kingbob

I can’t believe advertising free food wasn’t a sustainable business model.

The only way to stop discrimination based on race is to stop discriminating based on race.

Can’t wait to see his jersey retired. Dude is a Saints Hall of Famer no doubt.

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Blow if you're certain you'll blow zeroes, refuse otherwise? I don't drink and drive, just curious

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Correct. The margin of error on a breathalyzer can be as high as .05! One drink can raise your BAC to.03. .08 is typically the benchmark for intoxication.

In addition, field sobriety tests are designed to be subjective and impassable by the average sober human. Thus, both tests administered in the field are essentially rigged to give a false positive.

The only accurate test is a blood test, and that requires a warrant. The time required to obtain a warrant also gives time for alcohol in the blood stream to potentially dissipate.

If multiple blood tests are taken, they can observe how BAC rises or falls and extrapolate what it was at the time the driver was pulled over, but this conjecture is considered much less persuasive in court than a positive breathalyzer or failing a field sobriety test.

Thus, always decline the field sobriety test, and never consent to the breathalyzer unless you have had absolutely zero alcohol to drink and haven’t used mouthwash recently.

The main issue with the show is that I don’t “like” any of the characters. I don’t empathize with any of them, I am not entertained by any of them (except Daemon occasionally), I don’t understand their motivations or goals (and I don’t really care to), so they just all seem like incompetent people with no agency wandering around aimlessly killing each other.

Joffery was a count, but you understood why he was a count, what he wanted out of being a count, and he was fun to root against. You got to know Tywin intimately. His motivations and what drove him made him a compelling villain. The Hound and Gregor Clegane, even Khal Drogo had more character development on screen than most of the characters in HOTD. We knew who these characters were, why they were, what they wanted, and how they wanted to get it.

Is there any reason Rhenyra wants the crown other than her father telling her she’s the heir? Is there anything she wants to do with the crown? Does she have any agenda or long term strategy beyond “win the war, sit the throne”?

Aegon was only king because his mother forced him to be King. Why did Alecent want that for him? What does she want for the world? What is her vision?

I understand that one Hightower’s goals and aims. He’s literally the only developed character, but they basically make him a one-dimensional mustache twirling villain.

I rewatched No Way Home last night. It was really fun. My only complaint was the run time, but they covered a ton of ground with it. It’s not only a fun comic book movie, but there’s a ton of character development and payoff along the way. The setup is a little silly, but it’s worth it for the ride.

I have faith that this movie can be good, far more faith than I have for virtually any other property in Disney/Marvel/Star Wars.

I’ve only made it to A&M, Arkansas, Ole Miss, Auburn, Florida, and Tennessee so far. I’ll eventually catch the rest of them.

6/15 isn’t awful.

I recently rewatched 1, and while parts were better than I remembered, the bad parts were soooooo bad. Jar Jar literally made me wince from cringe at multiple scenes. To be honest, what this movie needs is dialing down Jar Jar about 20% (he’s so stupid and clumsy that it is legitimately baffling how he is alive) and casting a different actor for Anakin. The script acts like Anakin is 13-14, but they inexplicably cast a young looking 9 year-old to play him instead, and the child actor really wasn’t very good. Those two changes would have improved the movie dramatically.

2 is alright up until about halfway through the movie. When Obi Wan gets to Kamino and Anakin goes to Naboo, the movie completely falls apart. The stuff on geonosis is fun, but makes zero logical sense. It’s a bad movie full of dumb plot, bad acting, and worse pacing. It’s the worst star wars movie.

3 is f$&king great. It constantly oscillates between “so bad it’s good” and “actually, this is peak”. It’s the most rewatchable Star Wars movie, imo. It’s so over the top, but it owns it, and just keeps jumping the shark over and over again until you can no longer be cynical and just start enjoying how silly and absurd it is. I love this movie.

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skimming through this entire things has now led me to believe that the average age of posters on the PB are 55+

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It’s likely significantly north of that.

10 years ago, most of the posters were in their late 20’s to late 30’s. However, around the time Trump was elected, some other SEC regional message boards got shut down, and this board got a huge infusion of older people from these other boards. The posting habits of these people combined with changes in how zoomer college students interact (mainly migrating to discords) caused the user base of the site to rapidly grey. We got another huge wave of boomers from Q going viral, as this was one of the least moderated, safest, places on the internet to discuss it.

When I started posting here 15 years ago, the average age was probably around 30. Today, it’s closer to 65. That should tell you everything you need to know about why the character of TD and the poliboard has changed so much in that time.

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suspect other jurisdictions operate with more corruption simply because no one is watching

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It may be possible other jurisdictions are more corrupt (I doubt it), but I can guarantee: no jurisdiction is less functional than Orleans. Service of process never goes out on time, clerks of court don’t answer the phones, pleadings are routinely lost, DA’s purposely bungle prosecutions to release criminals, judges bend the rules for defendants to release them, multiple scandals of staged accidents swept under the rug, a juvenile detention facility that cannot hold people, a public defender who cannot defend indigents, etc. Nothing in the New Orleans court system functions even remotely on par with the next-worst jurisdictions.

It’s not that I disagree with them politically. It’s not that I resent them for personality issues. The problem is that New Orleans’s institutions that they run themselves do not function whether they are the police, the sewage & water board, the courts, the inspectors, garbage collectors, or what have you, and it negatively impacts the entire state. The 19th JDC may have judges crooked as the day is long, but they still let me e-file pleadings, mail stuff out on time, communicate properly, have reasonable court delays, DA’s prosecute cases, public defenders still function (albeit not as well as I’d like, but they make the most out of their resources), etc. The 19th may be as corrupt as Orleans, but it still functions as a court. Orleans basically doesn’t function, and hasn’t for a long time.