Recently happened upon a Buy 2 Get 3 Free sale on Progresso soup. So I got 15 cans for the price of 6. Oh yeah baby, it’s soup time.

Maybe they’re just lying low so nobody will blame everything on them.

MAGA: “If WE can’t have America, NOBODY CAN!!!”

LOL back in the 90s I thought up a prequel series like Enterprise, complete with opening music, which has never been played or recorded except in my own head. It’s based on the intro to the TOS theme, played over a visual sequence very similar to what they came up with - the history of past and future flight etc. My version of the intro would end with a closeup of an astronaut footprint on the moon, zooming out to show that it’s at the original Apollo 11 landing site, which is preserved as a sort of museum exhibit under a clear dome, with visitors on a catwalk gawking at it. The camera pulls back to show a long covered causeway connecting the dome with a much larger moon base, with small spacecraft coming and going, then we aim out toward the stars and go into warp. One of by bucket list projects is to create this opening sequence in a computer.

In my version of the show the ship’s doctor would be an older Vulcan woman with a fascination for humans. As a doctor already, she attended medical school on Earth to study humans and human behavior. She is fascinated by how illogical our illogical thinking can produce anything but chaos. She becomes a friend and sort of wise elder counsel to the captain. Their conversations give us insights into Vulcan history and culture. I forget how they handled the Vulcan mind-meld in Enterprise, but I would have had it be very mysterious or even unknown until the doctor reluctantly uses it to solve a crisis situation. The incident creates extreme mistrust among the human crew - can she read our minds, or even control us? Are we her puppets? Earning back their confidence would take multiple episodes. I think she would have been a much more interesting character than T’Pol, who to me was somewhat of a clone of Seven-of-Nine. But that’s Hollywood.

Longtime software dev here. I complain about code bugs all the time - I’m like, who the fuck wrote and tested this piece of crap?

I don’t even know this game but aren’t you choosing between a heavily armored warrior and a peasant?

Same thing when there’s a really long light with a right-turn lane to a much less busy side street. If you get there shortly after the light turns red just turn right, go partway down the street and make a u-turn, then make another right back onto the main street.

I would call that not a loophole but definitely a nice LPT.

That’s a fairly common strategy - give your kid a gift up to the max amount that isn’t taxable, which they then deposit into their retirement account.

Ingenius! Even more ingenious: every time you leave go to lost and found and pick up a free random jacket.

Not loopholes but excellent LPTs!

In general doing anything the old fashioned way takes more time and saves money. But it seems like most people are reluctant to spend the time even if they have it, and will rationalize this in some way.

The one big drawback: it’s still McDonalds

Nice! But I would call that a screwup on their part, whereas a loophole is a glitch built into the system.

Cool story bro, and yes I would like ketchup and ranch with my fries.

“There was a time when…”

Sounds similar to the tactic of serial debt transfer to one 0% interest card after another. Discover probably realized their program wasn’t motivating enough people to use Discover cards for actual spending.

Won’t enforce it when, today and tomorrow?

I have a feeling there are more mobile users than PC users now.

On this unfortunate day sales of cherry pie and piping hot coffee will both spike, in twin peaks of sadness.

“Very fine balls on both sides.”

For what it’s worth, I put milk in Earl Grey too. In fact I’m having some right now.