Spin is bullshit’s little brother. It’s mostly the truth, but viewed from an angle that favors a specific point.

Oh, but they had those too. Imagine a luxury house linked together by instant transporters, so you go to a platform on an ocean planet to poop.

“Bullshit” still works wonders.

In the later books, the alternative FTL is wild too. The acceleration is so brutal that on every jump, you will be smashed to a pulp and then spend days being put back together.

“Cult with a budget”

Hit the hand brake and drift that sucker.

And boring marketing material at it.

I remember as a kid, a good friend gave me the marketing material for (at the time) Aérospaciale helicopters. That stuff was premium with beautiful, detailed drawings of a Super Puma on very fancy paper. I loved that shit.

Why did I stop at only 4 shirts?!

I knew something was wrong but to be so close to greatness and fail…

Ebooks are awesome.

It also seems low for crossing mountains.

Right-wing 101: “we need to destroy social safety net X because the immigrants/criminals/lazy/fraudsters are smooching it from hard-working, honest citizens!”

Translation: we need to take services away from the working class so gazillionaires can have an extra tax break and buy a bigger yacht to put their current yacht on.

And with this heat? No thank you.

The current tech-related usage was coined at MIT to mean working on a system. Funny that the oldest recorded source comes from MIT model railroad team.

That sounds like it would be a pretty simple program […] but I don’t know anything about programming

As a programmer, that phrase tends to raise my blood pressure. But it depends on how they structure their data but since all the elements are already related, it should be easy to query them all together. I bet they’ve abandoned it more because the query UI is a bit dense for most. But nothing that could be replaced with a simple textbox that could take any combination of cast/crew/titles and find anything that matches the combination. But they might need to add some specific indexing that would use up additional resources.

Pretty much, closed forums, removed or paywalled features. Right now, they are on yet another iteration of dumbing down the UI to the point of being nearly useless.

IMDB used to have an amazing cross-search. You could put any combination of actor, crew, movie/show title and it would bring out common movies/shows.

You’d be surprised. The biggest gambler I know is the biggest cheapskate.

Some people are built differently.

I have no impulsion to gamble either. But one of my family members? So much money burned at casinos.

Flat Earthers vs. flat Sunners fight!

long faces

Nope.