TheRealKuni

Now the question is when you’re going to introduce them to 30 Rock. Are they ready for that level of jokes-per-minute? What about Community?

Only for the first four seasons. Rights agreements were different then.

You’ll also find most streaming sites turn the 4:3 into 16:9 by chopping off the top and bottom of the frame.

This is why I have the show on DVD.

Bear with me on this one.

I like to use the maestoso from Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, often called the Organ Symphony, for testing speakers. Turn it way up and blast that organ sound. Also reminds me of the movie Babe since they used the theme from this movement for that movie. 😁

(Links below are YouTube Music, but I’m confident you can find the same recordings on Spotify.)

Here’s a good recording, listen to at least the first 1:45, though the full movement isn’t very long (a bit over seven minutes). Again, volume is your friend for this movement. It’s MAJESTIC, and on a good set of speakers it’s incredible.

Another good orchestral work for this type of showing off is Holst’s Jupiter, or the fourth movement of Dvořák’s New World Symphony

(There are many more but these are some relatively well-known-without-people-knowing-they-know-them ones.)

Didn’t TIE bombers bomb asteroids in TESB when Solo and crew were hiding in a giant worm? Sure looked similar, IIRC.

Exactly: Things got worse slowly, then quickly. Why can't they get better that way too?

They do.

Look at the rise of gay rights. It happened very slowly, then suddenly. Now most Republicans accept gay people’s existence.

The thing is, there’s never not something to progress on. We can always improve society. And the people trying to hold that back will always fight back. So it sometimes feels like we don’t make progress.

But we absolutely make progress. It isn’t always smooth, it isn’t always consistent, but lots of hard data shows human existence getting better. Millions fewer children died in 2024 than in 1984. A smaller percentage of humans starved to death. A smaller percentage of humans died of treatable diseases.

Don’t let despair take you. Keep fighting, and society marches on.

Not at all weird.

ADHD is an executive dysfunction. It manifests differently at different times or in different moods or situations.

Sometimes I can’t stop talking. Other times I can’t start talking.

I don’t know if this will work on brambles, but for pesky root systems I’ve had luck with Bonide’s Stump and Vine killer. You cut near the base of one of them, then paint the exposed stem with this stuff. It absorbs into the root system and kills all of it. Works great on pokeweed.

Edit: Turns out this is just a specific brand of triclopyr herbicide like MoonMelon mentioned. So here’s another recommendation for triclopyr!

Other than the “not” part, yeah. “Mala” is bad, wrong, evil, wicked, ill, naughty, etc.

(Checked this to confirm before I posted, since it’s been several years since I’ve known Spanish well enough to speak it.)

From Dungeon Crawler Carl:

I grumbled a bit about that three in intelligence. Yeah, I never did too great in math, but I never considered myself a slobbering idiot, either. I could fix most anything electrical after studying it for a bit. My friend Billy Maloney, now that guy was an idiot. Just last week we’d come out of a bar, and he’d peed right on a cop’s bicycle while the cop was giving someone else a ticket for drunk and disorderly. That guy deserved an intelligence of three, maybe two.

. . .

After I complained about my intelligence score to Mordecai, using the Billy example, he said, “Intelligence told you that bike belonged to a police officer. Wisdom told you not to urinate upon it.

🤣

Uh… didn’t this happen like 7 years ago when they stopped using intel chips?

I think they were still releasing updates for the non-Apple Silicon Macs, which meant Hackintosh was still possible.

Also why not just buy a pc to do this diy-adjacent bullshit? Not like you can’t get Mac equivalent (or better) hardware for literally the same price these days. It’s not 2004.

That’s what a Hackintosh is though. It’s running Mac on non-Apple hardware.

Contrarians?