Many years ago, I was on a road trip and sent my wife a postcard from Cooter, Missouri. I was absolutely crestfallen when it arrived postmarked "Steele" or some boring shit from the next town over. I don't remember if I adjusted my route to pass through Weiner, Arkansas, and therefore I probably didn't, but I should have.
I haven't seen it yet. I assume it's at least "quite good if a bit overt with the tugging on heartstrings" and plan to catch it on streaming. I am pleased that Pixar seems to have shrugged off the "Streaming first" stigma they took on during Covid and will get back into a groove of solid originals. Elio for next year looks like a promising premise.
I have mostly disengaged from participating on Reddit, but I still pop in for hobby and special-interest subs, which have been slow to really build traction on Lemmy.
I only have one comment like that, but in checking the poster's history, it just looks like they dived head-first into the fountain pen rabbit hole last year. I think in my case it might be a product of the Google deal and their promoting reddit in search queries by default. Pretty easy for a regular user to search "what fountain pen did the dr. cox actor have in Office space?" and forget to check the date before throwing a (likely correct) answer in there.
Can we just pause for a moment to appreciate Elaine Stritch in that role? I haven't done a full on rewatch of this show in years, but Colleen still lives rent free in my head.
I have a Leap v1 from a surplus store, and a Mirra from when our company let the lease go on the building nobody went to anymore. Very much worth it on both fronts. A huge thing with "nicer" chairs is that they allow you to shift as you move throughout the day. A lot of people fixate on the "S" part of RSI and try to make sure everything is situated just so, but it's also important to work on the "R" and to move around, standing of course, but even just being able to move around and have multiple comfortable seating positions can be helpful.
Shit can get out of hand quickly
Sometimes literally.
So I guess the obvious answer is some random shovelware 2600 game that barely works, so that's not much fun. In terms of games that have some traction and nostalgia, I can think of a couple that just don't do it for me. YMMV.
Contra is more of a beatdown than an enjoyable challenge, the konami code is iconic for a reason.
Defender is inscrutable and overambitious and the control are a weird early take on the side scrolling shooter.
Most arcade driving games were (and are) quarter eaters that aren't trying to do much that's interesting once you're behind the wheel.
Since I'm probably literally the only one on Lemmy...
Ahem...
::clears throat::
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUVAAALLLLLLLLL!
Ahh, but in Star Wars, "Light Speed" is exactly as fast as the plot demands. Checkmate, science dorks!
This sucks, but a few points are at least worth mentioning:
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Of the five judges listed on the order, annoyingly slim as it is, three are Democrats and two are "nonpartisan" but with resumes in the public sector and public interest law.
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Most states actually have a cap on appeal bonds, often around $50 million or less. NY doesn't have one, but all the same thinking, for good or for ill, that would lead to a statutory limit might influence the appeals court here. Among them is precluding additional litigation from forcing a fire sale.
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In an appeal like this, the court has to at least conceptually imagine that there's some possibility of success, and that with a defendant who is leveraged AF and not nearly as liquid as he boasts, there is only one bite at the apple when seizing and selling the assets to satisfy the judgment. If the court is convinced that this amount, well into nine figures, will occupy the vast majority of his liquid assets and insure some plausible compensation for the plaintiff, and the other assets aren't going anywhere, then it's not insane to demand a bond more in line with the available liquidity.
Trump is definitely getting the "rich business owner with lots of lawyers" treatment here, and that's certainly something you could criticize about the American legal system, but I don't think we're seeing some completely inexplicable abuse of existing civil procedure. The orange turd still gets the due process that a President Turd would deny to so many others.
TL;DR: it's possible the only thing the Appeals Court is saying is that ol' Donny really can't get the bigger bond and that Trump Tower will still be there to seize later.
Woman: So when you're not swiping, what do you do?
Men 1-7: It sounds weird, but I'm really into WAR! ... Christoph Waltz was sooo creepy as Hans Landa! You have to see it! ... so each week both uncredentialled "historians" talk about their favorite times when thousands of men stabbed or shot each other! ... and then the good guy took his gun-knife and started prying teeth and slicing ears off the dead guys... literally an entire generation of men was decimated or psychologically damaged... But [Game of Thrones/The Walking Dead/Band of Brothers] is my go-to. What do you watch?
Woman: Mostly cartoons.
More seriously, I'd guess that many, maybe even most people have some level of morbid fascination with the type of violent, high stakes scenarios that people they identify with have been subject to. It's just kind of weird not to acknowledge that a lot of basically well-adjusted men (I flatter myself that I'm in that group) are into stuff that's objectively terrifying.
Do you you think he stands a chance against that much smugness?