Eh, my first impression is that this is staged (not the sparring, but the narrative).

She needs to watch The Big Lebowski.

If she wants to put a stop to her mom's behavior, she should just roll down the window and say: "I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars."

Then maybe, "Two thousand if you want my mom to watch."

Easily one of the best movie villains ever. By far the best performance in that film. He made that role his bitch. I'm surprised Kurtwood Smith didn't get more, bigger roles in the early 90's. Maybe he didn't want to get typecast as as sci-fi villain, which is perhaps for the best. He equally owned the Dad role in That 70's Show.

Well that was certainly a... thing. It technically had Bruce Willis in it. Maybe not acting, but he was there.

Is there a crusade coming or a jihad coming?

No, no no... this is like the Doctor's husband riddle. Nobody said this was a traditional family? What if the daughters are adopted? What if they're from each from previous marriages? The answer is between 6 and 10.

Looks like a Roland Emmerich movie without the camp and special effects, which doesn't leave much.

If you're willing to spend a bit more, there are lots of industrial RFID readers that fit in a similar footprint (though requiring mains power), with ~100+ meter ranges that can process tens of thousands of tags per second.

Of course, nobody even a little bit serious about security treats the contents of the tag memory as a secret. On the other hand, there are tons of vendors (particularly in the IOT space), that don't care about infosec at all.

Yeah, schizophrenia is a terrifying disease.

I may be missing what you're seeing, but it looks legit to me. The cymbals and some of the pads on that side are electronic too. They can also be configured to play different samples on successive hits (or velocities) to further muddle things.

Thing that struck my attention was a couple times he switched from matched to traditional grip and back.

DC, Deadpool style. Seems like in theory this could work. Looks like it'll be maybe be an R rated film, so they can finally do their darker, grittier DC thing properly.

I like the concept.

Uh, so this guy and his son spend a year and a half working together to build this kit car project, and Lamborghini comes and takes it away unfinished and replaces it with a real one. Is that a happy ending? What is the moral of this story?

Given the fog, it kind of seems like there should have been more flashing lights from the emergency vehicles or at least road flares.

My memory of palmetto bugs is entering a room, turning on a light, three of the bastards turn around, look at me like they're sizing me up, and then scuttle away.

Insects making eye contact with a human is just fundamentally wrong. Insects whose concept of humans is anything less than an ineffable cosmic force have evolved beyond their allotted station and should be purged from existence. They can take their flaming death trees with them.

Forgive my lapse into Hall Monitor mode, but the person in front was trying to *hold* their phone on a ride where there are going to be high speed rapid direction changes of several g's? That person is dangerously stupid.

Samuel, though, is on point with the situational awareness and reflexes.