A crucial tell: near the end of Alien, Sigourney Weaver is wearing her underwear, rather than the pajamas she’d be sporting if it was a superhero movie.

Exactly. A movie with a hero ≠ a superhero movie. 

The more Scott tries to mess with the Alien franchise the more convinced that its success was more the work of Dan O’Bannon, who rehashed concepts from Dark Star for Alien, and HR Geiger.

Gladiator is horribly overrated!

I never realized what an art there is to high performance driving until Bob Bondurant crammed 15 or so thrill riders, including me, into the back of a Ford Econoline passenger van and proceeded to drive us around the seemingly (or really) vertically banked Ford test track at 100 mph.

Was blessed with being able see him and other legends at RIR during its glory days. Miss them all.

But that’s not the point of testing at -100 ⁰F (-73 ⁰C). Depending on steel grade/type, steel might exhibit a ductile-to-brittle transition as temperatures drop. In order to ensure that your don’t get any brittle fracture, you specify a test temperature lower than you’ll ever encounter out at sea, while requiring a…

While I can’t speak to the shipbuilding industry, in the nuclear industry at least, Charpy notch tests are generally expected to be specified/performed at the lowest service temperature, often -40°F/C for equipment used outside in the US, unless the ASME code specifically requires lower temperature testing for that…

Exactly, she was fighting to Stop the Steel Conspiracy. There are 100% all-natural, gluten free, homeopathic paints that will ensure these steel plates are stronger than ever. And by the way, steel is strong metal — whoever says it can break is *lying* to you!

Hey man, she’s just a free thinking, rugged individualist who did her own research.

So, do these people walk into a bookstore and ask “Excuse me, do you have any red or orange books? My blue shelf is full”?

You know, what is surprising me most is the rest of his team not going off on him. I mean, they are literally inches from each other in a huddle.  I would have lost my shit on him, especially when you consider this could cost them millions.

First off, I believe that Rodgers lied in the most weasely way possible, the doubled-down on that lie in the rest of that press conference as well as violated COVID exposure rules to put their health of the Packers press corps in jeopardy without their consent.

Yep. My SoCal hometown has been working to build a homeless center with beds for years and every time they pick a new location, a handful of NIMBY assholes complain that they don’t want homeless near their homes and the city starts its search again.

A ton of places in towns and cities that are zoned residential are also zoned single-family only, meaning you can’t even build like a 3 unit condo. 

let’s replace Gordon Bombay with Gordon Ramsay with absolutely no explanation

How would you know you are allergic to mRNA vaccines if this is the first one?

I wish an interviewer would ask him this stuff. Unfortunately sports reporters are the least likely in all of journalism to ruffle any feathers of any kind. 

Twenty bucks says he’s “allergic” to sucrose. Double or nothing he doesn’t know what sucrose is.

Stardew Valley!