Same!

I feel like it was a distinctively Wally West thing. They had Barry go through that in the Flash TV show, but iirc it was introduced with Wally.

I used to think about this way too much. The answer is the Speed Force, the power that various Flashes tap into. So he can move around like a normal person fine. When he wants to go fast, he taps into the Speed Force. He’s not like Quicksilver, who is just fast all the time and has to actually physically slow his body to have a normal conversation, etc. So, I’m sure it’s frustrating because he knows he can just use the Speed Force to do things, but he’s not necessarily perceiving time differently on a regular basis.

It really reminded me of the Super Bowl back in 2000 when all the ads were for websites, which was right before the “Dot Com” bubble burst…

Was at a cat cafe with my kids not too long ago. They had this breed of cat and it was being very affectionate with me and my son. So I say to her “you, you can haz cheeseburger” and my son (9 y/o) looks at me and asks “is that a reference to something?” So I pull out my phone and show him The Sacred Jedi Internet Texts

I came here to say this. I’m both surprised and happy to see a Tremors meme in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Twenty Six.

I have one on my Lenovo IdeaPad I bought a few months ago and am running Mint on. I remapped it to bring up the menu almost immediately. No issues. It acts like a Super key. Maybe this is a model specific thing?

Hawai’i is not located on the North American continent, so it doesn’t count as “American.” I often describe Hawai’i to people as “it might be the United States, but it isn’t America.” The Chinese and Japanese cultural influence here is quite strong (particularly on O’ahu, where I live) and has deeply established ties. Chinese were invited here by King Kamehameha I to harvest sandalwood. Japanese came at the invitation of King Kalakaua, who actually went to Japan and met with the Emperor Meiji to try and establish economic connections to temper the over-influence of American and European influences during his reign. So when one talks about, say, the cuisine of Hawai’i, one is dealing with a fairly unique culture–one that was later annexed into the United States. So, yes, Hawai’i had long been a state by the time Panda Express operated here (which was started in California by Chinese Americans), but the culinary influence that resulted in orange chicken was rooted in something that goes back a long way. If that makes sense.

Fun fact: orange chicken was invented by Hawaiian Chinese guys who ran the Panda Express in Honolulu. They wanted to create a dish that reflected the sort of flavors that were popular at Chinese restaurants in Hawai’i. So it’s not an “American” concoction. It’s rooted in the culture of Chinese in Hawai’i, who were invited to live and work in Hawai’i back in the kingdom days.

Here in Hawai’i, we shoes off. I grew up in Florida where wearing shoes inside was normal. Now, after living in a shoes off culture, I’m sensitive to it. Like I get bothered when I see people on TV with shoes on and putting their feet up on things. Outside is nasty and you’re putting that nastiness on your coffee table?!

I have seen college kids laughing at my kids making the 6-7 reference, particularly my 5 y/o. Does that count?

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There was an attempt, way back when, to revoke the tax exempt status of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, CA because the priest there was openly critical of the Bush administration. The argument was that, by criticizing Bush he was endorsing a Democratic candidate and churches at the time were not allowed to endorse political candidates. Of course, Trump changed that (and, possibly, his only legal leg to stand on in regards to this threat). Unless there’s an amendment that makes space for “not hurting Twumpy’s widdle feewings” then, yeah, I don’t think there’s much he can do to pick on particular denominations, etc. But with Trump, nothing is assured.

EDIT: I see on the original post that Trump’s statement that he removed the clause forbidding churches from endorsing candidates is actually false. Welp.

Someone knows their clergy tax code! I agree with your idea of expansion. That’s something I’d not considered and think it makes a lot of sense.

As we predicted! I’m a priest in the Episcopal Church and at our recent clergy conference we were made aware of a letter being issued by a large number of our bishops, to be published in one of the big papers, denouncing ICE (it was distributed to us this past Saturday, but I have no idea if it’s shown up in one of the papers or not). We discussed the possibility of Trump getting mad and revoking our tax exempt status because of it. Dude is quite predictable lol.

I always love the assumption that the money taxed on churches will go and do the work that churches would do and not build bombs. My parishioners are already taxed to help kill people, I really don’t need their faithful contributions to be taxed again so that the US can kill more people. Maybe fix the way taxes are spent and I’ll support taxing my church. But for now, I really don’t want to see the money people give out of their sense of faithfulness to be used to pay for an extra bullet that’s going to kill someone standing in ICE’s way.

My congregation is pretty small. I know the assumption is huge megachurches and all that (and yeah, maybe those folks should be taxed because they use the religious exemptions as a loophole for some really unsavory stuff). But the 40-ish people that give what they do do so to help in what little ways they can.

They’ve almost shifted to a place like Doonesbury where an element of what’s surreal (surreality? is that a word? the red squiggly lines on my monitor don’t seem to think so…) is employed. I’ve not read that comic in years, but I remember that GW Bush was represented by a floating cowboy hat and I always thought that was creative and evocative. Turning JD Vance into Tattoo from Fantasy Island was a stroke of genius. And how they depict Trump Jr. cracks me up. There have been a few episodes this season that have been funnier than any they’ve produced in at least ten years if not more.

I remember years back, when they took their first extended break and there were speculations about South Park being done, Trey Parker said something about having Cartman’s voice in his head constantly and so he needed to make the show to kind of exorcise that voice. I bet it’s the same with Randy at this point, too. They can’t help that they have the most obnoxious and insistent muse that’s ever mused.

I also think the title of the recent season finale (“Crap Out”) has multiple layers of meaning: they more or less crapped out a conclusion to a storyline, the story itself is literally a kind of crap out, AND I think there’s a lament/realization that what’s all happening in the US will simply crap out itself rather than be properly addressed and dealt with.

TBF, there’s some serious questions around how employees are being treated at Casa Bonita right now (but I’m not really all that knowledgeable about that stuff). But, yeah, they seem to be genuine people overall. They gave a ton of money to the animation program at UC Boulder. They’ve been pretty committed to an avoidance of hypocrisy–they’ve lampooned wealth and celebrity and are trying to not become the thing they’ve joked about.