Thanks for the detailed response!

While I agree we don’t know everything yet, it’s kind of infuriating to have one side -the side who has been responsible for what? 80% of political violence in the past decade,- immediately start calling for violence and retribution, while the other side says “you know, maybe the side spewing hateful rhetoric non-stop is partly responsible…”

What big shifts would occur between the originals (which I read as a teen but that was ages ago) and the Peter Jackson trilogy? Coles notes for thekkids who didn’t pay attention.

Is it pronounced Jandalf?

Ripley was small, even for an Earth Pony.

How about Waps Factory? That would be a great movie.

Or is this a different Iain Banks… I feel like I tripped on this before.

PSA: is the ceiling above your heater low? Check the clearance and make sure the new rod can stand straight up to get into the heater. You can buy segmented rods to avoid this problem.

Don’t ask how I know.

Maybe we shouldn’t be talking about this right after it happened??!?! Give the dead child’s family some time! Now is not the time for gun control arguments it’s the time to come together and support the victims, especially the man who shot the child, nobody thinks of their suffering!

I didn’t disagree with your “allocation” nor did I accuse you of antisemitism nor did I “connect Israel with all Jews”, perhaps your reading comprehension is worse than you would like to think. Explaining subtext as to why something would be perceived as a thing doesn’t make you that thing.

Let me put it this way: is it antisemitic to forget that the Jewish victim exists when discussing Nazis stealing art ? If not, does it SEEM like antisemitism if YOU then start talking about taking that money/painting that was stolen and rightfully belongs to some Jewish family somewhere, and giving it to Palestine?

Your comment made the connection.

The funds, or painting itself, should be returned to the families it was stolen from. That family was very likely Jewish. So you saying “give it to Palestine!” implies taking from Jewish people, which would be unfair, but in this context also implies they “owe” it because Israel is to blame, and Jews=Israel.

I do see your connection now that you have explained it though, I wonder if maybe you just stumbled and missed the very negative subtext within your suggestion.

My dad’s and I both occasional partake in a specific ritual that goes as follows:

1. Crack open an ice cold Coke Zero (also works with coke. And probably other colas).

Take a few sips while you either pull fresh from the garden or out of the fridge:

2. Radishes

Wash them up. You can slice, quarter or leave whole.

Get snacking.

Enjoy your fresh, slightly spicy (or really spicy depending!) radishes with your cold bubbly coke.

3. Wait.

4. Burp

5. Transcend this mortal plane, bask in the glory of the radish and coke burps that follow.

Fin

So… I am not trying to be clever here… That makes ICE qualified to manage protesters?

Why is ICE involved in handling this protest? I had no idea they were trained or authorized to do that.

So… Do you just have an extension or something that replaces TH with your b/p (thorn?) I see you didn’t use it when you use the word thorn.

Can you link to or provide an explanation for us curious folk?

I’ll give Linux Mint a go! Thanks

Thank you. I have heard that, and I’m interested in switch my home computer and “Netflix and YouTube on the tv” computer over.

Any recommendations on where to start with that?

I used Linux as a 11 year old back in… Late 90’s? And it was not user friendly but I was so cool it didn’t matter…

Until I couldn’t get a game other than Quake 2 running on my lan network.

Haven’t checked on it since but I’m overdue and ready.

Oh my. THANK YOU for that edgeblocker! Going to get that on every computer in my home.

Yeah I’m not “the boss” of my parents. My dad was very tech savvy, but he doesn’t have the same memory and cognition as he used to so when I set it up nice he likes it, but any friction sets him off to “solve” the problem… By doing some random totally different thing that doesn’t so much solve the problem as “gets it working, sort of” with a browser he recognizes. Then because there are ads he loses interest and just puts on the 24/7 news cycle. :(

So my parents use chrome even though I constantly install Firefox and hide chrome. Problem there is they end up with Edge so I stopped doing that. (Didn’t windows get in trouble for this kind of market control in the 90’s?)

So I had Ublock origin on chrome for them but it’s “not supported” anymore and my usual method of ignoring what it says and turning it back on are now failing.

Any help?

That sounds great. I’m bad at reading (not bad at it. Just don’t do it lol) but I’ll put that in my audiobooks for long trips pile. It sounds very much up my alley.