I read lots of books. Libby is an app to electronically check out books from your local library for free. You can also read lots of amateur stories online on various sites. Royal Road has been one of my favorite sites for regular stories that you can read in public.

Agreed. It wasn’t the right answer, but it was the one the government pursued.

Fracking was our answer to energy independence.

The church’s overall support for trump and anti-vax/anti-mask positions were a strong counter to the doctrine of sanctification, especially as support tended to increase among older populations. Sanctification is central enough to Christianity to be one of the pillars that either proves or disproves it.

I am bald, but I do this with my beard.

Governments do.

It has potential to be a good rocket, but I’ll be interested to see if it becomes the revolutionary rocket that Elon says it will be.

I think enshittification is hitting everything, but it’s probably also that you are old. I find that I just can’t eat the same way that I could 20 years ago.

In the US nearly every window that opens has a screen in it to keep insects out. That’s why venetian blinds have gone out of favor in the past 70 years.

The AI overlords have spoken, and I will not besmirch the good name of my future rulers.

Women are so cute and cute and cute and cute and cute and cute.

Same here! Too much union busting for me to feel comfortable buying things there. I’m sure they’ve done other stuff, but that alone was enough for me.

Ah, I wasn’t aware. Thanks for the tip - I’ll be sure to use it the next time I need to.

Democrat here. Didn’t vote in this primary as, if I recall correctly, I would have had to write in anyone other than Biden. Didn’t see the point, although I would have liked someone else. The party needs to get it’s head out of its ass and start doing some of the long-term planning Republicans were doing pre-trump.

The trick is that while you hold your ears ‘open’, you have your lungs try to not breath out but you don’t close your mouth. This lets the heart beating against your lungs be what pushes air in and out and then you hear the sounds of the air pulses as it moves past your eustachian tubes in your throat. Making sure your lungs are as full as possible is required so the lungs push against the heart.

I can do this. If I’m in a really quiet area, I like to take in a deeper breath and then exhale as slowly as possible while doing it, which then allows me to hear my heartbeat. Super nifty.

I can also use my soft pallet to block airflow from my throat to my nose. Can you do that too?

Thank you for your service!

Tacos.

That’s where I rely on “fake it till you make it”.

Whenever I get Starbucks I feel guilty because they are union busters. I’ve been making a lot more coffee at home.