You may want to check your sources on that. If I remember correctly, his mother knew someone on the board, through her work with the United Way.

That should be Ransom E. Olds, not Olsom Olds

I’d have said the Evangelical base wouldn’t appreciate him having sex with porn stars either, but here we are

There is so much money involved. I would almost say that there is too much money involved to leave the results up to the athletes.

How much corruption is there that never gets publicized or even discovered?

Not to mention the literally billions of birds that are killed every year by cats in the US.

As observed by that legendary grammarian Dave Barry.

I have two words for you: ice cream.

I rest my case.

There have been a few disastrous wine tastings over the years. In one of them, a white wine was colored red with food coloring. Tasters then described it as they would a red wine, apparently unaware that it was white.

I believe that there was a second judgment of paris, too. It was supposed to show that the first one was a fluke, but the American wines did even better the second time.

Given that she, and her entire band, have been proven to use recorded tracks instead of performing live at their concerts, I don’t see that this is a big departure.

Let me know when you find a movement that is not kinetic!

people they’ve given no other choice or recourse

I don’t know, I find I also have the option to not consume media that I can’t pay for or justify ethically. For instance, the only streaming service we have a subscription for is The Criterion Channel.

Where we are, these things are stupidly expensive. Almost twice the cost of normal oreos. Is there something there you see something no there’s nothing

Accelerando by Charles Stross.

Flowers for Algernon is it fairly short read. It was originally a novella, then expanded to novel size. It’s also an amazing book.

I don’t know if you have a website, but my $5/month shared web host allows me to set up a git server, and I think many of them are similar.

I get three to five spam emails every day from Republican agents asking “Patriots” to send money to help defend against the woke liberals. They keep changing the subjects and domains sent from, so it is difficult to block them effectively.

The kicker is that I live in Canada, and have never lived in the US or been eligible to vote in a US election.

For me, obsolete often means that I can no longer repair an important tool if it breaks. If I can’t get a replacement hard drive or video card or power supply for my ancient Windows computer, I need to think about getting a new computer, just to minimize risk.

That’s discriminatory! Actually it’s because they have dark skin. As a native South african, Musk knows this. Fortunately, he was able to immigrate in 1988 before things went bad. You silly

Just have a look at what’s going on in ukraine. Once they started using drones, the drone were attacked through their wireless connections. Now they trail fiber optic cables for control. What does that say about the relative reliability and security?

I love the idea of giving Obama a second Nobel Peace prize, just to piss Trump off.