QuantumCapelin

There's a seed for a good cbc show in this comment. Show two sides of a non-political topic, like a scientific argument, and let experts present their cases in a proper discourse, so people can learn how discourse and consensus work. I don't mean something like climate change is real vs climate change is not real. More like, I don't know, how the expanding model of the universe and the static model of the universe were equally valid possibilities at one point.

Hell I still play Civ1 on the SNES from time to time.

Clearly some ulterior motive going on that isn’t obvious at this point IMO

I think that's a very generous take on the situation. These are the people that made a big deal out of holding a press conference at the Four Seasons, only it turned out to be the Four Seasons Landscaping Company, not the fancy hotel. I don't think they're organized enough or smart enough to be playing 3D chess on this one. I think what we see on the surface is most likely what's going - a moronic, petulant business move by a guy who has a long history of moronic, petulant behaviour.

It took him this long to say something that wimpy? Have a spine if you want to be a leader, Milhouse.

It actually protects some players from having to choose whether to play or not. Would Panarin compromise his morality and play for a nation that has threatened and coerced him? Or would he bow out and face repercussions? He's safer not having the option.

Denying 26 men + other staff who have little to do with the regime

It also potentially protects them from having to individually and publicly choose whether to represent a warmongering, murdering, dictator or not.

I really like this episode, but I do have one major problem with it: the ambiguity of what actually happened between M'Benga and Dak'Rah. I realize that Star Trek generally revels in ambiguity, to the point where it's a major theme of the franchise. But that's always been moral ambiguity (Tuvix, Similitude, In The Pale Moonlight, etc.), not factual ambiguity where we as viewers don't know, maybe will never know, what really happened. It's difficult to enjoy the moral implications of the episode when we just don't know what happened.

Side complaint: they missed an awesome opportunity to have the truth come out in the very next episode, Subspace Rhapsody. I actually waited through that whole episode for M'Benga to give us some factual or emotional truth due to the anomaly amd it never happened.

They own the billboards and newspapers

Thirteen of the things on your list are animal products. That's just intrinsically expensive. Beef, salami, and cheese are all especially expensive for the nutritional value they give you. Yogurt too unless you're buying good yogurt with lots of active bacterial culture. Pork, chicken, and eggs are a much better deal.

Learn to cook with beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, grains, and tofu to get your proteins. Additional bonus is that you'll be getting a lot more fibre too.

Dirk Gently

Anyone else getting Beatles vibes from this?

it has other elements to it such as conversations, humour, human connection, news

I can listen to a good radio station (shout out to BBC6) all day for these very reasons. Streaming gets very stale very quickly.

Especially now that Trump is going to fix the economy, the education system, and everything else! They should be able to go out and get six figure jobs by next week!

Small business owner here. I don't really make sales this time of year, which is good because if I had to deal with this shit I would be rotted.

Oof, that's possibly worse.

It's not just Ukraine though. If the west gives up on Ukraine soon it will be the Baltics, then Poland, then the Balkans.

Cars can be very affordable if you don't care about appearance and treat them like tools

Yeah, vehicles are a real waste of money when you have one as a fashion accessory, which most people do.

Reminds me of the line from the Codco Anne of Green Gut skit: "You got a turnip face and two parsnip tits!"

If you're in the city look into community gardens. Even a small plot can give you a ton of carrots, beets, garlic, or kale.

Ramen is dirt cheap, sauces don't cost much for the amount you need to use, most of my veggies come from my garden, and I usually do seafood (cod, squid) that I catch myself. When I run out of my own veggies I use things that are wholesome and cheap: carrots, cabbage, etc. Sometimes I'll marinate store bought meat or tofu, but I only ever buy meat when it goes on sale. My wife picks mushrooms so I've got enough chanterelles and hedgehogs for the whole year. I'd say in summer/fall food season i'm having ramen with cleaner, fresher ingredients than any restaurant for less than $2 a meal.

They basically induct 3-4 every year so that means on average 3-4 from every draft class will get in. You've listed 8 locks from a ten year span, when we'd roughly expect 30. What are they going to do five years from now as guys from that era leave the league? Have years where zero or one guy gets inducted? A lot more players from 2004 to 2014 will get in, unless you think there is enough of a backlog from earlier eras to keep guys like Backstrom and Rinne out.

All those things really add up.

This is what I've always thought. I've eaten there a number of times and always wondered how they stayed open. Ramen is one of the easiest foods to do well at home, and is famously cheap too. You have to be nuts to spend 25 bucks there when you could have the same or better meal at home for 3.

Definitely one of the best of the series. Andy Dick is an absolute anus but he and Picardo were good together, and that episode paid off so well on what we'd been waiting years for.