Unpopular take: I actually found it pretty good. All characters got their screen time and the main characters all got a resolution that felt satisfying to me. The action scenes were good. I even liked the revelation of what the upside down really is, though I would’ve preferred a slightly different version of that explanation.

It’s just a much bigger country. While Europe is big, the countries are small and separated by their long national histories and unique languages. Europe is also much denser, so distances to stuff that matters are shorter.

UK: 30 miles in built-up areas, 70 miles on motorways. Most of Europe has 120 or 130 km/h (75 or 80 mph), except Germany which technically has no general speed limit on the Autobahn.

Has this been or will this be in NYT connections?

Parents of that kid paying for the 67th tooth: By God, what have we created?

Wow, spooky. I may steal this as a cryptic clue for a private TTRPG campaign.

“owned”

Wow, impressive Japanese body suit. Even with the kimono line down the middle. Bravo!

Or it’s our regular old sun on its way down towards the horizon and mum doesn’t want to walk back in the dark.

Hey, shooters gonna shoot their shots

That sounds like a perfect match, actually.

Note to self: Don’t play Toby Maguire for money. Just in case he asks.

It is unilateral. They have no contract with Google. Google is expected to fight back. I use various hardened Firefox forks on all my devices and mostly Nextpipe for YT, so I don’t much care, but that’s the background.

Are you trying to doxx me?! gasp

You see, that’s why OP always carries a second phone: To photograph the first one not falling into the gutter

Shut up and take my upvote already. And you too, OOP!

TLDR: Meta now faces lawsuit, alleged to have systematically torrented copyrighted porn, likely for Ai training. Meta’s defense arguing the torrenting were done by rogue employees having a wank was not accepted by the judge because of keyword<->IP range patterns suggesting systematic scraping.

IMO, the funny / sad thing is that it’s the torrenting that got them. Not the, IDK, scraping of every human work ever put onto the internet for the explicit act of producing derivatives, even in cases where the original author has indicated that they don’t want that thing. No, no, it’s the torrenting that’s devil’s work.