We didn’t have any kind of local anesthesia until they figured out cocaine could do this near the end of the 1800s.

Finally watched the first Starfleet Academy. Better than I expected.

I thought pardons were for criminal charges, not civil fines?

I posted this before, but it seems relevant here. Not doing anything is also bad for my mental health. Organizing is probably the right answer.

There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He’s going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.

They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don’t know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.

You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.

What happens next?

To be fair, there is a saloon.

I know we are used to it by now, but the ALL CAPS seems increasingly crazy.

“Being an archaeologist can be a very frustrating profession,” she added.

Back in the 70s we used to say “fuckin-A” as a kind of agreement

US so accustomed to invading for oil, it can’t stop itself, even when already floating in oil.

Unless they live their whole life in space

Do any browsers use Servo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Saint_Pius_X

I feel seen

Was it as good as they say?

Chinga la migra

Hasta la vista, baby

Facts have a well-known liberal bias

Frozen onions?

OR… people with dementia aren’t able to use smartphones.

Who are all the people immigrating to Australia?