had a cashier call another one over for a purchase issue of mine and referred to me as a “guest”. It felt weird. I was not a guest. I was trying to exchange money for goods and services and leave.

I don’t know what corporate big brain came up with the guest terminology, but it feels weird from every angle.

There is always going to be a divide between people who have done restaurant closings and those that haven’t. Some people who haven’t done it will not see any issue with showing up 10 minutes to closing and ordering everything on the menu. You can’t change their minds.

The last time I was traveling and absolutely had no choice but to go into a Chiplote 20 minutes to closing (it was the only place for miles still open), I made sure to be flexible about only asking for things that hadn’t been put away already. I ended up getting what seemed like quad portions and free chips. Be nice to servers and they are nice to you.

Marketing always spoils.

Spoilers!

In case anyone wanted to see these guys in an image with more than 4 pixels.

And the full quote is: “Shotguns such a diverse platform. They are used by hunters, breachers, and sad musicians everywhere.” Which was a moment with a pause before moving on.

I don’t think this is about taking territory in and of itself. This is about forcing fighting to happen in conditions favorable to Ukraine.

Russians have to pivot forces and organize offensives against this. Offensives in new areas are harder and more complex to put together with conscripts. The Ukrainian forces have caused a chaotic situation, and they seem to be leveraging that as hard as possible to cause casualties.

This also seems to be Ukraine finding a good use for all those tanks. After the failed armored offensive early in the war, it seemed Ukraine got skiddish about trying again. This seems like a more successful use of tanks offensively.

What does the creation of a multi-national state owned search engine have to do with Google? I presume nations have the resources to do that all on their own.

What would you suggest the Google search engine be allowed to do to profit as a business?

I get the feeling a lot of people would complain about Google search doing that too.

Can you elaborate on the business model of a search engine that has no ads?

But if it is collecting data on how to recommend video just to the account that is only used for YT, it seems like it is well partitioned.

Why deactivate recommendations instead of being logged into YouTube using an email that exists only for the YT account?

I got you.

It do feel that way.

Poltergeist. The creatures in The Descent are distinctly different.