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I have seen them, but a while ago, whilst binging through all of the show to S11, which was airing at the time. I'd say, yes - go and watch them, but I don't recall them as particularly stand-out from the rest of the show.

Too early to say yet. The best part of the show is the Empire arc, IMHO. If you don't care for that in S1, I doubt that there is anything tp grab you so far in S2. Personally, I think that it has some interesting ideas and some good character beats. The rest is merely OK.

Right now Strange New Worlds which has been extremely good this season following the merely OK first episode; Foundation which seems to have improved the weakest arc - the actual Foundation arc - from the first season; and Futurama which, on the evidence of the first episode, I can best characterise as being 'back'.

Ha! I can see that you have a particular connection.

I'm glad you like it though.

I've gone with Antennapod (FOSS is always going to be my preference) and it is doing everything that I want.

Rosetta Stone ...or Shibboleth???

The issue with being poor is that you don't get to save a lot - if any - whilst you are paying for rent and the basics. That is a large part of the reason that the housing co-op that I mentioned has housed so few after so long.

Yes, in the right conditions it will work, but there are a lot of situations that don't leave people with access to those conditions.

My initial thoughts would be that the priority for most poor people is housing, followed by food and keeping the lights on.

My experience of mutual aid groups is primarily in the form of local exchange trading schemes (LETS), which typically provide services such as cake making, aromatherapy sessions, bicycle repair and maybe garden maintenance etc.

So although you may be able to deal with the food side of things through that to some extent, there really aren't many landlords who will take rent in the form of aromatherapy and almost no utility suppliers will accept payment in bicycle repairs.

I have known a group to establish a housing co-op, which is great and all, but that, after around a decade, has housed around 8 people in total, which leaves a very long way to go.

Overall, I am in favour of the idea, but it is easy to see the issues that leave most people stuck in some job that actually pays the rent.

One of those mornings where the fruit, the cereal AND the milk all ran out while getting breakfast, so the worktop was strewn with open boxes and containers and debris by the time I had filled a bowl. Plus the other half's usual morning tea wasn't there so I had to guess which of the dozen other fruit or herbal teas would be acceptable.

And then, we had had a new food and milk delivery thing and they had left it all (how many boxes? can we really eat all that? what the hell are half of these things?) over by the woodshed, and it's raining, so a damp two-part excursion to retrieve it - and I needed some of that milk.

All before I had actually eaten anything or fully woken up.

Stuff going to work. I just want to get back under the duvet now.

I went to see the 50th anniversary version at a local cinema recently too, and it turned out that one of the girls in the cast - now in her 60s, clearly, - was a friend of the cinema manager, so she recounted a few memories that she had of the filming. She was only an extra and featured primarily in procession towards the end, but evidently a scene with her and some of the other girls riding ponies was shot, but never made it to the screen. Apparently that was intended to be near the start of the film. Really interesting to meet her, anyway.

Should you try going to the cinema? It's not a big deal, but I'd say yes at some time in your life. If not, you will always be askign this question.

Alone or with friends? Whichever you prefer.