I tried that once but it wasn’t for me. If it’s been cold out and is suddenly warm, I’ll bask in the heat or open windows.

Actually I’m a bit annoyed that my car does that. I set the car thermostat to heat to a specific temperature but then it also cools to that temperature. I haven’t figured out if there’s a way to set it to heat (or cool) only

They should have included a picture of beer, instead of a couple cans of piss water and diluted piss water

I wish we had someone who could look at government to cut waste, fraud and abuse, get those guys back on serious crime

I will say it’s somewhat satisfying in an “I told you so” kind of way. It’s getting really frustrating voting for a government that will serve the people overall, but get rejected by the very people who would benefit most.

I will continue to vote for sanity and for a government that serves its people but is it really too much to ask for the people to do the same?

wtf, are they really expecting one guy to make up for the governments abandoned commitments? Why don’t they put that Nazi toady right on it?

Don’t lose sight that you are committing a crime, you are destroying an innocent persons property, and you really have no excuses if caught by either the owner or the police

White, some level of fame, voluntarily coming in from the “right” side of the border, had some sort of paperwork, her work visa apparently hadn’t yet expired?

Seriously , that’s what happened? I was going to say, the article wasn’t clear on whether there was actually a problem but it sounds like not

Not really, no. Plenty of laws are not just wrong but also illegal. This is the biggest issue with the current US administration: a flood of illegal actions but the people who need to say no do not have the moral fortitude or even self-preservation to do so. Hopefully our service men and women are more ethical than our congressmen

The thing is, if you don’t know what they might follow through with, you need to take it all seriously.

Or if you’re one of our allies, you have to take seriously what would directly affect you

Since Vietnam, supposedly they have a duty to disobey illegal orders

Must pe nice. Here I was about to add that you can’t take a train to work if you might have to stay a bit late, but trains outside rush hour are one hour, then two hours apart, and stop way too early

Is this a “glass half full” thing? Can a non-existent train never be late or never be in time?

Sure, intercity will never work in the US. Except on both coasts. And upper Midwest. And in a couple mountain and high desert areas. Dammit, that’s like 70% of the population

Just wait until BORT’s date with METRA, the sexy sounding voice assistant of trains

We always include the dog for Christmas. In my lifelong total of four dogs, they all were uncertain the first year, a little better the next year, and after three were all set to jump in and unwrap their presents. While they have no concept of Christmas and probably no explicit memories of previous Christmases, they do seem to learn year over year

Autopilot is great, auto landing is great. Humans are needed for decisions and planning, adaptability, handling unexpected circumstances, and are worth every penny

The problem with eugenics is proposed solutions, or criteria based of prejudice.

I claim it’s both fine and correct to state that the wrong people have too many children. You’re the wrong people if you have more children than you can adequately care for, to raise sufficiently for them to have a successful life. You’re the wrong people if you have children you’re not prepared for or otherwise can’t commit to raising or don’t have the ability to raise.

It’s wrong, eugenics, when

• it’s prejudicial such as based on race, culture, religion
• you’re judging another person’s worth, their rights on that worth, or their opportunities on their worth
• you take it to an extreme, such as only the wealthy should have children.
• you prescribe a solution that imposes your will on other people, or worse, legal or medical intervention

Better answers include

• better education helps people make better choices
• better medical care helps people know their choice will succeed
• better safety nets help each child succeed even when their parents made a poor choice or had unexpected life events
• better childcare options help give the parents a chance to succeed with trying to earn a living while raising a child

If you’re in a contaminated area, you’re contaminated. Hopefully not enough to make a difference if you don’t eat paint chips.

• But smaller chips are part of the dust that gets everywhere.
• Chips and stripped paint is part of the soil that may be pulled up into any vegetables grown in that soil.
• heavy metals bioaccumulate so even small exposures over enough time can add up to a problem
• it’s not just lead, mercury is notorious for bioaccumulating up the food chains for many seafoods

Every building before like 1978 has lead paint, but people forget that so does the land around them. I live in an area with older homes and we’re frequently warned not to grow vegetables within 10’ of the house because the soil is too likely lead contaminated from peeling or stripping exterior paint over the years