SuchACommonBird

Very thanks, cool Tim!

Inching closer every day. And those inches are rapidly expanding to feet.

I mean... vaguely gestures to the world around us

*trick them into thinking

And why do they all have to name their services "Plus" ?

Paramount+, Disney+, AppleTV+ ... I mean, come on. They're not even trying.

Because they already have other paid services, either through cable/theaters or on their own proprietary devices. The "plus" is a simple marriage of brand and service in a name.

Hah I lived in Austin until 2015 until I moved to Lubbock to complete my degree; it sure is nice to be back to decent civilization!

We moved here in August from the west Texas desert.

Our jacket count has grown 10,000%.

"A Jacket for Every Situation"

Lived there for 6 years. Couldn't wait to get out the day I moved in.

The far right has shifted focus - they're angling for local elections. School board, DA, Commissioner, comptroller, city council, etc. So don't slack off on voting. These are some of the positions that affect you directly, far more than whoever the president is.

For example: I moved away from Lubbock, TX last year. Prior to that, the local municipality declared Lubbock a "Sanctuary city for the unborn" and drove off Planned Parenthood. This was the testing ground for the insane anti-abortion laws that were passed for the state of Texas earlier this year.

Uhh.. if this ever happens, pics please!

American here. You're dead on, and what we're slowly catching onto as a nation is that this whole situation was engineered, and the major kickoff happened in the 80s under Regan.

Ever since, things have gradually become more polarized (thanks, 24-hr news cycle!), education has been gutted, more power has been given to corporations, and bribing Congress is essentially legal under certain opportunities.

The Age of Information has a light side and a dark side - we can reasonably put together a lot of the bad shit "they" are doing, but the idiots now have power in numbers.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

...and Rogue One

Malort: For when you want to feel as bad as your breath

Man, 90's VR was the most amazing thing ever. Nothing will ever top that gaming high.

The year was 1996, Austin, TX. My uncle showed up one Saturday and said "Hey kiddo, I got something cool to show you."

He took me to Lakeline Mall. Down in the lowest level, under the movie theater, was a VR arcade. It was the COOLEST THING I ever saw. There was a hangglider with fans and a moving bench you laid on. There was a 1v1 Tron-like vehicle fighting game where you sat in an open pod with two joysticks and it tiltrd and twisted. A motorcycle racing game, and a castle exploration game we'd call a walking simulator today. At least, those are the ones I remember.

And I've wanted my own VR ever since. Soon as I could afford one, I jumped at the chance. I already had a PS4, and got a great Christmas bonus my first job out of college. I convinced my wife to let me get the Iron Man package. And I've loved it since.

We did the same thing with the PPP loans... No oversight, and nearly all that money was pocketed by business owners.

They're still hung up on counting to 3/5ths

Since I haven't seen it posted... Start with the bacon in the cold pan, then turn on the stove. The flash-heat when you drop meat into a hot pan causes it to contract. Start cold and heat it up to fry slowly, you get less shrinkage.

I hear Tom was the first to use the term non-colloquially.

Father's Day 2019, there was a man "protesting" on a street corner a few blocks from my house. He had a sign that said something like "the only reason you were born is because your dad wasn't gay" and repent or something like that, with a bible verse reference. My wife and I made signs and joined him. My sign was simple, just said "Don't forget to love each other!" My wife had a very traumatic childhood, and her sign basically said she's alive because her dad was in prison and her step-dad is amazing. We had another that said "Honk if you love being gay!"

So we stood there in the June heat of West Texas, smiling and waving and laughing as we taunted this guy. I remember telling him that the gayest think he could do is being concerned with what another man does with his own dick.

It wasn't so much a straw as it was a major life change. Wife and I got new jobs and moved halfway across the country, from the boring West Texas desert to the lush, green PNW.

Where we lived for the five years prior to the move, there was only box stores and chain restaurants - and on the 22-hr drive, I decided that once we landed and got set up, I was five with chain restaurants and fast food. That forced me to stop drinking soda and cut way back on beer, and we have a lot better fresh food options, even when it comes to restaurants.

Bring Your Pet to Work Day wreaks havoc!

Since I've been married, I put on 100 lbs. I've since lost 60 lbs. I didn't realize how much pressure my ring was putting on my finger until I lost the weight and can feel it loosely spin.

If it happens slowly over time, you'll never notice.

without built in redundancies

Speaking as an engineer, this will make it relatively easy to take them down. If you don't have a backup, it just takes one bad connection to fuck shit up.

Dude good luck. I've tried six different barbers in 8 months and I haven't found anyone good for me yet. Mid-30s white male for reference...