There are dozens of studies all over Europe that show toxicity of GMOs.

And who cleaned up the shit of the young students who hadn’t learned the vanishing spell yet? That’s right.

At first, I thought that it was a warning from the rest of the world that the U.S. would be hit with sanctions.

OK. So just to be sure.

Can’t say I’m sorry about the guy.

The black victim was very lucky that the police didn’t just Taser him on the scene.

Indeed. We all know how this movie progresses . . .

I have had problems booting to a liveCD/USB drive on newer Windows computers. The UEFI (the BIOS? Whatever) has a ‘safe boot’ mode the pretty much considers any non-Windows OS to be ‘unsafe’, and so will not boot. It has to first be disabled. I think that whatever setting feature that lets you change the boot order…

“Look for 150 years of long life and a pill to cure alcoholism. Diseases cured by gene-splicing will be staggering.” Judith Bradley

So, the largest coal-burning plant burns 11 million tons of coal per year, which is around 30,000 tons per day, or over 1,000 tons of coal per hour, on average.

Coal jobs halved between 1920 to 1950, and fell again between 1955 and 1970. Mechanization and strip mining are what brought an end to most coal mining employment [edit: that’s actually just a guess. I dunno]. In the past 20 years, it’s been relatively stable, probably having reached a maximum level of efficiency.

I’m sure that they have a functioning penis. Oh! There it is, firmly gripped in his hand!

My wife knew someone at a local Catholic church who volunteered for this. Years ago, when there were unaccompanied children coming to the U.S., there was a call for more volunteers, and an offer for a background check and training. We went to the training, etc., but we were not needed at that time.

Yeah. That’s always a source of confused laughter.

Say, has anyone else had problems with password-protecting compressed archives? I’ve never been able to get it to work twice in a row.

For Windows computers, I use Paint.NET for paint-stuff. It falls between Windows Paint and GIMP, and I almost never need more power or features. It’s ‘just right’.

I have been using Softmaker’s “FreeOffice”. Not open source, but still free. I find it handles well, and is less clunky than LibreOffice. It’s on my phone, too.

KeePassXC!

Yeah. I was really surprised not to see TeamViewer here, especially since family tech support is a big issue during the holidays.

I don’t speak Spanish, except for a few words, but my wife and I volunteer to assist asylum-seekers who have been released from ICE detention. We have found Google Translate and Microsoft Translate to be extremely helpful.