Welcome in from the cold. We’ve got blankets and cocoa.

Go to a jewelry shop and ask for advice. If they’re any good at their job, they field tons of customers just like you and make recommendations based on what you tell them about your partner and maybe a photo.

Airlines are assholes and they keep getting worse. We’re at the end of the stage of capitalism where things seem somewhat ok sometimes and maybe good if you’re lucky. Everything is going to be awful and terrible to increasing degrees from here on.

Sounds like maybe a bit of depression could be hiding behind your anxiety about tech (if so, talk to a professional). I agree with some other takes that getting offline can be helpful. I got offline (as much as I could) for two weeks and it did a good amount to improve my mental health.

But the Clinton fans who can’t accept how deeply, deeply flawed Clinton was as a candidate want to blame Stein…

Clinton was the worst possible choice. Before seeing the damage that Trump would do, thinking he would be mostly harmless, she made me stay home. I’m voting against that monster just like I did in 2020. The man is a menace.

Dystopian.

You wanna use double quotes to wrap it:

alias llaa=“pwd && ll’‘’”

My father got his hands on the drug used for assisted suicide. He donated money to a group campaigning to legalize the practice. Undoubtedly, he found a shady practitioner who did him a favor”favor.” He never used it. But it was there in case of cancer or similar.

Not enough for comfort.

Russia’s motive appears to have been to try to inflict a cost on western allies of Ukraine, though the plots are at times precise and at others poorly coordinated and amateurish. But the Kremlin usually denies it is engaged in sabotage activity and has in the past dismissed its accusers of engaging in conspiracy theories.

The German flight was delayed. Had it taken off on time, the package would have combusted in the air.

I mean, stone carvings are always meant to preserve history. That’s why they’re in stone.

Keen observation skills. I wouldn’t have caught on, I’m sad to say.

That’s a special kind of evil. I think I’m mostly ok with it.

Yep. I went to school with someone who was legally blind, though she had a large device with a camera and CRT screen to blow up the text so she could make it out.

It’s not terribly difficult to find recipes for explosives online. Take up a collection among like-minded people to purchase supplies, rent a vehicle, and park it in the garage of a target. Low-effort terrorism.

Some things take a lot of time and knowledge, but budget-terrorism also exists.

Presumably. They want to kill all Palestinians or drive them out. Either is acceptable to them.

The “war” in Gaza isn’t meant to take out Hamas. It’s meant to eradicate the Palestinian people.

No one is surprised.

I heard it in the south. Tennessee.