Yep. That’s the strength of the show. It’s not heroes vs villains, it’s human history and a sequence of our people vs their people with some periods of alliances which devolve into a new set of our people vs their people. The main characters have basically had to do everything that other people tried to do to them to…

It’s worth reading book one of the Sword of Truth series. They get progressively worse from there.

People in the US are expected to come in when they’re sick too, these days. Or, if they aren’t expected to come in while sick, they can’t afford to not show up and show up anyway to keep the paycheck coming.

They tend to stop doing it after the refs have called the 27th foul for Harden snapping his neck back after initiating all the contact in the first three minutes of a game.

Was she the dumb, ditzy daughter? I remember Hilary from the Fresh Prince being dumb and ditzy, but I’m pretty sure the eldest daughter of the Cosby Show wasn’t portrayed as dumb and ditsy. I don’t remember any of the daughters being portrayed as dumb and ditsy, really. It’s been decades since I saw the show,…

Low paid customer service jobs can be easy and fun and have no stress at all . . . if you’re already rich and can afford to not give a shit about said job and can quit or get fired at any time with no consequences.

We weren’t supposed to see Walter as a hero, but as a prideful fuck up making increasingly bad decisions. Walter’s old business partner and ex offered to give him a job with all the insurance through their company, which would have covered his medical costs and probably even let him purchase a good level of life…

Creativity and knowledge based jobs may not be safe either. Neural nets and learning algorithms are advancing at a scary pace and could create decent facsimiles of most creative projects in the near future.

Gears of War 2 playing Team Deathmatch on Ruins. We are down 4 rounds to 3 and I’m the last guy on my team against four enemies with only my shotgun, lancer, and Boltok pistol I picked up earlier. I’m running for the Torque Bow on the map to try to give myself a slight hope of pulling the round off and giving us a…

Put the eggs in a Sous Vide bath for a couple hours to pasteurize them (Google the exact temp to keep them from cooking) and then nuke the flour to kill the bacteria in it before making your cookie dough. That should take care of most of the threats and isn’t terribly difficult.

The battery pack is double the size. The new roadster has (or will have) a 200 kWh battery. Plus, they’re not going to be quoting range at max speed/performance, but at highway cruising speeds of probably 60-70 mph.

This episode was horrific. They glossed over what was essentially rape by use of mind altering chemicals, and in fact used it as a plot device to “resolve” the conflict, which was heinous. Even if I somehow accept the ridiculous premise that two ambassadors of two feuding species falling in love with each other could…

Most likely just standard early season crap. Every year there are good teams that start off slow and horrible teams that start off well, then the season keeps going and the good teams improve and the bad teams regress. My Lakers started last season 10-10 before injuries and reality slapped us in the head and we were a…

I got the feeling the Demogorgon was the same as the demodogs , just older and more mature. The difference was that I think that the mind flayer had gone into a sort of hibernation after destroying the world of the upside down and the Demogorgon was left to its own devices, and its death by Eleven was what woke the…

Good thing Whitefish put it in the contract that Puerto Rico can’t question any delays. Or get an accounting of costs and profit margins from the company professing to pay their linemen 10 times their normal freight here in the US on top of housing and food per diems.

If you watched the games, Lonzo’s defense has actually been very good to start the season.

Lonzo couldn’t shoot, but he had a lot to do with the win. His passing was on point, as always, generating some great looks. He rebounded well, and he was good on defense. He got blown by twice by Wall, once was due to a miscommunication as Lopez called ICE and then Gortat opting to shift directions and block off…

Fuck off. I doubt she gave two shits about the money. Her dad very possibly burned to death (a horrific way to go). This wasn’t about greed, right or wrong I’d think it was more about being angry and trying to get people to pay in the only way she could.

Huh, cool. Thanks for the info. I feel better about using lastpass now.

Yeah, they should be booing the front office and ownership that offered Parsons that contract. Parsons only made an absolute no brainer decision to accept the 94 million dollar guaranteed contract in front of him, which is what anyone of us would do if we were lucky enough to be in his position