That’s like Dan Savage saying that he knows men can’t get pregnant, but with God all things are possible so he will keep on trying to impregnate his husband.

Funnily enough, the two ladies in kimonos were probably tourists too, although maybe domestic ones. It’s a common thing in Kyoto to pay to get dressed up in traditional garb and tour the sights.

You were right, I am seeing batteries between about $25 and $60 (Canadian) on Amazon. I’m pretty sure that the last time I looked for one, which was, granted, about 10 years ago, the one I needed was significantly more expensive.

That’s really good to know.

In 3 years, she hasn’t learned enough Spanish to be able to work. I wonder if she spent her time hanging out with other English speakers. And of course her visa probably doesn’t even allow her to work in Panama.

I was looking at moving down to Panama, and I even visited a few times. But it certainly isn’t a cheap place to live any more. That would be especially true if you expected to maintain a North American standard of living, like she probably does.

One of the problems with used laptops is that batteries degrade over time. If it has been heavily used, you might only get an hour or two out of it.

You can buy replacement batteries for many laptops that would solve this problem, but they are often $100 or more. Still, it may be worthwhile for you.

Like Charlie Day’s Christmas memories.

A couple of issues with that. For one thing, the uranium coming out of the CANDU reactors has been purified, unlike uranium ore which is mixed in with huge amounts of stone and other materials and it’s natural state.

Also, as I understand it the reactors convert about 1% of the uranium into plutonium, which is much more toxic and emits more radiation.

So while there may not be as great a danger as some people fear, there is definitely more than an equivalent amount of natural uranium.

You see, there’s different kinds of dead: there’s sort of dead, mostly dead, and all dead. – Miracle Max

I also started with Yggdrasil. A CD-ROM in the back of a massive book (printouts of all the man pages, I think).

It’s worth mentioning that in Luke, the earliest Gospel, there was originally no mention of Jesus appearing to anyone after his death.. The women went to the tomb, found it empty, a man dressed in white announced that Jesus had risen, and the women went away, too afraid to tell anyone what they had seen.

And that’s why this prosecutor is making the apology. Everyone knows that he had nothing to do with the original verdict and sentencing, so he looks noble and there is no one alive to actually take the blame.

They acknowledge that the system is flawed, but no one has to do anything about it.

YouTube has just notified me that my family subscription, which cost under USD $3/month because I used a VPN to buy it in Argentina, is about to be canceled, and I have to pay the local amount, about USD $17.

It was good for the 2 years or so while it lasted, but I’m done with YouTube. In any case, I was finding the videos being shoveled in my face were irritatingly uniform and clearly chosen to reinforce my prejudices rather than challenge them or even give me an even-handed selection.

And fuck, I am just tired of all the reaction videos and clickbait “content” by talentless hacks who are just trying to profit off of other people’s creativity.

The best language learning system I’ve ever used is called Language Transfer, and it’s completely free (supported by donations).

It focuses on getting you to use constructs and patterns that you already know in your own language and transferring those to the new language. That way you start off with a good vocabulary and basic grammar.

They have Spanish, as well as German, French, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili.

There is also an app, which is plain but extremely usable.

I don’t know, I am more inclined to believe that they found a way to meet up and have sex, but they are trying to hide that so they don’t get into trouble. Maybe the facility is going along with it, so they don’t get into trouble either.

And today, Taylor Swift makes a billion dollars on a concert tour where she is proven to be lip syncing, and the band is also miming to record it music.

I don’t think that Trump is anti-LGBTQ+. For that, he would need to have some kind of principles.

Fact is, all he cares about is what other people can do for him, and how much they massage his prostate with their tongues.

Likewise, he will screw over out heterosexual white male just as soon as he will screw over anyone else.

I’ve never heard of someone with a lot of money deciding that he had enough money.

It makes perfect sense to register at an emergency room and then leave, so you don’t clog up the waiting room and get exposed to all the diseases that are there.

The issue, of course, is legal liability if someone comes into the emergency department and then is told to leave.

I’ve actually never heard of being called back by an emergency room. I very much have a sense that no thought at all is given to patients’ time.

That’s basically the attitude that the Mennonites have. I am not a mennonite, but I have been involved with many of them.

As I understand it, the view is that alcohol is not evil in itself, but the social damage that it does far outweighs any benefits. It just makes sense for the society not to have alcohol in it.

Or you have the experience that I had, just last night. I moved to Quebec one month ago. My Quebec Healthcare doesn’t kick in until after 3 months, so I am unable to even make an appointment to see a doctor here.

My only option was to go to the local emergency department, so last night I did so. I have an issue that is not urgent, but is affecting me and has been going on for a while.

I arrived at the hospital and there were only two other people in the waiting room. I was optimistic, but after sitting there for 4 hours and seeing many other people brought in ahead of me, I realized that there was a good chance I was at the very end of the queue, with potentially no chance of seeing a doctor.

I gave up and went home. Even the Quebec health line suggested that I go back to Ontario if I needed to see a doctor before I had Quebec health coverage.