My response to this is usually “Do you have curtains?”

Very late edit: I have found it very effective. It causes pause for thought because everyone values privacy, they just find it hard to picture themselves needing it. Curtains.

Thanks for the recommendation. Giving it a listen currently.

It’s about 300+ visitors per hour averaged out over the whole year given opening times / holidays. It’s a small assed island that requires a ferry to get to so honestly not bad. IMO.

It’s also very very far from Europe where I guess a decent chunk of US visitors come from.

Oh I meant as a tourist attraction :) last time I was in SF was 2019 and and it was still open to the public. I misunderstood your comment

Oh wow. Didn’t know it had shut down. Guess I’m in the lucky gang to have seen it while it was still a tourist attraction. Definitely one of the cooler things I saw in the US.

I’m surprised it wasn’t making money. It was very busy when I was there which was in September (1998 iirc).

Lost tourist revenue from that would surely be enormous.

Edit: apparently not. Wikipedia says:

Operating costs still remain one of its biggest challenges today.

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Yes! My mistake!

Can’t believe I pulled a Gorman. Edited previous post.

I honestly have been blown away by how cinematic the 4K Blu-ray experience is. The new Dune ones are on the list to get. I’d say they’re great. Lord of the rings too.

I’m up to 7 in my collection now and definitely will be continuing to add to it.

No OLED here yet but next TV I will definitely pony up the extra for it.

Hahaha. That’s a great little nugget.

She has the most iconic line from my youth.

I got gifted a 4K Blu-ray player for Christmas. Immediately bought Aliens (my favourite movie of all time) then sat down with my older kids to watch it with popcorn etc.

There was such a buzz in the room when she delivered that line.

Have to recommend the 4K Blu-ray experience if you’re a fan. The detail honestly shocked me.

Edit:

I mean next to Ripley, the android and the little girl, she’s the most memorable character in that movie.

The casting is great.

I think Paul Riser did a great job as the slimy company man Burke. He was very believable.

Michael Bien was great as Hudson Hicks too. The exchange between himself, Ripley and Burke about nuking the site was great.

Ireland ticks most of your boxes. If any of your grandparents are Irish you can get dual citizenship. English speaking and lots of cultural crossover etc.

Closer for trips back too. Think it’s only a 5 hour flight to New York for example.

Irish. Trying to muster one fuck to give but just can’t manage it unfortunately.

Side note: She’s a great actress.

I have children that wouldn’t mind being called a slur for half that money. White children. Bet that could really raise some dough from the white nationalist lunatics.

We good to go?

They have come out already and said they will.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0502/1510729-tiktok-fine/

Enjoy it and really, congratulations!!

I’ve been the young dad at school and now I’m the old dad. There are 21 years between our youngest and oldest. I wasn’t quite your age when we had our happy little accident but I’m so happy to have him and it sounds like you are too.

I’ll offer one piece of advice and that is to start looking after your health if you’re not already. You’re going to want the extra, high quality years with your kid that good diet and exercise bring and being fit really does help with the parenting adventure (in my experience anyway).

Enjoy the ride! It’s so much fun. I’m really happy for you.

Agree with everything you’ve said. They only thing is China has been contesting a North Eastern border with India for some time so they might take the opportunity for some shenanigans.

Still don’t see it escalating beyond regional though as you said.

On one hand I think you’re right but on the other, if they’re correct, I’d say they want India to know they’re in their systems or have spies.

That kind of an opsec failure is going to be disconcerting at a minimum.

Relevant interview on the national broadcaster with their manager. He gets a decent grilling (the interviewer is famous here for grilling politicians to get past their BS) but it’s an interesting exchange.

India RN: