I remember when Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was held up as the pinnacle of bad movies and widely mocked. When the more recent Star Wars sequels came out, I watched them and they were terrible. I mentioned it to someone recently and said that the new films are so bad that they make The Phantom Menace look good, which they rejected based on a weak memory of TPM that is tainted by all the fan hate from the era. We ended up watching TPM together, and they were bewildered by how good it was compared both to their memory of it and to the newer films.

I can only imagine what it’s like compared to modern Marvel films.

In many places, it is not illegal to offer services, but it is still illegal to solicit them.

I’m going to start saying shooters “had Harry Potter literature” in their homes, as if it’s indicative of anything.

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Encryption certificates are semi centralized and can be revoked. But so too are domain names and DNS entries.

Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but depleted uranium weapons have been deployed in Ukraine? That is extremely bad.

I have noticed that there are two distinct ways that people interpret “turning the AC down”.

Half – generally those who live in a place where central AC is common – will mean that they will lower the temperature on the thermostat so the room will get colder.

The other half – generally those who have portable air conditioners that do not display temperature – will mean that they will turn the machine’s power down so that the room will get warmer.

I never assume meaning from this phrase for this reason.

Watching Doctor Who and playing Scrabble.

They are phasing out the “clothesline” in new buses here, and every time I ride on a new bus I have to struggle to find a button. The “clothesline” was strictly better.

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I can’t help but think of the episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 where Garak runs out of Obsidian Order anti-torture drugs

Was the premise not shown in 2008 film The Dark Knight ?

In Canada they don’t even bother to try, they just ask the troops to buy their own boots with a boot allowance payment.

Wow, that is an immense dash.

I think they’re partially trying to weaponize the fumes, partially trying to use this as a shame vector, given how exposed users will feel.

I’m also sure we’ll see accounts of people being trapped inside of one of these, or of one being pushed onto its side with someone inside.

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Does she believe in national self-determination for the regions that wanted to leave Ukraine?

If only there were some kind of way to ensure that the spread of a disease could be stopped…

The function of votes counted versus time seems to be asymptotic.

You may enjoy the lrcget project. While not necessarily official, lyrics are generally synced, and if they are not, you can contribute to help improve them for everyone.