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  • Later seasons of Clone Wars is quite good, same with Rebels. They fleshed out and/or introduced some of the best characters in the universe - with some of the best story arcs.
    The Andor trilogy (including Rogue One) is phenomenal. Even if you don’t like Star Wars.
    The Madalorian starts out strong but degrades over time.
    The Bad Batch also not bad.

    But most of it has absolutely been quantity over quality. I mean, Episode 8 was so bad I still haven’t seen Episode 9; haven’t even bothered to pirate it.


  • JamesTBagg@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldBuilt to last
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    3 days ago

    You can go buy those old washing machines. They’re still out there. I got my washer and dryer used for 100 dollars each.

    Nothing digital on them, all analog. Fixed a washer overflowing issue by replacing the $20 pressure level switch. Twice I’ve had to replace the heating element for the dryer, $20 bucks for those. Everything is replaceable with a flat head screwdriver and a youtube video.

    Go buy those old washers and dryers.





  • I like Pit Vipers, not gonna wear them in public (not my style) but they’re cool.
    In a prior job I worked in quality assurance, we didn’t have dedicated safety people in site so QA handled that too.
    We could not get people to wear PPE on their own on the regular, especially ear pro. We’d have people bucking rivets and I’d walk up and hand then ear plugs (I always carried spare boxes of disposables in my pockets.)
    Anyway, Pit Viper started making Z87 rated glasses. I bought a pair, started wearing them, people dug them. I contacted Pit Viper and they gave me a discount code for the site. Pit Viper eye pro exploded on site. At about the same time blue tooth ear pro was taking off. So people were wearing all their PPE.

    My site manager didn’t like the look or the Bluetooth ear muffs and told QA to tell people they couldn’t wear them. I said, “Motherfucker, they’re finally wearing their PPE and you want me to stop them because you think it looks unprofessional?! You wear white oakleys in public. No.”
    This is the same boss that wrote me up for bullying him twice. Anyways, the Pit Vipers reminded me of that.



  • JamesTBagg@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzHorses go brr
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    14 days ago

    Now, I’ve read that horses were native to the Asian continent and migrated elsewhere, eventually to the Americas. However, I was at the San Diego Natural History museum last night and they had a display that claims the opposite, that horses are native to then migrated out of the Americas.

    *37 seconds of Wikipedia browsing did teach me that native horses went extinct in North America about 8,000 years ago, then were later reintroduced.



  • Not commenting on the other parts of this discussion but a single shot from a rifle absolutely CAN cause permanent hearing damage. Even some weapons suppressed are still loud enough to damage your hearing over a short amount of time/multiple shoots. Have you ever seen or watched news of cops shooting someone and NOT firing multiple rounds?
    Of all the tactical battle rattle these ICE dorks are wearing to capture people, I think suppressors are the least worrisome; should maybe even be mandatory for law enforcement in urban environments. That’s coming from my experience shooting in the Marines and being a hobby shooter since then.