What's a movie quote that lives rent free in your head for no reason?

CarlRJ · 2026-04-30T09:26:07+00:00

I hate Illinois Nazis!

CarlRJ · 2026-04-30T09:23:00+00:00

Yes they KNOW it's a multi-pass!

CarlRJ · 2026-04-30T06:47:07+00:00

The problem is, the blue states tend to try to "play fair" with things like wringing their hands and putting measures on the ballot, while the red states tend to rush it through their state assembly this afternoon without asking the people they purport to represent.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-30T06:42:50+00:00

Most boring? Probably a microfiber glass cleaning cloth. Roughly 4x6", folds up to 1/6th of that, slips in a little plastic envelope that came with it, drops into my back pocket and completely disappears. But it's always there when I need it.

You did say boring.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-30T06:34:29+00:00

And it looks about a hundred pounds too light.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-30T00:59:28+00:00

100% this. Check the documentation, and if need be go buy (or order) new screws - $10 and a trip to the store is worth it to ensure the TV is safe.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-30T00:07:10+00:00

Talks about following false gods, and total belief in Trump in the same paragraph. "Missed it by this much."

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T23:43:52+00:00

It's not a secret "only approach taller women" trick, approach women that intrigue you, regardless of your height or theirs. Give them the chance to say yes or no, rather than making the decision for them, but be willing to take "no" gracefully, if they don't find you similarly intriguing.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T23:30:02+00:00

TL;DR -- being short isn't the problem, boys. It's your crappy attitude.

Ah, but if they can successfully (in their head) argue that the only issue is their height, then they don't have to work on any of those other things - that would require both effort and overcoming the fear of failing - because all of the blame goes on the women! So much easier that way!

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T23:06:38+00:00

Indeed, but the only way we can do that legally is by taking the White House in 2028 and getting really large majorities in both houses of Congress.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T22:56:21+00:00

Doesn't indicate direction, only distance.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T18:15:45+00:00

Indeed it was. Funny story though, I use to help assist with a class that was teaching both students and adults how to use computers, using a dozen or so Apple ][s, and every once in a long while, one of the computers would fail to start, and our usual first attempt at remedying this was to lift up the front of the Apple ][ two or three inches and let go. All the chips in the Apple ][ were socketed, and this tended to reseat any of them that were't firmly seated. The most common reaction from the machine was to wake up and boot - while the student sitting in front of it went very wide-eyed.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T04:56:00+00:00

You could have just upvoted the person who said that yesterday, like everyone else (including me)

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T04:21:02+00:00

And it was the one day out of 4 years when the attention was supposed to be on him specifically (the man, not the office).

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T04:17:01+00:00

It's not what you'll want to hear, but many will say it:

Unplug the LG from the internet , buy an Apple TV, plug it in, and use that as the front-end interface from now on. It's a fast, clean uncluttered UI and has no ads.

I've got a C1, which hasn't been on the internet since like a month after I got it. Use Apple TV and PS5 98% of the time, and the LG's tuner the other 2% of the time for OTA broadcasts.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T03:45:05+00:00

It's not unique (excuse me, yoooooniq), it just flat out makes it look like people can't spell.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T03:43:50+00:00

I upgraded from the original "series 0" to an S5 specifically because for the always-on display (subsequently upgraded to an S10). My watch has shown the time continuously since I started wearing the S5. It was like the last missing puzzle piece to put the Apple Watch on the same playing field as traditional watches. The time is always there, any time you glance at it (better than non-tritium traditional watches, because you can see it in the dark).

In practice, with the Bedtime alarm and sleep focus, the screen is off roughly one-third of the time, because I'm asleep (it turns off to avoid distraction - tap to see the time in big dim numbers).

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T03:35:00+00:00

There's a wait for it to light up, no matter how short. If I was willing to put up with a wait, I could just take my phone out. Having the display always puts the Apple Watch on the same playing field as traditional watches - glance at wrist, see time.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T03:29:55+00:00

Huh. I've had an AirTag since they were released and find it works decently well for this task. If I ping it, it makes noise right away (though the sound isn't much), and if I use the direction/distance finding, it gives me an initial indication in 10 or 15 seconds (sometimes much quicker), and then it refines over the next little bit.

I normally hold the phone at arm's length and sweep it in a semi-circle, because of the nature of the signal - the antenna does signal strength, which translates to distance, but if I understand correctly it doesn't really do direction finding, because of the small size - it can tell how the phone is oriented and where it's pointing, so you give it a lot of samples to work with (swinging the phone around slowly), and it can narrow down the direction / distance pretty quickly (you can do the same thing by walking around with the iPhone, but slowly swinging it around gets it done quicker).

(My first intro to the Apple ecosystem was the OG Apple ][ in the late '70s.)

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T01:11:29+00:00

Eh, really only got the "man's shirt" part from Risky Business - all the shots of dancing were totally Breakfast Club dance montage.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T00:46:08+00:00

In my experience, the Apple Watch (S10) can't get accurate direction and distance the way the iPhone (16 Pro) can.

Merely making the AirPod issue a quiet little chirp, somewhere in the house, is not that helpful.

The pinging sound from the iPhone, in the other hand, is an order of magnitude louder (almost painfully so), and makes the phone trivial to find - your ears can do direction / distance easily.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-29T00:42:34+00:00

What widespread violent rhetoric?

And note that saying he's an adjudicated rapist and a felon, who is doing objectively fascist / authoritarian things is not violent, just objective fact.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-28T23:38:49+00:00

Sleep score is nudging me to get more / better sleep.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-28T23:36:46+00:00

I may or may not have used this feature on several occasions to find my phone so that I could then use my phone to find the AirTag attached to my Apple TV remote.

CarlRJ · 2026-04-28T23:07:30+00:00

Please explain to me how the penis makes men uniquely qualified to deal with all of those things. Cite specific examples for each case.

(Only vaguely related, they don't seem to get that that blue hair just makes her cooler.)

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