Do people ever actually think of the Jurassic period though, or do they just live in a society where Jurassic Park and Jurassic World have made that period's name synonymous with dinosaurs?
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or if they are willing to insist that they thought so, and testify to it in court.
America needs a third option. Because the state of left and right parties is a joke.
We definitely need more options, but I think "a third option" is the wrong way to look at it.
First is that it is not feasible at the federal level without changing the constitution. That is not happening any time soon. I expect a collapse and rebuild to come much sooner than the Rs and Ds pulling off a once in a generation collaboration effort to... make keeping their jobs harder.
And second is that we don't want slightly more predefined slots for parties that we take seriously. The fix of some kind of ranked choice or STAR voting system would allow for varying numbers of candidates.
Oh there are many places named Washington in the US!
There's a small city called Washington, PA. It's easy to find because it's also in Washington county!
If you find yourself in California, PA instead of Washington, PA then you made the same mistake as if you ended up in big-ass California instead of big-ass Washington: too far south!!
Oh yeah, you can also attend Washington and Jefferson College in Washington city in Washington county! :D
Glancing at your user name and starting to read ICE made me think "Miguel, his papers not perfect"
It's the sad version of your joke though. :(
I think it's more that I'm a person trying to give an honest recommendation to help a fellow human being, and it is the ADS that try to be like ME! :D
But you're right. My strategic placement of exclamation points make it read like an infomercial script. Remember the meme about using occasional exclamation point in work emails to seem not insane!
paid over Boob
At first I misread it this way, and I was like "ah yes, the world's oldest payment system"
The same thing that leads to dealing with all the other kinds of bullshit & enshittification: convenient and free! Just sign here and tell us about yourself!
Honestly though once you're set up it seems like it's pretty simple. I don't actually use any of them, but my wife uses Venmo and Paypal for some stuff. There's a small business that I order my hobby supplies from, and I just ask my wife to send whatever dollar amount to the guy who runs the place when I text him about what I need. He could just invoice me and I could pay like you would on any online store, but this is somebody I've worked with for years so I'm not worried about preemptively sending the money over.
American here raised on the Fahrenheit. My rational mind knows that we should all use SI and/or metric units for everything (using Celsius over Kelvin is a pretty easy sell). And there are other units of measure like energy that depend on how big a "degree" is, so your reasoning doesn't even apply in all situations.
However, living in a temperate northern US climate where we get a full dose of all four seasons, it IS pretty damn neat that 0-100 F is basically the scale of the outdoor temperature I can expect to see in a given year. It can get colder than 0F or about -18C, but that is an insanely cold winter day. Likewise, it can get above 100F or about 38C, but that is an insanely hot summer day.
Insanely hot or cold for this area, of course. Somebody who lives in Dubai or Greenland might not think it makes so much sense.
Actually, for hot places like Dubai, a 0-50C scale for temperature extremes probably makes more sense!
edit: used to say "but that is an insanely hot winter day" which I guess IS true...
My son is too, he just doesn't know it yet. ;)
The PC is in another room but the desk for it isn't in place yet. And he knows it exists. He's just in third grade and is not quite an Operating System Snob just yet.
This statement captures a huge part of the shitty, negativity first, punching down, and adversarial nature of the conservative white american culture that I was born into.
It is so incredibly pervasive that I think most don't even realize they're doing it. Even thinking of relatives who I have totally good personal relationships with -- I can hang out with them any time, but I am not going to sit around in the living room with everybody because within minutes it turns into non-stop complaining about entire other person on the planet.
It's almost like that "Darmok" episode of star trek, except on this conservative planet the locals only speak in the form of complaints.
Whoa whoa, if my car is getting a larger percentage of incidental dinosaur from its refined petroleum products than the percentage of incidental spider legs and rat shit I myself am getting from my processed food products, I am going to be totally jealous.