At the beginning:

I’m excited to see how they develop Radagast, he’s one of my favorite characters.

In Moria:

Another dwarven mine? Talk about a plot rehash. Is there going to be a big bad in this one too?

Why doesn’t Frodo just use the ring most of the time to hide like Bilbo did?

When they introduce Legolas:

He was in the prequels, I really liked his romantic story arc.

Near the End of the Two Towers:

This one felt long in the tooth. Did they really have to keep all of that character building?

Near the end of ROTK:

How long was this journey? It took Bilbo decades to be seduced by the ring. You’re telling me it overpowered Frodo in just a few weeks? Why didn’t they just give the ring to Sam? He seems better equipped to handle it. I’ll tell you why. Nepotism.

When they encounter the giant spiders - they had these in the prequel too.

You’re telling me all this time it’s a ghost army that wins this war?

Be careful with how you consider this article, it doesn’t have as much confirmation bias as the title would lead you to believe.

There are a few nuggets in this article that I think should be considered:

• The open source projects that were tested have an average age of 10 years, the article states that AI code assistance is better for new projects and less efficient when used with existing projects.
• The projects used have strict style guidelines.
• The developers were very well versed on their projects, meaning they were extremely efficient and code changes.
• the article itself claims that AI is probably better utilized by newer developers. Of course experienced devs who have years tied into their projects are going to be very well equipped to execute on their projects.

Which one is hop into the basket and take it for a joyride?

Holy shit, the broken clock and I agree on something for once! Contrails are water vapor and CO2, both of which alter temperature. If she wants to ban them, then by all means.

I am curious how she expects to control for lake and sea evaporation, but I’m interested in hearing her ideas.

Also a millennial here, on the older side of it. Got employed right after the .com crash.

Save, just save. $50 a month of you can. More if possible. Best time to start was 10 years ago. 2nd best time is now.

Don’t let yourself get stuck in the debt trap. There is no need to keep up with the Jones’s. Family and friends are by far so much better for your mental health than stuff.

There is no reason to get your burrito a chauffeur. Take life by the reigns and walk up and get it yourself. Even better, skip the premium and make one.

If you want to go to college, fantastic, do it. There are still plenty of schools without resort style athletics programs that are very affordable if you look. Community college the first two ear of matriculation is also an option. A lot of community colleges are now free.

If you live in the US, this country has perverted our sense of belonging so that the hustlers can squeeze you for every last almighty dollar. Don’t give in. Don’t let them win. Save some money, work on saving yourself.

The great evil has arrived. But where is our Leeloo Dallas Multipass?

So I’ve had this thought for 20+ years but can’t seem to get it to work. Maybe someone smarter than me can make it work.

The Curie point of Gadolinium is around room temperature. If you put a high powered magnet on one end and then generate some external heat and include a spring (or crank arm) on the magnetic end, you could produce a piston, similar to a sterling engine.

Now, if you add this cooling material as a heat sink, you could likely rapidly cool the gadolinium material back below the Curie point, making a more efficient engine, perhaps even producing something that could do a bit of work.

I made some prototypes back in the day, but the ferromagnetic material would always eventually get locked with the magnets. My rudimentary engineering skills could never get the external heat source quite right. Perhaps someone with a bit more ingenuity will take this and run with it.

Also, old broken microwaves are a great way to salvage some pretty strong magnets.

And be careful when handling gadolinium, it’s known to cause kidney and nerve damage.

4 people, 70 miles in 35 minutes. Vertical takeoffs in the works. $8 in fuel costs. Are we finally getting close the what the Jetson’s envisioned 60 years ago?

Since “pour some sugar on me” was still a few years away, what was the most prevalent song? What was your song?

I don’t trust DOOFUS with the cognition to spell his own name, why the hell would I want to give him power to declare war?

No thank you, I am not privy to a war with Canada nor Denmark.

Wait, is kbin not dead?

Pork BBQ and Collards. Finish it down with some Cheerwine.

Julian! Knock it off!

Left to my own devices, I am a messy person. My wife is very tidy. A clean sanctuary is respite for her.

I don’t know how we ended up staying together after those first few dates, but I do know our twice a month housekeeper is acting as our marriage counselor.

They’ve made their decision, now let’s see them enforce it.

Utilitarian - Row houses and small single family starter homes.

Detached single family housing is suffocating this country and the environment. I’d rather leave the woods to nature and nature walks, not streets and houses.

In addition to that, utopian architecture, like arcologies.

The ancient texts say that you can convert all of them into a large horse sized one.

I’m much more a fan of the PBS/NPR underwriting model. Tell me who deliberately funds the show or video.

When the advertisement is so divorced from the show, is not relevant to the conversation or is not relevant to me, then the andvertisers are wasting their money.

If you show me the same ad over and over again, I am actually more likely to NOT buy that branded product or service because I’ve become so annoyed and numb from the ad taking what little time I have on this planet that I will actively boycott it.

However, I do have a nice space mug from PBS, a plot of land on Mars, the moon and Scotland, and a t-shirt for the Truth podcast to prove that I will spend money when the advertising is relevant to the content I’m consuming. So if you want the ad to work, invest your dollars directly into the content and providers I care about.

But for the love of everything, do not think for a moment that your contribution gives you license to control their messaging or content.

I wish he would go back to touting that they should drink bleach.

I’m not so sure. The dems will spruce up the place with lovely looking raised beds, herb gardens and other various fanfare, but the disfiguring foundational alterations carved out by these fascists will remain underneath for generations to come.