Website is cancer. Here’s the list:

1. Parasite (2019)
2. The Menu (2022)
3. Snowpiercer (2013)
4. Triangle of Sadness (2022)
5. Ready or Not (2019)

Yes indeed

🎶 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🎵

This has become a common strategy for large businesses to cull their employees - “return to office”, relocating HQ; it’s done in hopes most of those employees opt to quit so the business doesn’t have to fire them / give them a severance or whatever.

Sounds like in this case the bluff was called.

Probably wondering why their date is taking a picture of the charcuterie board.

The emperor is back, somehow!.. again!

Pretty sure he says (and the article quotes him)

“I want to wish you all a happy Father’s Day, but please, please, please wear a helmet. If I didn’t, honestly, I wouldn’t be here now.”

Holy nuts that bruise is a beaut! https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/1a06/live/a42086d0-2b5e-11ef-bdc5-41d7421c2adf.png.webp

Damn I forget the name of the episode! New girl moves in next door and Bart’s smitten with her. This is the scene where Moe runs to the Simpson house to murder Jimbo.

My favorite bit in the episode is Homer going through the neighbors garbage & downing expired medication like it’s candy.

but I want music streaming

Hey, that’s fine & I get it - so much easier to shuffle a playlist than figure out which album you won’t mind hearing front-to-back again. I’m eyeballing old iPod Classics for that - I’ve seen folks mod them with sizable drives and better batteries. Dunno that I want to put in the effort, myself, but I love the idea of “upcycling” old tech.

Getting back to my original reply: my main point was you don’t need these conveniences, much less having them built into your phone. Yep, music streaming is wonderfully handy & I use it every day, but practically speaking there are other methods.

Without knowing anything about you or your habits, I’m going to offer a counterpoint -

I’d suggest you don’t need music streaming, email, or a fitness tracker built into your phone. “Back in the day” we’d have a small collection of tapes / CDs in the car for trips, most (all?) email providers offer decent web apps, and while I agree it’s useful to track steps and food intake and such - anymore I’m not sure I trust the makers of these fitness apps to not sell my health data.

Personally, I’m trying to move towards a “dumb phone”, but like you I use my phone for a lot more than just social media & I’m finding it very tough. I think a phone with just a decent web browser could do the trick.

Wait… so it’s just a hardware middle man for Do Not Disturb?

You can leave the key behind

Fun idea until I’m out and about & realize the one app I locked would be useful.

Happy one-year! I’m a b-movie newbie & I love these posts.

They get sore before it rains, now

🎵 We’re whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon… 🎶

… the aqueduct?

Ah, so that’s where the Venture Bros reference comes from.

“Arm the teachers” they said…

They really buried it in there -

Ortiz was facing disciplinary action during the time of his crimes due to an “alleged medical mistake” he made during one of his surgeries that resulted in his patient not breathing during a routine procedure, the criminal complaint shows. Ortiz was at risk of losing his medical license due to the mistake, according to prosecutors.

Ortiz believed the surgical center was trying to “crucify” him for the mistake, particularly when he would be financially devastated if he lost his job, the criminal complaint said.

Sounds like he was trying to sabotage the whole place because he made a mistake during a surgery & was mad at possibly losing his license.

They mispronounced “slide show”

Check your local public library, if possible! Many libraries are equipped with scanners for digitizing local newspapers and so on. Librarians might also have connections elsewhere with book scanners.