MCU Thanos. Dude is a complete idiot. With the stones he could basically be a god and do whatever he wants, but chooses to half the universe in order to stretch resources… except that doesn’t actually do that. He halved all life. Most resources are themselves alive. And even then he’s only kicking the can down the road a bit. Why not double the resources? Why not fundamentally change life so that it doesn’t have to use as much?

The comics version works because it turns out that his justifications are bullshit; dude just wants to impress Death because he loves her.

I will grant that MCU Thanos works in the sense that he’s a tough-guy moron who surrounds himself with yes-men, which only enhances his danger. But I don’t think that this was the intent in how they wrote him.

His turn to the dark side is just so damn abrupt. Even Clone Wars, which does a lot to flesh out Anakin as a character, doesn’t even really show us the gradual seduction of the dark side on him.

I swap Impossible and Beyond meat in recipes somewhat regularly. Basically, you just cook it the same. It’s easiest in a spaghetti sauce, but I did make a recipe that called for tofu and ground turkey with miso and swapped out the turkey with a couple frozen Beyond patties and it was really good (even better as leftovers when the tofu had a bit more time to absorb the miso flavors). Beyond takes to sauces really well.

I mean, I only shared it in reference to the supposedly Christian guy getting upset at the sight of a pride flag as though it’s completely counter to Christian belief and practice, meanwhile there are Christian churches that solemnize same-sex marriage, ordain openly gay and trans clergy, etc. Wasn’t really aiming for social points. But thanks for the comment!

Yeah. I definitely had to disassemble it and clean it out once I got home… but translucent keys!

I found the keyboard for this at a thrift store for like $7 and grabbed it like I was Gollum getting the ring back. I don’t care if the USB ports are too old to run some things, it’s peak design.

Hear hear! (pounds cane)

This reminds me that I once, in the name of humor, tried to whip up a progress pride-inspired Confederate flag as a trolling tool and it’s among the most cursed things I’ve ever seen. Pretty sure I deleted it from existence…

Meanwhile my church:

(ALT: The words “The Episcopal Church” in white above a variation of a shield graphic that has a blue field in the upper left with a series of white crosses forming an X shape; pink, blue, brown, black diagonal stripes on the right; the classic Pride rainbow colors of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red forming the remaining sections with a white cross holding them all together)

EDIT: I tried to use a spoiler tag/format but I apparently suck at that. Sorry. Don’t sue me!

Or Anakin just caused them all to lose the will to live. I hear he has that effect on women people.

Active wear, active wear. Flinging beer at the cops in my active wear

While Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon were on Naboo, some elder Jedi mystic discovered the proper technique to survive lightsaber wounds. The information was not dispersed before Qui-Gon met his fate. Truly a dark irony. However, his death and the re-emergence of the Sith prompted the immediate training of this technique to the point that it became common knowledge even among the most green of padawans.

Or perhaps it’s better to think that maybe Qui-Gon learned this ability while in the Force and has now shared it from beyond the grave, a thing that saved so many Jedi yet could only happen as a result of Qui-Gon’s death.

Hell, there was a time where a single captured swear word like this would get the religious right all worked up and create a legit scandal. Pretty sure there was a lot of work done to keep LBJ’s famous potty-mouth concealed from the public. Remember when GOP got upset about Rahm Emmanuel telling someone to go “fuck themselves” or when then-VP Biden was caught on a hot mic telling Obama “you fucking earned this” or whatever it is he said about some accolade. “Let no filthy speech come from your mouth” it says in the Bible. “Unless it’s our preferred politician” they added with an asterisk.

I don’t know what it is, but in my experience, Hawai’i driving is just so much better than anywhere else I’ve lived–especially when it comes to this exact scenario. When there’s a lane closure, most people just… get over. Give a shaka, get a shaka, done. When you do have someone blast past everyone to try and merge at the last possible minute people just… let them in. Might get stink eye for do it. Maybe “one finger shaka.” But it’s either some tourist who doesn’t know better and we all feel smug knowing that they have to go back to where they came from or it’s someone in a genuine hurry and just let em go.

I think it’s partly due to Hawai’i having a more collectivist mindset. Everybody is just trying to get to where they need to be, everyone kind of understands that traffic can suck and so no one is too concerned with “being on time” (again, my experience). Plus there aren’t any billboards on the roads (at least not that I’ve seen) and you pretty much have something pretty to look at the whole time you’re in traffic. Lower speed limits too. It’s peaceful. You rarely hear someone honk. Though I will say that I’ve noticed drivers getting more aggressive as more local kine people move away.

I went back to Florida a few years ago to visit my mom while she still lived there and it was miserable to drive anywhere. I got the sense that no one wanted to be where they were–they didn’t want to be in their car so they raced off to work, where they also did not want to be, so they raced home, where they also did not want to be; all in Florida where I feel like most people who live there don’t want to be tbh. I used to be an angry and impatient driver. In Hawai’i I’m like one grandpa. I stay in slow lane and drive the speed limit.

THANK YOU!

The Duality of Man

Not sure if this actually counts for the question, but I had a friend who called the Hittites “hitty-titties” when we had a Bible class together, as a way to remember them for a test. I still think of that whenever I come across the word Hittite.

[Faye Dunaway, screaming] NO SERIFS EVAAARRRR!!!

I drive a 2017 Kia Soul EV and it still has the old logo and I love it. I love that it is a boring, no-nonsense logo. Just straightforward. KIA. No pretense.

Now it’s КИ (sorry if Cyrillic doesn’t show up on your device)

Perhaps they’re simply disgraced paranormal investigators following up on reports about pink slime that comes out of the pipes?