Invasion of the Body Snatchers wouldn’t help you actually fight your evil doppelgänger because when it comes alive you die.

Sadly, the site’s philosophy is that pop culture has no memory. What’s depressing is that io9 was once the home of some of the most spectacular deep dives into pop culture history I’ve ever read.

Every genre revival has been gravely wounded by a great parody of the genre, which definitely slows or stops their frequency. Arguably, Mel Brooks has done this all by himself, four or five times.

I got a half-dozen of them, neutered them - using an online tutorial - and gave them to friends to use as a plain old barcode scanner. They worked great for that.

How long a time-span does this footage cover? Is it realtime or time-lapse?

While adding these new items, they’ve removed a swath of very popular items, too. The Breakfast Box w/ Crunchwrap is gone, replaced with a Combo that removed the hash browns, while being more expensive. To buy the same food here in Texas, we now have to pay nearly 50% more. (BBox = $5, Combo with HB = $7.50)

Jedi fights are a lot lest interesting since they decided that the only force-users who matter could simply shove you from across the room with their mind.

Everyone complaining about this I’ve seen is whining about the climate effect. I think her more immediate concern is the MAGA lunatic contingent who have declared her enemy #1 because she’s “ruining their NFL” and has been known to encourage young people to vote. There have been numerous death threats about that, you…

#1 Braums (if it has a drive thru, it’s fast food.)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/apples-130-thunderbolt-4-cable-could-be-worth-it-as-seen-in-x-ray-ct-scans/

One should be honest enough to recognize that while Mexican food restaurants have been all over the country for at least a couple of decades, the quality of the mexican food available in most areas away from the southern border was just depressing.

For most of their existence, Dairy Queens in Texas were VERY different beasts than the ones you found in the midwest. So much so that they still maintain different websites (dairyqueen.com and dqtexas.com) which still have different menus. I think the franchisee arrangements are entirely different as well.

At the corner nearest my home in a north Texas suburb, we have a Chick-fil-a, a KFC, a Popeyes, a Raising Cane’s, and Sal’s Nashville Hot Chicken. Unfortunately, my sister is allergic to chicken, so we can’t take advantage of any of it. We’re stuck with Whataburger.

First, the theater audience is very different than it was in Indy’s golden years.

A surprising number of McDonalds “beloved” characters were introduced as criminals whose entire purpose was to steal specific McDonalds foods from you.

Work is underway on a modified version of the Starship (possibly one that doesn’t explode ... )

As I understand it, “churn” benefits whoever produces good content every time that good content is released, particularly if they schedule the timely release of that content well over the fiscal year. It’s not a “well, we lost that customer and we’ll never see them again” situation unless you do exactly what he’s…

In the late seventies, every Ivy League economist was taught the same rules of behavior for Wall Street - what triggers to watch for, what outcomes to expect. Lots of them got rich. In the eighties most learned how to predict the behaviors of all the bastards who relied upon those rules, and could take advantage of…

I feel the same way abut Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. Every single shot felt like it used 3D to support the mood rather than remembering it for a few key pieces to toy with the technology.

The strongest memory I have of watching Sleepwalkers as a kid was watching the scenes of the cats running down the street with their tails sticking straight up in the air. I remember thinking what in hell did they do to those poor cats to get them all to do that.  I felt sorry for the cat wrangler.