Located 2314 results from search term 'review'
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Commented in Rolls-Royce to add 'robotic' chauffeur
If you're thinking about getting either the BMW i7 or the Mercedes EQS, I would recommend watching this review. The reviewer mentions that even though BMW wasn't among the first or second brands to enter the luxury electric vehicle market, their new 2023 BMW i7 xDrive 60 surpasses everything in its class. According to https://truecarexpert.com It's not just about the way it performs, but also about the overall driving experience. In the review, the reviewer takes the BMW i7 to a place called MotoMan canyon to understand why this 536 horsepower all-wheel-drive car puts the BMW 7 Series ahead of its competition from Mercedes-Benz. So, watching this review might give you a better insight into the BMW i7 and help you make an informed decision between the two vehicles.
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Commented in 7 Reasons to Ignore the negative reviews for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
This article ends by stating "Watch it, please.... you might be missing out".
Review bombing, which is a joke "problem", is what self entitled narcissists claim when the majority of people genuinely do not like what you are offering. Its the result if upsetting the intensely passionate majority fanbase who have kept this story alive longer than the showrunners have walked the planet. Led Zeppelin showed more respect to Tolkien in one verse than the entire script of Rings of Power.
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Commented in 7 Reasons to Ignore the negative reviews for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Because Amazon spent a few days profit on it and they are annoyed that no-one likes it? Also they paid for this review and most of the other positive reviews.
The bad reviews are just review bombing, which actually means, people not paid by amazon generally hate it.
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Commented in Dune review – Denis Villeneuve’s awe-inspiring epic is a moment of triumph
I was happy with this movie. I'm glad that the review mentioned the back and forth borrowing between Dune and Star Wars. I just wish I didn't have to wait for part 2 (and beyond). I hope we can get at least 3 great movies from Villeneuve in the Dune Universe.
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Commented in YouTube’s “Premium Lite” trial offers ad-free YouTube for €7 a month
They have a work around they are gradually unfurling world wide which makes add blockers useless. I copy the url of what I want to watch,plop it down in the media window on a website,hit review,watch the video,which won't have the ad at the start,then delete the whole thing.
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Commented in When Will 'Picard' Season 2 Start Filming? EP Akiva Goldsman Weighs In
What a coincidence
I just watched RedLetterMedia's Mr Plinkett review of STP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwF1iri1GjQ
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Commented in FAA aims to reset standards for planes' seats, but tests are disputed
Worst was AA from HK to Philly..12.5 hours.. Ended up with a blood clot an6 months of blood thinners. It was the worst seat I have ever flown in. Reconfigured 777....its criminal what they did.. I will never do that again.https://travelingformiles.com/review-american...nes-777-200-economy-class-day-flight-lhr-lax/
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Commented in A New Documentary Highlights Why Yelp Feels Unfair
I've never felt that Yelp is accurate. I also feel like it makes reviewers jump through hoops by encouraging them to write more reviews in order to make it more likely that their review is recommended (I mean to make sure it's not in the "not recommended" reviews that are hidden), etc etc. So it's not only bullying businesses, I feel it also tries to bully reviewers into do more and more work. I only have about 3 yelp reviews and I decided never to put any more reviews on for exactly that reason. If Yelp thinks I'm not trustworthy because I only have 3 reviews, that's their problem not mine. I think reviewers need to realize that by reviewing places on yelp, they're basically working for Yelp for free.
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Commented in College Board Under Fire for Deciding Black Student Did Too Well on Her SAT
While the College Board maintains that “a score is never flagged for review solely on score gains,”
But score gains while black?
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Commented in Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data
Yeah. At the time, when I looked at data usage by apps on my phone and saw it chewing through my data allocation, I naively put it down to extremely inefficient programming by app developers. (And that alone would be enough for me to delete the app) - but later when I read about apps like The Weather Channel tracking users, then I realized that this was what was going on instead.
Now, I periodically review the breakdown of data usage by app on my phone. Anything that uses more data than it should, I delete. Basically anything that uses more than my browser (the app I use most often) I will delete. This is not a complete guard against privacy-violating apps, but I figure that it at least will help me identify any big red flags.
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Commented in Spider silk is five times stronger than steel—now, scientists know why
Spider silk is not stronger than steel. In a review of studies on spider silk properties the strongest reported value was 1652 MPa ultimate tensile strength [1]. If you have a block of knives in your kitchen you own steel that is stronger than the strongest spider silk ever reported. In fact, the strongest steel that I am aware of was reported as 6350 MPa [2]. The study that reported that high strength value for steel was not even an attempt to set a record, but a study on the effect of different annealing treatments on high strength steel wire. They got the steel from a commercial supplier. However, articles for the public about steel being super strong are not as sexy as talking about spider silk.
