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"I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it."
— Roger Ebert's review of North.
Very Lovecraftian vibes. Reminds me of the Great Race of Yith.
From "The Shadow Out of Time": "The Great Race's members were immense rugose cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by the clicking or scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of two of their four limbs, and walked by the expansion and contraction of a viscous layer attached to their vast, ten-foot bases."
I don't usually need Garfield comics explained. But this one has that kind of Far Side comic baffling context vibes about it.
Apteryx seems to be a genus of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand, basically a Kiwi bird. Is that the whole joke? "Surprise Garfield! You're in New Zealand." I don't usually expect big laughs from Garfield, but this one is bizarre.
Shit that's at least 5 times as expensive as a flu shot I can get at the grocery store's pharmacy near me. That's criminal.
That punk scene hits different today in an age where that punk is more likely to use headphones and it's more likely to be the geriatric boomer streaming Facebook on speaker that is annoying everyone else because they proudly don't give a fuck about anyone else and may actually be looking for a fight.
They should have built a Lego pyramid, wouldn't have needed the cables.
Do they somehow cost more than 2-3 days worth of pay where you live?
Also, I understand that being poor can be very expensive. If you're on this end of the financial spectrum, there are often programs and discounts that can help, especially if you talk to the pharmacist (where I have gone before to get cheap flu shots when I didn't have insurance).
I'm not the person you asked, but I do have answers.
I have a French press, so I often use that. The preparation is exactly the same as a hot press except for the time and temperature; same grind, same proportions of water to coffee. Just mix the coffee and cool water and wait to plunge for several hours. It would usually be something I'd prepare the night before, leave on the counter, then plunge and pour in the morning.
You can do the same thing with larger volumes/masses of coffee and water using a mesh bag and a pitcher. Same process just more. Also avoid squeezing the bag too much, but do let the coffee run out as you remove the bag containing the coffee from the pitcher.
Kind of amazing that something of this size and complexity is still a single celled organism.
I know I've seen this before. This appears to be an AI generated version of a very similar image posted in January of 2023 on Reddit, Facebook, and probably others. I used a combination of Google image search and tineye.com to figure this out. This apparently AI version makes the woman skinnier, removes her sleeves, declutters the background, and adds a black clutch. The history of this meme was tricky to search for because it has blown up in popularity recently (on Instagram, Xitter, Reddit, even YouTube) and Reddit's history is full of deleted posts.
Links: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1141144596701026/posts/1398367294312087/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/10pgezj/deleted_by_user/
https://tineye.com/search/62f2061f28c29668e35ae4b65149fcbfeaf7131d?sort=score&order=desc&page=1
By "new trek" you mean everything TNG and after, right?