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Probably? Maybe? Just thought it was worth rolling out the adjective since it was comparing to the before-times. :-)

Also make it 2005 again so people can't get a 50" widescreen TV for two hundred bucks.

We brought in massive burritos and drinks from a local Mexican restaurant and enjoyed ourselves. Don’t bring loud, smelly, or messy food and there s literally zero problem.

Pick one, LOL.

I'm not even all that picky. Two or three trailers and a couple of ads, I get it. The butts are in the seat and it's pollyannaish to assume the suits won't leverage that. Sometimes I even see a trailer for an interesting-looking movie that I didn't know was in the pipeline. It's just such a beatdown the longer it goes, and by that I mean the literal time commitment, yes, but also the sense of the social contract being violated, the tonal whiplash, and the clear diminishing returns on picking their audience demographics.

I saw Project Hail Mary recently, and while I leveraged my assigned seat to show up at the listed time -- even though as a kid I developed the instinct that you need to be at a movie early -- I couldn't quite bring myself to trust the conventional wisdom as to how long the previews and ads would go on after that.

I need to get over it. It was something like 28 minutes, and made the entire experience less fun than it should have been. I'm seeing Dune in the theaters, and maybe the Mandolorian movie if the reviews are decent (I'm still a sucker for Star Wars. Is what it is.). If I get to three in a single year, that will actually be a new high for me in the last 10-20 years.

Everything else is fine at home. We have a pretty big TV and a sound bar, and for all but 1-3 visual and communal experiences, that is all I need. I remember when we were living large with a 32" CRT and stereo speakers that faced forward, so I still feel special watching on a "bigscreen," and the kids these days (LOL... I'm old) all spend most of their time staring at screens from 5-11", so a movie on the big old TV is already a special treat.

My comment history is littered with this idea, but cinemas are settling into their best use case when they can't benefit from a captive audience. They are there for big events and film devotees, but everyone who went to the theater because it's the only place where you could see a movie on a half-decent setup will find other options. It's not entirely unlike live theater before it, and all the grousing from auteurs will not change it. I'm not even saying they're wrong, just that they benefited from the fact that they the artform they love had built-in technical and economic advantages that gave them a false idea about how invested the broader audience was in the nuances of their work.

Having attended several red state universities, I chose to take it as a statement that alongside the ubiquitous plaza preachers, who are never affiliated with the school and are generally no one’s favorite campus characters, there’s also plenty of standard college silliness and shenanigans. Apart from the big blue cities, the college towns of the south are generally the most educated and forward thinking enclaves of their red states, hence the huge pressure campaigns from their governors to being the schools themselves to heel.

In addition to FecEx and Dominos, there's other restaurants, Amazon, UPS, newer Chinese-owned final-mile carriers, Uber including Eats/Pets/Courier/etc., Lyft, Doordash, medical couriers, legal couriers, etc. etc. It's tougher outside the cities, and it's all kind of a neo-Victorian dystopia of poor wages and no support, but if what's you actually want to do, "driving places cuz other people can't or won't" is a very doable job-description in the US. Just make sure you're factoring in car expenses if you do the gig-based ones.

Well, spam, egg, sausage, and spam – that’s not got much spam in it.

There was some fun to this in the early going, but eventually it's just a yawn-fest of money-whipping the lower leagues and cross-promoting whatever else Ryan is invested in.

That's interesting. I guess this game really lends itself to a personal play-style. I take it as a challenge to see what I can do with no searches at all, but I can also easily see how I'm missing out on some other skills and the educational potential of the game that way.

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I scored 775/1000🏅

1️⃣📍2.2 km - 🗓️3 yrs - 🥇197/200
2️⃣📍1.7K km - 🗓️5 yrs - 🥈152/200
3️⃣📍3.1K km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥈126/200
4️⃣📍2.2K km - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥈137/200
5️⃣📍1.3K km - 🗓️1 yrs - 🥈163/200

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Not my best, but no incorrect hemispheres or centuries!

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that Iran's 10-point proposal was "literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump." Trump initially called a plan from Iran "workable."

Even for their own awful sakes', they need to take grampa's socials away.