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I have vague, terrified memories of watching the Rankin/Bass *Hobbit *movie in first grade back in...uh...1986, but it obviously didn't make me into the fan I've become. I hardly remember anything about it other than Bilbo climbing the tallest tree in Mirkwood and the spiders.

My next introduction to Tolkien went much better when our 7th grade class got assigned to read The Hobbit for language arts. From the first look at the map in the front of the book I was fascinated. I'd just started getting into (A)D&D and fantasy in general, and finding the wellspring from which much of that material came from was amazing. To this day, I think that The Hobbit is my favorite Tolkien book. I've read most everything Middle-Earth related outside of the HoME series, but the tone and the nostalgia of The Hobbit makes it special.

Amazing! I love the original by Cascada, and now I love this one too.

What a douchebag. Playing the victim, as always.

I'd guess it's more of a subtle communication to the LGBTQ+ community than to Target itself. By publicly telling Target that Minnesota and Massachusets (among others) don't like the threats that Target and its employees are getting from bigots, they also tell LGBTQ+ folks that they don't like the bigotry they're facing.

I mean, Target's a huge corporation, and they can take care of themselves and their employees if they want to. (And I hope they do: of all the big corporations, I think Target is one of the better ones...as low a bar as that is.) They probably appreciate words of support from state AGs, but those words likely don't do much. But calling out the hatred of the asshats making threats to Target employees is important, too. This is an easy way to do so, I think. I appreciate the gesture, anyway.

No way! The fruit salad is necessary!

Wisconsin Old Fashioneds (brandy instead of bourbon) are superior. Fight me.

YEEEEEAAAAAAAH! CRANKING MY HOG HERE!

That it is.

Nice. Goa is always appreciated.

Gentoo cured me of distrohopping back in 2009. Before my computer died in 2018 I was still running the same install for 9 years. My current Gentoo install is only 3 years and change old, though.

I'd guess because for a lot of us in the USA, public transportation is insufficient to meet our needs. I'd love to take a train from home to work, but there's no train line that's anywhere near my house. They're building one that'll go near my work, but it's not done yet. Busses are available, I suppose...but the time it'd take to get from home to work or back would be a lot longer than driving takes, even in heavy traffic, given that I'd have to transfer several times.

For longer trips, again, the infrastructure just isn't there. To visit my sister, for instance, requires taking a bus if I want to take the public transportation option. My (step)son takes the bus to go see his dad (who lives in the same city as my sister) since he doesn't like driving, and it takes a good 2 extra hours compared to driving. We should have train service, but no...Scott Fucking Walker killed the project back in 2010 when he got elected governor of Wisconsin.

I'm a big fan of tabular, and probably use it in lots of places where something better would work. This is how I'd do it.