John Gary

I smell an SVU episode or three!

Came here to give this exact reply except my wife is the t1!

I don't understand why you need to connect to the internet to make things hot or cold.

"We need to open our tent!" <I melt into the earth, my essence contaminating the water table>

I'm not going to pretend EDDINGTON was a feel-good movie and has the humanistic joy at the center of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER but if you watched it and hated it I probably think you need to learn how to laugh at yourself.

(Using it with my social media apps has decreased my screentime by 25%.)

It forces you to be intentional, but it doesn't treat you like a child.

Yes, ScreenZen is a valuable app, very customizable, allows you to adjust most every setting. Do you want to give yourself 5 minutes of bluesky at a time, 20 times a day? Or 30 minutes 5 times a day? Or once for an hour? I have mine set to make me wait 10 seconds after clicking the "open" button.

If as a politician when you find out your tattoo is a Nazi symbol your first move is not to begin laser removal treatment I’m just not sure you’re qualified to serve?

Goddamn. I’m so sorry, Mariners fans.

The trick, of course, is the companies that raised their prices will not drop them if tariffs come down! It’s all here to stay.

I'm sorry to tell you but your life is not a movie; this is over-dramatized LARPING.

Israel is a major topic in the campaign because his opponents believe that's where they can drive a wedge on Mamdani.

…is that you, Shrek?

This is where I lose everything.

And then Marvel and Lucasfilm pushed all those ideas to the side.

You’d walk out of a meeting with a Disney producer with a list of properties you’d batted around the room for two hours, trying to come up with something. If Disney owned it, there was at some point a script or three written based on it.

TRON: LEGACY came about because at the time, before they bought Fox and Marvel and Lucasfilm, Disney was scrambling for IP. The PIRATES movies proved they could turn moribund ideas into big hits, and then NATIONAL TREASURE, where the IP is literally the USA?, gave them more confidence.

Well the Molotov cocktail thrower in OBAA walks out of a police van so -

Which is to say I am not surprised that low-budget low-effort low-goal content is extensively utilizing LLMs to drive down cost.

The article Javi is reacting to here claims to quote anonymous showrunners, and at first I was like who the eff is that reporter talking to and then I see he's not a reporter, he's a former Netflix exec who now owns a production company and I doubt he's ever made a show under a WGA contract.

how long before antifa is classified as a cartel

I am hearing if people are stuck because of plane shutdowns Duffy will drive people around in the road rules suv.

Probably will make people mad but: West Coast urbanism is too much driven by people who have never experienced it

It lands with me.

A surprise to all.

Goddamn I wish I could be there! A marquee movie for me.

We built that world, and then in two generations we tore it down.

The other, just as likely truth is that Trump is blatantly lying when confronted with facts that make him look like a shithead.

Visiting Paris before the pedestrianization and after was a complete revelation for me. Paris is my kids’ favorite city because “it’s all just people walking.” We can make this happen.