I never saw Luke considering joining the dark side. A MAJOR personal challenge of his, perhaps his greatest struggle, was reckoning with his father’s fall to the dark side.

As depicted in the only six Star Wars movies made before I started refusing to watch them, Luke Skywalker manages to be on the light side, and fully human. The Jedi as depicted in the prequel trilogy have to sand most of their humanity off in order to remain on the light side. No family, no friends, no favorite foods, and only emotions that Barney The Purple Dinosaur would approve of. Luke is able to let out a war cry, pound his father into submission, amputate his hand, and then say “Nah, see: rage and violence against abject evil while it’s actively trying to harm you, your friends and innocent civilans is something good people do, so I’m a good guy, QED.”

Then Vader goes “Like this?” and throws Monster Mash down the Lucas pit and his redemption is complete.

Moral of the story: Extremely hurt bad people.

🇧🇷 Portuguese.

“Lank,” he lanked.

Imagine you’re a fighter pilot, and you’re going to do a hull run to blow up some important part of some giant space ship. You have a mental map of the ship’s structure, and it’s probably “right side up”, so while navigating along the hull you’re probably going to orient your fighter to your mental model to take that much off your very heavy cognitive load.

I’m not “trying” anything. I’ve encountered a lot of websites with Choose Your Language dropdowns where English is represented by Old Glory and not the Union Jack.

I was specifically referring to this which proposed many of the changes you’re talking about, but very few were actually adopted.

The Voice Of America has a standardized Simplified English they use for broadcasting to regions where English isn’t commonly spoken.

There was also that attempt at destupifying English spelling, a very small amount of which stuck. Color.

Nothing. I’ve heard it used occasionally for decades.

🇺🇸 English

Reminds me of Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey. “Dude! Hell sucks!”

I kinda miss Pontiac. For my entire lifetime, they were “What if GM products were just a little more ridiculous?”

The Trans Am is a Z-28 with mutton chops. Prove me wrong.

Untitled Goose Car.

I have an old Roku 3 that is, basically, a Raspberry Pi. Like, if you could swap out the OS it could do Raspberry Pi like things.

I give Minnesota permission to annex one county from any surrounding state. Which is it?

Don’t (at least some) frogs use their eyes to swallow anyway? Like, when they close their eyes they get sucked into their head, which decreases the volume of the mouth, which pushes food into the throat?

If we translate the bizarre unit of 1500 meters/minute out of anti-intellectual “I’m too stupid to divide by anything other than 10” units and into the figures the ship’s instruments are calibrated in.

1500m/min works out to 4921 ft/min, which is what your typical VSI is calibrated in. For context, that’s about where a 737 pilot would stop calling it a “descent” and start calling it a “dive.” A 5,000 foot a minute descent is pretty quick, that’s loss of cabin pressure descent territory. A more typical descent-from-cruise will be done at 3000 ft/min or so, which would take you from cruising at 30,000 feet to sea level in 10 minutes.

1500m/min works out to about 48 knots or so, that’s what your typical ASI is calibrated in. I would be very surprised if you could get a B-52 moving that slow off the ground. That just happens to be the V_SO speed of a post-1980 Cessna 172. You can’t get a Skyhawk going that slow, let alone a Stratofortress.

So yeah, the BUFF hit the dirt going faster than that.

I was actually taught how to use spreadsheets in Microsoft Works. Which was the cheaper home alternative to the Office suite, that was good enough to run a small business out of.

I think on the Slate, the only part of the frame that is exposed as outer body are the A pillars. Everything else is a panel that bolts on.

I’ve personally landed on Earth thousands of times.