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.

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.

THANK YOU!

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?

Came here for this, was not disappointed

Legit was thinking about photoshopping this very image to put the state of Florida over the guy’s face.

Find products that look like these AI images

WHO THE FUCK IS THIS FOR?! HOWS ABOUT YOU GIVE ME PHOTOS OF ACTUAL GODDAMN PRODUCTS AND LET ME DECIDE WHICH FUCKING THING I WANT TO BUY?!?! Are there really people out there that find this helpful? Like, I guess I can understand prompting certain parameters you want in a product and then seeing if the LLM agent can find something that fits those. But this whole “here let the LLM do all your thinking for you” thing is utterly bewildering to me. “Here, we slopped up some chair images, any of those look like something you want to buy? They might not actually exist, but at least we have your attention which is the only thing we really care about at all.”

Went to a moving sale a few weeks ago. Dude had a ton of computer and gaming related stuff. But what caught my eye was the translucent purple Drop mechanical keyboard. I was never a keyboard girlie. But I became one for that beauty.