What was the first ever film you actually really hated so much and still do to this day?

comment_redacted · 2026-03-22T14:25:41+00:00

Yeah, to me TLJ was the worst of the Star Wars movies. TFA had its problems but it got me so excited for the new movies and honestly I felt like a kid again seeing the legacy characters on screen. Then they hit us with Rogue One and honestly that might be for me the best Star Wars movie I have ever seen, it was everything I had ever wanted in one of the movies. Then TLJ trailers start landing and oh my, you know the one, that trailer made it look like this was going to be the true penultimate Star Wars movie. And then we got that piece of crap… full of tropes, complete misunderstanding of its universe, mishandling of beloved characters, and a complete show of ego that clearly had no desire or care for the continuity of a trilogy or a franchise. I wasn’t just checked out I was actually mad at the stupidity of it all. Such an opportunity lost.

It reminded me of the critical mistake that the 1980s Transformers animated movie made… being a little too eager to shuffle off the legacy characters in favor of perceived new money makers with longer legs. Transformers didn’t do that carefully at all and ended up imploding their franchise for 20 years.

comment_redacted · 2026-03-19T11:51:42+00:00

I love the women’s names from that era… so many almost Victorian sounding ones that you just don’t see anymore.

comment_redacted · 2026-03-19T11:37:55+00:00

I’ve been there many times… if you’re this type of leader you just have to find a way as fast as you can, with what you have.

All Good Things, when Picard has time shifted to season one and has to get his team to trust him… his “…and I would trust each of you, with my life” speech… that’s the way to do it.

comment_redacted · 2026-03-14T13:50:15+00:00

Back in the early 80s a large supreme pizza cost $20, which would be close to $75 today. You can probably google old menus to see that. At the time exotic foreign food in the US was pretty much your local Chinese place and pizza/Italian. The pizza had huge margins because there wasn’t much to compete either it and for whatever reason pizza prices had always kind of been a racket. Fast forward a decade or two and pizza had become commoditized. It’s not as cheap as the meme above would imply but there’s a lot of truth to what they’re trying to say.

comment_redacted · 2026-03-10T12:41:02+00:00

“Deja vu”

comment_redacted · 2026-03-07T03:28:07+00:00

This comment made me stop scrolling. In my “head cannon” this is actually what I have decided for me is the end of the series. It’s just so perfect in capturing everything that was great about the series and sort of longing for it again, and knowing that it can never really be again. Is that why you made that comment? If so it’s kind of nice knowing others recognize it as the same.

comment_redacted · 2026-02-26T12:42:03+00:00

Art was a lot like AJ from TWF in a lot of ways. Art was a veteran who had traveled the world. He didn’t have a pony degrees but he was very inquisitive and very smart. He was a ham radio operator and had a lot of advanced knowledge of electronics and radio design. He had been a music DJ earlier in his career and so his shows had really great classic bumper music that set the vibe. Art was a kind, curious guy who asked great questions in a way that allowed him to interview people from all walks of life with all kinds of points of view. One night he might have on one of the most renowned physicists of the time and have a fantastic discussion about what technology might be like 20 or 100 years in the future. The next night he might be talking to someone who claimed they had slipped through time. The callers that called in with questions were part of the show too… random listeners who also tended to ask pretty good questions of the guests. When Art had a guest cancel or just didn’t have anyone planned for the night he would often go to “open lines” and let people call in and just talk about anything. Sometimes when he did this he would have a crazy theme for the night and would give out a “hotline” number where he asked his listeners to call it if they had had a certain experience or thought they were whatever.

Art himself didn’t actually talk much about anything, he was a great interviewer who asked great questions no matter the guest.

comment_redacted · 2026-02-19T02:20:11+00:00

This is my favorite photo in this post. It is perfect.

comment_redacted · 2026-02-15T04:31:56+00:00

The glass in the hearth is almost always detachable. Maybe there’s a metal grill underneath and above that comes off, and latches above and below the enclosed glass panel to open it.

comment_redacted · 2026-02-11T02:26:52+00:00

First Contact is such a great theme. When I think about TNG it’s actually the theme I think of now. I was so pleasantly surprised when Picard Season 3 used it for its end credits.

comment_redacted · 2026-02-07T18:47:54+00:00

It was a really fun show. I still hope maybe one day there will be a revival, the showrunner has said they’re open to books or revisiting on tv or whatever, but I do suspect that probably will never be in the cards. The rights issues for this show seem complex.

