@jon-nyc said in The future of the $50 minimum wage: @Horace said in The future of the $50 minimum wage: Dinners or parties or walking groups or workplace or family interactions. Thats not what came to mind when I read ‘social interactions with random people’, especially in a thread about cashiers disappearing. I agree that one can navigate waiters at restaurants without getting into a heated debate about global warming.

@Jolly said in The Top Ten: @Aqua-Letifer said in The Top Ten: I don't think it works like this. You can't read 10 books and then call it good. Gotta learn how to know what to read at the time the book is right for you, and then keep reading. I guess "Mindset" by Carol Dweck would get them started. Consider the target sector: American 25 and under. We used to have more of a shared identity. Much of that was a grounding in some of the things which made America, America. So many young people today have no understanding of who or what we are. I don't know why that's your stopping point. So many young people today have no grounding in religion, and so they fumble their way into making up their own by way of enviroradicalism and other nonsense on the left or what Father Schmitz calls moralist therapeutic deism on the right. You have to start with understanding yourself, which they certainly do not, and from there understand other people. Only after that can you talk about the idea of America.

Oh, it's biased, but it's the first story about it I ran across...

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Never buy a printer again!": @jon-nyc said in "Never buy a printer again!": I’m pretty sure “Rage Against the Machine” had printers in mind when they named the band. Similarly, the British punk band The Jam. "The public wants what the public gets."

Nope. But I used to know some of the guys down at the hospital. Rita is the forgotten storm. Bigger and badder than Katrina, it wiped that part of the world. Laura was no picnic, either.

Very cool. I love history photos like that. Thanks for sharing!

@Jolly said in The BBC 100: @taiwan_girl said in The BBC 100: I am embarrass to admit how few of the list I have read. Get crackin'! LOL It is a good goal. I would guess that many of them may be translated also.

No wonder they are so angry.

Turns out the AIO was recalled over a year ago

@Doctor-Phibes said in The evolution of women's underwear: WJHT? Most of them. I'll leave which end of the timeline to your speculation.

To be able to jump around in time and still have the story coherent is genius.

MacArthur.

Haha and here is how he accesses his backyard driveway: [image: 1710781060353-937d304a-f751-4557-a36e-651432ce1b94-image.png]

I went to an all girls school. It had gates and a fence around the campus, and when they opened them up at lunch time or at the end of the school day, there were always a bunch of guys hanging out just outside the gates waiting for the girls to come out. LOL