I recently rewatched Sicario and I’m glad I did because I did not follow it at all the first time. Which is sort of the point. You’re as lost as the main character.

I just reread it last month and it holds up quite well. The sense of panic in the opening chapters is palpable.

I really struggle with books that sound like a narration and much prefer them when I feel like they’re in the room telling me the story. I’ve found it much easier to find this in young adult fiction compared to adult novels.

Some examples of books that hooked me right away as a kid and I read in a month or less:

• Holes
• Hatchet
• The Call of the Wild
• My Side of the Mountain
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians
• Artemis Fowl

F2 looks like a rig to help someone learn how to ride side-saddle. That’s actually pretty neat!

This reminded me of an old classic, Missing Missy: https://27bslash6.com/missy.html

Take a look at this and it gives some room for flexibility (from a movie called Waking Life): https://youtu.be/4arOKZvuZK4

Idle hands and all that. Someone this vacuous with this much access to resources sounds like the perfect target for manipulation by someone with ill intent. Whatever it is may not have been his idea, but he also doesn’t seem like the person to say no to a paycheck for literally any reason.

I don’t know what it is, but I just simply can’t believe that the guy is not deeply involved in some of the most twisted shit.

Don’t make mistakes! This is for my really important lawyer job and I could get in trouble!

:|

Hell, I’d be willing to lose $100 just to make him mad.

Honestly a great game for letting off steam. My favorite move is the meat skateboard into the kickflip.

It’s the world’s biggest parking lot. Every tree is artificial unless it’s a cactus. The few places you can climb give you a great view of said parking lot. It’s 40 miles wide and can take over an hour to cross, yet bizarrely, everywhere you need to be is 30 minutes away. Some street intersections require multiple passes of building prior knowledge to safely traverse.

I seen my first 8 years there riding the public transport there and it’s an entirely separate hell. Everything goes from 30 minutes away to anywhere from an hour to 90 or more. I would say about 6 months of my time spent there must have been traveling.

And never to go anywhere actually interesting. Everything is one or two floors unless it’s an office building you’ll likely never have the lifestyle to be a part of unless it’s a temp gig.

They are neighborhoods so similar, miles apart from each other that I almost knocked on the wrong friend’s door before I realized I had driven to the wrong place.

I could go on…

Phoenix. Don’t ever make the mistake of moving there or you’ll have a hard time leaving. It’s the closest thing to purgatory I’ve ever experienced. I certainly aged, but I don’t think I matured a day while I was there.

These are known as Direct to Film or DTF (lol). They are quite literally a printed plastic sheet that’s melted to the shirt. Easiest way to check for this is to crease the shirt on the design. Screenprinted will reveal the shirt color underneath where DTF will be a solid sheet.

If I had to guess, this avoids the classic case of staring at someone a little too long to read their shirt. The shirt design isn’t so much for the wearer, it’s a billboard to others. Also, printing on the front has much more noticeable texture than printing on the back which would make the surface a bit uncomfortable across the entire front as opposed to the back where you’ll hardly notice the feel.

Even the best screen printing techniques have at least a bit of feel to them.

It just dawned on me that no matter what, we have a wasted seat on self-driving taxis because we still put a wheel and pedals that are expected to go unused in the vehicle. I think this would help highlight just how unsafe this concept really is. With the wheel and pedals there, maybe it’s giving people more of an illusion of control or something, because I feel like having nothing there would make people a lot less comfortable, even though that’s the reality of the situation.

Edit: people keep bringing up ways this could be used, and that we do it for cost-cutting, but this still doesn’t detract from the reality of how they were actually deployed before these concerns were addressed. They’re not even commenting on it and letting the consumer fill in their PR’s gaps for them.

The quotes make it feel like it’s being sarcastic about the suggestion.

Everything is going to be okay

I think the scariest thing to read in Braille would be “turn back and run now!”