Paul is choosing the least bad option. They didn’t really show a lot of other options except for his short speech about seeing the future and their enemies prevailing in so many of them.  He’s choosing the narrow way through that he saw.  I think they did a good job showing how reluctant he is and how he fights it,…

I don’t think he’s going to tone it down. Villaneuve’s main theme seems to be the danger of Messiahs, even more than Herbert, so a whole bunch of people have to die because of Paul. But I agree that making it less depressing than The Zone of Interest or All Quiet on the Western Front may prove to be a challenge.

Spoilers for 60 year old books again:

Yup.  Lots of people have tried to be Trump and it has worked for very few of them.  Trump blamed Rona McDaniel for the poor showing in the midterms, but a lot of it was just voters rejecting Trumpy candidates like Kari Lake, Dr Oz, Herschel Walker and others.  Trumpism only really works well for Trump.

We’ve had the stuffed cabbage at Galit and can confirm that it is delicious.

“... and Panera actually makes its dough off-premises to be baked at the restaurant.”

I have friends in management who still can’t find unskilled labor to hire, but when I suggest this...”CRIME CRIME CRIME.”

So why can’t Subway, Jimmy John’s, or Jersey Mike’s just start selling its bread to get out of this?

It will run for fourteen seasons and have 5 different plots.

Uh...last Thursday? It was available on that exact streaming service through the end of February.

Kids always think they are so clever and we’re the first to think of things.

They even have a name for it. The Missionaria Protectiva.

That could be a chapter heading.

He's always been able to act, he just usually chooses not to bother.

I've been to Scotland several times and I can tell you there is a lot of overlap between "AI created gibberish" and "Scottish people talking."

An 8 year old could have written the original "Road House."

I think it is more to smooth out the demand curve.  More to encourage people to come in at off peak times than to discourage the peak traffic.

These days I use cast iron the most, but I also use enameled cast iron a lot. I have some nonstick that I use occasionally and some older calphalon (the original anodized, not any of the fancy newer ones), which is useful for big things like stock pots and chef’s pans. Those would be pretty heavy in cast iron.

Yeah, his solution is “you know all those people that have hated each other and been trying to kill each other for the last 65 years? They should just stop doing that.”

This might be a self fixing problem.  If everybody who says “I will never eat there again if they do this” follows through, then there will never be a surge.