Unless you’re a giant tortoise.

It took 300 years to properly classify them. Specimens never survived the voyage back to Europe because they were too delicious.

It took about a year for it to get near-full compatibility with old games since it was emulated on the 360.

360 was absolutely backwards compatible with the OG Xbox.

While they’ve shut down online services for some of the older consoles, the backwards compatibility of the Xbox has always been excellent. I was playing Crimson Skies for the OG Xbox on my Series S a few weeks ago.

Clearly, I’d put on my robe and wizard hat.

You don’t happen to be an electrician and a central-Texas scuba enthusiast?

I have a friend who I haven’t been able to hang out with for several years because his wife is insane and posessive, and he’s decided to just ride it out until the kids are all 18 so he can divorce her without having to pay her child support.

He’ll still support his children, but he’ll do it directly instead of through her.

The rental aspect isn’t a bubble. Until they start viciously taxing single-family home rental, home prices are going to stay high because they’re not being bought as homes but as assets for rent-seeking.

The people fleeing California for Texas aren’t people who love California and its politics.

They’re mostly Republicans, and they’re making Texas more red AND increasing home prices.

Single-family rental is also a huge thing now.

I work in municipal development, and since 2021, 100% of single-family subdivision developments that have approached the city have been for rental-only neighborhoods.

And they want to put all the homes on a single shared commercial water meter on a single piece of property instead of extending public lines, so they can’t even be converted later without massive infrastructure projects and replatting.

House prices exploded during Covid. Yeah, they dipped for like 2 weeks initially, but then they skyrocketed.

The only thing I hate about it is that it made the writers think they were good at doing musical numbers, and in the following seasons, they did a bunch of really, really bad songs.

You should watch season 3. The only things to know about season 2 is that they wrote off all but 1 of the new characters, and that it’s entirely unimportant for season 3.

The same could be said of all religions.

Season 2 can absolutely be ignored entirely going into season 3, which is good because season 2 is complete garbage. And that annoys the hell out of me because it’s the one with Q, Guinan, and even a brief appearance of Wesley.

I used to work at a major outdoors retailer. The music on blast wasn’t too bad most of the year because they actually had like a 12-hour playlist, so nothing repeated.

Then Christmas arrived. There were still no repeat tracks throughout the day. But the thing about Christmas songs is that there’s only like 10 songs that have each been recorded by like 15 different artists, so while the individual recordings didn’t repeat, we’d still hear the same song 8 times a shift.

Also - trailing zeros after the decimal serve no purpose but to define precision. With the resolution of the image, there’s no way the bar is precise to 1/100,000 of its width.

Sig Figs matter.

Same for lots of jobs here.

Honestly, Wednesday and Thursday are the worst days for Christmas for those of us who also get Christmas Eve because they’re the only days that don’t result in 4 days in a row off from work.

If it’s on a Friday, we get Thursday through Saturday. If it’s on a Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, they give us Friday through Monday, and if it’s on a Tuesday, they give us Saturday through Tuesday.

But this year, we’re off Saturday and Sunday, work Monday, are off Tuesday and Wednesday, and return to work on Thursday.

It’s the same total number of days off, but it’s way less useful - especially if travel is involved.

You do know that voting district lines and County lines aren’t the same thing, right?

It’s a Samurai movie.

But a lot of Western movies were also inspired by Samurai films.

The great Kurosawa films were all remade in a different genre in the West.

Yojimbo and Sanjuro became A Fist Full of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.

Hidden Fortress became Star Wars.

Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven and Bug’s Life

Rashomon became The Outrage.