I know Trump is fat, but it still wouldn’t count as a mass shooting!

Best we can do is a huge wave of reverse mortgages and Medicaid seizures due to end of life medical bills.

I’ve read the Expanse (and loved it), but that’s definitely not what I was thinking of here.

he doesn’t do female characters well

Understatement of the century?

I cringed so hard reading “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” that I nearly DNF’d it.

But, for the time it was written, it was probably one of the more progressive things published.

No. I’ve read “The moon is a harsh mistress” (oof, it did NOT age well), but I’m thinking of a different novel.

Doing a search now…it might have been “Farmer In The Sky”. I remember the theme being a pretty heavy “move to the frontier, throw yourself into back-breaking work, prosper” type thing, along with one character in the book making a big deal about apple trees.

I think I read a novel with the bread basket theme at some point, but I can’t quite place it. Heinlein, maybe.

I was thinking poetic justice, personally

I replaced a 10-year laptop in 2021. I probably could have eked out another year or two of use, but I don’t regret getting a new computer when I did.

We didn’t start the fire…

IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed.

Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me.

Add a comma? Also hell,

Calling the boiling point of water simply “warm” is a bit sus.

“Everyone gangsta 'til…” 😂

Adding/removing blankets…easy to do before you go to sleep. Annoying to wake up with the balance wrong when you’d rather have slept in comfort for another half hour.

I’m always happy to see a HTCPCP reference!

Perfect

I read that as “number 5 taters”

In the United States? They certainly can, and “fired for lying about credentials” gives the employer a reason to contest unemployment. But apparently there are enough employers that don’t cross-check that it can work as a strategy.

I’m not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I value honesty and want to see dishonesty deterred. OTOH…if you can do the job, what’s the point of having the degree as a checkbox on the job application? Bullshit metrics should be removed.

Don’t give up the ship

British burned Washington

Battle of New Orleans happeenened after the peace treaty because news traveled slowly in those days.

That’s about it

Target launches a new product to try to revive its failing sales!