I have a feeling that the people drinking “raw” water have never gone camping in their lives. The closest they’re probably been to the outdoors is the Nat Geo shows on their ridiculously large TVs. Bet they don’t even know where their neighborhood park is.

What does this do to your battery life, though?

I was once notorious for falling asleep as the plane was taxiing for takeoff and not waking up till drinks were being served. My seatmate(who was an anxious flier) told me I sounded like an extra engine and oddly enough alleviated her anxiety.

This is all kinds of dumb but it reminds me that in the ‘60s of last century people were trying to develop all-purpose turbine engines for cars and they used to claim that a fifth of scotch (or was it aftershave?) would get you home in a pinch if you ran out of gas.

First think they need to do is agree on a common set of genderless pronouns for everyone to use. Making up your own as you go along is silly, and sooner or later someone is going to take offense.

More than half the fires in California in any given year are set by some yahoo who gets a hard-on watching things burn. So yes someone is behind it but not the way you think.

I believe the IOC declared that the Olympic anthem be played if an OAR athlete makes it to the podium. Whatever the Olympic anthem is for this year. Something by Taylor Swift maybe?

One thing the longevitists fail to consider is the capacity of the human brain. It’s the brain geared up to deal with the memories of an extended lifetime? It is, after all, a physical organ and by being so it has its limitations. If you extend your lifespan too much, will you reach a point where you can no longer…

How dare you not buy one of our newest, top-of-the-line, bank-account-busting, super-duper flagship smartphones! No updates for you!

Companies are just as bad providing security updates as they are providing new versions of Android. The last security update I got on my phone came down the week I purchased it in August. Nothing after that. Unless you get one of the latest super-duper wipe-out-the-bank-account top of the line flagship phones it is…

A junk remover like Ccleaner, a security & antivirus suite, an ad-blocker and a VPN. That’s for starters.

The food delivery service I use includes a service fee so most people don’t bother to tip the delivery guy, but I always do. Their faces just light up when I hand them the tip and they go away with a spring in theirstep. Hey, why not? It’s a little enough thing.

Fifty years or so ago my father splurged on a Mercedes-Benz diesel sedan. It didn’t take long before its windshield spontaneously shattered. The weird thing is, the shattering left two holes about the size of a softball on the left and right sides of the windshield, with the rest spiderwebing. This happened while the…

Not quite crashing. This was a while ago but I seem to recall that the oxygen masks came down when they really didn’t need to and caused quite some consternation and an emergency landing somewhere else. They couldn’t put us on a plane with all those masks hanging loose so the plane remained where it was.

Some airlines are better than others about this. I was flying from Singapore to Hong Kong once but the plane taking us there never arrived. So they had to put an entire planeload up for the night. I wound up in a suite (only thing the hotel had left when my turn came) that I swear was bigger than my apartment in SoCal…

Considering the quality of discourse on the interwebz the answer to the question posed in the title of your post is a resounding NO.

Let’s face it, Trump probably didn’t even know Puerto Ricans were U.S. citizens. He figured it Hurricane Maria was a good way to reduce his “immigrant problem” if he just avoided sending any help. What an idiot.

Doing what this post suggests only ensures that the kids will be terrible at spelling and communication later in life and utterly dependent on flawed spelling checkers. Learning to spell correctly teaches discipline.

While I’m all for this, it isn’t going to be painless. In Islam there is no central religious authority - every imam and mullah can issue his own fatwa or religious edict and you can bet there will be more than a few issued against this. Fun and games will ensue and it’ll be bloody. /s

So to be totally secure you want to factory-reset your phone, encrypt it (and the sd card if present (and new), then load new copies of all your apps (not backups) and finally restore your data. Amirite?