How about some ladybugs?

Any time attention is focused on one place, there’s less on another.

This was a significant plot point in Die Hard with a Vengeance

To corroborate your buddy’s story: Trump repeatedly refused to pay for the extra police needed for his rallies.

I chose a major I loved and that has good paying jobs but now I sort of hate it

There’s also the fact that the earth is an oblate spheroid and great circles are the shortest distance between two points on that shape. (Though this may not apply for short flights like this.)

Boring yet competent people don’t get elected in a country with mass media. They just don’t get coverage, so people don’t know they’re there.

As example, look at the first televised presidential debate between Kennedy and Nixon. Kennedy was young and inexperienced, but let them put makeup on him for the debate. Nixon had more experience but looked like a sweaty mess on TV. This helped Kennedy a lot.

Feel Big Fish

Less Than Cake

We would have stopped them but the planning meeting was at 9am.

I’d be far more interested in learning more about the other folks on the Macintosh team. They’re an amazing group of people who put a lot of care into something they believed in, Steve Jobs notwithstanding. What they did with what they had was amazing, and the fact that they got lost in Jobs’ spotlight is tragic.

Have you ever looked at memes on weed?

The man who delivered that line is now my generation’s Walter Cronkite

Wanna go to a club where people wee on each other?

My only regret is that we didn’t have another assault with a cane on the floor of the House.

Al should beat his ass next time.

Beautiful fjords. No wonder the parrot was pining for them.

Yep. Has been ever since the Golgafrinchan B Ark crashed here and killed the native population and broke the computer the size of a planet.

Slartibartfast is devastated.

You ever drink Baileys from a shoe?

Dude’s country is being attacked by the “second army in the world” and he says “I don’t need a ride I need ammunition.”

I’m amazed his giant brass balls even fit in his pants.

Add it to the list of things we need to codify. Like the president releasing his tax returns.

Yes but Britain did it with the world’s biggest navy and a significant defense industry

Plus Churchill was a racist asshole.

Churchill and Roosevelt could not hold a candle to this man.

I’m also from that era of the Internet and you’re so right about smaller communities being better. One great example was Wil Wheaton’s phpBB forum. Probably a hundred active users including Wil and we all got along and more or less policed ourselves.

(Plus I helped him out with some car trouble. Let me repeat that: I helped Wesley Crusher with an engineering problem. One of my proudest moments.)

One of the interesting decisions that they do is that rulebreaking posts are rarely ever deleted. If a person is probated (temp ban) or banned, their comment stays up with a “(User was Probated/Banned for this post)” edited into the post so you can see, and hopefully learn, from the bad behavior. In addition, there’s a ‘Wall of Shame’ section where you can see everyone who’s been actioned against, who the moderator was and the moderation reason.

That’s a really great feature.