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You can say that Judy is still the optimistic cop from Z1, because Pawbert was able to lower her guard in the Gala in Z2.

So, let's say, another hustler similar to Nick, manages to hustle Judy for charity money meant for the homeless and Judy sees the hustler using the money to his own benefit. I wonder how Nick would react to it? Would be try to look for the hustler and punch his lights out or would he sympathize with the hustler to get him to reform?

I kinda see Nick being sympathetic because, Nick would see himself in the hustler and try to reform him like Judy did him.

A friend of mine visited Japan last year and was surprised to learn that tipping restaurant staff is generally discouraged there. He even heard stories of customers' tips being refused when trying to leave a tip, and in some cases, being viewed negatively for insisting on it.

Why is tipping seen so differently in Japan compared to America? Is it mainly because restaurant workers in Japan are paid better wages?

And if better wages are part of the reason, why hasn’t America moved toward a similar system? America is one of the richest countries in the world, yet many restaurant workers still rely heavily on tips to make a living.

Room 1408 is one of the first horror movies I've seen that ends this way. Instead of being completely defeated by the Room's fear tactics and psychological attacks, John Cusack's character reaches a point where he's just fed up with it. He burns the Room down, and when the Room "cries," he snaps back with lines like, "Keep quiet, you bastard," and "You're wasting your time." I was laughing at how pathetic the Room's attempts to scare him became.

What makes the ending so satisfying is how the Room loses control once anger replaces fear. By the end, Cusack's character is so furious that every scare tactic just makes him more pissed, so instead of fear consuming the victim, the victim turns that rage back on the Room and burns the motherf***er down. Watching the Room become desperate and ineffective was genuinely hilarious.

In a way, the ending feels like the reverse of Yoda's philosophy:

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering… for the Room."

Yeah, I know 1408 has multiple alternate endings, but the theatrical ending is still one of my favorites because the demon, or whatever eldritch force controls the Room, ends up completely humiliated by its victim.

I wish more horror movies ended this way.

A few years ago, I saw a YouTube video of a documentary on restaurant culture featuring Gordon, and Gordon did an inspection of his restaurants and found weed residue in the restrooms, meaning that his chefs smoked weed on breaks to relax.

According to Gordon, he disapproves of smoking weed, especially for his chefs, because smoking weed dulls the taste buds and the taste buds is paramount to any chef.

I get why Gordon's chefs are smoking weed, I mean, Gordon's restaurants are a high-stress working environment and weed helps overworked and stressed people get through the day.

If Gordon wants his chefs to lay off the weed, maybe change the kitchen culture to one that isn't very stressful?

So far, here's the formula:

>* Gordon visits the restaurant > >* Gordon tastes the bad food (some times he gets good food, e.g. Bread pudding and World Famous Crab Cakes) > >* Fights with the owners and eventually helps the owners with their personal issues > >* Redresses the restaurant and leaves

For me, I'd like for the formula to include Gordon just giving up on the restaurant like he did with Amy's Baking Company, we need more episodes that end like this.

For me, the restaurant that Gordon should have given up on is Joe Nagy's Mill Street Bistro, Sammy Settembre's Sabatiello's and Sebastian Di Modica's Sebastian's, more so Mill Street Bistro because to me, Joe and Amy are two pees in a pod, both can't cook at all and they call themselves chefs.

A lot of people assume that in TOS, Kirk’s Enterprise reached the galactic barrier by traveling in a straight-line all the way to the outer rim of the galaxy to reach the galactic barrier.

But, as Doc Brown would say in Back to the Future: "You’re not thinking fourth dimensionally." Or in this case, third dimensionally.

Yes, space is 3D, the Milky Way has height as well as width, so theoretically a starship wouldn’t need to cross the entire galactic disk to reach the edge. The galaxy is roughly 100,000 light-years across, but only a few thousand light-years thick. That has led to fan theories suggesting Kirk's Enterprise may have reached the galactic barrier by traveling "above" or "below" the galactic plane rather than toward the distant outer rim in a straight-line.

Could Janeway have ordered Voyager to simply "climb" the galactic plane as they say in aviation? If the ship traveled several thousand light-years "up" relative to the Milky Way, it might have reached the galactic barrier and from there, Voyager could have traveled cross 75,000 light-years along a more direct route while avoiding many of the dangers they encountered in the show, especially the Borg.

Of course, from a showrunner perspective, that probably would have made for a pretty boring show, which is probably why the idea was never seriously mentioned in-universe.

