Okay but I actually would be really interested in Robert having access to the CIAs documents. Sophie can run the agency.

Of course not everyone got that raise, plenty of places are still paying those low wages but working people still have to eat inflation. And if you’re on a fixed income from a pension or social security you’re hosed.

I got a kindle for Christmas and have read more in the last few months than in the last decade. I think it being a screen kinda helps, and also being able to download books instantly instead of having to go to the library or a bookstore.

This is also a car that has the drive selection moved to the iPad on the dash.

So obviously this all isn’t very ideal but they actually made at least two mistakes here. That pipe is not rated for being outside and also Romex isn’t allowed to be used in wet areas such as underground. Only something like UF cable would be allowed to be ran buried like this.

There’s two things that you can do here, the right way and easy way. The right way would be to rip the whole wire out and run it properly. The easier way would be to kill the outlet at the breaker, disconnect the wire from the outlet and to carefully remove the pipe and replace with a PVC pipe that won’t rust. Get one from the electrical aisle because those won’t degrade in the sun.

Well climate change was always going to be a crisis that was ignored until it started hitting people’s pocketbooks.

So if we’re pretending that the cop could be taken at his word and also pretending that while behind a barrier that the cop would be beyond a reasonable doubt threatened by that, that’s still the crime of brandishing a weapon, which isn’t punishable by death in any court. Cops manage to not kill people all the time, it’s not unreasonable to hold them accountable to the already low standards we hold cops to in the US.

Most people don’t bend over backwards when the government kills a guy for the crime of, having a weapon that couldn’t possibly harm the officer. Unless we’re going to be good with cops shooting everyone with a NRA sticker on their car we probably shouldn’t be good with it here.

That’s a classic, and I won’t hear one word against it.

You know what? Maybe I should stop complaining about Comcast, it could always be worse.

Right? Like, I mean there’s probably some room for a discussion on Russian and China’s actions in geopolitics and to what extent that is a form of imperialism but to straight declare that no other countries are seems like mind rot to the highest degree. Like we’re just going to pretend that America doesn’t exist at all I suppose? Or that France and Britain don’t still have extensive colonial properties and interests? It’s a hell of a take.

Notably the constitution doesn’t actually require a trial of any sort. The amendment was put in after the civil war, it would have been impossible to have a trial for everyone that participated in the Confederacy. Bit of an open question how that gets determined nowadays though.

Maybe but if you go off the dates this was posted and take in the about 2 years of time skip in it. I don’t think it’s at all crazy a blind person in 2017 had a flip phone.

So I guess the question is why arrange the keys like that? What benefits do you get by splitting the letters down the middle like that?

My understanding is that not being allowed to catch rainwater is more of a urban legend. People took not being allowed to divert streams and other bodies of water and over time the telephone game turned it into not being allowed to gather rain off your roof.

Do you have any links for this? That sounds fascinating but my Google fu is failing me right now.

Self preservation is a good motivator, self sacrifice on the behalf of others isn’t unfortunately.