I didn’t see any mention of Laotians being affected. Was this restricted only to tourists at a bar, or did only the tourist deaths matter for the new cycle?

About 7 years ago we had some very expensive consultants, hired by clueless management, do a presentation to our marketing team.

When that consultants declared that, “we see the future of the web centered on blockchain”, the two of us who were developers shared a mystified and slightly horrified look.

Fortunately, the consultants went away after extracting their $200k and providing our director with some glossy reports. They did have a few useful suggestions that we implemented, but on the whole they were never mentioned again.

I got a Wii with the Wii Fit balance board for my dad to work on his balance and coordination as he aged. He never really got into it, but I think that could be an absolutely killer “game” for elderly people.

Oxygen or Equinoxe by Jean Michel Jarre. Fueling trips for more than 40 years!

“Gay panic” was actually used as a defense.

I’m surprised his defence wasn’t based on “gay panic”.

New countries typically don’t start without a significant percentage of their population dying in conflict. Certainly a place that has as many guns as the US does not have a good chance for a peaceful transition.

Not that I actually believe a new country is even remotely possible. There will be decades if not centuries of decline.

There was a time, not that long ago, when cremation was not an option for Catholics. At some point, the church changed its mind. Maybe in the seventies or eighties?

There were guardrails, but most of them are just litter on the side of the road now. The supreme Court has essentially justified any action he takes, Congress will not dare to oppose anything he wants, and he is appointing toadies and lickspittles to the highest offices of the land. Oh, and he is reclassifying all the major bureaucrats as political appointees so they can be fired at will.

It really is as bad as it seems.

You are talking as if the US is ever going to hold elections again.

As I understand it, some of the parents of the children who were murdered have agreed to drop part of their claim, in exchange for Infowars being sold to The Onion. It’s not like they were going to collect the entire 1.5 billion dollars anyway.

How is sitting on a toilet physiologically different than sitting on a chair?

It’s also worth mentioning that she was kept on a strict regimen of cigarettes and coffee so she would lose weight, and the producer(?) forced her to sit on his lap so he could grope her. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a lot of other abuse as well. She was married five times, and died of an overdose before she was 50.

IIRC the original actor who played the tin woodman suffered serious health effects from the makeup they used, as did Margaret Hamilton, the woman who played the Wicked Witch of the West.

They actually still do bloodletting, and even use leeches to do it.

And just think, if that model was 25 in 1971 she would be 78 now.

For me, I don’t try to deaden the hunger pangs. I think I need to retrain my brain that being hungry is not necessarily a bad thing. At first, it was very distracting, but I think I’m getting used to the idea that I don’t have to eat every time I feel hungry.

I’m usually only noticing it for the last two or three hours before my meal.

I can understand being frustrated and angry with the Democrats for essentially being a status quo party that favors their corporate benefactors.

What boggles my mind is thinking that voting Republican would make any of that better, when in fact it seems pretty clear that it is going to make everything much, much worse.

It was a novel written in the 1970s about the US invading Canada to get our oil supplies. It was called Exxoneration.

If I remember it correctly, the Canadians were able to successfully resist over the long term.

What rights do you really have when there is a Supreme Court that will allow them to be trampled?

The problem is that nowhere is safe now. I’m Canadian, and I wish I had somewhere to go. And just imagine how the poor sods in Palestine, Ukraine, and so many other suffering countries, are feeling right now.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Vladimir Putin’s armies weren’t occupying large swaths of Eastern Europe by the end of this term.