You’ve activated my “thing”. No one seems to have noticed that the bottom of the ecosystem just fucking dropped out.

When I was a child, dad taught me to always clean the windshield when we stopped for gas, and sometimes in between. I have not done this in years, easily more than a decade.

We drive hundreds of miles of back country highway to pick up my kids. Talking the South here, mostly Alabama which is 77% wooded. Nada.

Screw it, I could tell stories for an hour, too depressing to go on.

That, but I’d put pesticides and environment devastation to more blame.

Best friend’s wife almost died like that. Was in a coma for 3-months until a transplant came through.

Taxi to ER. No medical office will touch you having complained of, even mild, chest pain and a weird feeling heart. Been there, done that. Walk in the ER talking of chest pain, and say that first!, they will throw you in a room and attach an EKG. Been there, done that.

I don’t mean to alarm you, but taken together those symptoms smell like a mild heart attack. By some voodoo I don’t understand, the EKG can tell, even if the event is not happening in the moment.

I say no medical office will touch you, but first time my doc sent me to the ER, second time they whipped out a portable EKG. Times change, I may be wrong.

Heart issues? Chest pain?! They’re not touching OP with a ten-foot frog, straight to the ER is all they will say.

Why wife uses a bidet and soap, every single use. She’s never had a UTI or any other issue down there. Explain.

Damned slick! Seems right on the money with my house, given variations for small landscaping changes.

All Russia has to do is lift the restriction on shooting them. And don’t tell me Russian farmers don’t have rifles.

And there’s a great conservation story in the article!

That was my take, and I hope we’re both right. I’d kill for glasses that auto-focus as readers. I wear contacts most of the time when outside, so maybe not such a savior for me.

Try 40 years ago. My dumbass sister was advocating for plastic bags, as if we were chopping down old growth forests for fucking paper.

Forestry is an awesome practice, and we’re damned good at it. I’d advocate for waxed paper in place of plastic.

Hot damn! If had money and space I’d snag that. Wonder what I could do with a Raspberry pi and a joystick? The slick cabinet would defeat me though. :(

Oh FFS, but up the conspiracy shit. It’s two of the most powerful narcissists in the world having a spat. This was inevitable.

That’s hardware failure, bet money.

Best I’ve heard it said, we straddled the digital divide. We went from 0-100, fast. And if you wanted to do anything with a computer, you had to have a good deal of understanding. I’d add early millennials to our group, maybe most?

Also, the boomers aren’t as dumb as they’re made out. While we kids were figuring shit out, they had new tech to figure out in the workplace.

Zoomers? Hopeless. My kids are Alpha, they’re even worse.

No, the GOP hates it because it will cut into their poorest voters, big time, such a cut that Fox won’t be able to explain it away.

The one where Tony blew him off and made him look a fool?

.223: Proper American rifle round.

5.56: Communist European rifle round.

I know why they do this. The last guy’s core job was Ask Jeeves, but he was involved in and at least touched all those other technologies. HR looks at last guy’s resume, figures those are the skills needed, posts a mess.

SOURCE: Been the last guy, seen my replacement posting.

America was on the sidelines converting most of a continent from a depression era economy to a war time economy and tooling up every manufacturer that made metal into making weapons. FFS, Singer (yes, the sewing machine company) made 1911 .45s.

Then we started sending war materiel to the allies measured in millions of tons.

Then we launched an invasion force of fucking biblical proportions just to get a toehold in France. All while fighting in Italy and Northern Africa, AND while fighting the Empire of Japan across the world’s largest ocean (with our best base and most of the best (7th) fleet wrecked).

Sorry it took a couple of years.

God. Had A and B and the VIC-20 before A.