I’m also a Lynch fan. The only time I really watch his movies is when I have a bad fever. I was sweating through my couch, dying to sip water and binging Twin Peaks. It’s really the only way to watch, I have to say.

Maybe psychedelics? That might be good too.

The only time I lay down in VR is Superhot VR, and that’s never relaxing.

Honestly, it’s a job that comes with an implicit “you are worth less than our objectives and your life will be risked if we deem it.” No OSHA, no safety regulations (well, militaries have their own regulations…) Get in the barely tested hardware and determine if it’ll protect you from a bomb. Also, if you disagree, we’ll put you in jail or jack up your life.

That said, countries need armies. Where would Ukraine be if they decided to disarm for security agreements that were then quickly violated? And what if that foe was actually competent?

But, like, post-Vietnam, Americans should’ve realized they weren’t the good guys. It’s a shame new people keep getting born and don’t realize the whole history of their country…

Which is hilarious because you violated AP style by not first saying Associated Press.

5km/h is on the low end of the “average” walking speed but waiting at intersections and lights will murder that speed. You could easily be on the upper end of six and then have to wait 5+ minutes at an intersection, bringing you back below a 5.

Everyone wants “adequate” body armor but no one wants to wear the IBA’s nut flap and thigh guards…

They mean the PDFs of them or ePub or whatever they’re scanning them into. Yeah, the original is gone but imagine if the Library of Alexandria went up in flames but every ash contained a complete work for free to everyone to read at their leisure.

Oh, and Ram.

You just steal plates from another car. Bonus points if you can find the same model. Most people don’t check their front and back every time they hop in - just snag their front plate and swap.

Cooking is an art, baking a science. You’ve got to have everything measured right for baking, cooking you can probably fudge the numbers a bit and correct later.

only there because the other option was starvation

They could’ve joined the Army and could’ve been stuck in Kuwait dealing with Iranian drones instead. There’s always options.

Hence the laser raptors…

Americans not living in America are still required to file American taxes and pay them if they are owed. So, in this case, even an American living abroad may be financing the atrocities at home and abroad using non-US funds.

Ah, yes, illegal immigrants with their high paying jobs buying up all the houses. Even assuming rent goes down when you remove tenants from an area (supply and demand, because how do you convince people to move into the path of the brown shirts) the question is about HOME prices. Rents are impacted by home prices, yes, but after the cost of permitting and materials, it’s ‘cheaper’ to build a second floor and raise the price by $200k than it is to build affordable homes - meanwhile the cost of smaller homes has exploded because venture capital buys them up for rentals.

If that study had any legs, or you any confidence in it, you would’ve linked it in the first place.

Would you judge an American doing nothing about their government’s actions the same?

That’s because the Gringotts Goblins control the galactic media.

He was talking about serious things and tan is an unserious color. It’s never okay for a president to act unserious unless he’s a white male Republican, in which case it’s fine.

Racism is the context, the justification, and the motive. It’s not really much more than that.

How long had England been a part of the EU before it left? Maybe the whole country should bear the shame of this woman being deported. If they didn’t want it to happen, they shouldn’t have left the EU.

More to say, if I agree to the recording at the beginning and then a few minutes into the call change my mind, that’s allowed.

I can’t really wait until an hour after the call, realize I shouldn’t have over shared and ring you to say that you can’t record our call.

You’re acting like the BC-250 doesn’t exist. If there’s a monetary opportunity, someone is going to try it.

I got a buddy who texts me “Give me a call when you get a chance”

Always allows me to finish up my work and call them when the time suits me.

Meanwhile, coworkers just call me a minute before I’m supposed to go into a meeting and expect to have my attention for a half hour. It’s on the calendar you dipshit.