[1] Agnarsson, Ingi, Matjaž Kuntner, and Todd A. Blackledge. “Bioprospecting finds the toughest biological material: extraordinary silk from a giant riverine orb spider.” PloS one 5, no. 9 (2010): e11234.
[2] Li, Y. J., P. Choi, S. Goto, C. Borchers, D. Raabe, and R. Kirchheim. “Evolution of strength and microstructure during annealing of heavily cold-drawn 6.3 GPa hypereutectoid pearlitic steel wire.” Acta Materialia 60, no. 9 (2012): 4005-4016.
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Commented in Emmanuel Macron calls for creation of a ‘true European army’ to defend against Russia and the US
Yeah, right? This year, the U.S. is pouring two-thirds of its discretionary spending down the military rat hole. Why can't France? Oh, wait. France has hiked their 'defense' spending by more than forty percent, so they'll be ceremonially burning two percent of their GDP by 2025. Instead of the lousy 1.82% they're shredding now. Spendthrift frogs have so much to learn. Empire isn't free after all.
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Commented in Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
Yep.
Agencies funded by taxpayers provide grants to researchers.
Researchers produce results and write papers.
Researchers give the papers to editorial houses for free.
Editorial houses send the papers to peer reviewers.
Peer reviewers review the papers for free.
Original authors make required changes for free.
Editorial house send proofs to authors, who check and fix them for free.
Editorial house charges absurd amounts of money for people to read the papers.
TL;DR Editorial houses suck money from everyone while creating near zero value.
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Commented in This Is What Happened When I Asked My Friends to Rate Me
Netflix link for the lazy. Also Wikipedia, IMDB, rundown, and inevitable chill down the spine.
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Commented in Mad as a Hatter
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Commented in 'The New Yorker' review of 'Avengers: Infinity War' is getting roasted
I saw the movie again after the New Yorker review and it's still the best review I've seen. While we'll simply have to wait for a review of this review of a review to come out, I think we can all agree that final judgment will have to await the eventual release of the second half of this two-parter storyline we'll be bled again for later. Ten years into these things and they're finally capturing the quintessence of Marvel — you never get a complete story in just one issue.
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Commented in Avengers Infinity War review: What’s missing from this 2.5-hour romp? Hope
This review won't wear well with time. Reviewers often seem to've seen some completely different movie than whichever one we've seen. Rarely, though, does one see a reviewer fail to get a movie so completely that they'd have the arrogance to step in front of a train like this guy does. Maybe when I was failing to get the times table as a kid I should've claimed "giant plothole, no new romances, no hope." It's not Proust, it's a capeshit tentpole. It's not like anyone asked the reviewer here to do long division in Roman numerals.
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Commented in Today’s Catty Question: Who Thought Cat Cafes Were a Good Idea?
The Journal is paywalled, so here's the text:
A public cafe that combines the cat-loving cappuccino set with slumbering felines. What could go wrong? A lot, it turns out: ill-timed belly rubs, great escapes, protests from animal rights activists and reluctant landlords claiming to be “dog people.”
These are the travails faced by entrepreneurs around the country who have opened more than 40 “cat cafes.” It can be a frisky business. “I wasn’t ready for all the things that can go wrong,” says Sana Hamelin, owner of the Denver Cat Co.
Ms. Hamelin once lost a cat inside the 1,500-square-foot cafe for two weeks, although “Gus” crept out at night to nibble food. A cat named Morpheus bit a hands-on patron. “You shouldn’t go for the belly rub,” Ms. Hamelin says. “The belly rub is dangerous.” Then there was the vandalism this summer. “Someone who hates cats threw a brick through the cafe window at 3:30 a.m.,” the cafe speculated in a June Facebook post.
Cat cafe proprietors took a page from Asia, which started the trend, and brought cats to U.S. cafes. These institutions typically rely on shelters to supply the cats, which can number a dozen or more. They often hang cat-themed art and serve coffees like “caramel meowcchiatos.” Patrons may pay a cover charge to interact and sign a waiver from all kinds of catastrophic consequences.
The concept is warm and fuzzy. Stressed-out humans get comfy chairs and time with free-roaming, mostly adoptable cats. The reality is hairier: soul-scratching attempts to win over neighbors and an operation that hinges on unpaid staff, cats, which won’t take orders, because they are cats.
