G B♭ A D

The four notes whistled by Katniss. Became a central melody in the series.

No control group. They needed to have just as many kids who were never allowed to play or observe chess.

Also, small sample size.

Nazis actually believed and were obsessed with shit like that. That’s not even misinformation, that’s historical fact.

Nazis weren’t just put into Indiana Jones for the lulz. They legit tried to rewrite history and part of this was finding artifacts and making them work to their own story. There was an occult backstory to the Aryans as Hitler and the Nazis envisioned it.

One of my new favorite channels, Extra History, had a miniseries last month called “Nazi Occultism” recently…highly recommend.

6 days after Christmas to find and beat the first dungeon without the internet? Sounds about right.

Chattanooga!

Don’t tell my wife that. And honestly I knew that. I just wanted an excuse to buy a matching socket set.

My last one was a “task force” mechanic set that my parents got me nearly over 20 years ago when I got my license.

If anything, Luigi murdered a terrorist.

Bison are better mammals than humans. Especially American humans.

Also they were here first.

The Odyssey just had a dead battery yesterday. Thats permissible, it’s cold out, she’s taking a lot of short trips (out getting last minute gifts on the big retail stroad), and the battery is 5 years old.

The battery died in the movie theater parking lot (getting gift cards), and that’s how we found out that the only way to get it into neutral was to turn a little knob under the air filter with a pair of pliers, and hold it in place while moving the car.

Otherwise, the car must be running to shift into neutral. Who the fuck came up with that idea. Like, I understand the brake-shift-interlock. This was a push button shifter, and this was the override they chose.

So it was either wait for everybody to finish the Sunday matinee of Wicked so someone can move their car and I could slip in to jump it from mine…or buy a battery and get tools and replace it there in the parking lot.

I chose the latter. Didn’t want to drive all the way home, though, and I “knew” I was missing all my 10mm sockets…fortunately BJs had a nice DeWalt mechanics toolset on clearance, and that plus the battery cost less than just a battery at the parts store.

I know it’s anecdotal…but my 2019 Odyssey has so far needed a lot more work than my 2013 Passat. Considering I got both of them at 1 year old.

This is completely counter to most expectations.

Mary was an illegal immigrant seeking a green card and Jesus was an anchor baby.

Joseph was a pedophile who lived in Nazareth to dodge taxes.

Bethlehem was a sanctuary city.

They were all fugitives of Herod, although it was their fault Herod was out killing all the baby boys anyway.

This is canon.

It doesn’t need a GUI but browser plugins or some means of auto fill are just the bees knees.

Yeah.

Arnold Palmer.

Not as hard as Arnold Palmer.

No carrot. Only stick.

You are not the first person to say this, but I’ve never read it. I’ll put it on my list.

Someone will come out on top.

Discussions like this makes me wonder if the reason why time travelers can never kill Hitler…is because Hitler himself was a time traveler, and somehow the future determined he was a necessary evil at a particular point in time. Like…the original timeline was worse than Hitler.

No one mournes the wicked.

A company’s purpose is to be profitable, ethics side is largely irrelevant.

Maybe so, but companies such as Proton’s biggest asset is their reputation…a reputation of being privacy-focussed. Without that they are nothing, and they know that. As a result, they try to live up to that reputation as well as possible.

Being as it was started by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (among some of CERN’s other founding fathers of the web) is just icing on the cake.