that sounds like they’re defrauding you.

or not.

I’m okay with taking multiple tries.

Where we eat the corpses of all the billionaires we’ll be killing. No sense in letting that meat go to waste!

don’t eat junk food! instead, compost and eat the veggies.

except nvidia drivers.

fuck nvidia.

Yeah. Sun Crusher is… uhm.

Like. Why. even? Even the Deathstar serves no real functional purpose. That’s the problem with brinksmanship, and mutually assured destruction. Eventually, you’re gonna have to grab that other guy and jump off the cliff. And now, instead of a economically productive and valuable planet, you have an asteroid field. That, sure, you can mine for minerals, but that effort is now going to cost orders of magnitude more.

And lets be honest. If the goal was to keep people too afraid to try anything, eventually some dumb kid from a dried up backwater is going to blow it up. And then you look really fucking weak.

The economic loss of entire systems, though, is just bad for business.

I ignore that. I prefer the bullshitting scoundrel, to be honest.

Maybe Han came up with that when he got called on it. lol.

yup.

Han was bullshitting them. Remember, Han is a fast talking scoundrel who runs scams on rubes.

For people who don’t know Parsec… is a unit of distance. an object 1 parsec from the sun would be an object that has a parralax angle of 1 arc second. a second of arc is the easiest to explain- it’s 1/60^th of a minute of arc, which is 1/60^th of a degree. (arc second is 1/3600^th of a degree.) it comes to about 3 lightyears.

It would be like saying, “I made the Chicago-NY run in less than [whatever miles]!” when talking about how fast his ship is. The distance is fixed. the kessel run is largely fixed.

There are stormtroopers, and then there are stormtroopers. The 501st legion is the best of the best. Most the riffraff were… not.

Like. Every planet probably had to source storm troopers for their own defense from local communities, and they were basically somewhere between Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Keystone Kops.

The stormtroopers on Tatooine were 501st. The ones on the Deathstar (at lest, some of them) probably were, as well, given Vader’s presence. DS-1 troopers wouldn’t have been there if they weren’t competent, at least.

You should see the other guy!

Gotta love a dig at MacDonalds.

Based.

<*bapp*>

Brutal.

Saint Nicolas. No idea how he got all the other stuff- probably more cultural appropriation with yuletide- but he was the one that inspired the whole “going around and giving gifts into stockings” thing.

Also it’s maybe important to note he was about as white as Jesus would have been- he was a Greek dude in Turkey. (Specifically Myra.)

Imagine being told that your family was going to celebrate your birthday on Halloween because they wanted to celebrate Halloween and that’ll let them celebrate it without being “pagan”…. When your birthday was in late spring.

It wasn’t his birthday either. They just celebrate it then because of all the pagan holdiays leaving them out. (Yule… Saturnalia, bacchanalia.)

Humans have pretty much always done something around the winter solstice. Historically, part of it was there really wasn’t much else to do.

Most work could only be done with light. The shortest day of the year had little light and in any case mostly they were just waiting for spring to come while maintaining farms and shit. Also in the north they were kinda sorta trying to stay indoors and out of the frooking cold.

Ellipse. Same but it doesn’t even roll that well.

She wasn’t insisting on gender neutral pronouns.

Sje was angry people didn’t know her son was a son. Which they didn’t know because they were never told before (directly or indirectly). She intentionally chose to obscure gender for some reason and then got pissed people got confused.

I should have used “they” because babies aren’t “it”s, I could care less about disrespecting the mother, but the kid didn’t deserve that.

I knew a lady, new mother, who insisted on putting her baby in green or yellow rather than pink or blue.

Which, wouldn’t be something to make fun of except she got furious when people misgendered the baby boy. Even more furious when some jackass named me got fed up and started referring to the baby as “it”.

She didn’t catch the point. The husband did, though.

(Hindsight says I should have used “they” but they’ve subsequently turned weirdly conservative, so maybe that would have pissed her off just as much.)

How’s that working for you?