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…only three hundred grand for a house which violates the f*ck out of international building code, fire code, and life safety code; nice!..

…what are the odds of even more egregious DIY violations of electricial, mechanical, and plumbing code which we can’t see in casual realtor photos?..

…i give the phantom menace a weekend-matinée pass for the creative sincerity behind it, then andor, rogue one, and the original trilogy: done…

…all those are fine films comprising a strong canon; it’s easy-enough to ignore the rest…

…their first-generation cards were poorly received, but intel kept at it and recently achieved parity with low-end offerings from ATI and nvidia as a respectable selection for a budget machine…

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/review-intel-arc-b580-is-a-compelling-if-incredibly-tardy-250-midrange-gpu/

…if they stay committed to the effort, i think intel might stand toe-to-toe on midrange cards within a generation or two…

…my wife is mortified when she sees what the beta magic cards we ebayed to make rent go for these days…

…rivendell is a legimate masterpiece…

…these look good!..i still regret having to sell off my playmates starships during the dot-com crash…

hormones

…it’s clearly a recently-filmed parody…

…i ate a fifteen-year-old bag of craisins sunday night; they were good!..

(my bowels disagreed monday morning, though)

…wendy’s has frosties, whataburger has dr. pepper shakes…

…now that looks like a fine place to celebrate my hundred-and-eleventh birthday…

…can i reposition my taskbar?..no?..then it’s not the f*cking same…

…they can’t just casually mention the alan-lee-designed elven throne set at its head and not show it!..

…except he’s the worst attorney…

“censored version”

…i won’t watch or read anything i have to create an account and log-in to view…

…they say we die four deaths: first with the end of our own life, second with the memories of those who knew us, third with tales forgotten by people we never knew, and finally as our mark on the world crumbles to dust…

trinkets sing on the desert wind behind here
where ghosts have laid their final claims to rest
of who they were and what they thought they’d stayed for
has crumbled in their last dusty caress
they were blind

…if you’re specifically talking about modern malic-acid flavors, that technology wasn’t developed until the mid-seventies in east asia and wasn’t imported stateside until the early nineties, but it was an immediate hit and quickly swept through the domestic sour-candy market, with most brands offering ‘extreme’ variants of their existing products…

…i can’t recall any time when sour candy wasn’t a major product sector and a quick perusal of candy history essays shows it dating back nearly as long as manufactured candy has been a thing, with a history of sour preserved confections before that…

https://www.leaf.tv/articles/history-of-sweet-tarts/