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The Arctic exhibit.

The instructions were clear. Take him up, cut the line, come back for a refill.

Free speech stops when it infringes someone else’s rights. That’s why threatening violence isn’t covered. This should be obvious.

I also note that while the tweet was self-deleted, it’s still out there now thanks to this tweet, and this post, and even my reply, much like telling a jury to disregard something that was objected to. They probably knew it too, the old post and delete method of getting people worked up and denying responsibility.

Yet if I was helping my elders over the phone, I’d get all sorts of “What Windows key?”, “I can’t find that Control key”, or “I did that key, the plus key, and then my hand slipped and I minimized everything.”

It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

I know it’s not the point, but this gives me anxiety. Not a fan of crowds at all. I would take one look and leave.

“Generated by AI”

Me? I’m a planner. You know? I make plans.

You’ve already made the plan, so what value do you have now?

If, uh, the plan fails… the existing plan… I make a new plan.

So you make plans that fail.

I accept the concept from “The Man from Earth” movie/play as canon. Maybe not in that particular way, but in how it went from a nice philosophy by a guy that mushroomed into something he would not have recognized.

Unless some evil god is opening a portal to a dark dimension. Movies have taught me at that point, you throw everything you can at it, from crossed beams to houses to nukes to whatever you have handy.

“You can tell a lot about a place by how they treat their people.” – Amos Burton

You’re correct on all those, but OP was talking about people who praise the Affordable Care Act but vote for politicians who say they want to get rid of Obamacare. Those people aren’t using the system but want better, they are just ignorant that the two are the same thing.

Now we absolutely could do better, but it’s better than what we had, and Republicans still want to get rid of it, even with less ties to Obama in name now. They truly hate people.

Larry Niven’s teleport pads would be cool. Except for the human tendency to stand at a doorway…keep moving!

“Some glazed, some sprinkles, whatever makes sense.”

The comments show it’s not the color, but the intensity. Any color too bright is going to be annoying. I’ve got some monitors that have the perfect level for their power and controls, it’s just enough to be able to see in daylight, and not at all in the face in the dark. There’s no reason to have HID lights on electronic indicators (or on automobiles, but that’s a different topic).

Wannabe Zorg. He better avoid luxury space liners.

There are some high quality places out there, Subway has always been the McDs of subs. I feel they started to go downhill when they stopped cutting the v notch in the bread to stuff it full and just went with boring halves.

I will say to those thinking $5 should remain the price - we were okay with $5 subs a decade or more ago, but now asking more is too much? Inflation is a thing. $5 purchasing power in 1990 is now $12 in 2024. The argument shouldn’t be about the price increase, as it should have crept up this whole time. But the quality should have at least remained the same, and the workers fairly paid. The price of the sub is the least of the problems.

That’s got a Frank Herbert’s “The White Plague” vibe. A solution for half the population, but what about the other half?

It’s all about projecting confidence that you are the person in control. Don’t even need the right clothes or a clipboard. Some of my favorite scenes from the Beverly Hills Cop movies is when Axel does this kind of thing. Catch people by surprise, flash an ID without showing it, look pissed. “Is that your Porsche outside???”

Springs go from dangerous to lethal. So much invisible energy stored, waiting for a weak point. Way too many videos out there of what not to do with car suspensions or garage doors.

On the picture topic, it depends on which end he was impaled on. It’s obviously the broken side, but they don’t say that’s the end that got him.