Wait…I thought us monkeys were the problem to begin with? One thing the article neglects to mention is the enormous amount of water it takes to grow almond trees. It’s staggering.

@George-K said in Can Trump win?: @xenon said in Can Trump win?: Putting every other fact about Trump aside. If he won, he'd still be President in 2028. He'd be 82. And that's the thing that people aren't talking about, but should. Legitimate point.

I'm not sure I understand the story. It seems to be the case that there is no criminal conviction for rape. So, from a legal perspective, no rape has taken place. If you read the story again but remove the rape part it doesn't sound so absurd anymore.

In the gun community, a pew-pew is a .22 rifle or rifle shooter

These last 6 trading days have been historically bad.

@Catseye3 said in Hay Cats! Your "Raised by Dogs" Post of the Day: Cat don't look too thrilled. Name one that does, LOL.

So all login services at any website then depend on Apple, Google etc.? Thanks, but no thanks. Big tech already has more control over our lives than they should. I rather continue to use passwords. I'd use these kinds of authentication if all required software were open source and runs locally on my device only.

@Jolly said in Question about bonds: Laddering TIPS would be great, but they don't issue them like T-bills. I was building a tips ladder over time, each year getting a new allocation of the 20 or 30 year at issue. I was trying to build an inflation protected synthetic pension of sorts. I abandoned it around 2013 when my health deteriorated. I started valuing simplicity (ie stuff R could understand and manage) over sophistication. At that point I sold the individual tips and just bought the vanguard tips fund.

From my industry guy, the difference is timing. When DJT got the Saudis to increase the oil supply it knocked down the price of oil and murdered off a lot of oil drilling and exploration in the US. It made a lot of investment in oil exploration in the US nearly untenable. Now, the Saudis get to reap the rewards of that. Mind you, he hates Biden - just noting that DJT was focused on getting oil prices down (laudable) but too low a price - and some people are forced to leave the market.

Every once in a while I'll skip a couple of days to have that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad look that was all the rage a while back. My one brother said, "yeah, that looks great if you're 35, but at a certain age, you just look look like a vagrant." I don't think I could ever do the real deal.

We have a cure, but the price of ammunition has gone up.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Safest way to sell a computer.: This is what puts me off selling a lot of stuff. We end up giving it away to charity shops to avoid having people coming round. +1 Exactly

@Mik https://www.amazon.com/Outfit-Mark-Rylance/dp/B09V545S4H/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2QA954EG41LP6&keywords=the+outfit&qid=1655341905&s=instant-video&sprefix=the+outf%2Cinstant-video%2C371&sr=1-1

It is. But battery please. Don’t make those guys pedal 10hrs a day.

@Copper said in Fully vaccinated, double-boosted: Even the virus disapproves of loves him. There.

I'm enjoying Ob-Wan. The plot has a few holes in it, but it's nice seeing Darth Vader again, and Ewan McGregor is pretty good. Light entertainment, ok Star Wars always was. It seems to me like a lot of people on YouTube compare the modern movies and shows with a mythically wonderful Star Wars that never actually existed. It was always pretty silly. I saw the first one when it came out, and I was 14, the perfect age. We all enjoyed it, but it was just a fun movie.