I have USB cables twice as old as your blanket, probably even some I’ve never used.

“Gowl”

One per state is not great. Like the senate, it will over-represent low population states and unless you include Puerto Rico it will be an even number.

We almost need a non-partisan judiciary oversight board that appoints supreme court justices and has the authority to remove them given concrete and well-defined rules to prevent them from acting against the public and judicial precedent.

My neighboring state has toll roads that I drive on 2-3 times a year and I have ezpass to reduce hassle. If there were toll roads in my state it’d be a no brainer.

This is my favorite recipe, the cheddar cheese soup kicks it up a notch.

https://iambaker.net/tater-tot-hotdish/

I’d believe you if the traffic lights here weren’t so awful, unsafe, and inefficient.

Aluminum is recycled by melting it. Plastic burns off long before the aluminum melts. The residue might contaminate the aluminum but there are ways to remove that in the melt.

Crank is great! Another JS movie in that category is The Transporter. Totally a B action movie but the premise is unique, the fight scenes are clever (the oil fight!), and the electronic music score is très magnifique. The love aspect, however, is terribly written and cringey. Crank did that part better, and Amy Smart is hilarious.

Have you heard the Tenacious D song “Two Kings”?

Yeah the iPad mini is the only one I’ve found that doesn’t suck. I wish Android would offer something decent in 8” but they’re all made to be bottom barrel with extremely low end hardware.

The overpriced nature of subscription services is not a good reason to justify paying more for relatively inexpensive hardware. The fact that you can buy new ereaders for $100 suggests that the $400 models are vastly overpriced. Companies are feature-creeping them so they can increase the price.

Talking about conveyance of noodley things in an engineering context, I said “as I always tell my wife, you can’t push a rope”. Whoops, now everyone thinks my junk doesn’t work.

I do say that to her but it is in the context of her stealing the covers.

Reversing in is safer than reversing out.

Yep, that won’t cause cancer.

Could a LLM write that novel in the style of Weir?

Reduce global resource consumption with the goal of eliminating fossil fuel use. Burning nat gas to make fake pictures that everyone hates is just the worst.

The nubs on croc insoles are not that great and start to irritate me after a bit. Maybe there are reduced-nub alternatives out there.

That’s interesting. I wonder how much religion plays into it. My marriage is monogamous but we are both open to each other about attractions outside the marriage. It is OK to be turned on by someone else or some other situation, and we can use that together. It also helps that we both don’t generally like other people; we have a close knit group of friends but most folks we meet outside that are obnoxious and gross.

I’ve basically learned that drinking sucks. A long time ago I would drink 1 beer a day, 2-3 on weekends. A few years later I cut it down to 1 a day. A few years after that I cut to 3 a week. This year I do 1 occasionally. When I have that 1 I sleep like crap, my stress score is higher, I gain weight and feel bloated, and it’s just not worth the buzz. I am considering a full quit, or cut back to 4 a year. I have quite the liquor cabinet, lots of good stuff, but basically stopped drinking it.