It is easy for me to answer, my mom is old. My wife can probably tread water while I get my mom to shore.

I told my wife this and she replied that she is a strong, independent woman who can swim perfectly well on her own. The right answer is that I should grab my mom and start bringing her towards the shore while my wife swims ahead and helps me pull her in once we get to shallower water.

“Step 1: Create an account”

No thanks. I don’t want to create an account to see that there is no interesting content.

The trendy junk store at the mall still sells them and has a literal line to get in. I have no idea if Labubus are trending down or not, but they still seem pretty popular around here.

It doesn’t have to be a religious celebration. Just copy the USSR and celebrate the parts of Christmas you want (putting up a tree, gift exchanges) on New Years.

I get where you are coming from, but I find holiday decorations to be one of the highlights of an otherwise crummy season.

Winter is so depressing. It is cold and dark all the time. It is fun to come home to a bunch of silly lights everywhere. I leave mine up for a few weeks past Christmas. If you ask me, the tree should stay up until the first day of spring.

And Soviet Socialism never went away either, it just reorganized upper management. Instead of the state owning a few mega companies, a few mega companies now own the state. In either case, it is the people controlling the human/natural resources paying off politicians to overlook all the horrible shit they do.

Good to know. Never heard that abbreviation before.

First of all, I am not sure what you are talking about in regards to my user name.

Second of all, parents living paycheck to paycheck are not buying their kids a new phone and a new door every time their child has a hard day at school and decides to blow off steam by smashing up the house.

Working class kids should learn not to throw destructive tantrums as toddlers, when they rip the head off a toy and their parent glues it back together, crooked, instead of buying them a new one.

I do not think I ever threw a tantrum that that destroyed property (I probably tried as a toddler, but I did not have the strength).

This is why therapy is penny foolish and pound wise. Your parents should have been paying for a therapist to teach you not to throw tantrums, not simply paying to fix the house every time you smashed it up.

The important bit is not that Paul was “sent home”, it is that “he will no longer be with the team”. In other words, he is fired.

The team is not “blaming Chris for [their] underperformance,” so there is likely something else going on. Did the Clippers get tipped off about a controversy involving Paul and want him listed as a “former player” in the news story?

He did briefly take up a boxer’s stance with his fists raised but dropped it before the shoving started. It was a threatening gesture, but I am sure other players involved made equal threats with their words.

If he actually threw a punch, it would be an ejection.

The incident: https://youtu.be/ojZSyVw4-sQ

Not sure why Suggs was the only one tossed. Nothing about his behavior seemed particularly worse than what the others were doing. Maybe it was because he was the last one to let it go?

Except that I am using a very porous knit scarf as a mask and only masking up outdoors (the opposite of proper masking).

I am convinced that I will come down with cold/flu if I breath too much cold air. When I walk in the cold, I always wrap a scarf around my mouth and nose. If I don’t, the cold air will give me a sore throat. That sore throat will act as a Petri dish for illness to develop and spread into my lungs or nose.

I know plenty of medical professionals and all of them tell me that that is not how it works, but I have a datum of proof. In my first year of university, I had a nasty, persistent respiratory infection during the late fall/early winter. To keep my throat warm while it was recovering, I started wearing a scarf and my illness went away quickly. After that, I started wrapping up whenever I was walking to class in the cold and never got sick again.

I am now used to wrapping my face in the cold and feel wrong without it. When I don’t, it seems like I am more likely to come home with a scratchy throat. I can definitely say that many of my flus start in the throat (though it could just be that the first flu symptom I tend to notice is the sore throat).

With an ISP, you are not paying much for your bandwidth to the Internet. You are paying for connection between your house and their office. Your ISP has to maintain many miles of wire across your city. They also need to maintain equipment that can handle thousands of individual connections across many individual wires.

In comparison, a VPN provider just has a couple of very big connections going into their data center for pushing data in and out.

Plus, you likely have only a few choices of ISP (or only one choice), so your ISP can maintain a very healthy profit margin. With VPN providers, there is a ton of competition, so they have to charge you only a little above actual cost.

According to TMZ, Beverly’s underage sister was caught sneaking out to go on a date with a boy. Beverly’s mom called Patrick over to teach the girl a lesson and he beat her half to death.

Looks like the rotten apple rolled back to the diseased tree. I just hope that the poor girl is able to get out of the broken house without too much more physical and mental trauma.

I agree with Green. It is an insult to Angel Reese to be compared to Dray. There should be no tolerance for sexism at NBA games.

Pokemon is not a first party title, so it does not have to follow first party title rules.

Game Freak is a third party studio. Apparently their next game is going to Xbox, PlayStation, and Windows but not the Switch.

The Pokemon IP is jointly owned by Game Freak, Nintendo, and Creatures Inc. Nintendo probably has the majority vote in that arrangement, but they still need to act in the best interest of all shareholders.

The article does not explain why the NBA Europe should exist. What does this new league offer not currently provided by European leagues?

Are they going to try to have NBA level salaries, to attract NBA level players, and have high skill games? Are they going to have regular season games between NBA North America and Europe and a promise that the games will be competitive (or as competitive as a game between a Western Conference championship contender and an Eastern Conference lottery tank)?

To be fair, the East is especially mediocre this year. The 76ers are tied for 3rd despite Embiid being under heavy playtime restrictions and complaining that it is not enough time for him to get used to the flow of the game.