Larsen was so weird sometimes.

I learned during some child development classes I took in college that you shouldn’t give your child the opportunity to lie to you, since it establishes a negative pattern of behavior and mistrust. Instead of confronting them by asking them if they’re doing the thing you know they’re doing, confront them by telling them you know they’re doing the thing and show them why you know. Sure, they may learn how to cover their tracks better as a result, but it eliminates a lot of arguing and prevents a cycle of lying.

Obviously. Do we live in a post-scarcity utopian society, or are we scrambling over each other for resources and power? There’s your answer right there.

These jokes were already tired several weeks ago.

Yest, tanks were blacksmithed by hand, and sometimes made by hobbyists.

I ordered an iPod from Alibaba back in the day and it was most certainly not an iPod. I think they’re more reliable than back then, but who knows. It’s always a gamble ordering from those kinds of sites.

One time I ordered a PS2 kit from some janky-ass Chinese site. The kit converted it into a flip top and included a CD that would let you play burned games. After a couple months of it not showing up, I figured I got ripped off, which I half expected anyways. 3.5 months later the kit showed up at my doorstep and actually worked. Haha! I used that thing for years after making the conversion.

Haha!

I do have a truck. You somehow caught me.

Haha. Dubai had success with cloud seeding recently. But they forgot that they’re a desert without adequate drainage or runoff, and flooded their whole city.

Come on, man! Nobody wants to drive a Kia.

This is my favorite bit on that subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4-1a-hwuxM&t=87

I am in the US and this is the first I’ve heard of it. I thought it was just a hypothetical question until I started reading the comments.

It’s like making fun of someone for liking sunshine

At the risk of completely derailing the conversation, I’ve met a lot of people in the PNW who don’t like warm weather or sunshine. When summer rolls around they start complaining about it being too sunny and want the grey skies back. Frickin weirdos!

I didn’t even know they made a 3 and 4! When did that happen? The first two were great movies in their era.

Eek!

There’s a whole scene where they mutiny against their leader because they’re starving and dog tired. They want to eat the hobbits, and the only thing that stopped them was one of them getting beheaded for mutiny, and then getting decimated by a squadron of Rohan horsemen. I love that they took the time to include that, since it makes it more believable. The Uruk-hai were pushed to their absolute limits and then beyond, and they snapped, just like men would.

Ah, but instead they would use that to shove an advertisement into your eyeballs as you walk around a corner.

Notice that the entire show goes completely yellow after they cancelled Apu. He was such a delightful character.

Snakes don’t need baths. Lol.