I flat out don’t accept the notion that some starts have no planets. As far as I am concerned, if we have 8 major plantes and on average, 40% of planets are ejected, we should assume the average number of starting planets is 11.

Spout nonsense with enough confidence and you can wield unimaginable power. Am I talking about LLMs or president poopy pants?

Every time I see the words Secretary of State Marco Rubio I almost do a spit take.

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel

Mine was in the Athens/Acropolis area.

Fair enough. Just to be clear, we would all be better off if we broke up these trusts.

Nobody will ever convince me that we wouldn’t all be better off without breaking up these trusts.

That whole geography thing only works if we remain united. That’s no longer a given in my book.

Super surprised to see Publix leading this list.

No. They’re extinct.

Mare of Easttown springs to mind. It was pretty good and is a miniseries. 7 episodes that are about an hour each.

That movie holds up!

SmartTubeNext has been working fairly well for me for like 5 years or something. It’s super easy to side load on a Fire stick.

The article says she’s married, but the husband works out of state.

I’ll continue not playing the game I’ve never played before. I’m doing my part!

A few bad actors can undo the work of thousands of hardworking people who care. I genuinely don’t know if the problem is solvable if it requires cooperation of the entire species. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Wow! I, for one, will plan to be both shocked and awed by the ‘hellscape’.

Bro, I voted Nader in 2000. In Florida. I still love Nader but I sure learned that lesson.

New owner gets taxed based on what they pay for it, so they county will end up collecting more.

Some localities limit the increase in taxable value to a fixed percentage, which can combat that. The taxable value of my home is something like 25% of the actual value.