I’ve been researching T2Linux for my MacBook Air (2020 Intel), and I noticed that a lot of Linux-on-Mac guides online are for older pre-2020 Intel Macs that don’t use Apple’s T2 chip.

From what I understand, the T2 chip makes installing Linux on my Macbook Air much more harder and I can confirm that when I tried to boot a liveUSB of Linux Mint on my Macbook Air, nothing worked, it booted okay, but the Wi-Fi, keyboard, trackpad, speakers, etc, don't work, the only thing that worked was the screen. Apparently, Apple hardware that relies on T2 chip need special drivers and firmware that isn't included in the Linux kernel, and T2Linux obtains these from the macOS already installed on my Macbook Air, and so dual booting T2Linux with macOS is strongly recommended rather than removing it entirely, so T2Linux still depends on parts of macOS being installed alongside Linux in order to function properly in a dual boot setup.

So here’s my question, since Apple will drop support for my MacBook Air and macOS 15 around 2027, what happens after that? If macOS 15 becomes outdated and no longer receives security updates in 2027, does that create a security risk for T2Linux itself? Or is macOS only being used as a source for firmware/drivers while Linux handles the actual OS security?

Basically I’m trying to understand whether T2Linux is still considered safe long-term on unsupported T2 Macs, or if an outdated macOS partition becomes a weak point even if I mainly boot Linux.

>MacBook Air Retina, 13-inch, 2020 > >Processor 1.1 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 > >Graphics Intel Iris Plus Graphics 1536 MB > >Memory 8 GB 3733 MHz LPDDR4X > >macOS 15.7.5

As I heard, my MacBook Air Retina, 13-inch, 2020 has entered a end-of-life cycle stage, it will only receive security updates until 2027.

So, I have installed VMware Fusion and installed Linux Mint is 22.3 on it, which will be supported until 2029, and if my Macbook Air is still alive by then, I want to continue using Linux Mint via VMware, but of course, I'm hoping there would be a native way to install Linux on my Macbook Air by that time.

So far, its been working great and it's kinda insulting how much better Linux Mint 22.3 is to macOS 15.7.5, like I can change the font to whatever I want and I can change the size too. Also, more software availability too.

So, can I use it like this for the foreseeable future, past 2027 even after Apple support has been dropped?

At the Mages Guild in Old Ebonheart, you’re sent to a cave called Ghand to rescue Missa Rhyle and kill Vohur. When you arrive, you kill Vohur, but you find out Missa has already been murdered and her soul has been trapped by Vohur. You recover the soul gem and bring it back to the Guild, where it's suggested they either destroy the gem or use her soul to enchant a weapon. I refused both options because I'm not an asshole. Instead, they direct you to a necromancer in the city.

After gathering the requested ingredients, the necromancer performs a ritual that summons Missa’s spirit. She delivers final words meant for her family before finally passing on to the afterlife. Part of me was hoping there would be a way to Frankenstein her back to life.

This has been my favorite Mages Guild quest in Tamriel Rebuilt so far. It takes the mechanic of soul trapping to a new level because soul trapping NPCs are impossible in game.

Spoiler alert for those who haven't played this quest line yet.

So, Tholer Andas tricks you into traveling all the way out to a remote mine in the Armun Ashlands, supposedly to take over its operations. It’s later revealed he’s actually searching for an artifact, a crown said to bring the dead back to life, because he wants to resurrect his lover. When the crown fails to resurrect his lover, he simply accepts it and tells you to take the crown and keep everything quiet.

I was expecting a better ending than that, like his lover returning as some kind of undead lich, forcing a final boss fight where you and Tholer have to face the undead lich he made.

As it stands, the ending just felt a bit flat.

I once theorized that the Good Dinosaur and Zootopia could possibly be in the same universe due to the absense of humans in Zootopia, and honestly, putting these two movies together was rather easy because Good Dinosaur makes the premise of a human-less world possible due to dinosaurs never dying out and eventually, dinosaurs and humans eventually died out, giving way to the development of animal kind becoming Zootopians.

When I posted this theory years ago, it got downvoted and I was told to stop because of the Pixar Theory, it's like I can't connect these two movies because one is Pixar and the other is Disney.

You know what, I don't care. As long as the Disney Castle appears in the beginning, it's all the Magical World of Disney to me.

The fanatics of the Pixar Theory, I can’t wait to read your insults and downvotes, bring it on, I have popcorn. 🍿 😀