Calm down. The phone jack isn’t coming back.

My god … the U.S. intervening in Central America? Where’s my fainting couch?

Oh, they’ve got enough sinks for a threesome!

I mean, you have to come in through the garage. It’s that or the French doors on the storm cellar, and god only knows where you pop out from there.

Oregon has had a law on the books for decades that grocers need to price everything the same within a given region. This is part of how grocery circulars are practical. The added expense of printing a different flyer for each store (and then working with the paper to zone correctly, but single-copy is still going to be an issue) negated the increased income from store-to-store pricing that allowed for high margins in some cases.

I don’t remember the last time I looked at a grocery ad – wait, no, I do … it was May 2023 – so this is of less relevance as we transition to apps, but this doesn’t really seem to be about collecting personal data so much as “prices vary geographically,” which isn’t really news.

Wait until you hear about the efficiency of ICEs! (The cars, not the trains.)

Usually, for a promotional interview, one would switch to High German. Hearing dialect definitely took me back, given two of my uncles (and my late dad) speak Zurituutch.

I guess when I called the animal shelter, I did say that I wanted something grey with a ringed tail. This was the idea. Not that.

I was a tutor at the UW Math Study Center my first year of college. I’d gotten my hair bleached for the first time, and it turned out orange. So I shaved it off and started over.

We could bring a book to read between requests for help (this is, after all, 1997), and I’d just picked up Mein Kampf. As it happened, people seemed uninterested in asking a guy with a shaved head reading Hitler for help.

Well, that settles it. We must invade Greenland.

Yeah, I’m literally looking for a distro that I can slap Firefox on and nothing else. The battery life on my main system has gotten to the point that “atrocious” would be an improvement, and, well, my dad’s not going to be using the Chromebook I got him in 2021, seeing as how he’s dead. Much like my laptop battery.

I’d just be using it so that I don’t have to be plugged in all the damn time, as is needed with my daily driver.

My whole goal is to just have a browsing machine. My main laptop is four years old (same age as the Chromebook, actually), but the battery has degraded to the point that I’m lucky to get a half-hour not being plugged in. Given the storage limitations, even VLC would be an extravagance, so I was just looking to do a somewhat slim install that gets me Firefox. I’d love to do KDE Neon, but that’s a bit overkill for a single-app use case.

We should totally get a beer sometime. My ex had a copy in addition to us now being a two-copies-of-Mein-Kampf family. Same damn translation, too.

Cool. I’ll do some research from there. Ironically, I wish Google still worked for basic queries.

Yeah, that’s likely a 5 sted S. My eyes aren’t what they used to be.

ASUS CS23N.

Shame Peter Sellers isn’t alive. He could stumble on the answer in 90 minutes!

Yeah, but that’s clearly not to scale.

That’s just French doors on the storm cellar.