Artists are crazy.

Been on one just like that - a 757 coming in from Dallas. The pilot was applauded.

Group clusterfuck but precipitated by the woman. The cops were there. Had she dropped the knife and let them handle it none of this would have happened. She was moving to attack the man. Did the cop shoot too soon? Maybe. But maybe had they not she might have killed him. I'd like to see the toxicology report.

While there are successful transitioners, and I know one who is very happy, I suspect most of these folks are being sold a fantasy where the world will perceive them as the opposite sex. I doubt very much that happens in the majority of cases.

What about Free Wifi? Does that exist?

@Axtremus said in Happy Kwaanza!: @Aqua-Letifer said in Happy Kwaanza!: Why is celebrating good if anything you celebrate is just a made-up construct? Celebration is overrated. Just go back to your brooding. And you can brood over a made-up construct if you want. Alright.

@Mik said in Slow Horses is back: Too much reliance on shootemups to resolve an otherwise good story. Agreed. The whole season could have been one episode shorter if they got rid of the whole ridiculous shootout stuff. A much better, tighter, story, however. Another criticism is the Lamb character. Seems like they went out of their way to make him a caricature of the person we saw in Season 1. Farts in the car? Really? I get it, he's slovenly and washed up (washed, figuratively, of course). But, c'mon. Tone it down.

@jon-nyc said in More attacks on US positions.: Was I the only one who thought, “wait, we still have bases in Syria?” +1 Who's the attacker? Do we know yet?

@Jolly In the interwar period there were three models of democracy - the British, the American and the French. There was also Weimar Germany but that was hardly a viable democratic model. Following WWII the same three models remained. Peronist Argentina may have begun with the French model but soon devolved into a secular populist muddle (note muddle, not model) that resembled a bit of Francoist Spain and a thoroughly disorganised fascist Italy. It was not anything resembling one of the democratic models of the day.

VPNs, FTW

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@Rainman said in No-show, no-call: Hope Mrs. George is enjoying some success with her back stimulator? Did she feel anything different during the MRI? The stimulator's been there since December 2018. It drastically reduced her need for pain meds - cut them by about ¾. SHe's had more than a handful of MRI's since the stimulator went in. Never a problem - other than the clusterfuck this week. It's rescheduled for Jan 11. I mentioned to the tech what the stimulator tech told me, he said that in some cases, they are able to work around the stimulator, but that overall "this will be your last MRI." It depends on the scanner. Some are "stimulator-happy." When she scheduled it, she mentioned that she has the simulator, and they said that only certain locations have a scanner that will be OK.

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