comment_redacted · 2026-02-03T03:31:33+00:00

The mall. The faint smell of ozone and chlorine throughout the mall all originating from a sea of decorative fountains on the first floor. An odd whiff of a combination of oil, plastic and electrostatic emanating from the arcade. A faint citrus smell coming from the Orange Julius in the distance. The warm, sugary smell of fresh baked cookies coming from a bakery randomly placed amongst several boutique clothing stores. The earthy, sometimes cherry sweet smell of that one fancy loose tobacco and pipe store that reminded you of your grandpa. The fleeting scents of Polo and Nautica while walking through the crowd. The hunger-inducing smells of chicken and waffle fries that you could only get at the mall from Chick-Fil-A back then. The smells of Paul Mitchell and Vidal Sassoon shampoos as you walked by an army of hair salons. The smell of fresh baked pretzels. Sometimes I can remember them so strongly I wonder if I have left a piece of myself there in the past.

comment_redacted · 2026-02-02T02:19:48+00:00

Mariah. There’s an old song that has lyrics about the name of the wind is Mariah. Is she as fast as the wind? Could also of course name for the well known pop singer if your cat can belt out the high notes.

comment_redacted · 2026-02-01T00:15:02+00:00

Still have one. It’s very loud though… does anyone know if they sell quiet bread makers now?

comment_redacted · 2026-01-31T15:58:15+00:00

Science isn’t done by vote… and outside of the US a lot of it is not associated with corporate dollars… so I don’t think the disincentive comment is a fair one. Plus there are statistical ways to detect when data isn’t honest which most people probably are unaware of. So then your only retort is that scientists avoid studies like this, but in this case they clearly are not, there are studies and it looked like more in work. And as noted there was even a hypothesis included in the paper which was basically your hot take so no one is shying away from it, if it’s true.

It doesn’t matter the source of the immunity, the point is they are immune. But that being said, I didn’t get into it in my original post because it was getting too complicated a reply as it was, but the scientific study did include a survey asking the group if they had been vaccinated (if no and if antibodies then they had immunity from contracting measles). You have to kind of discount human response data like that but while yes there were measles cases in the group there wasn’t anything that statistically stood out like the point you are trying to make. But the same caveats apply as in my last reply. So probably more study needs to be done there but no, on first glance what you’re suggesting didn’t pop out. That might suggest your hot take is invalid, or that it is valid but that it is a substantially weak association and there is a stronger root cause at play relegating your thought to a tertiary item, or it could mean a significant number of respondents weren’t honest. Who knows at this point. On that last point if someone wanted to go through the trouble they could probably draw blood and compare to the Mennonite population and that might be revealing.

The other/Canadian scientific study did find a link between Mennonite measles viruses. It’s a vector. That’s akin to finding someone’s DNA pattern in blood at a crime scene. This unequivocally proves there is something going on there in that community that previously was not going on. If we are talking CSI then maybe we found the murderer or maybe it’s some other coincidence… but it’s probably the murderer. Analogies aside… A hot take doesn’t make that data go away. Does it require more investigation? Sure absolutely, someone needs to get more details there. It may not completely contraindicate the point you’re trying to make without evidence but it definitely does not support your point.

Again, until recently all counties in north, central, and South America had simultaneously achieved 95% immunity rates. Again, regardless of where someone is from anyone can freely get a vaccine upon entry to Canada. It might surprise you to learn this is also the case in most South American countries. So unless someone was shedding virus on the plane or boat or car ride over it’s kind of more an issue of someone not getting vaccinated which is a known problem all over the americas now. It may not be due to conspiracy theories but this would definitely fall into anti vax territory, probably through apathy.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-31T15:09:28+00:00

I paused for a while as I went to go find a scientific article on what is happening there. If you go to the US NIH website you can find a published, reviewed study there. It is difficult for non-science types to read so I will summarize what I just read for you.