Cafe rules can look like they were written by the felines themselves. Don’t make loud noises; don’t wake sleeping cats; don’t pull tails or ears; don’t pick up cats against their will; and “if you upset them and something goes wrong, please don’t sue the humans,” say the “House Rules” at Le Cat Café in Philadelphia.
The rub here is that cats can sleep 12 to 16 hours a day.
“It’s almost like going to a meteor shower and not seeing any meteors,” said Jeff Ivey, a San Diego truck driver who felt “ignored by the cats” who wouldn’t frolic on a recent cat cafe visit. “I’ll admit it,” he said, “I wanted to get in there and play with them and throw a feather at them.”
Rebecca Arevalo, a 59-year-old family therapist in La Habra, Calif., said she and her husband seek out cat cafes on trips. “We’re weird that way,” she said. At San Diego’s Cat Cafe, owner Tony Wang said an orange tabby took issue with a patron’s attempt at petting. He said the customer interrupted a “clearly grouchy” feline.
“He just jumped on her legs and hugged them,” Mr. Wang says of the 2016 incident. “It was not super aggressive, though obviously he’s got claws.”
Ashley Brooks and a friend raised $23,000 in a Kickstarter campaign toward the opening of Pounce Cat Cafe & Wine Bar in Charleston, S.C., in late 2016. By early 2017, Ms. Brooks’s skin was red and itchy. She sought treatment. “The doctor said, ‘Yep, you’re allergic to cats,’” she says. Aided by allergy shots, she is staying. “I’ve already sunk so much money into this business, I can’t just walk away,” she says.
Cats show no such loyalty. At Cat Café Mad in Wisconsin, a reddish-haired feline named Sunny outfoxed the door attendant and when the door opened, ran like a cat out of he...
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Commented in White South African farmers to be removed from their land
Parliament instructed a committee to review the constitution and report back by 30 August.
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Commented in Germany, land of woefully slow internet
The study showed that a mere 1.6 percent of German smartphone users can reach the promised internet speeds on their devices.
What is that percentage for America? I don't even know what speed I'm promised. What is the speed of 4GLTE? I can't find anything from AT&T telling me what speed I'm promised for 4GLTE except that if I exceed 10GB of mobile hotspot on an unlimited plan I'm throttled to 128kbps.
This article goes into what the actual speeds are, but I can't find anything saying what I'm promised. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-mobile-network,review-2942.html
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Commented in Customer Charged $350 After Leaving Negative Review For Brown County Hotel, Lawsuit Alleges
Some Doctor's offices will slip a paper into your paperwork that has a non-disparagement clause that states they will no longer see you and issue a bill to you if you put a review online they don't like. You can google stories as far back as 2010 where Doctor's have sued patients for bad reviews, this is going to grow unless some judge steps in and states it's a violation of the 1st Amendment in the US.
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Commented in If Robert Mueller Will Ultimately Vindicate Trump, Why Fire Him?
If Trump knows he has something to hide that’s potentially impeachable, he should probably — putting ethics and the truth aside — fire Mueller and try to out-run the law
I’m glad Trump doesn’t read the National Review
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Commented in Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research
Being a scientific publisher is the best business in the world. People send you their research results in the form of a ready-to-publish paper, for free. Then they review the papers for you, for free. Then they make the required changes for free, and review the proofs for free. Then you publish them, and charge people a ton of money to read them.
Ever wonder why there's so many journals? It's basically free money.
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Commented in READY PLAYER ONE - Official Trailer 1 [HD]
Spielberg is now not even disguising the fact he’s phoning it in.
Time capsule review: CGI porn Tron meets Star Wars shaking hands with Hunger Games
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Commented in The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare
TL;DR: Mattress company starts up wants publicity, finds startup bloggers and offer commissions. Mattress company gets kind of big and no longer needs reviewers so they cut them off. Reviewers find a new partner to the dance with and it turns out they like another mattress a little better than the original and let everybody know about it. Now the Mattress Company is pissed that another product is appearing on their good review, so the obvious choice is going nuclear and suing. Other reviewers have caved but one holds out, they fight back, but this is David and Goliath in terms of money and power. Original mattress now claims new mattress is actually fraudulently paying you tons to only like their mattress, tries to drag your name through the mud and then when all else fails they paid another reviewer of mattresses to buy up the one they sued, in return the new mattress ads get cut, and coupons to original mattress show up effectively making original mattress the best once again.
TL;DR for TL;DR: The Mattress company sued then paid a blogger to buy out the sued blogger to remove reviews with links to better mattresses.