Listening to an audiobook helps me in those situations. Ideally something a little boring but still engaging enough to keep me distracted.

It’s ridiculous that he still has a security clearance. Anyone else acting out in the way he has been would have the DOD all up in their shit. It is obvious at this point that he is a threat to national security, his public drug use and unhinged behavior alone should have been enough. Now he is getting hurricane rescue workers threatened and terrifying disaster victims into not receiving government assistance, it’s absolutely monstrous and fundamentally anti-American. That he is also trusted with secret information about US national security and receives billions of dollars from the US government is completely absurd.

I believe this based off my limited interactions with insurance companies. I was in a car crash that was 100% caused by the idiot who was fucking with their phone instead of looking at what they were crashing into. Their insurance company tried to stick me with months of rental fees from when my car was being repaired. I eventually filed a complaint with my state insurance commissioner and told their insurance company what’s up, they got right on it after that. Literally, that same day they had multiple people contacting me to say we’re all good now and apologizing about the misunderstanding.

Stick a finger up its butt and the leash will get spit back out? I think I read that somewhere, not sure if it works.

Are you sure it wasn’t set in Scotland? Charlie Stross wrote a novel a bit like you describe, its in the second person, which is very unusual and definitely rubs some people the wrong way. I think it was Halting State.

Manta Sound mask

For sure, I’d even say its not quite a #2 without it. Or if I ordered it from a decent bar where things are done competently, I’m going to expect it.

That’s a #2, the superior corpse reviver. If you try to order this without the 2 you are likely getting a different drink.

Does it give her bad directions on one device or everywhere she is signed into Google?

The search results are inconsistent and they started including advertising on the map but I haven’t noticed a decline in route finding. Perhaps there were accidents or traffic jams being routed around?

If she walks it’s not going to be because she has connections, it’s going to be because the prosecutor engaged in misconduct.

Look into the recent construction of the Turkish consulate in NYC and there’s at least some of the answer.

It has happened before, there’s already a variety of sanctions on China.

I’m surprised to see this getting down voted. The Trump cultists are a powder keg, I wouldn’t feel safe in any building associated with Democrats or the Harris campaign personally. It’s not really a surprise they are shooting out windows, these are pissed off people with guns who believe a bunch of crazy shit. If you’re working in a building like this and you didn’t consider this possibility then you are naive to the reality of what you’re up against.

What are the odds of two billionaires sharing a jail cell? Has it ever happened before? Or I guess SBF is a former billionaire on paper so maybe he doesn’t count. Either way, its nice to see the legal system locking up monsters.

Poirot. It’s charming, full of mostly subtle humor, and generally just well written, acted, and produced. I appreciate that it has a deeply humane perspective where justice matters, and that effort has been put into historical accuracy. It’s also sufficiently detached from contemporary reality that its not a downer to watch even though it still has a very honest view of human nature.

I think part of the problem, at least for me, is the horrible color temp most headlights use now. They are like 6500k hard white light instead of something less harsh like around 3500k that is much easier on the eyes. I think the only criteria they care about when selecting LEDs is maximum brightness so this is what we get.

You should take a look at how simple civics tests have already been used in the US election system. It did not go well.

He is a billionaire with at least one private jet, and they have recordings of him threatening and attempting to bribe witnesses.

That’s a dangerous path, and also very likely unconstitutional in the US.