If you told me they kept whatever first draft Bible he had for a five-season show and simply shoehorned a single crew into it, I’d believe you. Dominion War was kind of a left turn on DS9, as was ST:Enterprise going off to lala land beyond the barrier, but no show had to completely reinvent itself over and over like Discovery.
peanut butter
This one absolutely turns on what kind of peanut butter you have. Jif/Skippy etc. shouldn’t go into the fridge. It was engineered, for better or worse, to be shelf stable and turns into silly putty if it’s cold. Most “Real” peanut butter separates like a mofo if it’s in the pantry, requiring frequent stirring, and many recipes will never quite be solid enough to spread well. In the fridge, they are much easier to deal with, though my latchkey Xennial ass still prefers the wondrous combination of peanut-inspired substances and mid-century food science.
I suppose there’s an element of preference as well. If !myinterest@instance exists and is limping along with 80 subscribers and a post once a month, is that less discouraging? Maybe 300 subs and a post every other day is adequate? At the risk of scope creep, maybe the answer lies in more data and options to account for the preferences of those new to the Fediverse. I concede I don’t have answers though, and I’m obviously putting less work into it than you are.
Fight the good fight, friend. I need more posts about old TV shows and niche hobbies, so we just need more decent people, however they arrive. :-)
I totaled it at 200k miles.
I hope the shopping cart that dinged your bumper was okay…
IMHO, the APIpocalypse resulted in too many communities that died on the vine and discouraged their creators and few visitors. Funneling that energy into fewer, more general communities to build up views and conversations strikes me as a a necessary forerunner to a massive “Cambrian Explosion” type of thing. Subreddits, for the most part, naturally evolved because there was already a critical mass of users interested in the topic, not because the sub existed first and attracted the users. What would you think about a different approach to collect various subreddits and file them under healthier lemmy communities that are not one-for-one, but still relevant?
Sub : Community
Oh hey! It’s that thing I use to put on decals and melt perler beads!
Yup, and honestly, looking at the particular takes Gen-X’ers had when they/we were in charge of the culture, this is completely unsurprising.
The amount of merch that a company must provide to get on a hobby-centric Youtuber’s good side seems to be depressingly small.
Fair; I guess I should have run some data. I just used gasbuddy.com to run a similar track for what would have been my rather lengthy commute if my employer had asked us to return to office (and kept the lease on that building). Apart from a couple of outliers just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, I’m only getting an 8% variance (about USD 0.23/gallon, versus your 25% and AUD 0.55/litre – is that right?).
That said, Iwill admit that $0.10/gallon suboptimal average price is probably more likely than I thought, though with a less intense driving situation one would still be well under the $260/year “convenience premium.” Outside the US and other oil-subsidizing countries, the numbers clearly work out very differently.
People are weird about gasoline. They’ll drive around looking for the cheapest option, to save 2 cents/gallon. Even with a huge tank, that’s less than 50 cents of total savings.
Bless 'em for keeping the price pressure on, but this is so very true. Once I ran a couple of mental hypotheticals, I stopped giving a shit, beyond avoiding places right by airports that jack it up a dollar or more (Las Vegas and especially Orlando, with lots of tourists in rentals, are the worst offenders I’ve seen).
For a pretty extreme example consider, as you say, a large 25-gal tank, and filling up from dry twice a week, at an average of $0.10/gal non-optimal price: you pay an annual premium of $260 bucks not to drive yourself batty hunting for pennies, and burning at least a tiny bit more fuel to do it. Most people will pay far less. It’s just this weird thing that stuck in people’s brains long past the point where a cent increase was any significant percentage of the fuel purchase.
The sense I get is that Sunak is just fucking over it and wants to be put out of his misery.
Because they lost the Civil War, duh. Also, the headline misspelled Tallapoosa and put up the wrong flag. Sheeeeeeeesh.
I played too much “Sword of Vermilion” on Sega Genesis to have this particular issue.
I simply forgot Gen X existed
This has been our plan all along.
