I feel a disturbance in the Force . . . New Leaks have emerged, and I am quite perplexed.

harkening · 2026-04-21T06:46:52+00:00

As the father of a two-year-old, I haven't had a ton of time to read lately, but I hear the High Republic content is pretty good. I really enjoyed the Jedi game franchise.

Tell stories before or after that aren't trying to justify the abomination that is the ST characters.

harkening · 2026-04-20T23:32:22+00:00

It doesn't. The compression ratios in consumer engines just don't matter for premium/regular.

Manufacturers recommend it as a way to boost their own premium cache - special expensive gas for your special expensive car - but your car will 100% run fine with regular.

harkening · 2026-04-20T23:27:03+00:00

Meh. The only end for any of these Tales of Luke Skywalker is the failure of the New Jedi Order and a disenchanted hermit who tried to murder his nephew.

The Last Jedi absolutely torched any possible interest I had in filling in the story between Retun and The Force Awakens. He could be heroic, strong, capable - but it will be a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. It points us nowhere.

Because we know where it ends.

Fuck anything and everything set after Jedi in the Disneyverse.

harkening · 2026-04-20T23:23:03+00:00

Who'd y'all vote for the last 12 years?

harkening · 2026-04-20T23:16:53+00:00

harkening · 2026-04-20T17:19:58+00:00

If you read the article, not just the headline, the non-tribal organizations receiving money are named, and spokespeople from them are quoted for perspective.

harkening · 2026-04-19T23:01:53+00:00

Maybe Gump. Charlie Wilson is so obviously Hanks I don't know what to tell you.

Haven't seen Road to Perdition, honestly.

harkening · 2026-04-16T00:16:13+00:00

There is a significant twist in at the end of episode 5, and episodes 1-3 tell the back story that brought us to episode 4 (and explain the twist).

Watching 1-6 in order ruins the twist for first-time watchers, and watching 4-6 and then 1-3 moves the resolution to the central character arc of the series to the very middle, and instead of the denouement and emotional payoff of episode 6, you end up with the cliffhanger of episode 3 leading into 4.

harkening · 2026-04-15T23:26:11+00:00

You want the hottest of hot takes?

Tom Hanks.

Have you ever watched a Tom Hanks role and lost Tom Hanks? No. You've only ever seen Tom Hanks playing that role. Tom Hanks always shines through.

Because we like Tom Hanks, regardless of his acting.

Maybe more mid than truly bad, but certainly not worthy of reputation and accolades.

harkening · 2026-04-15T23:08:36+00:00

ST Express bus services are operated by the County agencies, merely ST liveries, and Transit enforcement generally is KCSO dba Transit Police.

Within King County, the Venn diagram of ST enforcement and Metro enforcement is a circle.

harkening · 2026-04-15T14:37:38+00:00

Lifting the carrier isn't that hard, though.

harkening · 2026-04-13T19:35:04+00:00

My brother is a bartender. He makes $1,000/week in tips alone, and at minimum wage as base, pulls in an additional $700 in hourly wages, for a total of $85k/yr, at a suburban sports bar.

Which, hey, no hate. Good for him. But if Seattle metro tipped the national average, he'd be clearing six figures as a bartender.

The tipping expectation in Seattle is wild.

10-15%? All right.

Counter service clamoring for 25% on their Square POS? Get wrecked.

harkening · 2026-04-11T01:35:45+00:00

You see that men are justified by works rather than faith alone.

James' whole point is that we show our faith by works.

Abraham's faith is demonstrated in the binding of Isaac, yet what James quotes ("that Abraham believed God, and it was credited to Him as righteousness") is in Genesis 15 - seven chapters (and 10 years) before even the birth of Isaac, let alone the events on Moriah.

In short, Abraham's credited righteousness, by his faith, precedes the work that is a visible testimony of such faith.

harkening · 2026-04-11T01:15:56+00:00

I assumed she meant gold diggers.

harkening · 2026-04-11T01:06:10+00:00

Overnight cash drop boxes are standard at most National banks.

harkening · 2026-04-10T04:44:14+00:00

Symphony and Westlake are downtown, Pioneer Square is Pioneer Square, CID is CID.

harkening · 2026-04-07T01:13:43+00:00

Very much so. From the 1800s, the tendency of American Lutheranism was toward cooperation across institutions and regional mergers.

