I haven’t watched this show (because, well, I don’t want to pay for it, frankly), but after reading all of the various rehashes and criticisms, I’m struck by how wasteful its writing seems to have been. After reading The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, I was really hopeful that Discovery would at least touch on some…

Well, sure. Literally, but IPA gives you a hangover... it’s the kind where you’re sick about the fact that you were drinking IPA last night. /s

Could be. I don’t think I saw that one, though. Thanks!

When my then-fiance and I started talking wedding plans, she asked me, “What do you think the budget should be?” I had no frame of reference for what a wedding would/should cost, while she had been married before. I said, innocently, “I dunno, maybe 10 grand?” When she told me that that was a good place to start, I…

I always thought, what with the length of time they allow you to claim it before it gets rolled back in, that I’d have my name legally changed to something weird. I dunno, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass or Kilgore Trout or Raymond Luxury-Yacht (pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove, of course). Then claim my winnings, change…

We’ve been trying all these things for years. Maybe my kid is truly just a little monster. The stress is... stressful... and constant. I shouldn’t enjoy dropping her off at school as much as I do, and then going to work.

Also: when I read that article about the airborne ranger virus, I couldn’t help but imagine El Guapo exclaiming, “Are viruses falling from the sky!?” Totally unrelated.

See also:
800 million virii and bacteria per square meter fall from the sky every day.
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-viruseslots-themare-falling-sky.html

I’m almost there. Thanks for the reinforcement.

I came here to say almost exactly this. Yeah - if you didn’t think to steal from a company by reading the return policy in the most literal and selfish way, you’re what we call an “adult.”

It’s “Tea, Earl Grey, hot.”

By Grabthar’s Hammer...

In all seriousness, I never knew these details before. Thanks for the link!

It’s silly what sites will do to force a video ad on you! They might even embed a video in the middle of an article about how to mute videos! What a world!

I could get behind that.

I am not exactly the most “with it” or “happening” of people. In fact, I think those terms are decidedly not modern. But whatever, it means I get surprised and excited about this kind of thing from time to time. Next up for me - forgetting I’ve seen a movie so I can enjoy it as new again later. :)

Oh man, this is so right on. Just last week I cancelled my YouTubeRed/Google Play Music subscription so I could funnel that $10/month into OWNING the DISCS again. Just bought three albums I’d been missing last night. Turns out if you buy from Amazon, you get the best of both worlds (I didn’t know this). As soon as I’d…

Jalops aside (and I cannot call myself one, truthfully, I’m much more of a vehicle appreciator myself), this is so true. In my condo complex, ten years ago, there was a mix of middle-income people, mostly without kids, driving everything from a crappy old civic to brand new Rams and Camrys (Camries? What’s the plural…

Kashmir and Surya - would you be able to give examples of ideas for blocking outgoing data if one should choose? I VERY HESITANTLY bought a Vizio “display” (I guess they aren’t TV’s without a tuner/antenna?) a year or so ago, and although I was able to turn off the settings that allowed them to gather data, I don’t…