You’re right, though the melodrama and swashbuckling of Space Opera definitely lend themselves more towards the soft sci-fi/sci-fantasy end of the spectrum. Sort of, “if the characters and plots don’t need to bear much relation to the real world, why should the setting?”

Our new guy is a mutt (Embark DNA pending) and is still in the goony velociraptor phase, but he already plays with the older one there (only about 4, though) largely by driving him and nipping at heels, and he’s learned to abuse the strap of “potty jinglebells” on the back door just to ask out to hunt for june bugs and investigate everything.

Oh, and our last pup who passed away was mostly Heeler and while he decided after a period as a stray that his ass wasn’t going anywhere he didn’t absolutely have to, he also did a great death-glare, making me question my life choices deep down to my soul. 🤣

And in particular, this product is a vanity computerized exhaust that almost certainly has at least one setting that violates Singapore’s new noise restrictions, and possibly the emissions standards.

While even 6 days of actual jail for three motorcycles (and maybe that’s all they could prove?) hits me as a little harsh, it also seems like the sort of thing Singaporeans have always dealt with for offenses that affect the QoL for other people. Not saying it was “justice” per se, but this is not the hill to die on, and it seems this guy fucked around and then found out.

At this point the only way to realistically get that squeeze is to create more districts that are “very safe” versus “locked in,” and at least some Republicans will push back to save their own skin. Texas won’t need to go blue for this to backfire or at least be of minimal impact.

This is as close as I get to optimism about state politics though.

In case you wanted to know, he’s a former executive for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans.

If they do, they’re called waders.

We lost our older guy a couple of weeks ago, and he hated them, as did our three other dogs over the last twenty years. The younger one and the new puppy didn’t seem to care that much, only getting a little jittery when we were outside and a particularly loud one went off.

3, but the pajamas erasure here is unfortunate.

Sorry, I’ve just seen this one often enough and seen the comments that I may have assumed too much. I’ll take my downvotes.

Yeah, yeah, stupid fat maga, whatever. Looks like they’ve both got a pretty big batch of laundry, and looking at the totality of the picture these are not likely to be wealthy people, and it being rural/suburban America, lord knows how far the laundromat is. This strikes me as unironically clever, and they’re both keeping that mower deck out of the landfill and travelling using electric power.

Looks like Teenjus to me.

Barelypoops Cacalags

Destiny Color Correction is all.

Oh, Peppa is a total asshat, but she’d generally have to eat shit in a way certain other kids’ animation asshats didn’t (coughcalilloucough). There was enough of old-school cartoon and comic strip tropes from Warner Brothers shorts and Peanuts that it wasn’t the worst show to endure.

Daddy Pig was pretty badass when the wolf family moved to town.

I’m a few years out from that age range, but Caillou, Ryan’s Toy Reviews, and motherfuckin’ Blippi made Peppa look like Shakespeare.

Some of the jokes in this show seem targeted to adults, which makes no sense, as absolutely nothing in this show is watchable to anyone above the age of 4.

Clearly you never saw the one where Peppa is a stone-cold bitch when she realizes everybody but her can whistle or learn within seconds.

…or ten.

I’m also one of those people who doesn’t own a record, but I agree. He hit an absolute sweet spot for being the quintessential American artist. Definitely rock, but story songs for the folkies and country-heads, and unapologetically of a specific place that happens to be urbanized and diverse. Left-leaning politics, but not a scold or a bore so people of a more conservative bent can pretend he’s not talking about them, or (and this is generally better) find that a little bit of empathy is sneaking in under their radar.

Lawyer, engineer, or consultant? LOL, are you McKinsey advising Warner/Discovery?!?!?