Fascinating. I had never heard of these. Thanks for the enlightenment!

Depeche Mode's Some Great Reward was the first cassette of theirs I bought and it lived in my walkman.

I have the same understanding as you on the whole walkman/discman thing.

Basic supply and demand economics. When supply is high and demand is low, prices fall. When demand is high and supply is low, prices rise. They think people will willingly sit in line regardless of the price because, in reality, people have.

Conversely, they wouldn't want to drive people away when business is slow and can easily jump into another drive thru.

It always seemed like a logic gate thing to me, like the Fullmetal Alchemist rule of equivalent exchange. Otherwise, there comes a point where there would be no order or structure to the universe and the benefit is boiled down to simply preserving reality.

The muscles that flex for me are the ones in the back of my head. If you place your hand on the back of your head directly between your ears (so just about where your skull begins to curve in and your neck muscles begin) it's the ones just on either side of the center line that do the flexing and pull my ears back. Try imagining scrunching up the back of your head.

So, I've never liked that phrase. What happens when you drain a swamp? You remove all the stagnant water and dead-zones. But what is left behind? He said he would drain the swamp, not remove the scum.

I had assumed they were, but I'd never heard anything confirming it.

You are correct. The title is poorly worded. I believe it is supposed to read "Google was not the first to come out with wearable tech before Meta..."

The X-Files. The direction they took after Robert Patrick joined just did not work and felt like a spinoff more than part of the main series.

It's been a while since I saw the movie, but seeing the concept art for the stones made me realize how well the symbols work for what they represent. I don't know why it took me this long to see it.

And the concept art for Diva looks fantastic!

Just the ghost living between your wall boards peeking out to say hi.

I believe they are called communities.