Gasoline powered vehicles. Not only are they horrible for the environment and require toxic substances that impact people’s health, but they’re so expensive and high wear. All those moving parts, barely controlled explosions: WTF we’re those people thinking?

As electric vehicles enter the mainstream, they’re just simpler, more straightforward, and you can plug in overnight like you do with your phone. The complexity, moving parts, excessive maintenance will be like steampunk is for us (I already joke about that) and people won’t comprehend having to goto a local gas station and handle toxic fuels to fuel up. What is an oil change and who would do that? They won’t be able to comprehend the lead contamination, breathing in benzene, groundwater pollution, etc

There are tv plot points about employers doing a background check, finding the wrong details, so not hiring someone. In real life I hope they would take a few steps to confirm

Have you searched for the name outside your family line? I know you said misspelling but my last name is rare because it was made up by immigration on Ellis Island: they couldn’t understand my ancestor so decided “close enough”. Same thing as a rare misspelling.

Before the internet, we knew of one unrelated person with the same last name but only because he was he was geographically close enough to be in a neighboring phone book. When someone took my Gmail (identical first initial, last name) it was a relative. Now with the internet and person search we’ve found a handful, but only a handful

No, I hope I’d have the self-confidence to own it.

• I went to school with a kid named “dick”. Not Richard or rich, but he insisted on “dick”. He was the first to joke about his name and he laughed about it. I don’t know how he truly felt but everyone loves the comedian, and even bullies couldn’t make fun of him
• I just got a new coworker with the same name as a famous comedian, and same deal. His intro speech started with “not that one”, and he can quote movie lines with the best of us. Actually I haven’t worked with him so know nothing else about him. I remember his name and that he has a good sense of humor
• my name Isn’t at all common but there’s a professor in Chicago with the same name, who has authored a bunch of text books. Does it count that I sometimes joke about my “alternate life”?

I’ve been wondering this too, but out of sheer convenience. I even already have a trimmer for my beard. I like my hair short and usually describe it as “number 3|6 trimmer on the sides and back ….” And I should be able to do that.

Why do I need to use my time to find a barbershop that hasn’t shut down, go sit in a waiting room for 30-60 minutes, have to describe to someone new how I want May hair, and end up with something inconsistent anyway. I can be inconsistent on my own, thank you

If there was ever a good use case for a voice assistant, this would be it.

I don’t like saying it, because it feels like assuming their religion/superstition, especially since I work with a lot of people from countries where Christianity is not the dominant religion. It seems rude.

But it’s polite to acknowledge their sneeze, respond to it: what else do you say? I went through a “gesundheit ” phase but I’m not German.

Come up with an alternative and let’s make it so

I never understood why people like Nutella, especially since I should be one of them

• as someone who loves hazelnuts, it does not taste like hazelnut
• as someone who loves chocolate, any chocolate flavor is below even Hersheys
• tastes like lard, or maybe play dough

Maybe it’s similar to peanut butter, where including the actual ingredients could make a huge difference. If anyone knows of a “natural” equivalent with actual hazelnut butter and actual chocolate, I’d love to try it

Out of curiosity, do you also stand by that for natural peanut butter?

• I grew up with Jif and never understood why people say it tastes like lard
• Now I’ve been eating natural peanut butter for decades. It has a better texture and tastes like actual peanuts
• I recently tried Jif …… gross, tastes like lard, texture like lard

That did not work for me

Although i thought it was sufficient growing up, despite a larger family and more food waste

• maybe i was a kid and didnt notice
• maybe metal garbage cans with toght lids sealed better
• naybe it was just a ventilated garage

I don’t think you sufficiently respect the mess, the smell, the vermin, from a week of rotting exposed food waste. Not to mention the dog waste

Even today there are longer term advantages to getting married. At least women now have economic alternatives so aren’t forced into it, but … you still have things like survivor benefits and inheritance rules that would make a huge difference later in life.

—- For example spousal benefits in social security

• https://www.ssa.gov/oact/quickcalc/spouse.html
• a couple generations ago, women were unlikely to have a career where they’d earn any appreciable social security benefits. But assuming the rule was similar back then, a woman could collect based on their spouses or even ex’s earnings
• my parents generation was very traditional, but my mom faced getting a job later in life with no work experience after my father passed. However as a married woman she collected survivorship benefits then and spousal benefits now, where she had very few options
• my ex has her own career and is doing ok, but when the time comes will likely get more from social security based on my income than her own. This is directly from being married long enough and even though we no longer are

Everyone stock up on paper towels! A Costco trip could save the world

That would be so excellent! I became a fan of the blues going out to clubs: the rock bands would crank volume to painful levels and mumble the lyrics, but I could actually hear the blues, listen to the blues, grow to like the blues

I’m not even following why this is an argument , but personal experience …. About 15 years ago the company I was at added telemetry to its windows product. This was legit as we were looking to stamp out some pesky bugs we had never been able to reproduce, no personal data collected. But the basic implementation was to write collected data to disk, then there was a completely separate service whose only job was uploading that data.

The point is the basic model supported collecting telemetry data even while offline and it would get uploaded ifyou ever were online

Let’s see, mine is hunter2. Yeah I guess it works: I can still see it but im sure it’s censored for everyone else, right? Right?

Yes there is. we’ve had some bad habits that are not sustainable but we generally already know a better approach that is.

We can do it if we wanted to, and we are actually making progress in transitioning to more sustainable approaches. However I’m Not as optimistic about whether we will, or whether we will before our bad practices cause newer and greater challenges

While I’m sure I’d have ambitious ideas, mostly no

• no shoes
• no thinking, planning or scheduling
• no bed time
• no pants

But a few more

• more garlic
• more spice
• more meals she would never eat.
• and a key lime pie, dammit

Yes, sorry

This quote isn’t even relevant anymore. Maybe it was when republicans were pro-business, pro- fiscal conservancy, pro strong defense, and when family values meant family values, but where are those republicans?

Those policy questions are no longer relevant. Even Republicans no longer bring them up as goals (I’ll believe mitt Romney on family values but he retired). Todays Regressives are authoritarian, corrupt, isolationist bullies, out to fleece the government and their constituents, and vent their frustrations on whatever group they can call out as “other”.