That’s the thing that bugs me about Apple products anymore. Having a tower the size of a mid-size ATX, with ports you can plug peripherals into, inside the case? Oh, that’s so hard and unsightly. Here, hook up external peripherals to this hub instead.
I feel like my objections to anti-abortion laws are playing out just as I feared. I’m against abortion but I feel like easier access and less stigma around birth control is a big part of preventing abortions. My main objection was I knew right wingers would make no distinctions between any kind of abortions, even to save lives of women. And son of a gun, unfortunately I was right.
Well I don’t think he meant anything other than that he probably agrees with the lyrics. Four people wrote the song and he’s not one of the songwriters. Also he’s not from a small town.
It was briefly syndicated, I think; I watched the first season on the local ABC affiliate. In my area a tiny little TV station in the middle of a cornfield got the rights to TNG and I honestly think that’s what kept that station afloat. The affiliates fought over DS9 and VOY. There was a UPN station in my region but it was too week for me to watch it OTA.
Oh, I don’t know. There’s lots of towns across the US that only came to be because it was a water stop. And in those towns the tracks still exist and the people living there commute to work.
The little town I grew up in had a trainyard and that’s why it existed. The yard is gone but there’s still active train lines going through town.
How vulnerable are those billionaire bunkers to earthquakes?
And per usual, there are people who claim issues of attraction and consent are transphobic
I’ve been tempted to do this for things like egg salad sandwiches and potato salad.
I feel like they tried to learn from BSG without bringing in Ronald D Moore for insight, and just said, hmm, yes, the things that make BSG work so well are depression and alcoholism.
If you like that one and you’ve never seen the original Rat Pack Ocean’s Eleven movie, do yourself a favor and watch it. It’s not deep, it’s not fantastic cinema, but it’s entertaining as heck.
I’d argue it’s not as extreme as you might think it is. I live just down the road from a town that only exists and grows, because it’s next to a major interstate. Population less than 17,000 but I swear there’s enough fast food places that the whole population could go out to eat at the same time. They all complain about not being able to find help yet there’s always at least one fast food place under construction. There’s a suburban sized mall sitting empty because all the businesses moved to strip malls. Two Super Walmart buildings; one of them is a megachurch now. There’s empty strip malls too but they keep building more. There’s almost zero effort put into efficient traffic flow. Then you go past the interstate retail hellscape and it’s a weird mix of people in houses that look like upper middle class suburbanites, and single wide trailers whose owners look like they’re one car repair expense on their Kia from being homeless.
The town I grew up in is like that, too.
Just stop anywhere that has a bunch of restaurants listed on the interstate signs, it’s the same story in all of them. Faceless corporations dumping food places, gas stations, and retail shops where they can.
And that doesn’t even get into the TIF scam all these towns are using. One local town declared an area full of well-kept lawyers’ offices as “blighted” and was going to let the lawyers use TIF to
Decades ago I was at the Visitors Center for the Western band of Cherokee and this woman was giving a talk next to a campfire, and the wind kept shifting. She kept moving and finally coughed and then apologized for the smoke blowing in everyone’s faces.
There was another guy there who was clearly hitting on her, and he said, “they say smoke follows beauty.” With comedic timing the wind shifted and blew the smoke towards him, and she, quick as lightning, said, “Smoke follows wind.”
(And in case you don’t know, in American English when someone is “windy” they talk a lot and don’t say much)
I’m also going to give a curve ball: M*A*S*H.
Movie recommendation: Run Silent, Run Deep. It’s a WW2 Pacific theater submarine movie with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. But it’s directed by Robert Wise (Star Trek: TMP) and the story beats will be recognizable by fans of both TMP and Wrath of Khan. It also focuses pretty heavily on the lower decks crew.
Ignorance is a choice, too. I’ve met so many people who are proud of being ignorant. I once met a woman who was in her mid 30s who was explicitly against learning new things because…reasons?
Cue the “but sometimes it really is a joke” crowd hasn’t hit. Look, man, if the target doesn’t laugh, it’s not the target’s fault, you read the room wrong.