My toddler has become obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog, but it’s been hard to find any age appropriate stuff for him from that franchise. We recently discovered Sonic Boom, which is not only not too violent or scary for him, but is also legitimately funny. A nice surprise, since the only thing I knew about Boom was that the tie-in game was the worst Sonic game since Sonic '06.

Yeah, and a lot of depictions of the Kent farm have a very Norman Rockwell vibe, with a large two story house, a huge barn/silo, and acres of land. It’s very iconic, but also hasn’t been the reality for American farmers for at least 50 years. In this movie, the relatively small plot of land and cramped Ranch house felt much more plausible for modern-day Kents.

Eh, there have been, like, 4 different Supergirls, and they’re all different. Silver age Supergirl is basically just Superman, but a girl. Post-crisis Supergirl is an artificial life form from a pocket universe or something (I forget her whole deal, but she’s the worst one). Powergirl is Clark’s cousin, but she’s from another universe, shows a lot of cleavage, and her weakness is wood.

In 2004, they brought back the classic, “cousin,” backstory, but this time changed it so she’s a teenager sent to take care of baby Clark, but thanks to a suspended animation mishap, she arrived on Earth when he was in his 30s. Some writers have tried making this version a little more cynical, which makes sense; unlike Clark, she remembers life on Krypton and sees how primitive Earth is in comparison. It’s like one those stories where a high-schooler is bitter because their parents moved them from the big city to a podunk town. It’s basically Space Footloose, and Supergirl is Space Kevin Bacon.

I’m pretty sure Grok can spell, “hiring.”

Damn, must be nice to live in a country where powerful people face consequences for their actions.

The Late Mr. Kent. One of the best episodes of the series. He finds evidence that a death row inmate is innocent, gets, “assassinated,” by the real killer (which also destroys the evidence), and has to find a new way to clear the man/catch the real killer while also seeing how the people close to him deal with his, “death.” And, boy, that ending.

Yeah, the bloated police state and anonymity of most real estate moguls makes this is logistically impossible. That being said, the reaction to the United Healthcare CEO’s killing and the number of ICE, “assaults,” that can’t get grand jury indictments makes me think this spirit is still alive.

I don’t think it’s even, “friends,” I think it’s just Rob Citrone. It probably doesn’t hurt that Melei has kissed Trump’s ass, though.

Oh yeah, for sure. Everything DOGE did was a farce, and it almost certainly lost more money than it saved. Even en if it didn’t, they blew any savings up on their first budget legislation. I just find it particularly hypocritical to cut $40 billion in global aid because, “we don’t have the money,” then turn around and spend $40 billion on global aid to a single country

$40 billion was the entire annual budget of USAID. No matter what you think of them, they did provided essential aid to dozens of nations, and DOGE destroyed them under the pretense of lowering the deficit. Now we’re spending that much money just to prop up one countries economy.

(Yes, I know they USAID is a soft-power tool of American imperialism, and is rumored to have been used as cover for CIA operations, but they also did a shit-load of global AIDs prevention work, and I’d rather have spent the $40 billion on that than bailing out a libertarian freak so Rob Citrone can get rich.)

Wait…it can actually hit the corner? I thought that was just a legend.

LOL, that’s fucking awesome. Also, does this mean that I can just fuck with any dork wearing these? Like, if I’m in within earshot of them and I say, "OK Meta, show me pictures of orangutan genitals!’ that’s just gonna get displayed on their glasses?

LOL, wait, seriously? Is that confirmed?

Not sure that, “sorry, we botched our entire tech demo because we couldn’t get the router working,” is a better explanation.

Wahh wahh I’ve seen comments like this before, I need jump into someone else’s mentions to get pissy about it for 20 hours, wahh. I wasn’t even replying to you dude, imagine how much time we both could have saved if you’d just downvoted my comment instead of appointing yourself arbiter of the FuckCars discourse.

The fuck are you talking about? Yeah, they don’t get to have the nuance; it’s not in the fucking post. It’s a pithy 50ish words about how they’re so much smarter than other people for not driving to the grocery store. I pointed out the reality is more nuanced than that for most people, and your whole response has been, “yeah, well, they probably know that, so why don’t just act like their response is nuanced?” To which the answer continues to be, “Because that’s not what they fucking said, are you high?”

Except there are places where that’s true. There are also people in places with the same mindset who buy trucks for twice the price of a reasonable hatchback…

Yeah, I never said this wasn’t true, but again, none of that is in the fucking post. The dude’s not making a nuanced point about people who live in walkable areas but buy large trucks over sensible hatchbacks. He’s making a sweeping statement about how people who don’t walk to the grocery store are idiots, but America has the walking score of a developing nation; if you live somewhere where you can walk to the grocery store, you’re breathing rarefied air, and calling other people stupid for driving is entitled.

Like, what are you so pissy about? That I was responding to the content of the post instead of the points you assume the 4Channer would make, but didn’t? OK buddy, in the future, I’ll try to infer what you presume the OP’s hidden beliefs are and tailor my comment to that. Seems reasonable.

Yeah, that would be a great point if the entire post wasn’t a 4Channer framing this as personal choices and not systemic ones. The dudes not talking about how the car industry destroyed railcars, he’s dunking on people who drive to the grocery store, and the implication is clearly, “everyone can and should do this,” which is bullshit.

Oh, this wasn’t even a right on red. The green light for cars was lined up with the walk sign for pedestrians going rhe same direction. In a situation like that, when a car with a green light needs to turn through the crosswalk, they are supposed to yield to any pedestrian crossing at that time, but apparently the people of Orlando have so much car entitlement that they don’t even slow down when a pedestrian is standing in the middle of the crosswalk trying to complete a legal crossing.

This is assuming you live in a walkable town or neighborhood. I remember a reddit post (can’t find it anymore) of a guy trying to walk less than 2 miles to an appointment in Orlando. He followed Google Maps directions down the shoulder of a highway that led to a dead-end, backtracked, tried again, and finally made almost all the way to his destination, which was on the opposite side of a 6-lane highway Google wanted him to cross.

I’ve only ever visited the theme parks in Orlando, but I experienced one intersection I had to share with cars. I spent every walk sign waiting for cars making a turn to yield. Even though I had the right of way, literally none of them did, until I finally had to run across the street because the cars at the red light, who could see I was 1/3 through the intersection, floored it the second their light turned green. Sure, fuck all of those car-brained drivers who refuse to yield to pedestrians, but also fuck that city for not fining drivers for shitty behavior, or at least changing their traffic lights so all cars have red lights when pedestrians have the walk sign.

Anyway, point is, personal choices are important, but they can’t overcome the systemic issues created by car culture without collective action. And Orlando sucks ass.