It is, to a degree.

She’s no billy strings.

I legit wasn’t sure if this was a real thing she did that started as a friendly joke or something.

Actually, I’m still not sure.

I think you mis-spelled “biased”.

:)

Me too!

I thought it said “Grimes” and it was making a joke about how ugly and comical the cybertruck looks.

Oops.

LOL

I think it was the original meaning when it was brand new and still very niche.

Part of me wonders if it made it onto one of those “Parents! Know these abbreviations!” memes where they purposely list the acronyms incorrectly (LOL–Lots of Love) and then got more popular that way.

Back twenty years ago when I first started seeing “SMH” it was “So. Much. Hate.”

As in “I really dislike that.”

As in “So, everybody unanimously said they want sheet cake for office birthdays and management decided to double down on the day old donuts again anyway? So Much Hate.”

Lotta key parties in your neck of the woods?

Okay, so what’s causing our costs to be higher?

Wow, it wasn’t that long ago when production was moved to the States because of Japan’s high labor costs.

I know Nissan US will likely try to BLAME it on things like unions or rising labor costs, but there’s NO WAY that amounts to a >20% rise in production costs even if you cite “hidden” costs behind the 6.6% or whatever they got. Keep in mind that costs were LOWER here and NOW they’re TWENTY PERCENT LOWER in japan. That means we rose a BUNCH more than where we were at because there’s no way they moved it here if we were 1% lower than japan.

Which part of the raw-materials-to-auto-parts chain is inflating the hell out of costs to declare record profits this time?

For most people, these are harmless and just a part of getting older. You’ll get used to them.

I’ve had these since I was in preschool.

They’re far less pronounced (almost entirely absent, really) now in my 40’s than they were throughout my single digit years, but I still see them once in a great while

That would be the SMART way to do things, yes.

One can hope.

I was actually impressed when I took a bus across state lines in the U.S. recently.

Someone was complaining about the charger on their seat not working.

Turns out that the driver has full control of the power to the USB ports on the bus and can turn them off and on at will… and they apparently they turn them off BY DEFAULT.

If someone WERE to figure out a way to get from the USB port in the seats to the CAN Bus on the vehicle itself, having a hard-wired physical switch that cuts power/signal to the ports is potentially a fairly effective security measure as long as there’s not a memory buffer you can compromise and run stuff from.

I’m working to overcome a particularly troublesome piece of technology right now and enjoying a cold, refreshing, Diet Dr. Pepper, so I guess the sentiment stands.

I was going to say, I saw the name “Lister” and wondered if there was any connection to “Listerine”.

the Laundry Files

Sweet, Thanks.

I just checked The Atrocity Archives (first book in the series) out of my local library’s e-book program.

I’m looking forward to reading this.

corwin does both…

I heard the Elderly Man’s words in the voice of Kris Kristofferson’s Whistler character from the Blade movies.

To make things even weirder, navigational lights are not reversed in Region B.

Actually, that makes the most SENSE. My first thought when I read this was “wait, Red = Port and Starboard = Green, if you flip them for some countries, what happens when they’re out of the region of water where it’s flipped?”

The fact that that it’s apparently consistent for navigational lights only seems logical.