Schrödinger’s country.

We should change that. “Literal” is much quite useful for it’s defined meaning, much less so as metaphorical emphasis. It can be mistaken as sarcasm if it’s used incorrectly.

After both parents died, we four kids sold the house. It’s still “home”, but it’s not ours anymore. That home exists only in our memories, as do our parents. At 60, I’m the youngest of the four of us, so they’ll all be dying sooner than later. I take better care of myself than any of them, so I’ll probably be the last to go. Then it will only be my son left. He’s adamant that he doesn’t want kids, and I fully understand. Our family name will die with him.

That’s life.

AST Research 286/12 with a 40 MB hard drive and amber monitor.

Bad juju? LOL

I hope so many people feel the same way that it comes up for sale so cheap I can afford it. What happened previously on a chunk of Earth is irrelevant to me. Many years ago, I got a discount on renting an apartment because someone was murdered there. I didn’t GAF, I was happy for the discount.

Censorship isn’t recent. It’s been with us since the dawn of civilization.

Socrates, while defying attempts by the Athenian state to censor his philosophical teachings, was brought charges that led to his death. The conviction is recorded by Plato: in 399 BC, Socrates went on trial[8] and was subsequently found guilty of both corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens and of impiety (asebeia,[9] “not believing in the gods of the state”),[10] and was sentenced to hemlock.

Censorship is another way to wield power, and all of civilization is about power.

You take offense at being corrected? Rather than take responsibility for making a mistake, you blame others for correcting you. That is something Trump does. I hope you grow out of this phase of your life, for your own sake.

Salad becomes finger food without the dressing. Did you use utensils to make the salad?

Some societies use their hands to eat all food.

I have given sporadically in the past, depending on how poor I was at the time, etc.

I don’t carry cash at all anymore, though.

Following in Putin’s footsteps. The filthy rich should have taken note:

“After Khodorkovsky’s conviction, the other oligarchs went to Putin and asked him what they needed to do to avoid sitting in the same cage as Khodorkovsky. From what followed, it appeared that Putin’s answer was, “50%” He wasn’t saying 50% for the Russian government or the presidential administration of Russia, but 50% for Vladimir Putin personally.”

It’s not are fault, it’s the school’s!

If you’re only going to spend a week in Italy in your life, then you want to see all the iconic Italian stuff.

People who visit the U.S. (not that anyone does, or should anymore) want to see New York, Hollywood, and maybe San Francisco and Miami. No one comes to see Topeka or Cheyenne.

I shop in the morning to avoid lines. But, before self-checkout, they’d only have two registers open, so there was still a line. With self-checkout, in the morning, there’s never a line so it’s faster.

I like Walmart self-checkout machines better than others I’ve used, such as at Lowe’s or Target (I don’t shop at Target anymore) because I only need to put in my pin number, there’s no other confirmations. I ignore the rate the store, donation, and print or email receipt questions while I put the groceries back in the cart, those all time out and the receipt prints by default.

I’m happy enough to chat or not chat to strangers, so that was never an issue for me. I’m sorry so many of the younger generation were apparently so poorly socialized, it must be stressful.

I’d like to see this.

I’m not saying it’s a good idea, I’m just saying I’d like to see it.

Arrested and strip-searched for a first offense? That’s fucking ridiculous. I hope the lawsuit succeeds. It’s the only peaceful tool we have to curb over-zealous law enforcement.

Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says.

Earlier in the day, her friends had teased the teen about her tanned complexion and called her “Mexican,” even though she’s not. When a friend asked what she was planning for Thursday, she wrote: “on Thursday we kill all the Mexico’s.”

There’s plenty of room for activities! Like… sledding.

Big Mags was the head of a “one family crime wave” responsible for thefts and violence across Stirling. They were dubbed “Scotland’s Family from Hell” by the tabloids. “The amount of crimes committed in Stirling by that family was the stuff of legend so they weren’t great to have around,” he says.

With the family’s crimes exposed and the local community’s patience at an end, Big Mags and the Haneys were forced to leave the estate by a 400-strong mob - bigger than the one whipped up to remove the paedophile Alan Christie six months earlier. The crowd gathered near Mags’s flat, chanting “build a bonfire and put the Haneys on the top”.

Tax dodges for the rich don’t need to look good, they just need hype.

It may be counterintuitive, but a bin is more likely to be down the street, than in the neighbor’s yard. Because the wind will blow the bin along the open street more easily than it will force it up a curb or driveway.

I’ve found my bin halfway down the street several times here in NM. I’ve never had it end up in the neighbor’s yard.

Imma try.

<Ahem>

Bitch.

Cool.