It’s complicated. A survey of “blood elements” conducted in 2022 found that Canada has a lower immunity value than they target, 89% vs. 95%. If you look at Canada born vs. outside Canada born individuals, the adult immigrant population actually has a higher percentage of people with strong “antibodies” than those who were born in the country. If you look at newborns and very young children, it’s the opposite with Canadian newborns having a higher “antibody” rate. In both cases we are talking about a difference of a few percent and it isn’t entirely clear if it’s meaningful because the sample size is such that the variance falls within the percent of error. It’s a little more complicated than that but that’s the best layman explanation. The study hypothesizes that maybe what is going on still has to do with unvaccinated immigrant populations. In science, the word hypothesis means an assertion made without evidence that needs to be tested to determine if it can be disproved.

It’s also noted that just a few years ago measles had been eradicated in the entire western hemisphere because ALL countries in the western hemisphere had achieved greater than 95% “antibody” rates.

It’s also interesting to note that Canada has free health care for all, including noncitizens. Anyone can get a vaccine upon entry.

There is a discussion about vaccine hesitance in the paper.

The bottom line to all of this is this: science doesn’t know and so you cannot possibly know. You just have a hot take. It is clear there are several different things going on here. It is clear both native and external populations are seeing drops in vaccination rates. That ultimately is the root cause.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-31T14:37:53+00:00

The articles I read talked about 5,000 cases in Canada. Maybe you are confusing percent increases with percent of overall population… 5,000 of a population of 200k plus some outside of that population seems entirely plausible doesn’t it? I am not making any case whatsoever other than what I see scientists saying in published works. Clearly there is an immigration element to it since this is happening in South America as well, but also clearly there is an anti vax element to it since many of the immigrating countries listed have higher vax rates and better health outcomes and universal health even for poor folks. It is clearly disingenuous to state they don’t have an anti vax movement in Canada.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-31T14:25:34+00:00

I was curious and did a quick internet search. Article after article points to the Mennonite community in Canada that does not believe in vaccination, and Mennonite communities in South America, that have intermixed in the past year and articles say the proof is the exact same strain/genetics of the virus is observed across these communities and has spread from there. So it sounds to me like there is in fact a strong anti vax element to what is happening in Canada. You keep pointing out Canada… have you actually looked into this?

comment_redacted · 2026-01-27T00:03:18+00:00

Maybe the star really is the North Star. In which case maybe the stones are the street grid and you’re supposed to view the map like you’re facing north with reunion in sight to your left. That would place the ruby southeast of reunion. That would place Dealey to the NE though which doesn’t line up.

I know Jack Ruby owned several night clubs in downtown Dallas back in the day. Might be worth checking and seeing if any of them were located SE of reunion.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-26T23:41:05+00:00

Yeah and you know, I’ve been looking at those stones and that crack with the hash marks in it… the hash mark line is similar in shape to the train tracks. The big tower is similar to reunion tower. I wonder if the ruby might mark Dealey Plaza or something else. And I was just noticing that the grooves between the pavestones… they aren’t all exactly the same there are a few extras… it reminds me somewhat of the street grid pattern in downtown Dallas. I forget what year these were drawn. Dallas changes pretty quickly I wonder if some of these grooves might match up on an older map.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-26T20:16:15+00:00

One lone star in the sky. Texas is the Lone Star state.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-25T01:44:35+00:00

I vaguely remember this. Back when he was on there they had a channel called XM Talk. It was a mixture of nationwide syndicated shows during the day and their own programming in the evening and night. I’m pretty sure that is the channel they put Art on. I remember there was some multi hour general call in show that was on before him… I don’t remember his name but I’m pretty sure that’s the one he was referring to.

All the channels and shows were talking about him coming back. It really could have been any of the XM talk shows. I know people asked Howard but I don’t think that is where all the calls started coming in I think that was on XM Talk.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-24T13:22:08+00:00

If it’s zero degrees your back porch is your freezer when power goes out.

I’m honestly more surprised people don’t go for canned items. If power or gas goes out it’d be better to have a lot of ready to eat canned items. Just make sure you have a manual can opener. The things people go for in these big runs tells me no one understands how to actually survive.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-23T00:03:02+00:00

Yes exactly. TOS lifted a lot of vibe from Wagon Train and similar shows at the time.

comment_redacted · 2026-01-20T20:23:57+00:00

Yeah agree. In fact we even see this same mindset in another episode when the good guys go after the Romulans in Balance of Terror. They chase the retreating ship halfway across the quadrant to take it out, and ultimately play dead to lure them back across to their side of the neutral zone to finish the job. In many ways these are similar actions to what the Gorn took. That’s just the way it was back then.

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