Ranch dressing from scratch is like 7 things.

Pasta from scratch with a roller machine is stupid easy and delicious.

Lasagna. Not hard, just takes a while. Make 3, freeze 2. You'll thank me later.

Crispy smashed potatoes are every bit as good as IG posts make it seem. Practically no effort. Microwave to baked stage, smash, butter, oven 15 min. F, now I'm hungry.

Dutch baby/pancake. One of those "cast iron pan oh la la" things. Blend batter, pour in hot pan. Done. Regular pancakes take longer, are more work, and more mess.

As long as the Claus regime and its fundamentalist base remains steadfast in its mission of Christmas creep expansionism, Halloween is all that's left between us and Christmas lights going up in July.

For generations, Halloween has held the borders of Autumn established long ago in the Skellington Accords. Resolutely. Without complaint. It naturally can't even creep father forward than Lughnasadh on August 6 due to the wobble of the Earth herself, and makes no designs to even take more than a week of August. IF you feel like it.

Meanwhile, the lands of Thanksgiving are bare, stripped to the roots to feed Claus and his elves. Christmas holds nearly every inch of Thanksgiving territory, save only a small administrative territory near the capital. They laughably claim autonomy still. Thanksgiving is little more than a province of Christmas now. A weak and middling fiefdom that serves no master other than Claus.

Fight the Claus. Fight Christmas. Saturnalia io!

Happy Halloween! Happy Samhain! Spooky season arise!

Oh, I always do ;)

For sure. I don't mean to say he didn't understand his creation, but rather he hadn't settled on a final version enough to shoot. It's Whills and microscopic world and crime boss adventure tale and Leia and politica and Luke with Jedi legacy and its... Whatever the last thing he was thinking about.

Which doesn't guarantee it would be better than the hot, festering shitpile we got. But it would be hard to do worse.

The meme does specifically mention European pagans. So bringing up Aztec human sacrifice would be like talking about how much you don't like hoppy beer in a post about how great cabernet sauvignon is.

Apparently. Didn't sound better, either...

“The next three movies were going to go into a microbiotic world. There’s this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the Whills. And the Whills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed off the Force.”

— George Lucas

Then Darth Maul becomes the new Jabba the Hut. It sounds... Like ideas I guess. Maybe a weird dream he had one night.

https://shapes.inc/fandom/star-wars-sequel-trilogy-george-lucas-plans/quotes

Edit: also, now we know that Luke wasn't special after all.

“By the end of the trilogy, Luke would have rebuilt much of the Jedi, and we would have the renewal of the New Republic, with Leia, Senator Organa, becoming the Supreme Chancellor in charge of everything. So she was [the Chosen One].”

— George Lucas

They were part of George Lucas's original intent. What Lucas had in mind, I think we'll never know, but what we got was certainly not that.

had a trailer that is straight up false advertising.

I've noticed this a fair amount. It seems like deleted scenes or dialogue unattached to the footage gets used to build the trailer. Seems especially used for heavily CGI movies.

Sega.

Atomic Robo Kid. A fucking fever dream game I bought for $3 at a swap meet and still must conquer before I die.

I moved to Linux Mint 2+ years ago. Zero regrets. 10/10, would recommend. Win 11 getting bloated is what finally drove me there. FWIW, Claude is amazing support for Mint and Linux in general.

It's not just you, though. There's a post on Hacker News right now about the 170k non-profit orgs just had their data deleted my MS recently. There's a whole comment thread about how MS is no longer a serious company. Silicon valley professionals have lost faith in the company. It's not just you (and me).

Beyond what's been said about data harvesting, 20 years ago new devices very often represented genuine improvements in form and function on each new iteration. Physical and functional differences were easily apparent between each model of early smartphones.

The only thing we have right now that's similar was model releases from AI labs. And it seems like even those are slowing down because the urgency to release anything incrementally better undermines huge, stable jumps.

Bless these people. Donate to LibreOffice if you use it and can afford it.

That was the last in a long line for me.

HTC Z-fold or whatever with the full keyboard... My first smartphone love. Metal chassis.

HTC M8 with the IR blaster, bestill the loud TVs at bars, you glorious beast.

The M9 was the last good thing HTC ever did.

That sounds like you ran into a few hardware issues, which may just be bad luck with your machine. Sure, Mint isn't for everyone or every machine. But the vast majority of people gave good luck with it.

Not sure what your opinions are on AI, but I would guess that a day or so using paid tier Claude would have you safely running some Linux distro on nearly any laptop. I used it to guide me through a home server setup that took a couple hours total. If you're worried about bricking the machine or want the SSD back, it's an easy way to get that, one way or another.

Your mom rocks

Can someone post the recipe? For research purposes only, of course.

Dog Pompadour

The missed opportunity would have been a Pomeranian Pompadour.

I also don't get it.

Its face is at perfect kicking height. Don't like what it's doing? Too close? Fucking kick the little bitch. This isn't hard.

Maybe that's why they've always left me alone.

So Frankenstein Jr.?

In a few places, maybe, but there's a lot of the world where governments barely function in the first place. Roads aren't even a solved problem globally. UBI for even middle income countries wouldn't happen before climate change caused such damage as to undo any progress that might maybe make UBI possible.