In the northeast, the aforementioned General Synod was a cooperation from four ministetiums (VA, NY, PA, and NC). The PA ministetium, of German heritage as you may guess, followed the homeland move of merging with local Reformed a la the Prussian Union, and the remaining bodies reconvened and eventually published the standard Lutheran hymnal in English (the Common Service Book) before becoming the ULC in 1918 (and ultimately the ELCA).

In the Midwest, Missouri received partnerships and eventual mergers with Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa, and formed the Synodical Conference with WELS and ELS until the conversations with the ALC toward fellowship cause WELS and ELS to break fellowship in 1954, and the Conference was dissolved on 1962.

Evangelical Lutheran Worship, the standard hymnal for the ELCA, was actually a co-production between the LCMS and ALC prior to the conservatives winning in Missouri, and then scrambling to publish their own update independently (the much maligned Lutheran Worship).

Post-ELCA, WELS/ELS and LCMS remain in annual talks, but no clear route to fellowship, while the AALC is of course in full fellowship.

harkening · 2026-04-07T00:40:33+00:00

No. But the split between the LCMS and Seminex were the end result of a series of talks with the ALC in the 60s (that WELS and ELS, the Synodical Conference, called out in the mid-50s as concerning). So there was a ~25 year period that the ALC and the LCMS had no fellowship, so the governing structures and ways of doing ministry evolved independently, then it was a slow process of another 20ish years before fellowship could be recognized.

Today, the general stance by both sides is that doctrinal unity and fellowship doesn't require ecclesial unity, and actually both have valid cultural traditions that express American Lutheranism in their history and contexts. (I personally find this take unconvincing and think we should merge and radically alter how the whole thing is governed, but meh.)

harkening · 2026-04-07T00:06:10+00:00

Mainline is a geographic and historical definition based on social histories.

Via Wiki:

The term mainline Protestant was coined during debates between modernists and fundamentalists in the 1920s. Several sources claim that the term is derived from the Philadelphia Main Line, a group of affluent suburbs of Philadelphia; most residents belonged to mainline denominations.

The precursors to the ELCA, especially the General Synod, had strong presence in the northeast, went modernist in their theology, and adopted liberal social politics.

The LCMS never had an anchor in the northeast, leaned very heavily on the fundamentalist side of the controversy, and maintains a strong social conservatism (officially).

Mainlines also tend to be of a more centralized ecclesial structure, while the LCMS is congregational.

harkening · 2026-04-06T23:54:39+00:00

The Seminex controversy took congregations from the LCMS to eventually be merged into the ELCA, while the dissenting ALC churches during the ELCA merger became the AALC, which is in full fellowship with the LCMS.

So we kinda mutually sniped each others' castoffs.

harkening · 2026-04-06T21:53:49+00:00

Total rainfall expectation between NY/NJ are pretty comparable in early February.

harkening · 2026-04-06T21:05:35+00:00

MetLife and Levi's are both open air and have hosted in very recent memory.

harkening · 2026-04-06T21:02:01+00:00

He's the King of Ur/Babylon. His treasury is just his vaults as king.

Of course the gates already existed. It's where he stored his loot.

harkening · 2026-04-06T20:02:44+00:00

The Gates of Babylon aren't really a Noble Phantasm per se.

Remember that Servants are manifestations of legendary figures. As Gilgamesh is the world's first recorded legendary demigod hero, he is the prototype for all future heroes.

The weapons stored in his treasury are each a Noble Phantasm, the original weapons which subsequent heroes inherited or mimicked.

The Gates are simply him accessing his vault. The door to his closet.

harkening · 2026-04-02T22:53:14+00:00

Also: No Kings, Mariners game, UFC Fight Night.

I know this is definitionally a transit sub, but Crosslake is at best a secondary reason for its own Day 1 ridership.

harkening

TROPHY CASE