You say it like it's a joke but yes I'm sure it was patriotism to their minds. That's what righteousness does. Justifies classic antisocial behavior in a normal person. Nina next door displays that sort of attitude relentlessly and proudly.

@George-K said in A big fuck you to Klaus: @Rainman said in A big fuck you to Klaus: Germans seem to have a different word for almost everything. Yah, but the wonderful thing is that they can just make words up on the fly. I'll betcha Estonians (and Lithuanians) can't do that. Yeah, and what's up with some of their words, where one word is like three lines long?

@George-K said in Is coffee safe during pregnancy?: https://www.popsci.com/story/health/pregnant-coffee-no-safe-level/ "No safe amount of coffee..." for pregnant PEOPLE. So there. Pregnant people and their healthcare team should be paying more attention to coffee consumption: that’s one of the messages of a new meta-analysis that builds the case that ingesting any amount of caffeine is associated with negative pregnancy outcomes. But studying coffee consumption is more complicated than you might think, and others in the field of maternal nutrition say it’s not time to start advising people who are pregnant to go cold turkey. I'll relay this to Jim, Bob, John, and Mike. Mik's pregnant?

@taiwan_girl said in "The Room Where it Happened": Why believe General Kellogg over Ambassador Bolton? Why believe Ambassador Bolton over General Kellogg? Depending on where is your bias, I guess will provide the answer. I thought the same thing. Which one has something to gain by saying what he says?

Wow! Good video. I always think that police have a very difficult job. When you see a video played at 1/50th speed, it looks like someone has a super alot amount of time.

Haha funny video @George-K !

@Mik said in Tired Docs: No surprise there. People don't adjust quite that fast to changing shifts. Your mind may know that you need to get ample rest when you can, but your body does not. I agree Mik. I had one assignment where I was in the US, but had to keep taiwan time for about a week (with a break in the middle) , then follow US time for about a week, and then back etc. Lasted about 3-4 months, but that whole time, it felt like I was going through syrup. I am not sure how shift workers can do that long term.

Doesn't seem like it was mislabeled. LOL Maybe the scanner number was incorrect and so the receipt was wrong, but she got what she paid for.

It’s a bit clumpy for sand

@Jolly said in Swampy: Kinda forgot to mention the automatic increases built into funding, like the inflation clause in Social Security. You'd have to do similar adjustments to compare Obama's figures as well though. In terms of concrete things that Obama did to affect the debt balance: The bailout Extending Bush tax cuts Increase in military spending Each added on the order of about $800B over his term.

It would be even more hypocritical for law-abiding citizens to embrace the protesters and want to kill the police. So the right thing to do is choose the lesser of the two hypocriticals.

Self aware!

This tiny house thing is getting out of hand.

@George-K said in A big thank you to Klaus: What the hell is an "info bubble?" The “info bubble” is °fa-info°(a vestige of the legacy mouse centric user interface that is quite a bit less cool on devices designed around touch centric user interface).

The whole scenario smells bad.

@Larry said in They Shit Sparks in The Space Force: Good weed, huh... No, I'm sober. This space lingo is pretty groovy though.

My recollection, from when I used to worry about things like this, is that in general I liked buy-backs. They are usually good for those involved. Oh, and taxes are not a given that belong to the government. They are money that belongs to the company and it's owners. Taxes are an abomination that come later. Want to balance the budget? Stop spending.