But foreign politics less so. New government in Kenya? Not a big deal. Convicted felon and rapist shitting on the world? Annoying, but there are more important local matters.

Why would that stop them now?

Guess which government watchdog is going to be targeted for funding cuts next…

It will be a liberation, not an invasion. And anyway, not all of Europe, you can keep Portugal.

I believe it is a conspiracy by HP to make us use more ink.

Apparently there was a study done and your happiness levels out. Like if you got a big pay bump you’d be happier for a while but then back to baseline.

My boss used this to say that we don’t need raises. I asked if we could prove it and me and her swap pays. She laughed and brushed me off.

Most car insurance covers fire, so i hope the owners can collect and buy a different car.

That’s where the phrase “out of whack” came from. You just needed to give it a whack.

I had a similar thing on an old crt monitor. The screen would start to flicker badly after a while, and 8 year old me found if you banged the side, just right, it would keep working for a couple of hours.

Turns out the circuit board had some dry solders on it and when I hit it on the side where the board was, it got the connection back for a while.

It will be a sad Monday when Garfield passes.

I’ve never seen a perfect butt though. I’ve seen a great one, but it had a crack in it.

At the quantum level, there is true randomness. From there comes the understanding that one random fluctuation can change others and affect the future. There is no certainty of the future, our decisions have not been made. We have free will.

It’s a bad deal for Ukraine. No guarantee of military or financial support for the war, and they get stripped of resources. Same deal comes from Putin.

I know how it worked for a certain European country in the late 30’s and early 40’s.

I had this one many moons ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Telstar_Arcade#/media/File:Coleco-Telstar-Arcade-Pongside-L.jpg

Wood grain, triangular, and it had a gun.

Yeah, the same way their highest prices are named “Best offer” or “Special Rate”

Bitch Thatcher ruined ice cream.

Not equivalent. Let’s measure the aircraft performance by its ability to carry passengers between capital cities.

It’s baby steps and we need to encourage more investment. Not dismiss the Wright brothers for being unable to fly from New York to London after ten years of development.

It’s because 51% of you didn’t vote against him.

Wouldn’t be much of a short story if they did.

I liked the one where the robot could sense people’s emotional pain, and went crazy when it had to deliver bad news.