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Apep

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  1. My condolences to all his friends and family, most especially his young children.
  2. The sisters were living droids, but with half the personality. Still wanna see Wrecker hook up with one of ‘em.
  3. I think the older sister gets involved romantically with Wrecker.
  4. It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010). Nice little comedy about a high strung, high achieving NYC magnet student that checks himself into a mental hospital and finds a mentor and finds love.
  5. I think I've run into this issue, but it's hard to tell. Did I accidentally delete an email? Did I use the wrong search terms? Because I can find decade-old emails, but there are tons that seem to be missing from search.
  6. Same. While I can be very critical of some shows, what’s the point with something like Bad Batch? It’s like the droid eps of Clone Wars; they’re not there for adults.
  7. Will it be worse than Captain Marvel or Thor 1 and 2 ? Possibly. Will it be as good Avengers 1 or GotG 1? Almost certainly not, but both of those had great casts, one of which had been built over many movies. But will most of us watch it because of what it sets up later? That's how they get you. Why swing for the fences when a bunt will work?
  8. It looks promising. Not saying it will be great, but it looks like a good way to kill a couple or three hours.
  9. A freak weather event that kills 21 runners? That's some Day After Tomorrow type shit.
  10. Maybe he was so embarrassed he changed ISPs?
  11. Policygenius seems to be working best for me right now. The best quote came in much lower than what the Knights of Columbus offered me last year, so I'm currently in underwriting with the company Policygenius recommended. (It was also lower than the same company via Quotacy.) Guess I'll see how that goes and if it holds up.
  12. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but to get an LTC in Texas you have to attest to several things, such as not having been diagnosed with certain mental conditions. (I assume in the case of a wrongful diagnosis, there was some kind of due process to prove that it was wrong.) Constitutional carry does away with that limit unless you’ve been adjudicated as mentally incompetent or committed and stuff like that.
  13. Had a long talk with my uncle yesterday. Abuelita is going downhill. She’s been living with him for at least a couple of years, but during the week she’ll stay at her house with a caretaker. He is at wit’s end, due her getting quarantined for a few days due to a fever, having to get a COVID test, and waiting for the results. He’s somewhat old-fashioned and very stoic. He was overwrought with emotion and damn near almost crying. After I asked about how close she was to needing to be in a home and reiterating that the rest of the family supports him 100% in whatever decision he makes at whatever point, he started calming down and we were able to talk about other stuff. (She’s at the still knows who everyone is, but can’t remember or learn things, thinks the world runs like it is 1960 and has trouble caring for herself stage.)
  14. Not really; I'm just being charitable. Some readers will look at the juxtaposition and see no difference, except that the second version of the tenets makes explicit what (to them) is obfuscated in your version. Others will have more charitable reads, recognize legitimate variations within academia and so on. But if we collapse CRT into just the second set of tenets, it isn't hard to see the connection between certain tenets and the bad examples that run rampant in DEI and anti-racism efforts and the post-Protestant, performative liturgy of pop culture Wokists. It's a damn shame because some of the tenets, in either version, are interesting, albeit not as useful as other mental models. Discussion of CRT in groups is pointless; it is Covington scissors all the way down.
  15. There are different CRT frameworks. PSU Education Professor Uju Anya posted one on Twitter recently. This may be more telling since she an education professor who publishes in the CRT area.
  16. There are a couple of reasons to put Cheers ahead of Seinfeld: 1) It repeatedly, and successfully, dealt with cast changes. 2) It was good from the beginning. The best reason to put Seinfeld ahead of Cheers is that it was better, maybe much better, for longer.
  17. The show's good enough that I binged the entire season over a couple of days. I'm not a comic fan, so it is hard for me to articulate the problems that seem pretty obvious. This article explains the issue from the viewpoint of a fan of the comic. It's like someone heard a cool story and then tried to relate it back to a third party while in a psychiatric drug-induced haze, overemphasizing all the wrong elements.
  18. As satires go, the first season was pretty weak. Doesn't seem like anyone fully committed to their satirical role other than Seth Rogen.
  19. My sincerest condolences for your loss.
  20. Post-vaccine I get to see people I haven’t seen in awhile. Haven’t changed my life much except now I don’t even bother with a mask most places.
  21. It wasn't that bad. The Crosshair part of the episode was decent and answers the question of whether this is going to be a kids' show or more YA like Clone Wars. I could be wrong, but I'll call it: There is no redemptive arc for Crosshair. His brutality lives on in the regular storm troopers in Rebels, Ep 4, etc. There is no need for a push away from the clones. Their lives are too short and the Kaminoans' capacity for cloning presents a threat that will need to be wiped out.
  22. Almost seems like the state of Ohio was prepared and scrubbed stuff ahead of time.
  23. Lily is 32 now, which is the same as Pam in 1999 when she was with Tommy Lee. Might give the edge to young Pam, but not 32 year-old Pam. A lot of it comes down to whose face do you prefer and whether the bolt-ons detract or add to her appeal.
  24. I was wrong. I went back and looked at the Seinfeld episode list. Based on my feelings at the time, it peaked at season 8. It's just the last year that was not as good.
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