Watching the She-Ra reboot for the first time with my son and daughter when they were 6 and 4 respectively is one of the best media memories of my life.

That’s all well and good, but are you really suggesting that trans people who are fearing for their lives should stay put to help the electoral college issues four years from now?

If there is a benevolent God, then this is the shit that could convince me that they might exist

Yes, because they’ve been told people are having fun and also being woke at the same time, and they can’t let that happen.

Edit: I 100% agree with and respect your “Bioware has always been woke” comment, and I appreciate you bringing that up

“Have you met the new kid, Bryan? He seems pretty cool!”

That makes more sense than Big 5

I do love the feeling of disorientation I got from the first book. The whole thing felt like I was in a fever dream and I was never sure if I was losing my mind or it was the book.

Of course a big chunk of that could be the sleep deprivation that came with having 2 kids under two at the same time as reading the book.

Honestly, we’ve all been there.

Achh, good point. I’d forgotten about that

Even better is the fact that Trump’s Secret Service detail would likely be… shall we say “less than motivated” to protect their charge

We got in on on our house in early 2016 and the price of real estate in our area increased by 20% while we were in escrow.

Our house has more than doubled in price since then but if we had fallen out of escrow, we would not have been able to buy anything anywhere near our jobs/preferred city (and my partner and I have a combined income north of 150k/year).

Shit is crazy these days

Cheers, bud, same to you! I think the wide range of stuff we see and how quickly we can go from Bright Eyes to Hüsker Dü to Soul Glo is what makes it so fun.

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Rounders has a young Matt Damon and Edward Norton and is entirely about gamblers making their living as poker players in the late 90’s or early 2000’s.

It’s pretty good

Edit: I just realized you said not entirely about cards, but I still highly recommend the movie. The plot revolves around cards, but it’s also about ambition and knowing when to cut off deadbeat friends

I fucking love Powell’s. I love the selection and the used books and the atmosphere and Portland, and really everything about it

It’s honestly one of my favorite places in the world.

Fucking Onion keeps giving them ideas; the GOP might as well start paying them as policy advisors

Add a little bit of blues and early-Sabbath-style metal, and yeah, I’d say so

it wouldn’t be too hard to do the math.

I think you severely overestimate their ability to do math.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would say that “Sweet Home Alabama” is very different. It was not written bitterly and it was written by a bunch of Neil Young fans (and Neil himself loved the song). The point of “Sweet Home Alabama” was to show that there were people who grew up in the South who weren’t racist, who acknowledged and decried the racist history of the South, but who also felt resentment at being lumped in with the racists, past and present. Being both proud of being from the South and ashamed of being from the South at the same time even has its own term, coined AFAIK by the band The Drive-By Truckers: “the duality of the Southern Thing.”

There are plenty of artists and musicians that should just be written off, but I don’t think Skynyrd is among them. They were actually relatively progressive for their background and were trying to paint a fairly sophisticated and balanced story; it’s not their fault that their fanbase evolved into a bunch of racist assholes who preempted the song for their own causes, especially since the heart and soul of the band died in a plane crash in 1977. But that’s just my two cents as a huge music fan who grew up listening to Skynyrd in the 90’s.

That’s because you’re thinking of it like a particle moving a distance, but matter at that scale actually behaves more like a standing wave that only has discrete solutions.

Or at least that’s how I think about electrons and Schrodinger’s equation. I dunno, I only teach about stuff that’s as small as an electron, but it’s a useful tool for thinking about quantum numbers, so I assume it applies to smaller matter, too.