Okay… maybe one king…

When the lie is so big that even Bondi won’t tell it, you have to bust out ol Don Junior. What a bunch of assholes.

Leap V1 here, got it used about 6 years ago before pandemic inflation, and I use it for WFH and my home desktop, so it has my ass in it a LOT. It’s still going strong, with nothing wrong except replacing armrest pads once and replacing the cylinder twice (I buy them cheap though). Not the cushioniest seat, but that’s not really what these chairs are about.

I also have a HM Mirra v1 that I got for free when our company’s last local office shut down (they wouldn’t let me have an Aeron though, lol). My wife’s home office has a fancy Steelcase Gesture I got her (open box… she wouldn’t have anything else, lol) to help with her back without wrecking the aesthetic she wanted in the room. Her old chair was one of those quilted pleather unergonomic monstrosities.

The only thing that would be worse than losing them is never having had them in the first place. RIP lil buddy.

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June 16, 2025

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First time for this one. Kind of confusing, but I think I’ll get the hang of it.

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Sorry, but those are clearly moth eggs.

Ahh, yeah, I stand corrected. Sleeves were gone from the Thinkpads earlier than I thought.

Add in that its episode breaks were very nearly arbitrary. I have heard that people who waited and binged it liked it a little more.

Young Frankenstein would like a word.

Potentially less of a soulless cash grab.

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American here. Assuming we muddle through the next 3.5 years (a fairly big assumption, I admit), I think things will get better, but in a qualified way. The tension will dip and you can even make short term changes that will be welcome to everybody like easing border restrictions and increasing communication and cooperation, but it’s going to take literally generations of non-crazy American administrations to rebuild the trust to where it was, and that’s 100% fair.

Large infrastructure projects are going to get delayed or shelved, treaties will not be negotiated, money will be spent on duplicating efforts because the US may be a better or worse partner in future administrations, so we’re no longer a reliable partner in any way. All because half the country thinks you should never have to deal with anything you don’t immediately understand and approve of, and anything that’s mildly unpleasant in your life is the fault of people who don’t look or speak or pray like you.

Completely agree. I think it succeeded perfectly at being that, and it was the only live action Star Wars project I could get my 11yo daughter to sit through.

Acolyte I think got more hate than it deserved, but I can’t make the same argument for it. It was a quite a mess with only a few bright spots shining through.

They didn’t have much for him, it’s true, but I thought his part in the Bix coda was very nice. For me, B2 was like my dogs in Fallout or Minecraft, too precious and pure to expose to danger. :-)

This is a good suggestion. That generation of ThinkPad keyboards wasn’t the No-travel scissor switch nonsense that most laptop keyboards now anyway. It was IBM buckling sleeve technology, and a low profile tactile switch with similarly low-pro keys would probably be about the closest thing to its feel.

Stick to football, bro.

Having seen Tuberville as a college football coach, that’s a hard no. Tommy is an idiot and an asshole.

Agree. Skeleton Crew had very different ambitions, but I think it successfully achieved them. I think that Star Wars is at least slightly more than “just a setting,” but letting creatives with a good story to tell go ahead and tell it to Star Wars fans is the way to go. Favreau I think may be done after the M&G movie, and Filoni probably needs to be kept away from live action and be the animation guy plus the “spirit of George” Jimmy Cricket.

The beauty of Andor is that the story didn’t HAVE to be a Star Wars story, but it was molded around Star Wars in a respectful way that enhanced both the show and the “universe.”

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