Yep, it’s contradictory. No idea what else to say about that except that jif was the origin, and the guy who coined it insisted it was jif when he heard anyone pronounce it gif. Rules are irrelevant. Acronyms have a life of their own separate from the words they stand for. AWOL, IMAX and iPhone are examples of the way…

The engineer who coined the term wasn’t creating a rule, he was creating a name for a type of file, and he chose the pronunciation. He actually corrected people when he heard is spoken incorrectly. Whatever rules may apply to other words are not relevant. Others don’t get to vote on his choice. Anyone is free to…

You can’t actually be trying to standardize or rulify English pronunciation, can you? Seriously? That’s some funny girandole and gibberish right there, Colonel. No idea if gif hard-g is regional, but I was working in IT when the term was created, and spent the decades since in IT, working from as far west as Denver,…

Fortunately my state allows DMV appointments. They’re months in advance, but Real ID took me about 10 min including a computer glitch with my online records not showing up which took up 5 min.  But don’t even get me started on Global Entry renewal.

I don’t know, just a guess:

Don’t remember the specific year but in the early 60's my dad had a Renault Dauphine with a auto stick in the US. He was a car nut but due to a war injury couldn’t use a clutch, and I remember how excited he was to be able to manually shift. I was just old enough to drive with my learner’s permit, so also had turns at…

Yep. That’s why I created a comment to slip that reference in. Figured some don’t know about it, and as you say the savings can be HUGE. Clearly reveals how totally absurd our drug pricing is.  If a doc writes a prescription the first thing I do is use the app on my phone to tell them which pharmacy to send it to. And…

Don’t have drug insurance so use GoodRx to find the best deals.  Harris Teeter has recently been by far the cheapest in my area.  Hope they don’t close the pharmacy.

Now just try to imagine how f’ed up a society has to be to not just elect this monstrosity but to continue to allow him to occupy our highest office. There’s not any universe where this makes a quark’s bit of sense. The only reason he hasn’t been perp walked out of the WH straight into prison is because we have a…

Not this “we”.

Yes, and prefer them to Honeycrisp, but sadly they’ve disappeared from my local stores.

More likely than some imaginary diety who usually gets the credit.

+1  and more room in the little bag for other necessary liquids.

Not a lawyer but your point makes sense to me. The court did not rule that tightening lug nuts is not part of rotating tires, they ruled the client was not deceived or tricked, certainly not intentionally, which is what the MSVRA law appears to have been targeting. Negiligence is in a different category. Sounds to me…

It gets worse. 95% of baby food is contaminated with heavy metals.

Damn shame. He’s the only reason I was watching, and switched to the baseball game when he went out. Based on how he was walking I’ll lean toward optimistic but that’s an injury that can be bad. Hoping for the best.

Anosognosia.

It’s not “paternalistic” to not have sports where the actual objective is to cause brain damage to your opponent. It’s being sane.

I meant dementia on my part for missing the obvious.  But thanks.

Yeah, you’re right. Hoping that’s not a sign of dementia....