Basically every Terminator movie after T2. They have some great “what if” premises that could add so much depth to the world, but then struggle to see the vision through is a satisfying way.

T3: Let’s actually show Judement Day

T4: Let’s show the turning point in the war against the machines (edit: and why people follow John Connor as leader of the resistance)

T5: Exists

T6: What if all this time travel actually branched the timeline? What would it look like if one of Skynet’s terminators succeeded?

I never watched the show, but I loved the movie. Almost every character feels competent and clever, so they do at least something that surprised me. There are a few points that hinge on details that feel a bit contrived, but I appreciated that the climax wasn’t just a physical fight between good guy and bad guy. The main characters have emotional problems that are believable and get resolved. Plus, it’s just a little campy.

I think the “inside baseball” that you mentioned gave the world more depth. It felt “lived in”.

I’ll give you that the movie does try to cram a lot into the time, though. It feels a little rushed.

You’re the expert!

I can do absolutely anything. I’m an expert!

😆 I’ll be watching you…

And to further expand on that, if you do pass in a sting string, it handles it correctly.

> parseInt('0.0000005')

0

I was going to say it handles steering and braking, but… Where are the brakes? This must be one of those bikes where you back pedal to brake, so I guess front end just steers.

Allowing the quote to be affected by the punctuation around it seems to undermine the “verbatim”-ness of a quote. If the period goes outside of the quote, then the quote is always a discrete unit of text that can be moved around the sentence as needed.

Example:

He said, “It’s fine”.

“It’s fine”, he said.

I would accept always including the period inside the quote for that case, but it causes other problems. If you put the period inside the quote, how do you indicate a quote that must end in a period, but does not end the sentence?

Example:

The spec sheet read “88 m.p.h.” on the back.

Edit: It’s been two days, and no reply. I think they might have actually died on this hill.

Or whenever I please, as in feisty and seize!

I’m no expert, so I can’t tell for sure, but my guess is that they’re storing two different chemicals. The left one looks like it’s a non-flammable, extremely hazardous material that shouldn’t be exposed to water (maybe an alkali metal, like lithium or sodium). The right one is a hazardous material that is a fire hazard above 93°C (200°F), but otherwise stable (maybe some kind of diesel?)

So… If I had to take a wild guess, diesel and lithium batteries?

o7

Thank you for your service.

It sounds like when a person stammers or mumbles because they’re uncertain.

Parent (sternly): What were you doing when the vase fell over?

Child (shlarmling): I was… umm… I was over at the _hermidgd…

Probably better than “emacs googling” your code.

…probably.

Damn people… They ruined humanity!

While we’re at it, I have some other suggestions…

For example, in year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s,” and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with later. year 2 might reform “w” spelling, so that “which” and “one” would take the same konsonant, wile year 3 might well abolish “y” replasing it with “i” and iear 4 might fiks the “g/j” anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez “c,” “y” and “x”–bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez–tu riplais “ch,” “sh,” and “th” rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

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Be honest. That database isn’t very good anyway. You’re doing them all a favor.

-Brain

I assume the original meme is basically just the picture without the alternatives, but I’ve never seen it.

I’ve also never heard of tubearchivist, so that’s a fun new rabbit hole.

Edit: Oh, is this an update of “this generation was the first to be raised online”? Another thing I’d never seen. Do I even internet?

I got food poisoning in high school. I was exhausted and unable to keep anything down for several days.

The first day that I started feeling better, I actually felt great! In fact, I woke up starving. I went downstairs and had a generous breakfast. Then my parents told me we had to take down a tree in the backyard. They asked if I was feeling up for it, and I was… right up until I was 15 ft in the air, sawing away at a branch. Suddenly, I realized that generous meal had decided to keep on giving. I said “Hey, I’m not feeling great. I’m going to climb down.” I made it one branch before I knew this wasn’t going to wait. I gave the best warning I could to those below, and I held on as my stomach gave the ol’ heave-ho.

Fortunately, all the cutting I had been doing generated plenty of sawdust, so it practically cleaned itself. I think we decided the rest of the project could wait for another day, though.

When it comes to recovery, take it slow, folks…

I’m guilty of this for texting or other phone-specific communications.

Sure, I could take a screenshot on the computer, email it to myself, download it to my phone, then add it to a text… Or, I have a camera right there. There has to be a good reason to not take the easy route.

If you live in the US, you could also try Batteries Plus.