Lazy thinking.
Regardless of what happened later, these were good things that benefited normal citizens.
Why one over the other? Genuinely curious since I haven't watched either, but have considered taking the time to upgrade my ancient non-anamorphic DVD copies
“I can’t honestly say that stepping down as chairman will be what is best for the party as it may embolden enemies from within and without,” Cummings said today.
Always "enemies" with these people
What I really look for in a superhero movie is an 80-year-old CGI villain
"Mostly." :-)
You're talking to someone who owns all of those on Blu-ray and eagerly watched all of them each week back in the day (except Simon & Simon). And I could easily nominate probably 10 more off the top of my head.
In fact, I'm currently doing a full series rewatch of Quantum Leap. Nearly done.
But you've got to admit that for every excellent show there were a dozen terrible ones that are utterly forgettable. The bar is on average higher these days. Or rather, it was maybe a decade ago.
This is real, and just as stupid as it sounds: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/09/peter-navarro-pseudonym-ron-vara/
BTW it's called anemoia. Nostalgia for a time or place you've never been.
I lived in that era. Things were slower and simpler in many ways, and brands had more personality. They weren't all so samey and companies weren't so big and faceless that they were completely immune to repercussions.
Home computers were mostly expensive toys that lived in designated spots in your home that you visited occasionally, not omnipresent passengers that were always with you, tracking your movements and constantly jabbing at you for attention.
Most things were written with pencil and paper. Businesses used typewriters. When you called a company you got a human being who lived in your country who could take time to actually help you with your problem. Store staff were knowledgeable about the products they sold, particularly places like Radio Shack.
People talked in the checkout line and at the register. Grocery stores devoted half an aisle to magazines and newspapers, and people actually had the time to read them. Nobody assumed a father with his crying kid in public was a predator who kidnapped a child. Taxi drivers knew the fastest way to get anywhere by memory.
There were fireflies in the evenings in the country, and there was more country. There were moths and butterflies and so many bugs in the summer that your windshield needed cleaning at every gas stop. People wanted to save the whales and stop the hole in the ozone and prevent acid rain, and through cooperation and legislation we actually did two of those things...
Later in the decade, when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was making overtures of peace, when computers became actually useful and the Internet first came to homes, when there was international cooperation in space, we were all really filled with a degree of optimism for the future that seems so pure in hindsight.
Not everything was great. Domestic cars were awful. Gays had to hide because coming out of the closet would destroy your life. There was lots of sexism and misogyny in the workplace. Reagan was president and he really ruined many things that never recovered. TV shows were mostly terrible.
But I'd happily go back and re-live those years. And probably invest heavily in Apple and Microsoft. And maybe accidentally run over a real estate developer in Manhattan while he was crossing the street.
It's not concern about theft, it's just penny-ante nickel-and-dime BS to get you to buy more than you need. But as you said, it's so hostile to customers that you wind up going somewhere else for bigger ticket items. Of course the opportunity cost is invisible to them.
It's great that you have that option. Really makes it easy for you
I hate that I can't avoid them entirely in my area except for nuts-and-bolts type things, which I go to my local hardware store for. Home Depot and Lowe's have a monopoly in my area when it comes to most goods, but I had to give up on Lowe's entirely due to the truly terrible customer experience.
(Home Depot has a bad customer experience too, but my local Lowe's is on a different level.)
Summary: Democrats are doing nothing about stopping the flow of funds to Israel after increasingly brazen massacres of unarmed civilians and other war crimes.