There was also that guy who somehow wasn’t Scottish, who fought WWII with bagpipes and a longbow, and then went on to become a pioneer in the sport of surfing. Quoted to have said “If it weren’t for the damn yanks we could have kept the war going another ten years.”

Literally everything should draw criticism. Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Arizona Iced Tea draw criticism.

But if you’re going to be a lemming about it, you could use basically any sitcom set in the 90’s or 2000’s. I remember reading once that the writers of Buffy The Vampire Slayer deliberately avoided giving the characters cell phones because the characters having reliable, cheap instant communication at a distance eliminates a lot of plots.

Use Saved By The Bell if you have to. Screech, the nerd, is blathering about <newfangled tech> in the first act. The gang gets into a scrape in the second act. Does Screech:

1. fail to use <newfangled tech> correctly as you would in the real world, because if he did the plot wouldn’t happen at all? – Great tech.
2. Use <newfangled tech> realistically to solve the problem, and Zach has a little moment where he admits Screech was right about it? – Good tech.
3. Cause, instigate or worsen the scrape the gang is in with <newfangled tech> which has to be solved by some other means especially deus ex machina by adult characters? – Bad tech.
4. Play the main role in this, a Very Special Episode? – Bad Bad Very Bad Epstein Bad tech.

How many months do you leave them in the water? 50? 60? Or do you ever take them back out?

There is a movie called Club Paradise. Mid-80’s comedy starring Robin Williams and Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy, a bunch of 80’s comedy regulars, Peter O’Toole is in it. The plot of the film is local honest people vs corrupt government and business, but minute to minute it’s mostly a spring break shenanigans movie starring a bunch of adults? Like, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy play a pair of potheads named Barry and Barry who repeatedly fail to score weed and chicks.

It has mostly negative reviews, but I’m fond of it. It DOES NOT work as a cinema film, I cannot imagine going to a theater, sitting reverently and quietly as it boomed down at me, but it works on TV as “let’s put a tape in while we’re getting ready for Family Saturday Afternoon Hobby Outing/waiting for Family Saturday Afternoon Hobby Venue to open.”

Reloaded and Revolutions was one of those cases where a movie was so huge that they decided to make two sequels back to back.

The first movie would sometimes dip into weird metaphysics but it kept to its theme enough to remain in your head. It’s a fairly straightforward monomyth hero’s journey plot with themes of destiny versus agency.

The sequels were crammed full of pointless “lots of shit happens on screen” action scenes and pseudophilosophic drivel.

What’s objectively terrible about Tremors?

The TV series and movies beyond the third one are objectively terrible. But the first two are solid films and the third one is good for a laugh.

“take of your pants.”

What’s red and smells like blue paint?

Red paint.

You know, I think if Stallman had put as much thought into the code of HURD as he did the acronym, Linus Torvalds wouldn’t be where he is today.

Remember when Futurama joked that the iPhone cost $500?

Hear the kitty, greedy kitty

She is begging for food

She has noticed that I’m cooking chicken

Hear her meowing, greedy meowing

She won’t leave me alone

She won’t shut up till she gets a piece

Silver cat, Izzy cat

It’s feeding time, for the kitty.

Hear her whine, all the time

My little mooch of a pet!

Yeah if 4 people uninstalled the program last time, and 6 people uninstalled it this time, that’s a 150% increase from last time.

I accept your reality and add it to my own.

Pixelfed I think? Though it’s developed by the same guy as whatever the Instagram clone is called so it’s been kind of slow to become usable?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb0CkGOZUWo

Don’t we have that?

That tracks.

I’m 100% okay with how my Samsung Galaxy handles it: You access the Developer mode by pressing on the phone info screen in the settings for several seconds, and then there’s a switch that allows execution of random .apk files.

“Yes, do as I say.”

If you want those things you need to deal with national, state and municipal governments for contracts.

The workers quarters at the Giza necropolis have been excavated, and they found evidence that the work crews lived a pretty high standard of life. Yes, as far as I know other than transporting stones via the Nile they were built with human muscle power, but the men cutting and moving the stones were fed an extremely luxurious diet for the time. Huge numbers of bakeries were found, along with evidence of vegetables, fish, beef…my personal hypothesis is this is a requirement; the Great Pyramid is probably the greatest feat of athleticism ever performed, and you had to feed the men lots of calories, protein, vitamins and minerals to get it done.

They got healthcare, too. There have been bodies found that showed healed amputations. People got hurt on the job but were cared for as best as they knew how 4,000 years ago.

Now imagine you’re a young man living in some village in lower Egypt in the 4th dynasty, and a royal messenger shows up recruiting workers to build some big triangle in the West for the king, and they promise wages along with all the beer, bread and steak you can eat made and served by more young women than you knew existed, plus medical and dental. You’d probably go check out the king’s big triangle thing. I’ve taken worse jobs than that.