Sorry to hear that... I can see how that can put a bit of a cloud over what should be a nice day with one's better half.

... OR a certain barista created a false flag emergency to get a specific reaction from Java. It's a time-honored tactic for governments... no reason we little people can't make use of it too. 😁

That's cool. As much as I'm into Bitcoin, I have stakes in other things too. One great thing about Hive is it's one of my few cryptocurrency endeavors that actually produces income and not just depending

Oh yes, I grew up on Bloom County! I was just a kid in the 80's so I didn't always fully understand some of the references and jokes, but I loved it all the same. And when I reread them as an adult, I

Yeah, I think I got my first digital camera around 2001. I actually never owned a good film camera before that... I was young and mostly broke, so I always used those cheap one-time-use cameras (yet another

I don't know enough on Starmer to have an educated opinion. But yeah, I'll take boring and at least semi-competent over likeable and clueless. Unfortunately for us Yanks, the skillset needed to GET ELECTED

My kids aren't that old yet. But at ages 15 and 10, that possibility is becoming very real very soon... 😏

I totally do as well. Well okay not ALL the money, but certainly anything not necessary for direct defense of the nation (which is unfortunately the majority of it). And sadly with DoD directive 5240.01,

"Not that the bikini makes her less smart. What the bikini really means is, she doesn't have to care." That's a very shrewd and diplomatic observation... with skills like that, maybe you should

I seem to remember there's actually a couple bikini espresso places in my hometown of Anchorage Alaska of all places (Bikini Babes Espresso if I'm not mistaken). So apparently even cold weather is no barrier

The cultural memory and impact of the mullet, much like Captain America, has survived much, much longer than anyone would have expected. 😁

So true. And yet at the same time, even despite being able to take nearly endless numbers of pictures nowadays I think most of us had more physical photos on average in the old days as compared to recent

If 80's movies taught us anything (and South Park reminded us again a decade or so later), a training montage is THE way to win in life. So he's gonna need a montage..

Or maybe he DOES have a superpower, only it's one of those on this old Top Ten list from David Letterman's late night show back in the day (#8 actually sounds rather exciting and just might be more common

I particularly enjoyed when he visited all those different Wolverine variants (some of them I actually remember from the comics way back). And you just know Henry Cavill got more than a little joy playing

I'm just half-surprised (also pleasantly surprised) Marvel Studios gave the writers as much free reign as they did... both with the mature content and some of the digs at Marvel. And you're right, if anyone

Half-demonic? Hmm... would that make him a 'fun-size' Rakshasa? 😁

Interestingly, it seems the non-US expats here are most gobsmacked when I tell them that I'm not voting for either one. And even more astonished when I tell them that as bad I think Trump will be for the

Yeah, I only wish the Amtrak trains in the USA were as nice or as punctual as the ones I remember riding in Europe. But it still is a good way to see much of the country. You just have to build in

This is actually the first Independence Day I've spent in the USA since 2016! Not that I have a regular job to have a day off from, but it's still nice to be back this time of year... 😁