Losing an entire generation of productive and reproductive people is not going to do their nation any good.

Will the North Koreans get sufficient rations? It might be no worse than being at home.

Israel - Palestine is two non-Christian abrahamic religions fighting each other currently. Then of course there's Catholics and Protestants, and all the different Muslim - Christian conflicts.

I don't think Frasier would work without Frasier

Can confirm that our house spiders are pretty tough. A car ran off the road and into the front wall of my house spider last year and it barely left a mark. We still live here.

They are invading a country unprovoked . The country is made up of civilians. Weren't they breaking international law when the first shot was fired?

That was my comment about the amount that should be charged. I'll happily pay $5/mo, but not $15. I'm happy to pay for services, just not the amount that many want to charge.

I pay less than 5usd for a family plan, I just subscribed through a developing nation with a VPN.

If you watch ads instead of paying a modest fee to remove them then you're a clown. Companies do need to make money for the services they provide, I just disagree with the amount.

We used to use them for the same thing in Kmart (Australia) when I worked there 20 years ago. They were used to clear the float so you didn't have too much cash in the register. Now that 90% of transactions are on card I bet they don't use them anymore.

They work in tech, promotions are achieved by moving employers. Internal mobility is always terrible in tech companies.

I spent a lot of time in a few forums in the 00s. Many of them still exist but they are shells of what they used to be. One that I check into once a year or so has about one post per year - and it's normally a post asking if anyone is still there. The owner keeps it running as a memorial to one of the mods who has passed.

Me too, but it's better late than never

I get that people think that but it's a stupid take really. Hearing loss is a big contributor to senility.

Just on statistics, it seems unlikely that in the period of time that coconuts have been floating around that they would only have made it there about the same time as explorers. Surely if they could make it there floating then they would have much earlier.

I never thought I'd say it, but that church needs Jesus (and someone literate enough to read their holy book).

Imagine if they had instead hired 500,000 people on $100,000 each. They could have bought the entire city of Detroit and had it making Teslas, instead they've got one coked up narcissist.

I give the old ones a pass because they were made outside of Hollywood, on tiny budgets, with relatively unknown actors. The new ones cost millions and were full of big names throughout the whole production.

Mad Max Fury Road. I honestly don't understand how people like it. The storyline is paper thin to the point of being almost missing. I guess the steampunk motif is good if you're into that, but the rest of the movie was just trash.

I remember thinking how "lucky" we were that COVID-19 was relatively mild, compared to say the original SARS which had a 10%+ mortality rate. This is a two edged sword though, because we shot our load on COVID-19 and too many people aren't going to accept restrictions again. There's a fair segment of society who will work against any efforts at public health now.