Raiders and Last Crusade.

If both people come away with the same understanding, what difference does it make?

You’re not wrong, but this statement is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. By the time I am paying close enough attention to something on audio for there to be no difference, reading would have been more efficient.

This is just how you (slightly) expand the gene pool of Archaic era Ithacan elites. We’re gonna King Ralph everybody except Odysseus!

This is me. I use it just often enough that I’ll occasionally embarrass myself smudging the screen of a non-TS laptop trying to zoom a map or tap a shutdown icon.

That said, for a small overall community, I think the example of Reddit did the Threadiverse a disservice. Ideally, I think specialized communities should arise out of generalized ones, forking off when they start to clutter the general community or at least become self-sustaining conversations. Instead, a non-trivial percentage of subreddits was just plopped down with the welcome sign put out, but that caused users to assume that they shouldn’t post a certain question in a general community, and made them not want to post it in the desert community that had been set up but had no traffic.

Fortunately, !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world seems to be doing okay, but I know I in particular wouldn’t be annoyed to see questions outside my usual interests posted here.

You’re only slightly off, and the point is well taken that it’s far from the point of the show.

Third season of Ted Lasso gets to be pretty saccharine and certain plots are rushed, but by then the characters have built up so much goodwill that you’re willing to ride it out.

Also, if you find him immediately grating, give Ted himself about three episodes at the very beginning to turn into an actual human. It’s worth it.

We will see if the upcoming season four can recapture any of the magic.

Statistically speaking, the first part basically already happens. 90-97% of civil cases in the US settle before trial.

In a system that depends on interpreting unique fact patterns and evaluating and weighting “real-world” evidence with varying levels of subjectivity, I’d say that’s already as predictable as it’s supposed to be. What’s left has to do with inherent uncertainty on that 3-10% of close cases and clients with differing risk profiles (and pettiness), more so than it does with scummy lawyers bullshitting their clients, though TBF that definitely happens.

If anything, the issue with adversarial civil litigation generally, and the American system specifically, is that any uncertainty whatsoever breaks so drastically in favor of the party with more resources that reasonable claims settle when they had an excellent (but not guaranteed) chance at trial.

Even in the absence of right-to-die laws, from what I’ve seen with older relatives, once the healthcare providers know what’s what and divert you to hospice care, the drugs take care of the visible pain and, frankly, consciousness. These are generally practical, kind people who understand the odds and don’t want to see suffering.

So I have finally started seeing some viable replacements, after a several weeks long partial outage due to changing infrastructure at GitHub, but for years now, the custom keyboard design community has relied on a single person’s site, https://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ , to design keyboard layouts, and to generate properly labeled json exports to set up the most popular firmware.

This is what I do, except the jelly is on both sides of a third and toasted piece of bread.

Just make sure your beard feels empowered to live their truth, and it’s all good. You do what you have to.

Or did you mean facial hair?

Anyway, I can’t grow a proper beard at all, and my plaid button-downs are generally cotton because I’ve always lived places where it’s hot AF most of the year, but I do very much like my Subaru. Had a '13 Outback for 9 years, and finally replaced it with a '22 Outback Wilderness, as possibly the dullest mid-life-crisis automobile purchase ever… it’s a little bit taller and looks a little cooler and has the turbo! I still have the ethereal butterflies center-console protector because I had to make a deal with my daughter to let me trade in the only car she’d ever seen daddy drive.

Anyways, I saw TPM 9 times in the first 48 hours.

My friends thought I was nuts for seeing it six times during its first and dollar-theater runs. There was so much interesting stuff to unpack…

…except the plot or acting (barring Ian McDiarmid and Liam Neeson).

I tried so hard, but poor Jake Lloyd was never given anything to work with, and Natalie Portman and Samuel L Jackson and any other actors who were hoping for some competent direction were hung out to dry too. Some of the worst line readings I’ve ever heard from professional actors.

Then there was JarJar… and watto… and the neimoidians… oh, and the utter lack of a compelling story…

Like you, though, I convinced myself that the bones were good, and then also that they were just getting warmed up and episode two would be a banger. Spoiler alert: it was not, though it had a few isolated moments as well.

It was so much worse than that. People had been waiting 16 years to see a proper cinematic continuation of Star Wars. There were some pulp novels, a couple of very weak kids cartoons, a pretty decent tabletop RPG with source materials, a few video games, and that was about it. For a franchise that was still iconic and incredibly popular despite lying fallow like that.

We got a more distilled version of George’s vision, and hoo-boy it just simply wasn’t very good. I still saw that movie six fuckin’ times (the last three at the dollar theater), but while there was plenty to digest and feed my nerdery, the story and acting just never got better.

Surely they were just getting warmed up though, and episode two would be better…

JJ Abrams, but yes. I will give TPM credit for production design and world building and for a few of the veteran actors’ performances.

TFA gave us a cast of characters you could do something with, and apart from sounding a bit too much like a Joss Whedon movie, performances that were at least not delivered by cardboard cutouts. I didn’t completely mind the plot being a rehash, but the contortions they went through to make the state of the galaxy exactly fit a rehash doomed the entire trilogy.

Waited in a three-hour-ish line for The Phantom Menace. 100 minutes of “I’m sure it will get better” followed by the Naboo duel tricking my fanboy brain into thinking it was a good movie.

Mechanical keyboards, though about forty percent of them at this point are ones I feel comfortable saying I “made,” which is to say I did something significantly more involved than assembling a barebones kit. Still, they’re accumulating a bit and sometimes I build one just to try some small layout tweak or technique I haven’t done before.

I also have a fountain pen collection, but I haven’t added much to it recently. It’s not a bad gift vector for loved ones though, and it turns out that my Montblanc really is nice, though not by such a margin that I was ever going to pay for it myself.

“we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”

When used in a fitting situation, that’s one I’ve always really liked.

A few years ago, I used my meager seniority award at work ($100 for ten years! Yay…?) to get a Monoprice Select Mini 3D printer. That set off a journey that has been a lot of fun. I’m using a Sovol SV08 now, but the Mini was a great gateway printer at that time.