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Eli's is better. It addresses both sides of the setup.

Could t even bear the weight of a 62 year old man.

Dammit... that might be it. I thought of him reading War and Peace but got bogged down with overly complicated wording. Now I wish I'd stayed on it.

Yup. He talks to each one individually so they don't think he's playing favorites.

I'm resting my eyes until my breakfast arrives.

Kyle wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:52 pm To be clear, the 70,000 number I saw was for Afghan and Pakistani civilians that died as a direct result of the war

Gotcha. I was looking solely at Afghan deaths.

FWIW, civilian deaths in Iraq were closer to 200,000. We are bad people.

Kyle, I agree with you, and at the same time I also don't agree with you. I've been back and forth over this and I can't reconcile it. To me, it's very clear that this is genocide. I have read the case that South Africa brought before the world Court, and they lay it out very plainly. The leaders of...

Aagh! Odie's too dumb to even understand the law of gravity!

Yes. The WCK attack was clearly intentional. This wasn't an accident. There's evidence that they have been targeting aid groups and targeting civilians who try to get aid for a while now. I know the media keeps reporting on food riots and chaos when people go to get aid. They imply that people are a...

I like Beyonce's Jolene. I love Texas Hold Em. I adore this version of Blackbird for so many reasons. Daughter is exquisite. I'm still taking in pieces of the album. On the other hand, Beyonce and Jay-Z are also billionaires, and thus inherently evil, but it doesn't alter the fact that Beyonce produ...

I didn't even say the word "veterinarian" yet.

Oh... SNAP!

And then I wake up!

Shoulda woulda coulda answer: But I bet they're regretting that solid rubber pinata about now.

Before reading Eli's, the caption I composed was nearly identical. The only difference was that I started with "Although" instead of "But". I concede this one to Eliahad.

Washington Post was the first article to come up, and they also say Trump gets a cut.

That is what I also heard.

Real answer: So much nicer since I removed the batteries.

I met a possum in my yard this morning! Or rather, I watched as my dog met her. It was 3:30 and Cricket was peeing when this possum peeked it's head around the corner of the neighbor's house. So the two were maybe 10 feet apart... both obviously startled by the other... and the possum looked way big...

100% the Jesus presented to us in the Gospels is (among other things) an anti-capitalist. Or would be if he were here now. He'd find a lot of things objectionable about the people who are most fervent about throwing his name around. Modern Pharisees. [Name of my retro-new wave, post-punk string quar...

With the release of Quiet on the Set and now with Diddy an international fugitive from justice, there's a lot of focus once again on the horrific abuses perpetrated by men not just on women but on children (boys and girls) as well as other men (in Diddy's case) over whom they have some measure of po...

And that's just it... I'm very much about remaking current power structures, but often I'm not creative enough to imagine what that would look like or all the logistics of it. But then I hear smarter people and realize that they CAN figure some of this out. There are great possibilities I've never e...

SECONDARY: That's when he begged me to pee on him. I tried to tell him that the pee thing was a myth, but the conceit of this cartoon is that I only speak in "thought bubbles", so Jon had to take his painfully stung dong to the emergency room while wearing swim shorts soaked in cat piss. Y...

MAIN GAME: Yes, the jellyfish was mortified!

Mine was funnier that the real one at least. The act of reading it makes it false.

Props to Eli!

Agreed. The basic concept that corporations can own things and can be sued and can enter contracts and all sorts of stuff is very convenient to our modern economy. But they are extensions of people and not persons unto themselves. Yes, corporations and similar entities should have some protections a...

Real answer: You're too lazy to come back and pick this up.

Eliahad wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:37 pm And a belated birthday to you as well! I did try and text

Yes. It turn out I was on a college visit with my wife and youngest son for my birthday, and then I got super sick and slept 18 hours. Now I'm still sick, but it ain't so bad.

Happy Birthday, Eliahad!

I have the best friends!!

And I love you, Kyle! You're awesome!

Target was sold out and the one I ordered didn't come in in time. So I'll play it next time. We had a blast! In the end, it was only 10 of us, which is a fine start. I didn't play anything new, but I introduced people to new games and indulged them with some old favorites. It was really fantastic. T...

At least you understand it and realize why it works. Most iPhone users I know think all the issues are because Android sucks and they can't understand why people would buy anything but an iPhone. My wife has an iPhone, and she shares my Audible account, and for the longest time, she couldn't buy boo...

Just watched Merrick Garland leveling charges at Apple for being anti-competitive. And specifically the charge is about my own biggest complaint about Apple: that they maintain their advantage by intentionally making the experience of others worse. There's no reason iPhone and Apple users shouldn't ...

Here's the problem... my laptop can't handle it anymore. It's dying, and I've been putting off going in and rescuing the scattered files that aren't in the cloud somewhere. So I can maybe participate in a roll20 game, but I can't run one. The lag on it means I can't record podcasts anymore either, s...

Okay... the finish was just two sentences:

But the thought of putting in effort to find something that works for me just feels like too much work. What's wrong with me?

That was a draft I hadn't finished. I'll come back to it later. Don't know how I posted it.

I'm thinking to myself that I wouldn't mind a good facts-based and relatively unbiased, hour-long streaming daily dose of news. And as I think it, I realize that there must daily podcast that gives me 45 minutes to an hour of news. And I'm sure there are a bunch of them out there.

Dammit. I keep getting out... and they keep dragging me back in.

No, not the Canadian sci-fi drama. That was pretty awesome. Slow start, but then they got a real budget and awesome writing, and sadly, it ended far too soon And not the book by Blake Crouch. That one was trippy as balls. Loved that book. No, I mean the physics concept. Dark matter that makes up 26%...

I don't, but my wife maintains such a list. It has all kids of things, big and small, on it. A few years ago, we were headed to the Black Hills of South Dakota for a wedding and had an afternoon to kill before others arrived. On a whim, we looked up helicopter rides, and since we didn't have the who...

Performance. A hypnotist show. I have seen four such shows at proms (they do it every other year so each kid has a chance to see it once), and I've been to two others... one at a Ren Faire where my oldest, Jacob, was hypnotized and once at the Funny Bone in Omaha. The shows have never failed to ente...

My eighth and final stint as Post-Prom party chaperone begins now. In four hours, I shall be free!

Plus I get to see a hypnotist. That's always a good show.

I said "drownin'". As in: "the fate the white European explorers deserved for their slaughter and exploitation of indigenous peoples." If my social commentary is too smart for you, I can dial it back.

Like de Leon, baby!

Drownin' in that Fountain o' Youth!

Nice! I have a week. I bet I can get that at Target. Otherwise I'll order it.

A couple months ago, right about the time we first conceived of this, we got a memo from the governor declaring that state employees will no longer be referred to as "teammates" in internal documents. Instead we are now officially "public servants. The millennials found this to be dem...

Yancey and I are hosting a game night for coworkers. He's an American Legion member, so we're renting the local Legion hall at a severe discount, we made up a bunch of fliers, and on the appointed night, we'll see how it goes. I've got racks and racks of games to share. I'm super excited.

I think Kyle is saying that as he enters middle age, he received the standard +1 bonus to intelligence and wisdom. I'm curious as to why he doesn't mention charisma. Kyle?

I wash my hair and beard daily with Suave shampoo. I use conditioner on my beard once a week. I wash with Ivory soap daily. And then I also put Gillette beard softening cream on every morning. My beard is where I get all hoity toity to the extent that I do anything at all. Everything else is as basi...

For 1964, that's metal AF

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