For me if Christmas eve is a Monday we usually get the whole Monday off, if it’s later in the week we only get a half day. We get from Christmas eve 12 noon to January 1 off normally

RIFTS is set in the future, 300 years after an apocalypse brought magic back to earth

It’s fantasy + sci fi

For safety.

When you back in you have good visibility on your way in - you see in and behind the spot you’re taking as you drive past it to line up

When you leave you have excellent visibility ahead as it’s on front of

Also the car is easier to steer into the spot in reverse

I guess some people are really bad drivers

Leave the spot just the opposite way to which you entered the spot. Then try again.

Ideal: exactly centered between whatever defines the spot (lines, cars, kerbs)

Ideal’: close to a kerb and far from the neighboring car/line

Occasionally my phone recommends an article to read that I find interesting, I click it and it opens in the built in chrome based browser and is a sea of ads. Fortunately there’s an “open in Firefox” button so I actually can read the article

The Flynn effect makes that a time sensitive achievement

Gen X here. I agree torrents are for legit uses only

Usenet is the best for piracy

Is that a deliberately 3d image pair?

They seem 3d with the cross eye technique

I’m seeing cats planning how to get off those sticks so they can knock the baked goods to the floor

It’s pretty cheap

European law says you need to identify paid content, it’s up to the channel to decide how, it’s usually “AD” written in a moderately contrasty color in the top right of the screen

It’s more than that. You need a chance for your body to recoup. People exercising hard more than 3 times in six days are doing themselves damage

People since ancient times have lived as long as modern people

More of us make it to the very old ages than twenty thousand years ago, but even back then those who survived childhood had a good chance of making it to old age

It’s not very true. Our bodies work fine for a good long time. It may be the cause of some of the problems we get as we age though

Incidentally I have heard (no idea whether it was folk stories or science) that kids who don’t crawl (some roll and drag themselves and learn to walk very early) get bad backs young

Most of the great apes are more or less upright much of the time

Yeah, that’s why you’d want two phones

Last I looked you could pretty easily get root on many phones, just if you did you couldn’t use stuff that checks the device security

If you want to carry two phones you could use one for banks and 2 factor authentication, and have root on the other

The rule says “you” appear bigger or smaller. One’s hat is not one.

That die has too few sides

It took an area effect weapon (1 holy hand grenade of Antioch) to defeat it, so it probably has excellent AC and high hit points