PVC?? AYFKM?? I was building actual pipe bombs w/ my friends in high school. Do you know how hard it is to convince a grown-up to let you use their drill press? "I have a threaded pipe cap and I need a 1/8" hole drilled through it. I am a suburban teen."

can't wait for the day when someone puts ads in the rifle's optic

I think Pluribus is a lot closer to The Wire than Lost in that it's not about checking every single pixel for clues, but instead a "visual novel". It doesn't say everything directly and openly but it's all there in the text, if that makes sense

In the treatment we did, we had his parents be something not unlike Quakers, who disowned him bc he decided to fight against fascism, and he later got in trouble for smuggling, so Johnny Law is after him

I once had an idea to do a movie about Rick Blaine's backstory, like gun-running in Ethiopia, fighting against fascists in Spain, etc. Cool period clothes, pulpy action, that sort of thing. But everyone would be mad bc it's decidedly antifascist

Microsoft had a large effort focused on performance improvements in VSCode and Python, both abandoned in favor of AI work

To put it another way, no one (but the deranged) shops for a car by comparing tables of features only. People view them as an aesthetic choice as well as a practical, data-driven one. His entire point is nonsense and ignores reality

Gonna go ahead and guess she gets out of a lot of difficult situations by crying