GraniteM

I've heard him described as always looking like he's going through customs with a brick of cocaine stuffed down his pants.

Playboy models were hotter back in the sixties and early seventies, before cocaine, implants, and bleach blonde hair became the norm.

Evolve the standard mug into a Corningware meal mug.

It's large enough for a full meal-sized serving, the lid is robust as fuck, and they come in multiple fun colors. You can microwave the shit out of it and the handle won't get hot.

Watch the original Gone in 60 Seconds, from 1974. The car stunts are absolutely insane, to the extent that they probably shouldn't have been allowed to make the movie the way they did, but it happened and I'm glad that cameras were rolling. The Nic Cage remake was trying to make a movie safer, slicker, and more coherently, but there's no replacement for a bunch of insane stunt drivers risking their lives and the lives of everyone around them.

With cigarettes, we recognized the harm that they did and in response developed a series of regulations about where they could be used, who could use them when, how they could be advertised, warning labels that had to be applied, and taxes on them to discourage use and offset the societal harm. As result we get this:

...and this...

The internet is a tricky one on account of it absolutely having crossover with the first amendment, but there's got to be a conversation about its effect on mental health and what if anything can be done in response.

But then I start to feel like

this guy, with the "real" camera and the phone camera, but the phone camera is the one I've most consistently got on me, because I can't lug a whole additional piece of hardware around in a camera bag, meanwhile the phone camera pictures are grainy and shitty, and I'd just as soon have a Pixel in my pocket at all times that can take fairly good pictures at all times.

Camera is probably the first obstacle. I've got a kid, and I really want to have good documentation of her growing up. If there were a dumbphone with a legit camera, that'd be a big deal for me.

After that, probably maps is the next most important thing that I want an actual smart phone for. I remember getting my first smart phone, and probably the main thing I was excited about was always being able to navigate directly to where I wanted to go.

Almost everything else is tertiary to my needs.

Well, now I want to see an artist's rendition of a T. rex doing this:

Vader was talking about the Force as the will of the universe to make fate manifest itself. A Force user, properly attuned, would be able to sense the way the future was meant to unfold, and position themselves accordingly or (in Sith ideology), impose their vision of the future on reality. This was how Palpatine became emperor; he could see that the Force intended for massive galactic upheaval to take place, and was able to maneuver himself into winding up on top of the new status quo.

Yes, the Death Star was able to physically destroy a planet, but it was also the will of the Force that the Death Star and everyone on board should in turn be destroyed, and that all of their political goals should come to nothing, and there was nothing any of them could do about it. That is the true power of the Force.

This is good advice, but every so often I'll screw up and put some grounds in before I think to tare the scale, so what I've done is put a little label on my French press that says how many grams it weighs when empty. That way, if I find myself in that situation, I can do the math of how much the press and grounds should all weigh together.