Even for men, this is business-casual coded. Some of us travel on day one and have to do something fairly formal on day two, like go to court. That means a suit bag, which is rarely an overhead-bin-suitable item. Not all of us are hoodie tech bros.

One thing I have noticed that many hotel zones are lacking in the places to pick up the day-to-day items. Almost never a quick walk.

And I am not arranging my trip around only bringing what can make it through the TSA and/or arranging side-trips to Walgreens or Target. YMMV, but this is not a "skills issue."

I don't use AI to write emails because, inter alia, I don't want to have to write an email for the AI, then edit the output of the AI. But I can see how someone who hasn't spent the last 15 years of their employed life writing emails would find it handy.

I have sort of a low-level amusement about how so many playable species have darkvision, except for humans. (And yes I think they could have avoided a lot of this by switching to "species" a long time ago.)

One of the few things I miss is the giant glasses. Particularly my own. (Plus narrow ties, but not the knit ones.)

Characterizing all criticism of a dictatorship as illegitimate under the critic's own values is standard dictatorship stuff.

"When they came for the MILFs I didn't speak up ..."

The AI intrusion reminds me of the 90s 'jam internet into everything even at 56kbs.' Windows 98 folder views were web pages, right? Just like the Office 365 start screen is now a chatbot. But internet was legit, just not like they said.

Two men in suits with a woman in a sleeveless top standing between them, with one arm around each. The poster with a cigarette jammed in his mouth, smiling. Plus, glasses.

I don't dread the future so much as I dread the seemingly endless present.

9mm ammunition and broad-spectrum antibiotics. (mind the expiration dates on the latter)

"OK, so it's $2 in Spanish money, or $78 in notes from the First Bank of Wildcat, North Carolina, but how much is it in beaver pelts or jugs of whiskey?"

"Geez, we'd like to ratify the Constitution, but we just voted ourselves a shittonne of legal tender paper money and paid off all our debts."

When they were dropping Providence Plantations they should have gone whole hog and embraced "Rogue Island."

Relevant to one of my persistent irritants. "Yes, I know you are just being glib, but if slaves had actually been counted as 5/5 person, that would have been much worse."

I pine for Normie America, where I could be very upset about President Romney's plans for the capital gains tax and depreciation schedules.

My spouse was leading a public meeting about some library renovations the other night, and apparently some of the kids from the chess club stuck around to attend. It makes me a bit hopeful.

Lot more have no siblings, I imagine? Missing out on big from the cradle socialization. In any event, if there is an epidemic of male loneliness, the remedies are out there, and not particularly high risk.

I am sure those tortillas are every bit as bad for me as a biscuit, but the breakfast burritos.

Hell, go to a bar and watch a ballgame. Three hours of talk, unhealthy food, and exceedingly cold beer. Not all that into sports? A few months ago, I stopped by a game store so packed with dudes playing MTG that you had to shimmy around the edges of the crowd to get to the shelves.

I would respectfully suggest that "populism" in practice - disliking inflation and liking tariffs and immigration restrictions - is more "stop hitting yourself."

Yep, before it was "immigrants go on welfare" it was "immigrants try too hard."

Oh, I don't judge. OK, I take that back, I do judge, but only when they are holding up the line at the gas station.

But as forms of entertainment go, there are a lot worse than lottery.

More and more I miss that old joke: a woman had two sons, one ran away to sea, the other became Vice President of the United States. Neither was ever heard from again.

Ten stories tall! Like it is a Babel-style affront to God.

At that point, isn't it equally likely you'll find the winning ticket on the sidewalk?

Actually buying a ticket does not increase the odds of winning in any measurable way.

Plus, I think if nerddom is consuming your disposable income, you are coming out ahead of the sportsbook devotees, since you end up with cool cosplay kit and/or collections of RPG hardcovers instead of ... nothing.

We had a lot of that hereabouts during the primaries. I did a lot of, "ya know what y'all sound like, right?"