“reasonable and generous”

Well that was their first problem. Trump interprets kindness as weakness. The powerful crush everyone around them and take one they can.

There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you.’ Fool me—you can’t get fooled again."

George W. Bush – Nashville, Tennessee, September 17, 2002.

I have taught in Quebec schools this year, the first full year that cell phones were banned. I have not seen a single student using a phone. The teachers at my schools have also been unanimous in saying that there has been a significant improvement in the student attention, as well as communication and activity between students.

Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden

Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer

I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Saudi Arabia gave the United States military permission to use its air bases for direct attacks on iran.

It seems like an eternity ego that someone (Colbert?) coined the phrase, “reality has a distinctly liberal bias”.

At the circus, I would assume that they had a contract allowing them to use the music, but it also required them to make their best efforts not to allow recording.

Their best effort, of course, was to ask people not to record, and then they didn’t need to bother doing anything else.

Do you mean aside from hosting American planes, missiles, soldiers, intelligence, and ships, all of which were used to attack Iran?

The whole picture looks bad, like an AI rendering from several years ago.

Donald…I have a cask of very special wine I’d like you to try. It’s an Amontillado. Do come down into the bunker and have a taste.

St. Hubbins, the patron saint of quality footwear.

Japan doesn’t even bother with street names, except the largest ones in big cities. If you want to find a house, they are also not necessarily numbered sequentially. Sometimes the houses in a neighborhood are numbered in the order they were built.

If you want to find a house, you go to the neighborhood map and look there. At least, that’s how it used to be. Now everything is GPS. I was using GPS in a car close to 30 years ago, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the first place in the world to have consumer GPS, simply because they needed it.

C’mon, weren’t you blown away by the (at the time) novel digitized voice? “He slimed me!”

Of course, escape from Castle Wolfenstein did it even earlier (“was ist los, was ist los” and “ach, mein leben!”).

Sadly, the US system is not the same as imperial. As far as I know the main difference is the gallon.

1 gal. Imp. = 1.201 gal. U.S.

I also hate having lb.f. and lb.m (pounds force and pounds mass), which have different units and at sea level are different by a factor of about 32).

I just went to the emergency room today (in Canada). I had slipped on ice and my knee was too painful to walk.

Arrive at 9:00 am. Small town, no charge for parking at the hospital.

Go into the emergency department, no one waiting there. I take a number, it’s #2.

Five minutes later, I’m with the triage nurse. She decides I should have an X-ray before seeing the doctor. That takes 30 minutes.

Wait 15 minutes for the doctor, she stays that nothing is torn or broken, I just have a sprain. Gives me a knee brace and prescription for an anti-inflammatory.

Walk out 90 minutes after I arrived. Total cost: $0.00 (plus $2.85 to fill the prescription).

I don’t know. I think the Constitution only matters if Trump and mega don’t control all three branches of the government.

After all, weren’t the search and seizure is everywhere. Disregarding habeas corpus. Disobeying court orders to release detainees. Bullying allies and doing his best to undermine NATO.

Now he wants the federal government to have control over National elections, and it seems pretty clear that if the Republicans look like they’re going to lose control of the house or senate, elections will be suspended completely.

Every time Trump crosses a red line, people, Democrats especially, just draw a new red line.

There’s also the issue that around once a year the two planets will be on opposite sides of the sun. Not only would you have a lag of close to 3 hours, but communication would be completely impossible for a month or so at a time.

Yes, but the two-and-a-half hour lag each way would be a killer.

You could check out FolderFort. Sometimes they have lifetime pricing. I paid something like $170 for 3TB lifetime.

They have SFTP access in beta.

People are bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.

• Dr. Kelso from Scrubs (original series)