I love what Wikipedia says, succinctly:
"The Time Cube website did not have a home page as such…In one paragraph, he claimed that his own wisdom 'so antiquates known knowledge' that a psychiatrist examining his behavior diagnosed him with schizophrenia."
House Minority Leader Mike Lynch ®
This will never not be funny to me, the way ( R ) gets translated to Registered Trademark.
Simplest answer (other than obviously Ep 4 was written decades before Eps 1-3):
He lied.
He doesn't know the circumstances of Luke's appearance at his doorstep (as it were), and his job - his ONLY job - is to keep Luke safe. Until he sees the message, he doesn't know WTF is going on. Why would he admit owning a droid? He's supposed to be just some old geezer in the desert.
Duct. Duck is a brand name
Yes. But also mostly no.
Wikipedia:
"Duck tape" is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as having been in use since 1899 and "duct tape" (described as "perhaps an alteration of earlier duck tape") since 1965
and:
In 1971, Jack Kahl bought the Anderson firm and renamed it Manco. In 1975, Kahl rebranded the duct tape made by his company. Because the previously used generic term "duck tape" had fallen out of use, he was able to trademark the brand "Duck Tape" and market his product complete with a yellow cartoon duck logo. Manco chose the term "Duck", the tape's original name, as "a play on the fact that people often refer to duct tape as 'duck tape'", and as a marketing differentiation to stand out against other sellers of duct tape.
People should really do the bare minimum double-check before showing their whole ass.
As others have noted, "duct tape" is the last thing you want to use on ducts. Better to actually call it "duck tape," as it was for the first 65 years of its existence.
Ireland has been supporting civilian Palestinians from the beginning. The only Western nation to do so vocally.
Ireland has a lot of history resisting an occupying force.
These far-right Israeli politicians are basically saying, "You love them so much, you take them."
Uh... no? It's right there at the bottom:
The raise takes effect on April 1 and applies to workers at restaurants that have at least 60 locations nationwide
Small time, local food joints would not be required to raise wages above the current minimum. They'd actually be able to compete more.
What the heck are you smoking?
Fun story! They came to that conclusion because they discovered a text which had what they believed was another very similar word ("epiousi") that, in context, meant "necessary" or "enough for now." That text was a shopping list.
Then the text got lost for a long time, and when they found it again, new eyes on it realized that they'd misread the word, so it was back to square one.
Things were written mostly by eyewitness or those who interviewed eye witnesses.
The scholarly consensus is that this is not the case. The earliest written Gospel (Mark) couldn't have been written any earlier than the occupation of the Temple during the First Jewish Revolt in 66-67, and all indications are that he was writing down traditions that came from his community and others, with no immediate connection to any "eyewitnesses."
(Source: I have a PhD in this stuff.)
Ever gone through a Walmart checkout?
I've never seen longer nails than on those cashiers, and they have to press buttons and touch screens all the damn time.
One of the essential features of ADHD is the rapid attenuation of the reward system, leading to a biological resistance to the "dopamine rush" that neurotypical people feel. (For me, it manifests most clearly in the fact that I have never in my life felt anything like the "runner's high" after exercise, although every neurotypical person I've spoken to says they feel refreshed, rejuvinated and pleasantly tired afterwards.)
This stems from the fact that the built-in reward system (the positive emotional response to performing/completing a task) attenuates very quickly in people with ADHD. By that I mean that while the response happens, it very quickly drops back to zero. Much faster than for people without ADHD.
This, I suspect, is one of the fundamental aspects of ADHD and why it's characterized by attention deficit and hyperactivity. Hyperactivity happens because in order to maintain the effects of the reward system we have to do and do and go go go over and over and over again. And we have attention deficit because our interest in any given thing drops extremely quickly, since the reward of experiencing it goes away almost immediately.
I'm treating the blackout and the aftermath as a worker strike, and treating any mods replacing removed mods as scabs. But more to the point, it's a strike and I do not cross picket lines. I will not go even to the Reddit front page until the corporation reverses course, accedes to the demands of their unpaid labor and backs the fuck up.
I was going to get this game. Now I'm not.