Behind the Bastards did two episodes on this one if you really want to learn more. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-that-time-ebays-private-211963285/

There are many rural parts of Canada where A & W is the only fast food choice. I’ve noticed this is especially true for service stations west of Ontario. I spent my twenties living on the road and got stuck eating A & W so much I can only stomach their chicken these days.

Great timing! I’m doing a staycation next week. Hadn’t decided on snacks yet. I’ll pop by on the weekend and stock up.

The trick to avoiding this if you can’t build a rig yourself is to find a shop thats independent from any of the big corps and tell them very clearly you will not be using windows on it. They tend to hate dealing with microsoft too. There’s a shop in Toronto(PC Shop computers) I send friends to for this very reason. They’ll knock 100 bucks off a new machine and breathe a sigh of relief for the time and money you saved them.

I have never paid for windows in the 30 years I’ve been building and using PCs. It just never felt worth it. I have however happily donated to the dev team of each linux distro I’ve used for as long as I used it. Right now that means a hundred bucks a year to Glorious Eggroll. I’ve already spent more on Nobara than a windows key would cost me and I don’t regret it one bit.

Not anymore! They’re launching July 2nd, its all over youtube.

A beautiful horror musical where the hero is also a villain. I highly recommend giving it a chance if you can find a copy. Make sure to check out the second one too cause they gave it an especially satisfying ending. Some of Price’s best work IMHO.

Some cats bite to show affection. My little guy has been happily chewing on my knuckles since the day we found him starving in the streets. He’s not particularly gentle about it either, but he’s all purrs while doing it.

I once received a summons I unintentionally ignored. I was working in a bush camp when it was sent and didn’t actually get home to read it until almost six months later. Nothing ever came of it.

I have watched all the trek. Major Grin does a really good job explaining the issues for those who don’t intend to watch the series. All he does is clip new and old trek together in amusing ways so you can see the things that bother fans.

I’m glad you liked it, I would have liked it too if it wasn’t labelled as Star Trek. But acting like no Star Trek fans watched the show before forming an opinion is extremely ignorant of the fandom. Many of us have spent decades enjoying Star Trek and will at least try to watch everything with that label. Those decades watching formed certain expectations that Academy did not fulfill.

The outrage certainly seems excessive at times, but that is because of the passion fans have for Rodenberry’s vision and because outrage is granted higher value by the algorithms determining our feeds. You may not want to believe it, but the hate Academy receives is more organic than manufactured. Of the dozens of fans spanning four generations I am priviledged to call friends and family, not a single one said Academy was good and the viewership overall seems to agree with that sentiment. I get a lot of crap from them because I think the Kurtzman stuff would’ve been great if he made it in its own universe and called it something else. It just doesn’t feel like Star Trek to many of us who have been following since the beginning.

Yup. If you want to understand why some nu trek shows are hated, I recommend Major Grin’s youtube channel. They do an amusing job of showing how inconsisent the new shows are in regards to respecting Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision and the established canon.

Shows like Academy and Discovery would’ve been highly acclaimed if they were set in their own sci fi universes, but they chose to label it Star Trek then immediately threw away many of the qualities that people look for in Star Trek. Its kinda like if someone started writing new Sherlock Holmes novels where Holmes and Watson are too stupid to discover clues. You could still write stories about them solving crimes, but the stories will be different in a way that pisses off much of the estalished fanbase.

You really think its just about food? If you can’t see how a hot heavy metal barrier could be a useful thing to keep between you and riot cops, you know nothing about protesting.

I built a new gaming computer a month ago. After a couple hours of research, I chose Nobara. It was by far the easiest experience I have ever had setting up an OS and everything has worked flawlessly so far. Even my wife who isn’t tech savvy at all has no issues using it. I cannot recommend it enough to new users who want an easy time gaming. I’ve been a linux user for almost twenty years, but I just wanted something easy that didn’t need tinkering and Nobara delivered.

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If you know what these are, your knowledge has capped!

Now imagine being a conifer and still shedding everything when it gets cold. Plants are weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larix_laricina

How about a link to something similar? Symphony of Science is basically the same thing only it isn’t just Sagan. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFC4EE4355ADEBDB1

I just want to point out that for many of us, sex ends up kinda scheduled anyway. When my wife and I started dating, we were both against scheduled sex and kept things organic. Now that we’re 40 and work 40 hours a week, fridays and sundays are generally the only days we have enough time and energy to do it. It isn’t exactly scheduled, but functionally I see no difference. The only times we’ve deviated from that in the last few years is when we’re on vacation.

Whenever I’m showering with my wife I spread em like this, collect as much water as I can, and then I turn around and splash her with it. Its great fun, especially if you squeeze in a stupid quip about covering them in nut juice afterwards!