You do realize that OTC birth control has been a Republican desire for a decade, right? And the leading voices opposing the policy were Democrats, Planned Parenthood and NARAL?

The irony is the OTC access to birth control pills was, until recently, a Republican idea and widely opposed by Planned Parenthood and NARAL.

It’s kind of odd to be lamenting the lack of commentary about immigrants when this particular show revolves around the fact that these particular immigrants are ungrateful bastards that are going to exterminate the entire human race because the guy that was trying to find them a new home got Snapped.

One of his stated goals is for AIs that are inherently curious, with the thought that humanity itself would be more fascinating to understand than to wipe out. The Universe is more boring without complex life, so the AI would want to ensure its survival.

He’s not wrong on this one. Zhuque-2 (6 tons to LEO) is a lot smaller than Falcon-9 (22 tons to LEO) or Starship (100-150 tons to LEO in reusable mode, 250 tons to LEO in expendable mode).

They are nowhere near the same other than “can reach LEO.”

It wasn’t specifically COVID-19 that caused this though - it was social isolation caused by lockdowns and limited interaction with non-immediate family members.

The following link takes you to the exact spot in the offical trailer for MI:Fallout. If you look at the YouTube metrics on the video, it’s the most viewed portion of the trailer by like 1000%. 🤣

Henry Cavill cocking his arms when getting ready to fight was trailer nirvana.

It is. And I love Everything Everywhere All At Once. But Severance is doing a much harder job - having that many episodes, that many story arcs all hit so exceptionally well - and should get the win.

Avatar losing DiMartino and Konietzko is the bigger problem than episode count, given that the cartoon has 20 minute episodes and the series will probably have the Netflix standard 50-60. The amount of content on screen can be roughly equivalent. What they will miss are the “throwaway” episodes of the original, where…

I’m looking a little askance at any list that puts cilantro and garlic powder on the same list and attempts to rank them, as a single bunch of cilantro makes one or two dishes, while a single bottle of garlic powder will last you for months. Garlic powder FTW in terms of actual daily use.

Instant Brands is privately held by Cornell Capital which owned Corelle (the former Corning Consumer Products Co., hence the Pyrex and Corningware products). Cornell has owned Corelle for almost two decades and merged Instant Brands with Corelle four years ago.

Ironically, a large amount of the durum wheat used in Italian pasta is grown in Yuma, AZ. Italy does not farm enough hectares of durum to sustain its pasta industry and the quality is not as high as the AZ stuff, so they mix a certain percentage of AZ durum into the mix.

My understanding is the AZ durum is what gives…

Just wait until they introduce Rom: The Space Knight.

A Lettuce Entertain You spin-off of a spin-off. The original Corner Bakeries were attached to LEYE’s Maggiano’s Italian restaurants as a way to amortize the cost of the buildings/kitchen during the day (Maggiano’s was mostly a dinner destination). The early menus had lunch-sized offerings of some of Maggiano’s dishes…

While I was born a few blocks outside the city limits of Chicago and pretty much stayed in the area, I was conceived behind the Cheddar Curtain and my family is all from/lives in Wisconsin.

I’m sure it’s just homey marketing lingo, but a Farmhouse Cheddar is a hard cheese that is cheddar-like but not actually cheddared.

Cheddaring is a process of cutting fresh curd into slabs, layering them on top of each other, and turning the stacks over and over. Once the slabs kind of blend into each other, the block…

“Damn it, Barry! - The Movie”

The other mindblowing bit is that sheer amount of money they are spending on it, filming is complete, it’s not even midway thru 2023, and the release date is “sometime in 2025.”

I made this point to my (now adult) boys years ago and now that can’t not see it.

Most of it, I suspect, is that the redheaded character is usually the comic relief, girlfriend or best friend of the main character and is the easiest to swap out if you want to “diversify” your remake, but now it’s escaped into the…