I’m pretty happy with our LG fridge and induction stove

12 year olds are on average a lot smarter than your usual GOP congresscritter. In fact howler monkeys are smarter than your average GOP congresscritter.

If it works like that, you would be in huge demand by the bomb squad and for demilitarizing weapons.

2 and 7 of course

the laptop I’m working on right now cost me $1600 new in March and it is AWESOME. It replaced a Mac I bought in 2016 for $1800. My son uses PCs. He’s bought 4 in the same time period for about $1000-1200 each. Tell me whose computers are most expensive.

“they cannot afford to keep you.” Oh they almost certainly CAN. They just don’t want to.

MegaBux Inc. bought our small ag-biotech firm in 2018. I had developed a high throughput product screening system for natural products against a bunch of animal diseases. The program worked and we identified a bunch of candidates (I also developed the list of things to screen) for botanical/natural solutions to animal diseases. I should have guessed that I was on the chopping block when after finding out some of the things we screened actually worked, I got replaced as PI on the project by someone else much younger. A couple months into 2020 all the folks at the R&D center (including me) got laid off. They did pay severance to us- and mine took me out to October of that year due to my longevity with the firm that was purchased. A couple months after that, a bunch of the junior staff (who were well trained in my methods) got hired back. I was almost 69 at the time, so it was probably time to retire anyway. I was very lucky. This is so familiar! At least I made my stack and can live comfortably on my SS and pensions.

Bukakke earings

The man is worthy of canonization as a saint.

Looks about right

2, 5, and 9 for me

English is a creole that got its own army.

Not much gets by you, does it?

OMG, I do this too!

Those feet must look like hooves.

I’m sure you DON’T want that with no FAA

yup, I was on a street so narrow just a couple months ago that I couldn’t pull over far enough to let a firetruck go by. I had pulled over as far as I could. The truck got behind me and I couldn’t move over. SO I just said “fuck it” - and zoomed into the road as fast as was safe and turned off the road the first place I could find.

What exactly did I just see? Or thought I saw?

It’s frowned upon now because it benefitted people who weren’t already extremely wealthy

It is because of monsters like Rand that I am sad there is no Hell.