I guess I’m one if the relative few that really enjoyed the new ST universe movies. They’re fun, well cast action films. Are they true to “morality tale” Trek? No. And I’m kinda tired of every director/writer trying to make Spock a chick magnet that can barely control himself.

As far as SW goes, there are very few good movies. The OG ANH and ESB, but RotJ is meh. 1-3 suck, world class actors and wooden AF, bad story writng even if it does flesh out the pre OG3 universe in movie-land. Same for the new Skywalker series. However, Andor and Rogue One are amazing, and I’ve enjoyed a bit of the hit-or-miss Mandalorian series.

Not hating on Abrams, but he’s like hiring Harrison Ford or Chalamet for a part. You’re getting the actor, not the character, Abrams is gonna do what he does.

Seconeded raising a BS flag for this. Did you intentionally post ragebait? There is FAR more variety in cities; whether it be people, culture, food, art, entertainment, whatever…and there is often a distinct anti-conformist attitude.

Smaller towns are notoriously more conformist and less accepting of anyone not fitting the mold.

That said, people should leave cities and understand the world outside of them and visit nature that isn’t a manicured and maintained city park, and vice versa for small town people - they should get a shot of culture and variety in a city.

I don’t really have an issue with that, a little nostalgia is ok. The stuff that does bug me is friendships that have disappeared. Whether just by distance and time or because the people in it have changed so much that you can’t really relate well anymore.

Eff Bain. They say whatever suits the moment. They did over a company I used to work for. The company went bankrupt and laid off employees.

Yes, this screenshot is just another “If you don’t understand my unqualified opinion you’re just too stupid to figure it out” hot take by someone thinking they’re the smartest person in the room.

No, criticizing the dems doesn’t automatically mean criticism of anyone to the right of them.

%temp% is my fav. Just delete everything in it that windoze will allow. One thing windows and windows programs never do well is clean up temp files. It’s always satisfying/annoying to delete several GB temp files.

Everyone’s talking tech, but I’ll add car parts.

Everything from aftermarket parts to basic things like filters or even windhsield wipers.

$25/blade. If you have a 3-blade car, that’s $75.

Had to replace a battery. They used to be $100-125 for a good one. Nope. $200 for a mid grade replacement.

It wasn’t cheap, but they were affordable. Not so much anymore.

Scratch made sofrito? Nice!

Probably tariffs? No idea. Yeah, they used to be like $1 or so.

^ Beans FTW.

Dress it up with hot sauce if you can find it.

Getting slightly off the path of “cheap”…

If you have a grocery nearby that sells cheap goods from south of the border, grab some plantains. Wait until they’re good and dark, peel, cut them in half lengthwise and then in about 2” pieces and fry them. Making me hungry just thinking about it. Sofrito for the rice.

One of my favorite cheap meals.

(USD)

Sofrito jar 2.99

25 lb bag of rice 13.50 (~55 cups of rice, 25¢ a cup)

1 lb beans, pinto 1.19, black 1.59 (2 cups/bag, 60¢ cup)

Hot sauce 1.19

Plantains 65¢ each.

Rice and beans, decent serving, 1 cup cooked each makes a good amount, 85¢ total. Assuming some salt is already available to cook the rice with.

So adding a cup of sofrito, a dash of hot sauce, and cooking up a plantain will add a little over $2 to the total, make it $3 for the whole meal.

Externalizing their “alpha” BS.

Missed a spot.

Go whitewash an Uyghur reeducation camp or something.

The thickness of padding jammed between your legs required to buffer your bits against riding a closet clothes hanging rod would be enough to, at the very least, make you walk funny when not riding.

But thunder makes you get inside instead of standing in the rain.

They’re still doing that. Along with doodling apps. Draw text or use text boxes. Source: my kid logged in to their school acct on my computer and didn’t log out. I get to see what’s going on.

I had to look it up, no clue what “destination Saturn” was. I picked up all the series games individually.

In black and white, French, Subtitled.

There’s a pulp sci-fi series that I’ve been reading, “Backyard Starship”. Basically good-guy Space Sherrif takes on big and small problems in known space with a big variety of aliens. Fun stories and plenty of action. IMO it definitely needs an anime-style version.

That was written like they hoped it would be made into a movie. I found it one of the drawbacks to the book.