I really wish they'd gone with Benedict Cumberbatch, who both has the look and the voice of Thrawn. But I still think Mikkelson will deliver a satisfying portrayal.
I thought Ezra looked bad on the hologram, but seeing the actor now "in real life" with the beard he looks great.
I don't necessarily know that Sabine cared about getting back is the thing. As far as she's aware, their only ride back is a Star Destroyer, and she knows they may not survive the trip. Hence her lack of urgency.
Her goal was to find Ezra, not save Ezra.
I didn't get married until the fourth person I ever said "I love you" to, the fifth or sixth I ever dated. You just keep going until you have grown and learned enough and you find someone you're compatible enough with.
Maybe it'll be number three, but it's also totally fine if it isn't. Setting the expectation though is kind of setting yourself up for failure. When you simply want whoever is your third love to work out, you may compromise your values simply to fulfill the goal of finding someone, not the right one.
They're private, so it's not disclosed, but I'm pretty sure it's been stated by Shotwell at this point that they're cash positive.
They don't even really build Falcon 9's anymore, the existing fleet is so reliable. They're the best launch provider in the game currently, and while they spend a lot on Starlink and Starship, their actual launches are tremendously profitable.
This is a valid way to camouflage rocket artillery that was seen in Iraq by US armed forces.
It won't stop the US and S. Korea from also just bombing every garbage truck if it comes to it, but we then waste a ton of bombs on harmless garbage trucks trying to hit ~100 rocket trucks.
It's a good idea.
Lol, it's not a skill issue, and this is an incredibly short-sighted take. My wife and I are not only capable, but quite enjoy cooking, and we still go out to eat frequently. There are a number of reasons to.
For one, restaurants are social. At least once a week we are getting out of the house to meet up with friends for happy hour. No one wants to host that at their house. The whole purpose is to go out. And no one on a first date is going to go to someone's house for a dinner date.
For another, if we don't want to put in the effort for a good dinner, the pre-made stuff from the supermarket is rarely a good substitute, especially as a regular meal. So much is just processed ingredients or allergens my wife can't have. If we want a good, fresh meal, a local restaurant is gonna be better, and for something like an anniversary or even just a date night it's definitely gonna be better than what we can make at home.
And that's not because we're not skilled. It's because good food takes effort. I can and have made beef wellington, or sushi, or duck confit, but I'm not cooking at that level regularly so I'm just simply not going to be doing as good of a job as a professional cook. It's fucking work and sometimes I don't feel like spending 2 hours making an incredible meal after getting home from 8 hours at work.
Restaurants just have more resources and capabilities to make foods we simply cannot make at home. I do not have the time or tools to do 16 hour smoked pork. I can't source fresh squid. I don't have the equipment for Korean BBQ. Should people just be deprived of other cuisines simply because they can't make it at home?
Restaurants also fill a critical need for people travelling, whether for pleasure or for work (but especially for work). Most hotels don't have kitchenettes, let alone kitchens, so forcing the millions of people who travel for work annually in the US alone to either eat fast food, eat only cold food that doesn't need to be cooked, or go hungry is unreasonable. And food is such a fundamental aspect of culture that denying the culinary experience to foreign tourists is depriving people of a valuable cultural experience.
From the other side, bars and restaurants serve a valuable role in providing (potentially) livable-wage jobs that require little formal schooling or training and are resistant to automation. For many people they can be a lifelong career.
There are more to restaurants than just shitty chains like Applebee's, and more reasons to go out to eat than an inability to cook. The industry certainly has problems and could be improved in many ways, but the idea of abolishing it in its entirety is both short-sighted and problematic for a multitude of reasons.
Drugs are patented, not copyrighted, and handled by the US Patent Office. This is a decision by the US Copyright Office.
Not the same thing, and I would not be surprised if the Patent Office decides drugs designed in part with AI tools can still be patented, while the Copyright Office decides art cannot be copyrighted.
I'm tired of restaurants basically wafting a Carolina Reaper over their salsas or sauces and advertising their barely-jalapeno-grade garbage as being particularly spicy. One drop of extract in a bulk batch of sauce for a restaurant does not make it spicy, but it certainly lets vanilla consumers with no real tolerance feel like they're able to take actual heat from real peppers.
I love spicy food and I've done the One Chip Challenge just for the thrill, but it's not really done as a "food" any more than skydiving is done for transportation. It arguably shouldn't be sold to minors, but it's actually hot, not just marketing, and arguably is more responsible for creating the trend in the first place than jumping on the bandwagon later. The Challenge has been sold for a long time.
The chip has been safe to eat for millions of people for years.
Capsaicin consumed orally isn't fatal. This kid probably has some other underlying health problems he was simply not aware of, but it's not like it's an inherently lethal product. If a kid with an unknown peanut allergy eats and dies from a Snickers, it's not like Snickers are actually a lethal food.
It does say it's intended for adults only, but that's hardly ever stopped teenagers from doing anything ever. It's probably good they pulled it temporarily, but the real answer here is probably simply "Don't sell this to minors."
Yeah, as a heavy Google user I would use this if I had a reason to use a VPN. Google is scraping all my information anyway from my Android phone, my Google searches, and G-Mail, Maps, etc. They're not going to gain any additional information about me from usage of a VPN.
This is probably true for anyone using Google One.
If I had an iPhone or used DuckDuckGo or Firefox was taking other security measures, it's probably pointless, but I've just gone all in on only Google have any of my data.
We did, for a while. Lockdown didn't kill restaurants, nothing will.
The idea that we should all just get our food from the grocery store and cook at home is entirely unrealistic anyway.
It's not like a Rolling Stone journalist went and asked. Journalists have these things called "sources":