At least they’re blaming Trump instead of Biden or Obama.

My roofers used a magnet to collect them. I found maybe two or three after they left. I checked recommendations on Nextdoor app, and got three quotes. The owner came out for the quote, got up on the roof to inspect, and he was also there for the job. 2000 sf roof, they started at six AM and were done by lunch, they had another job after lunch. I’ve seem some roofs in the neighborhood take three days.

I was very happy with the job they did. $12,000.

I had a co-worker who had one closet just for shoes, over three hundred pairs. Wore a different pair every day, and cleaned the shoes after work.

I never saw him wear the same pair twice. He had something to say about every pair.

Some do.

Don’t make me tap the sign

Once, when I was flying on stand-by, I missed a flight because it was full, and had to spend ~14 hours in the Honolulu airport, because I couldn’t afford to get a motel room, or anything else. All I had in my pocket was the return ticket. All I had was the water from the water fountain. The next flight I got the very last seat, and it was in the smoking section. Ugh. But, I took it. Fortunately, I was so exhausted from getting almost no sleep the previous day, I slept through the entire flight. It took hours to clear that shit out of my lungs.

This was 40 years ago.

I mean, maybe? Big corpo business certainly has the ear of our government agencies. I wouldn’t be surprised if the request was made, and granted for an extra, generally unnecessary hour added to the recommendation.

I’m past 60 now, and still no HL3! Can they do something about that?!

Upvote for “to try to”, which is correct, rather than “to try and”, which is incorrect, but all-too common.

They can part them out and make back a few bucks--batteries, motors, stainless steel, maybe the wheels--nothing like the ~$100K they’re in debt for, though. Maybe if they strip the body off, some of them can build something useful on the chassis? Or, are they complete garbage?

EDIT: Ope, nope, they aren’t built like that at all. I suppose most cars aren’t anymore, everything is “unibody”:

https://youtu.be/khPMITqp91I

Fuck off, Schumer. You fucking DINOsaur.

I say it the way it’s spelled. Other, perhaps more common pronunciations came about out of laziness. People just slurring the syllables together and now they’ve all agreed that’s how it’s pronounced because that’s how “everyone pronounces it”.

If that’s true for this and so many other words, then why don’t we just change the spelling to match the pronunciation we’ve “all agreed on?”

Right now, a problem schools are having is they’re trying to teach kids how to read without teaching letter sounds. Why? I have no fucking idea, it’s stupid.

My kid read above his grade level throughout school and at a college level in high school, because WE taught him. If we had relied on the schools alone, he would have floundered.

A critical look at “SoR”, or the Science of Reading movement that has left so many kids unable to read at grade level, sometimes falling four or five grades behind:

https://righttoreadproject.com/2024/07/06/hoping-for-the-best-is-not-a-viable-strategy/

Older user here: My iPhone 12 mini is plenty big enough for me. I was happy with the iPhone 4, really.

Preachin’ to the choir over here.

I avoid it all as much as I can.

As some who has barely ever drank, never smoked anything and never used any other recreational drug, I find I know a lot about drug use, simply through osmosis (roommates, GFs, co-workers), reading, movies, etc. Or, at least more than I would expect.

We all know it’s a much better system. Reagan killed our attempt at switching. No one has tried since.

Personally, I use metric for 3D printing, and I use imperial for wood working. Until standardized material sizes change, it doesn’t make sense to use metric for wood working. That change needs to come from the top, from government regulation.

They might as well spend their time doing this, they won’t pass any bills.