The same one that put “sparkly” text as a formatting option. I sort-of miss that bullshit.

The only right answer is what your publisher/boss - or whoever is signing the checks you’re getting for your writing - wants.

I am disappointed. I was hoping my next laptop purchase would also give me a poor-man’s vasectomy.

Okay now you lost me. Ramping up stop and frisk, accelerating gentrification, sucking up to large-scale developers (who then pushed out POC from neighborhoods through various skeezy techniques so the whipipo could feel “safe”) - oh and cooking the books on the homeless population (basically statistically making people…

I generally agree about the false “Drumpf=Clinton” notion. I’ve got plenty of gripes about HRC but she’s levels above Drumpf in just about any category (policy smarts, diplomatic acumen, experience, policy positions).

What’s annoying is that many of these same “don’t put peanuts near my child” parents DGAF about anyone else’s kids. Ask them if they support affordable housing or moving families into middle-class nabes that have better air quality and are further away from waste processing facilities and highways - you know, things…

MK Ultra isn’t all that secret - there was a senate hearing on it in the late 70s, the Supreme Court CIA vs. Sims in ‘85, articles published in non-fringey magazines (Smithsonian, NY Times, etc.)... you’re right though, a lot of documents were destroyed. My understanding (I’m not a super-expert on this topic) is that…

I agree.

I thought that the Army (and later, the CIA in unclassified documents) admitted that they’d done some live field-testing of BZ (not like in Jacob’s Ladder). The CIA did finally own up to dosing people with LSD and other drugs via undercover agents (as well as doing in-house “testing.”) in their MKUltra project.

Musk was from a middle class background (mother was a model and dad was an electrical engineer). What’s interesting to note is that he started his first business (with his brother) after dropping out of the Stanford physics PhD program, with $28K of seed money - from dad.

Only after I see them going to the same sex toy aisle.

Yes and no. They bring back a lot of characters from season to season, but people who are leading in one season will mostly disappear in the next; supporting characters will become leading ones; new folks will come in and then stick around after the story shifts.

I think it gets piled on to such an extent that even a good episode gets unfairly bumped. There’s always been a lot to like, just that I think they could do it in 12 episodes instead of 16. I don’t know why they feel they have to drag out the storylines so much, because instead of creating suspense it just kind of…

The first two episodes are slow going - there’s oodles of characters to introduce and you have to see the mechanics of how police departments, courts and politics actually work (also how the Barksdale gang business works).

I have to watch at least an episode of almost everything - it’s part of my profession - but I rarely stick with stuff for more than that.

That’s a good question. I thought his name meant “horse” or “horse-head” in Japanese. But I’ve heard it has a meaning in Mandarin. But it’s pretty close to the French word for boat. The way he’s drawn in season 1 of the show (and IIRC the manga too) is more cartoony than that of other characters, so who knows?

Hey, sorry I didn’t respond earlier to your response.

LOL... yeah, I get that. It was weird when I said I was moving in with my girlfriend (now wife)... when we were both in our early 40s.

Partner may emerge as the best term by default, since it’s also non-gender-specific (and even poly-friendly). Maybe we should start calling law partners something else instead, and…

The problem is that the administration of the death penalty has been marked by a pretty consistent history of bias, racism and class-ism. If we had a justice system that worked - you didn’t have PDs with ridiculous caseloads, we got rid of cash bail and set up monitoring programs, we weren’t engaged in a futile war on…

If the armed forces is basically a government jobs program, then the government can redirect that money into a civilian jobs program, and the people who are in the military (or rely on military contracts or services) can get those jobs. There’s no shortage of civilian work to be done - advanced research,…