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https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/business/former-boeing-whistleblower-dies/index.html This headline caught my eye. A "former" whistleblower is, I guess, someone who once blew the whistle but is not currently blowing the whistle.

I enjoyed Episode 7 and was very hopeful for how things would go. I am not intending to make a flamewar, so I'll just touch on how I didn't like how it went. But I'm sure everyone has things that they DO like about it. I certainly do. The trinity design was nice. Rey is the Jedi and comes...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/01/28/pelosi-reax-trump-haley-mixup-intv-sotu-vpx.cnn Her defense is in what she said, I get that. Anyone can say the wrong thing once. Seven times is a lot. But it cracks me up that at 1:10, she says that the Jan 6 riot caused "defecation". I'm sure...

When I originally watched Episode 2, it did not appear to me that Kenobi or Yoda had heard of Sifo Dyas and it made such a cludgly Nick Soapdish for Sidious that I assumed that was what it was. It never sat well with me that the Kaminoans created an army of thousands upon thousands of clones and...

I have an outside building that is dedicated space for my toy collection. It is generally uninhabited space and ought to be more dust free that my house, but the trouble is that I have allowed bugs to inhabit the space and they have affected things. I'm pretty afraid of setting off a bug bomb...

The Tick and Arthur could be examples, but they are played for laughs. Black Widow perhaps? I'd be really interested in a story about a meta who just disappears or fakes their death and, with the help of Batman or SHIELD or the like, just doesn't have a secret identity. They just fight bad...

I never quite got or got used to the concept of FTL in Moore's Battlestar Galactica (maybe copied from the original. I don't know). The F has to stand for "Faster", but they don't seem to go at a speed. Doesn't the ship just teleport? It is like a limited range spore drive that doesn't...

Apparently an active shooter is on the OU campus right now. I live in Oklahoma and I've never been a part of the gun culture, but I'm surrounded by it. I've always said, "Yeah I don't have a problem with all the responsible gun owners, as long as we have ways to make sure that is who owns...

When that Ohio train with hazmat derailed a couple months ago, I thought it was something that just doesn't happen. Then another happened a few weeks later and now another one in Minnesota. Am I hearing about all of them now because one was a big news story or is there really a strange new...

I'd like to live in Rivendell when I retire. If I just show up there, can I stay? I saw the Fellowship of the Rings movie before I read the books and from the movie it appears Bilbo just left a few weeks ago, but it is a lot longer in the books. Did Bilbo just reach Rivendell and stay? Is he...

He is in perfect shape with all accessories and his card EXCEPT there is a snagged corner on his roof sticker. I bought him in this same condition almost 10 years ago. I am guessing that he can sell for $1000. I'm not absolutely firm on that, but I won't snap quickly on an offer.

https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/shinzo-abe-japan-pm-collapses-nara-07-08-22-intl-hnk/index.html It is sad and it is and will be a major shock to Japan. I am over here with 2 little girls starting school and thinking I would kinda like to live in a country where someone who wants to...

I bought the pieces of Raiden all new in 2008-10 ish. Somewhere in there. I built him and put him in my display. I have moved since then, but he has always been in a separate building with no windows and air conditioning. I brought him home yesterday to show my wife the comparison between...

I have been gradually coming out since my recent diagnosis and this place feels like the next logical place. There are a few people here who have "known" me for nearly 20 years. Kalimol has known me a little longer. That blows my mind. About a year and a half ago, we started reading up in...

Never mind, I got it done myself

I felt like it was clear in "Captain America: The First Avenger" that Steve didn't have super powers. He was just absolutely everything that a man can be. Wasn't it? We eventually saw him do some things that were really real, but they were in the normal range of things movie heroes do. Have...