If the sequels were successful, it likely would mean there weren’t a bunch of mediocre to terrible star wars shows dumped on Disney plus. That would mean there’s less blatant culture war bullshit out in the universe, which would reduce the backlash which Trump leveraged to win.

If the sequels were successful there would be less corporate shills calling people to stupid, sexist, racist, or bigoted to understand it. That leads to less people spiraling into the extreme right.

If the sequels were successful, it may have helped movie and theaters remain more relevant through Covid. This could lead to more of the social contract remaining intact post 2020. Trump wouldn’t be as able to effectively weaponize the loss of the social contract preventing a 2024 reelection.

If the sequels were successful, Disney would have more money and goodwill. That could lead to more effective lobbying for non trump candidates.

If the sequels were successful, we could have gotten a grnf story of the old heroes transferring the reigns to the young new heroes to lead the next generation. This could have had a substantial effect on the psyche of elderly leaders who bow out of races to support younger candidates that are far more appealing than Trump vs Hillary.

Maybe there is a point to this.

First rule of rocketry, always assume it will explode.

It really depends on what you are comparing against. A temperature taken in direct sunlight at human height in a paved parking lot is going to be well over 10 degrees different than a grassy area shaded by a building. Even if they are adjacent areas. Proximity to a large body of water can easily change the temperature by 5-10 degrees.

A weather app is going to present a temperature that trys to average all of that for a fairly wide area.

I think the game just has too many mechanics and it doesn’t work that well together.

The death of the touring car, and even the sedan really sucks. We need more large 4 door cars that can fit four adults comfortably with reasonable trunk space. My first car was an old Chrysler LHS and it’s still the most comfortable car I ever drove.

That was one of the last old people brands, especially with the vinyl top.

It happens once they get off the ice.

The line I like is “you can’t outrun your fork.” Weight loss is 99% about the kitchen, bodybuilding is probably about 75% the kitchen.

There used to be semi regular Posts tracking posts and monthly active users. You might be able to find them. Over the past couple years, there’s been a consistent flat to negative trend in activity, the general consensus to this wasn’t concern, some were even happy.

That’s all Lemmy has is meme and shit posting, and even those are getting slower.

Lemmy is shrinking significantly since the boom of the reddit appocalypse. It’s a problem a lot of people here like to ignore or pretend it’s not a problem.

I’m guessing something was plugged in the bottom one that caused the fire.

The Winchester brothers. They gave up even pretending as the show went on and just embraced the absurdity.

We are basically bags of salt water already.

Palworld comes close to what you want. There’s not a ton of story and you can skip all of it if you want, there’s not much gated behind what the main quests are. There’s several different types of random events, you can configure the frequency of some of them as well. It is third person and the tech is more gun focused though.

If you give up the single player part, FF 14 is basically what you want.

There’s not a ton of options because it’s a tough type of game to make, and you have to be better than someone’s experience of yet another Skyrim run.

Transistor and Bastion are similar games that can be chill with combat.

Thomas was alone is a chill platformer with a nice story.

Math should be taught with postix or reverse Polish notation. It removes this ambiguity as the order of operations is left to right.

Housing isn’t in a bubble. Construction hasn’t kept up with demand in most areas, and even though COVID was a while ago now, the pause can still be felt in housing. COVID also made rates absurdly low which led to less turnover in home ownership, people with a sub 3.5% rate can’t afford an equivalent house elsewhere. Markets that saw massive building have actually seen prices dropping now, markets that aren’t extremely popular are also seeing prices stall or go down. NYC and LA aren’t getting cheaper anytime soon unless millions of people want to stop living there.

To be fair there wasn’t really any evidence. The guard claimed it was a contraband search for a hat the inmate was wearing, but the guard followed the guy back to his cell from a separate building and never actually found the contraband. The guard claimed the inmate destroyed everything after the search. There weren’t any witnesses, and any camera footage that could have proved anything was not retained by the prison.

It’s clear to anyone that remotely understands how prisoners are treated that this was clearly a guard abusing their power, but privileged white women don’t have to face that reality.

I’ve been selected three times for jury duty. Two were county and one was federal. As far as pay went, county payed awful, it was less than minimum wage. Federal paid a bit better, and I got mileage to the courthouse, I also had to front the parking cost and be reimbursed later.

The first time I was on a criminal trial for rape of a mentally handicapped woman, I was kicked off that jury during selection. The second time I had to go in one day, but all the cases for the day ended up settling, so they sent us back home. The third time was a civil case for a prisoner who had his stuff destroyed by one of the guards, I was part of the jury and we couldn’t reach a verdict because some people couldn’t believe a guard would just do bad things.