“Everyone knows you can’t learn math unless you have an abacus!”

I know this is an exaggeration for emphasis… but people who learn the abacus method are faster and more accurate at basic addition.

I don’t try to justify my existence. No-one needs to earn a right to be.

Absolutely!

Be sure to post later and let us know how it goes.

I shut my mouth. Living in the modern world, that might be the last stale nugget of joy they have left.

Against parrots?

New Zealand here. I’ve had a pint in The Queen’s Ferry Tavern, The Queen’s Head and The King’s Arms. Also Bar None, The Crow Bar, Murphy’s Irish Pub, The Whitestone Cafe, The Blacksmith, The Q Bar, The Web, The Bull, Studio X, The Rose and Crown, The Office, The Local, The Fat Dog, Broncos, Galbraith’s Ale House and a host more I can’t bring to mind right now.

It’s a breakup song. 🙂

Once I was looking forward to the challenge of connecting a linux PC to a Windows domain, only to find out the current version of the distro had that functionality by default. 😐

So that was cool, I guess…

The more I read about Meta, the more convinced I am the Epstein files contain video of an expressionless Zuck explaining to a woman that unless she chooses one of her children to die, they both do.

You’d think the cocaine-snorting classes would understand that only the first hit’s free.

I don’t know what it says about me - or about Meta - that I read the article to see if it was deliberate.

I guess the headline doesn’t help.

Clearly they want you to stick your head up a bull’s hairy asshole and tell them about it. 😉

It doesn’t bother me. Sometimes it’s more useful to know what people think about issues surrounding the question than it is just to have the answer.

antiracist skinheads

I’ve read about these guys. Their take on it is that the skins started as a working class solidarity movement (the short hair is for safety while working on factory machinery) that got corrupted by nationalism and they have more in common with immigrant workers than with their own country’s capitalists.

Friends of my wife have chickens they raised from chicks. Only it’s very hard to sex chicks and three of them grew up to be roosters. They eventually found someone out in the deep countryside who was willing to take them in as pets instead of chicken dinners. Until that time (which took nearly a year), they relied on anti-crow collars they found on Amazon - which seemed to half-strangle the roosters but didn’t do much to discourage noise.

My wife hates that I still refer to them as the rooster gimps.

Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys. A lone astronaut explores a maze on the moon that kills people who break arbitrary and unexplained rules.

The later chapters of Revenger’s third book is a perfect example.

Man, just eat what you want on pizza.

No need to offer me a slice, tho’.

while I know it can happen, I haven’t had any taken from me since.

I had a couple hundred bucks worth of titles in my Amazon Digital Comics account when they shut all that down.

“I’ll help you bury this body if you book an appointment with a therapist.”