Sewer line is sagging, so there’s a 30ft section that is trapping anything that gets flushed or drained. I called them out to fix a backup, and they found why it backed up alright.

He had to leave to get a better locator to see exactly where in the yard/street would need to be dug up, but it seems to be pretty close to the city connection, so probably in or near the street, which could make the cost that high if it involves excavating the road.

About 10 minutes ago my plumber said my problem may cost in the neighborhood of $30k to fix. Yay.

I only get to the theater maybe 5-6 times per year, and that’s almost always with my spouse, so the movie is secondary to the experience.

I do watch a lot on streaming, and between the summary, genre, actors, director, and reviews, both professional and word-of-mouth…I can usually pick out what I will enjoy. If it turns out bad, it’s one button to turn it off.

I will watch good movies, and skip terrible movies. Whether they are in a franchise or not has no bearing on it, for me.

So go ahead and make more. I may see it. I may not. But I’m not going to begrudge anyone who wants to see more of that character no matter what.

That never happens to Thor-opods.

Pain play with their version of Baghdad Batteries. No kink shaming.

Your link doesn’t mention Clinton at all, but starts with this:

Federal law does not allow national referendums in the United States where the general population gets to vote on an issue.

It happens at the State level regularly (in states where it’s used), but it’s not something a President can initiate.

Can you be more specific? The US doesn’t have any mechanism for a national referendum on a specific issue. Usually when people use that term, they’re talking about mid-term elections (and reelection bids) being a “referendum” on a President’s total popularity.

Our family computer at the time was well below the minimum specs, so i played for the first year or two at like 5 fps. Good game, not good as a slideshow. lol

I’m not aware of any top-tier professional team sports league that says “women can’t play on the men’s team.”

Some individual sports are totally segregated, but there are no rules that say Premiere League* teams or NHL teams can’t have a woman. The fact that no “mens” teams do play women says quite a bit about the level of physical separation at that top level. Even if it happens one day, and I think it will, it will be single digits per year, max, for a long, long time.

If women want to have a chance to play those sports at the top level, they need their own league.

* Maybe a bad example, I’m not actually familiar with those rules, but sub in any of dozens of other pro leagues around the world that aren’t segregated by rule, but are by pragmatism.

First game I specifically asked for from my parents: Stunt Driver. Must have been in the first half of 1990.

First game I saved up for and bought myself: Super Mario Bros 3. Much of the money I saved came in the summer of 1990, so that would have been in late summer of that year.

Star Trek: Mirror Universe

The Terran Empire are the protagonists under the Ellison regime.

This satan guy sounds like a hoot. I want to see more of that.

There are 14 competing standards. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.

Anyone can be nominated, so it depends entirely on who is President at the time.

Roberts himself was (briefly) a nominee for associate justice when William Rehnquist died, but Bush pulled that nomination and put his name in for chief instead. So it doesn’t even have to be a current Supreme Court Justice who replaces him.

Neither is Russia, but the ICC still issued warrants for the arrest of several leaders after they invaded Ukraine.

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

I’d love to see the next Democratic administration just let them take him and all his cronies.

And another link:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/blueskys-quest-to-build-nontoxic-social-media

For an appearance at South by Southwest in March, she wore a custom T-shirt that parodied one of Zuckerberg’s own design. Where his is emblazoned with the phrase “aut Zuck aut nihil,” a riff on the Latin “either a Caesar or nothing,” hers read “mundus sine caesaribus”—“a world without Caesars.” (The company started selling the shirts for forty dollars apiece and made more money in a day than it had in two years of selling domains.) In Bluesky’s founding documents, taking a lesson from Twitter’s history, Graber introduced a slogan: “The company is a future adversary.” In other words, they must design their platform today in such a way that, even if new leadership eventually jettisons their guiding principles, the thing they’ve created will remain impossible to abuse.

I’m sure they can’t sell t-shirts forever, but the idea behind the ATProto is that your data is portable, so even if some asshole billionaire buys it up, you can just move to another compatible service with minimal disruptions.

Compatible services are limited, but there are options. https://help.eurosky.tech/article/9-migrating-to-eurosky

It’s nearly a year and a half old, but this bsky blog post answers some of the future revenue questions:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

In addition, we will begin developing a subscription model for features like higher quality video uploads or profile customizations like colors and avatar frames. Bluesky will always be free to use — we believe that information and conversation should be easily accessible, not locked down. We won’t uprank accounts simply because they’re subscribing to a paid tier.

Terrible name for a Jedi.

You want someplace with the infrastructure to support lots of people (or a few people for a long time), but little local population to compete for those resources. National parks are generally well stocked, with water and lodging to support peak tourist season, but at least in the western US, most are pretty far from major metropolitan areas.

Grand Canyon and Yellowstone have a lot to offer in a zombie apocalypse.