Mines slightly lighter, but otherwise same.

At least in our part of the north east, they’ve gone away because there are less kids in the schools. Enrollment and birthdates are both way down in our small towns. Ann my Moms town has closed 2 of the 5 elementary schools.

I’d argue it’s both freedom and dependence.

If you live in a rural area it really does feel like you are trapped there without a motorized vehicle. Especially late at night or in an emergency, even an ambulance can be 20+ minutes away in many places.

You can see this with the popularity of over powered e-bikes with teens. Basically silent dirt bikes at this point. They let kids go much farther from home and reduce the speed differential on road sides.

Public transit would be nice of course, but lots of people live 20-50km from any stores, and plenty live further. And have long cold winters.

I commuted by bike and subway for 18 years in Boston, but then moved home to care for dementia parents, now my son is biking (just pedals), and we’re forced to ride on paths or one town over where they have wide sidewalks and crossings (there aren’t either in our 2 stoplight town). Btw my commute took twice as long by public transport than by bike, but that’s another issue.

Like everything else, it’s a gray area, I think the US could realistically reduce vehicle use to the 40%s, but to go much lower would require the elimination of sprawl, building denser housing and a ton more local shopping, doctors, and grocery stores. Not just more trains and buses.

/end rant, sorry it got long, nuance is tricky.

That’s what I like about Ruby ORMs. They did all the conversion for you, and you could have SQLite on your dev box, Postgres on the test server and MySQL on the annoying production host that wouldn’t run anything else.

This was 18 years ago though.

Strawberry rhubarb with mostly rhubarb. Two crusts, nine of that crumble garbage and a big lump of vanilla ice cream on top.

Our dog is kinda gray, but his hair is banded black/white/black. So it shows up on anything.

Unfortunately he sheds like 2 dogs so we’re ultimately in the same boat.

Reusable grocery bags are the most embarrassing, so I end up cleaning them every week.

Dog tax:

I’m 6’3 and tall to most people, but fit under most doors just fine.

Basement stairs can fuck right off though I’ve done that lotsa times and it managed to be a surprising painful thing every time.

Also I think I’d laugh if someone said and if the short guy things to me, I get called things like string bean and “big guy” by bros who don’t know me.

They do this with overbooked flights too.

Is a decent deal if your schedule allows it. You get a free hotel and meal vouchers too.

absolutely and horrifically education-adjacent.

I work on a ski team helping set up the course and not even directly interacting with athletes (unless theirs an injury, we’re sort of the first responder to stabilize and radio to patrol if necessary). Just in order to do that job I have to spend 2-3 hours each season reviewing Safe Sport courses that train us to spot, report and prevent creeps like that from abusing children. And it’s not even difficult, if you have at least half a (non-perverted) brain, it’s mostly common sense.

Getting a letter like this as a parent would be calling national news worthy level of creepy.

Fucking insane Christian language makes it even creepier. This sounds like enabler bullshit and should get reported to authorities on its own.

No substances were involved, but when I was 16, my parents went out for the night and my buddy and I took my mom’s new Jeep Cherokee for a ride down a moderately serious fire trail near my house. It had rained and there were a few long puddles to ford, maybe axle deep at most.

Anyways we got it good and muddy and we were worried it got scratched on branches, so we took it to a 24 hour car wash, cleaned it, and everything looked great. Then while dropping off my buddy, I closed the back door and it didn’t latch all the way so I sorta hip checked it closed. The fucking thing caved in, and had a serious crease in just below the body line by the door handle. Like it was mad of cardboard.

Anyway I got in trouble and we mostly pulled the dent back, but never fully fixed it and had to hear shit about it for years after.

But they never knew that we had it on 3 wheels and possible airborne an hour or two before the door dent.

Nobody here thinks the dementia riddled fascist should have been president at any age.

Well there was the noose thing in the black guy’s garage that time.

NASCAR not Race City isn’t the relief, but I might have missed the sarcasm too.

It’s a spear thrower, like finding a smoking gun.

Wouldn’t he still be hovering if he’d missed the landing?

Take Doctorow’s advice and lobby your government to withdraw from or ignore the DMCA. If all of Europe did it, and Canada and China (if it isn’t already) it’ll have no power.

He’s not pulling any punches. Gonna have to explain some of what he said to my 8yo though.

Yup, but I never bother with separating the eggs, just make the batter before preheating the waffle iron, letting the batter sit for 5-10 minutes makes for fluffy waffles, though we’ve also switched to oat milk, which might behave differently too (I don’t recommend oat creamer though, made them too floppy, thought they did get a crispy layer after 30 seconds out of the iron.

F-350°F for F-150 minutes.

I think this could be an untapped cookbook market. Make it look like a shop manual and I’m in.

I’ve missed a plane (American Airlibes I think it was) and they basically said no problem and put me right on the next one a couple hours later. It was between 2 major hub airports though.

Also pro tip if you came tickets on a Friday before a holiday weekend: They overbook the shit out of those flights and offer vouchers for free tickets if you give up your seat to a standby. They sort of bid it up and I got $1000, a seat on an empty flight the next day, hotel, and meal vouchers for dinner and breakfast the next day. A retired couple who lived near the airport used to do it for all the major holidays for free flights. They explained it to me as we cashed out together. Ended up flying to the total eclipse for free with my brother later.

Just whichever NPR affiliate comes in clearest on a drive.