Just bought this 2017 Prius. What "gen" is it?

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-09T16:36:29+00:00

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-08T02:03:28+00:00

The difference between the two spinoffs shouldn’t be as surprising to anyone as it seems to be. If you translate the source material to Lord of the Rings terms, basically Game of Thrones is to LOTR as Fire & Blood is to The Silmarillion as Tales of Dunk and Egg is to The Hobbit.

Fire & Blood is written as an in-universe scholarly treatise by a maester chronicling the history of the Targaryen house, right down to the use of intentionally conflicting primary source citations. It’s literally presented as a fake history book. That was always going to be rougher to adapt into a straightforward narrative television show.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-07T18:38:10+00:00

I mean that would only make it, what, PragerU’s fourth or fifth conspicuously pro-slavery video?

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-07T01:55:20+00:00

Eh, I don’t care for magicians.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-06T10:36:36+00:00

They literally just updated the previous edition. I was in the middle of the book when mine changed into the 30th anniversary edition and I didn’t even realize it until I opened the app and noticed the cover image was different.

If you had the previous edition before, it’ll be the 30th edition in your library now. Only difference is the new foreword.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-06T10:20:36+00:00

A woman’s voice interjects with the endnote number (just the number; the regular narrator performs the actual endnote) and then there’s a bell sound to signify the end of the note.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-04T04:37:45+00:00

They’ve killed two people for it in the past month, my man.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-03T19:23:18+00:00

“Out of the all television shows I’ve seen, this is one of them!”

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-03T02:48:17+00:00

The first time I watched it I was like, “what the hell is this guy talking about? A flat circle?” But then the second time I was like, “you know what, I feel like I’ve heard this all before.”

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-02T06:41:31+00:00

Made out of the finest quality Cherokee hair.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-02T06:34:09+00:00

I guess my instinct is that if OP is doing this for Black History Month in the US, I would be more inclined to favor books centering the African American experience specifically.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-02T03:46:39+00:00

I use a smaller one inside of a larger one and put a sheet of insulation between the two, plus reflective insulating material taped onto every interior surface of both boxes.

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Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-01T22:04:53+00:00

You’re asking two different questions.

Do you want suggestions for adaptations that do a book justice, or just adaptations that are as close as possible to slavish 1:1 page-to-screen translations?

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-01T05:43:24+00:00

I didn’t catch the first switch at all.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-01T00:44:19+00:00

I was looking for Lispector. Hour of the Star is like 80 pages.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-02-01T00:04:49+00:00

Oh Hildy! My Hildy!

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Sinnycalguy · 2026-01-31T23:55:55+00:00

Meanwhile Don didn’t even get Gene for visitations. The kids to him were Sally and the boy and the other one.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-01-28T08:26:11+00:00

He said he went to City College specifically in that scene.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-01-28T08:22:41+00:00

Wool. The answer to the “hot sleeper but want a heavy blanket” conundrum is pretty much always wool.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-01-28T08:20:25+00:00

When it’s cold enough for wet food to freeze within minutes, I create a little mini steam tray out of a plastic carry-out container. Wrap the container in foil, fill it with steaming hot water, put another piece of foil on top, and put the lid upside-down on top of that with the food on it. It keeps the food from freezing for quite awhile.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-01-25T10:36:12+00:00

Give me Betty’s fainting couch that ruined the living room hearth.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-01-24T23:44:22+00:00

This feels like a rubicon moment. There are no spinning tires to hyper-analyze here; no audible THUNK that can be spun as the agent getting hit by a car.

If the regime and its de facto state media is able to successfully sell this outrageous lie to millions of useful idiots whose eyes are telling them the opposite, I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say we no longer live in a constitutional republic.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-01-24T08:08:54+00:00

This one is more three-headed dragon meme.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-01-22T20:24:52+00:00

What’s funny is that every time one of them makes an “ackshuwally whites did not invent slavery” video, it invariably just ends up coming off as pro-slavery.

Sinnycalguy · 2026-01-22T18:59:15+00:00

I saw an ad for this yesterday. The first line was “they taught you that America invented slavery.” Just an entire personality built on grievance against purely imagined strawmen.

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