I am also a huge fan of Lower Decks. It will be missed! The crossover episode with SNW was fantastic.

Strange New Worlds is great Trek if you haven’t seen it.

Now everyone knows that you were the phantom pooper

I don’t know why you’d think marrying your father at 16 would work out.

Was this some sort of arranged marriage?

“KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM AND PUT THIS GROUNDING STRAP AROUND YOUR WRIST!”

If your visibility is bad when you park front in, then either you’re hauling something that’s blocking your line of sight (in which case it would make sense), or your vehicle has terrible visibility

Or, you know, you have two vehicles parked on either side of you. Bonus points if they’re two fullsize trucks/SUVs while you’re in a sedan.

I’ve been pulled over quite a bit and have never had a cop ask me to put my keys on the dash.

I think those rules are more about loud exhaust pointing straight at people’s windows and those fuckers who leave their trailer hitch attached and have it sticking out across the sidewalk at shin height. CO isn’t going to reach any sort of concentration where it will he harmful just from backing in near an AC unit.

This my favorite comment on the Citadel.

Bud, you don’t even own a camera.

It really seems to be one way or the other but never in between.

Most low wage jobs in the US have a mandatory drug test when you’re hired, which is easy enough to defeat. The only things that don’t leave your system after a couple days are all the mild things like weed.

I’ve had several retail and service jobs where I had to drug test before getting hired and just took a “cleaner” from a headshop before doing them and passed each time despite using the devils lettuce in my off time, but none of these were places that do random testing after being hired. Being able to be choosy with jobs is somewhat of a luxury in the US, so consider yourself fortunate.

A delivery job is a tossup because it may be more heavily regulated than jobs that don’t involve heavy machinery. If it’s a delivery job that requires a CDL, I would skip it because you can be pulled over and tested at any time. Even marijuana can be penalized here since these jobs are covered by federal regulations and national insurance companies which have requirements for a drug free workplace.

Maybe you should actually read my comments in this thread before jumping on the reply button to give your hot takes about things that aren’t even happening.

I didn’t use AI to make my argument for me. I used AI to make their argument since nobody was willing to actually make an argument outside of saying the movie is a “deconstruction” three separate times without stating what they mean or how it isn’t just a blatant ripoff of the older films.

My favorite store moved away from the repair business and focuses more on extended warranties. We offer a bumper-to-bumper plan (including skidplates!) tailored just for you if you’d like to know more.

Honestly with such a reliable car I don’t think you need much and the skid plate was just a fluke. Oil and coolant are probably not needed unless either are leaking. I drive a similarly reliable vehicle, a Camry that just crossed 210k miles, and just carry jumper cables, gloves, a flashlight, and a tow rope that I had laying around. Anything big is going to be too much to repair on the side of the road, so a flat tire or dead battery is about all I’m concerned with.

In your tool list, I didn’t see you mention a ratchet/breaker bar and socket for the lug nuts. The ones that come with the vehicle are usually lacking, so you may consider adding those.

Well, I mean nobody has actually made any defense for the movie here other than repeating the word “deconstruction” without elaborating any further, and I’m not going to do a deep dive and write out a counter argument to my own position, so the machine will have to do. For all we know this is the same machine that Disney used to recycle these old plot points for TLJ 😆

That seems like a distinction without a difference.

Just for the fun of it, I took a screenshot of Google AIs take on the “deconstruction” argument:

“Challenging the Chosen One narrative”

Rey’s parents were “nobody” yet so were Luke Skywalker’s parents. The final film is titled “The Rise of Skywalker” on her path to becoming the chosen one.

“Revisiting Luke’s Heroism”

Rehashes the same failures Obi Wan felt for not preventing Anakin from going to the dark side.

“Undermining Jedi Ideals”

Irrelevant point that could just as easily signify the film’s creator’s not being familiar with the intricacies of the source material.

“Exploration of Failure and Complexity”

Throughout all the films, the rebels are constantly facing failures. They get attacked, captured, fail to prevent events from occurring, etc.

“Subverting Expectations”

An expression ripped straight from the final season of GoT and widely mocked. This film didn’t subvert any of my expectations as it all plays out quite predictably in Disney fashion where the “good guys” come out on top in the end. The fact that this argument is even made illustrates the similarity to the previous films which set an expectation for how things are going to play out. I don’t see how they really differed in any meaningful way as it all plays out the same in the end.

TLJ takes a bunch of the exact same elements from the original trilogy including the young jedi training in a remote location, the empire/first order finding the secret rebel base with the main characters escaping at the last moment, the protagonist being captured by their rival and being brought before the sith leader where they wind up battling, the protagonist finding out that they’re related to their rival, the hermit jedi master sacrificing themselves etc, etc, etc. The last trilogy is just a recycling of the original to the point that they had to add stupid dialog like “it’s salt” in a vain attempt to convince people that they aren’t just copy and pasting major plot points from the original