You just learned that today?

They’re not known for their culinary excursions.

Raids and colonizes 3/4 of the planet for their spices… doesn’t use any of them. /s

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It probably brings back some junior/senior high school trauma they most likely all have caused.

I’m pretty sure that’s a lot of this issue. They were bullies and assholes in school and always picked on the “weird kid(s)” and now that they’re being referred to that way they’re freaking out because they’re scared they’re going to become a target.

One of the best West Wing lines ever. Penn Jillette is awesome.

appointing a Supreme Court Justice during an election year

FTFY. Voting had already started when they rammed the handmaid in there to replace Ginsburg.

Mosquito magnet. I have one, they work very well.

In the US, electric vehicles are only affordable for wealthy drivers.

Here’s 14 used EVs for under 5k. Yeah, they’re not the greatest whizbang self driving blah blah blah, but I put almost 100k miles on a 2011 Leaf and had little issue with it, and my kid is still driving it to this day. It’s all you need if you’re just running around town doing errands. Rent something for long trips.

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inventorylisting/viewDetailsFilterViewInventoryListing.action?zip=90017&inventorySearchWidgetType=AUTO&sortDir=ASC&sourceContext=untrackedExternal_false_0&distance=100&sortType=BEST_MATCH&entitySelectingHelper.selectedEntity=d2077

There is competition here, though. It’s not like it’s a single insurance company monopoly. You can usually get a better deal by shopping around.

It’s kind of funny you mention this. I just sat down and went through every insurance company I could find (over 15 of them) that are still writing policies here in CA because Geico decided to jack my rates over 20% this renewal. Literally every one of them were within $5 every 6 months of the price Geico is charging me for the renewal.

Tell me again how I’m supposed to “get a better deal by shopping around”?

I had a lady in the marketing department open a ticket with us many years ago when ILoveYou was running rampant and we had blocked yahoo mail, gmail, etc on our corporate network and she was PISSED because “I need to access that for my other job!”. Yes, she put that in the ticket. That was a brief discussion with her manager and a resume generating event for her.