Andor is able to make people talking for minutes straight interesting. It’s slow to get started, but by episode 4 you’ll probably be hooked. There isn’t a lightsaber in sight, and I don’t think they even mention the Jedi once.

It’s honestly the best written series in the Star Wars TV/Film media.

If you hated those tests, you misunderstood how much power they gave you. Until my Sophomore year in high school, the campus was open. This meant that we could walk across the street and get lunch at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Dairy Queen, or Kroger. Then the school board decided that they didn’t have enough control of us during our lunch period if we could leave the campus, so they attempted to close the campus.

That lasted all of about 4 days. The smartest seniors in the school came around and got the top 5 testers in each grade to agree to boycott the standardized tests, and we started holding sit-in protests. Just 20 kids.

The thing the seniors knew, and explained to us is that those tests didn’t affect us at all. Universities don’t look at those test results. Only the government does. By the 20 of us threatening not to take the test, their scores would have plummeted that year, as would their federal funding. Needless to say they waited until every single middle schooler and high schooler that was attending at the time had graduated before they tried that shit again.

New IT tech unsure how frequently they’ll wear striped thigh high socks?

Moore’s Law finally caught up with our ability to make rocks calculate for us. It was going to happen eventually, I find it somewhat comforting that hardware has finally plateaued, and will only get incremental changes for a while. It means that the next computer I build, I can expect it to last for multiple decades, rather than just one.

I was also a salesman way back in the '99-'03 times. Found out recently that we still get our salesman discount on new knives/tools/sets, even though it’s been over 20 years since I sold one.

He found out the guy was in a wheelchair, and they’d rather have Rambo than a paraplegic. They wanted the message to be “doesn’t matter how big and strong you are, cross us and we’ll kill you.” That doesn’t work so well when you shoot someone in a wheelchair.

Donald Glover

That’s mostly due to Chunk and Sloth

If she has 167cm feet, she’s HUGE!

https://youtu.be/efpL1E_fI3E

That turned out to be Spaceballs 1.5 once the development stage was done, and it doesn’t need to be made according to Mel Brooks.

I have! I returned to the theater in 2023 after avoiding it from 2020 - 2022. IMAX theaters are where it’s at. Even when watching the movie in normal letterbox resolution, it seems like the theaters are mostly empty, and the ability to reserve your seat when you buy your ticket allows one to choose a good seat that is at least 6’ away from everyone else.

This is in San Diego, and LA where these theaters should be packed. They still are packed opening day, and maybe even opening week, but after that the crowds thin to the point that 60% - 80% of the theater is empty.

https://www.trainsdepot.org/en/vehicle/2690/asf-el16

Why bother with drones, when this cutie exists, and comes with a remote control?

That’s a spoiled opossum

The military uses more diesel than anyone else. Sure half of the carriers and all the subs are nuclear, but none of our plethora of frigates and corvettes and cruisers are, not to mention the tanks, jeeps, and trucks.

Da-na-nana-nana-nana BATCAT!

Whoops, though from what I saw yesterday they’re almost at parity. I saw a German article that seemed to indicate that the Euro is $1.12

$166.66666 per bottle‽‽‽

They’re being rather pedantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_de_la_Bastille

Place de la Bastille being overtaken by protests hasn’t boded well for multiple French governments. The actual prison may have long since been demolished, but the plaza that existed in front of the prison is still rather symbolic to the People of France

Yoda from Drawn Together

I agree with everything except the money and passport thing. No living person is supposed to be on our money. Also partisan passports seem tacky.