SAME! I even upgraded and then downgraded back to this one, after the newer one died.

Ooh, any cast members there?

I dug in my heels after having to toss ANOTHER handvac for this reason and wouldn’t get a new one til I’d found an option with replaceable batteries. Suck it, planned obsolescence.

I learned about 😏surgeons’ skillful hands😏 from Leonard McCoy. Surely HE’S not wrong.

YES. When the website and the app DON’T OFFER the same functionality, or when the desktop and mobile site work totally differently: RAGE. wtf do you mean, that filter just doesn’t exist over here, it’s the same fucken website. (Looking at you, Mercari.)

I read years ago about a study showing that the most irritating and distracting type of conversation to be forced to overhear is a one-sided phone call. Someday I’ll re-find it and drop millions of copies as pamphlets from the sky.

I 100% agree with OP… except for the lost phone pinging feature. And having it record a reminder before I forget. And being able to set it a few minutes fast, to balance out all the times I get distracted and am running late. Hm, maybe what I want is a Fitbit plus a better brain.

Jonathan Frakes wanders toward the camera: “And that’s where it really goes from fact to fiction…. or does it? Records show it was $11,000.”

Heh, I’m reminded of the comedian Janet McNamara talking about not “qualifying” as having sensory issues because she’d already removed those irritants from her life. www.facebook.com/share/v/18UV...

Which included the fallout from a once in a century pandemic global supply chain disruption.

If only I could stay this calm when arguing with an idiot, I’d be unstoppable.

We mustn't dwell -- no, not today!

I snort laughed, thank you.

Star Trek The Search for Spock scene. Our Lord Spock is pictured in a white robe. He stands surrounded by his shipmates who are all older here than they were in the TV show. Sulu is smiling and touching Spock's chest for some reason. Uhura, Chekov, Scotty, and Bones stand close and all seem thrilled to see him, but are otherwise practicing self control and not feeling his chest. Despite being surrounded by friends, Spock is staring only at Kirk, for obvious reasons.

He is risen

Ugh fair point. The article has zero info on where the rumor originated. Even 100% ignoring the ICE statement, it’s certainly believable and despicable if true — but it could also just be snowballing hearsay. The misinformation environment hellscape.

I heard about it regularly with migrant workers in Florida, when I lived there. And that was 30 years ago.

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My kindergarten teacher, a terrifying nun, gave each student fake birthday spankings across her lap in front of the class on their special day. (In 1987!!) So no actual hitting, but higher levels of embarrassment and weirdness: does that make me extra Catholic?

Marshmallows are at their finest and most transcendent when charred with a layer of crunchy carcinogenic sugar ash and a molten middle. Maybe Peeps would be better impaled on a stick and shoved into the heart of a campfire?

Oh, I don't think we should adopt despair! But I think it's false complacency or can leave us caught off guard if we keep thinking we can rely on the rule of law or the opposition party stepping up. Hope for the best, plan for the worst, realize we're living in unprecedented times. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AT BEST that board is wildly incompetent. And that’s making some very charitable assumptions. So all the staff are just not getting any more paychecks, with 3 days notice?! You don’t run out of money with no warning. There should be personal accountability for gross negligence like this.

Just found out I have to be cautious about which graphic novels I get my kid from the library, lest they include the Lost Cause Myth! To say nothing of the 2025 book full of wild lies about the pandemic that got loads of mainstream kudos. (The “If Books Could Kill” podcast did a good takedown.) Sigh

There are dozens of things EOs “cannot do,” e.g. overruling Congressional control of the budget yet they’ve done them. Not an EO, but FBI just illegally seized all 2020 Fulton Co, GA ballots (w/voter names attached!) Feels kinda naive to point to reasons exec branch overreach can’t/won‘t happen.

Sending another follow-up in MyChart. Pro: far more pleasant than a phone call. Con: the condition which this very med would otherwise be treating requires me to review the message three times, tweaking so comma placement, syntax, and tone are both technically and spiritually correct.

Requiring prior authorization for ADHD meds is honestly just cruel and unusual. Wdym I have to make multiple phone calls to doctor, insurance, and pharmacy and *keep doing so*?! I can't do the thing to get the thing without the thing!!!

Shit, I’m so sorry.

Yep. Group 3 is chomping at the bit to burn it all down so they can create corporate dictatorships from the ashes and they’re not shy about saying so — Yarvin, Thiel & friends.

I agree but also fear that some of these sociopaths would find the imagery incentivizing.

To stop the war, Iran is asking for wild concessions like “agreeing to not arbitrarily attack them in the future”. Real impossible stuff, man. Or, wait, no—