Americans absolutely have to own it, and many of us try to. America has consistently made awful decisions regarding race.
The point is more that white Europeans are not special, and much of the perceived enlightenment from Europe is either top-down messaging from socially unassailable elites, or from societies that are homogenous enough that the economically insecure don’t (yet) blame their struggles on the tiny number of visible minorities in their community.
Americans who “whatabout” any criticism from an imperfect messenger are probably not acting in good faith, but the inverse is worth considering as well.
Apparently on clear days it’s now a trudge in line with everyone else, just with death a completely plausible end to the day.
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/everest-summit-traffic-jam/
It’s common, but it’s still not anywhere near the majority. The majority would be uncomfortable with religion being lumped in with the rest, and would be deeply uncomfortable with sports being there. The majority view is generally pretty chill, if (and it’s a big god-damned ‘if’) you toe the line on a few doctrinal issues and supply-side economics: get baptized in a protestant denomination, donate and/or go to church, don’t be queer, don’t be atheist, don’t be a single pregnant woman (and certainly don’t stop being one before the baby is born), be appropriately shamed of your vices, and understand that taxes prevent good Christians from having more to donate to charity. Check all the boxes, and you can go to college to get a business or even engineering degree and consume the milquetoast remnants of the monoculture. It’s more about conformity than religious ardor or theological purity.
This should be so very wrong, but somehow it feels… appropriate… a meme of true peace.
RIP Kabosu.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has questioned his biological origins, asserting that he is “convinced” of being a godsend, introducing the idea of “immaculate conception” in the electoral arena as voting enters the final phases.
“Pehle jab tak maa zinda thi mujhe lagta tha shayad mujhe biologically janm diya gaya hai. Maa ke jaane ke baad, een saare anubhavon ko mai jod kar dekhta hoon toh mai convince ho chukka hoon ki parmatma ne mujhe bheja hai (Till my mother was alive, I had the impression that perhaps my birth was a biological one. After her demise when I view after assimilating all the experiences, I am convinced that God has sent me),” Modi is heard saying in an interview to News 18 last week.
I’m not a Hindi speaker or familiar with if/when Modi likes to dabble in metaphor, but this seems straight up delusional and cult-like. The opposition certainly seems to think it was worth mentioning.
Season 1, gritty war drama with “prestige TV” tropes galore in the first half, Mirror Universe camp in the second.
Season 2, Palate-cleansing memberberries, including a crazy supercomputer. That said, taking the lesson that everybody loved the Pike Enterprise casting and chemistry was a good thing.
Season 3, People weren’t connecting with the show… fuck it, it’s an entirely new era now. New ships, new culture, new players, new everything. Going home will not be a serious plot consideration, and frankly neither will unpacking the trauma of deciding not to do so. No need anyway, because Burnham’s mom is there, and she’s the only character that matters until S4. Also, I liked the universe that the Burn made, but (1) fuck that, we’re fixing that, and (2) the resolution felt off, very humane in its way but like a heavy-handed fable better suited to a one-hour episode’s payoff rather than a season-long arc.
Season 4: Burnham’s the captain now! All themes of working under people and the trope of the rotating captain are done now. Even Sonequa Martin-Green called it a new start.
Season 5: Okay, so they’re finally settling in, now that it’s time for the last season, which tried so hard to have a resolvable plot of the week but also furthering the “overlong movie” model of serial storytelling that so much streaming era genre stuff is obsessed with. As an aside, it’s amusing that the whole thing would have worked out better for everybody if they just let Moll “win,” since there was no way she was passing the test at the archive.
I became fond of many of the characters: Saru’s arc is awesome, Stamets and Hugh have the best relationship of any couple in ST, and Jett Reno is a treasure. It’s not that the writing was universally horrible or anything. They did an okay job dragging these characters between different tones and settings, but IMHO the whiplash is real. Overall I liked Disco, even if I could never quite love it, but I don’t think I’m coming up with anything novel by suggesting that the vision for the show was all over the place and seemed to be reactionary based on the reception of previous episodes.