I’m 247.5 Oreo Cookies tall, that is many more Oreos than most, but not as many as some.

Thanks! My wife is a Soldier. We sometimes have interesting conversations about stuff like this.

Our government has completely lost its way. The Founders would be both appalled and ashamed.

I was the first Red Hat Certified Engineer in the state of Oregon.

This relationship can be saved as long as the guy’s wife does not start expressing an interest in Emacs. That would, of course, put an end to the relationship, but if she’s one of those “Notepad is all I need” types, there is hope this can be worked through.

From what I’ve read it was already unplayable…

… On any platform

This was a spectacular read. Consumable even with no engineering background.

Really well done.

Love my Kindle.

60yo here.

I spent the first 40 years of my life in Portland, OR (it used to be a great city). Then I married a Soldier and I’ve lived in several other places. We started in Denver spent two years there. It’s a fantastic city, but really expensive. Then we spent 3.5 years on Long Island, living in East Meadow, I hated how crowded it was, what the traffic was like. My wife has an 18 mile commute that often took 90 minutes. Then we moved to Fort Knox, Kentucky. We bought a house off post. The cost of living is much lower than other places we’ve lived. Our town is 2600 people. The people are polite and kind and our plan is after our next PCS next summer, to return here when my wife retires at 30 years.

Orwell did this one …

We sleep peacefully at night because rough men and women stand ready to do violence on our behalf.

I have two of them, one in my GLI and one in my wife’s Palisade.

Really worthwhile.

You get a reply just because it’s the quality of your post

That is a really interesting anecdote I find it both surprising and completely understandable.

Gosh, thank you so much!

This is my answer also. I wish I was multi-lingual.

I’m regularly on calls with people for whom English is not their primary language. Almost without fail they apologize for their poor English. I regularly tell those people, “please don’t apologize, you do me that courtesy of communicating with me in my native tongue. I am completely unable to reciprocate that courtesy.”

I’d love to be fluent in Spanish, French, German.

Given so many nannys on this thread, this is a fantastically helpful (if not relevant to the OP post).

In the States I’ve actually found Waze to meet most of my needs.

He’s only a “so-called journalist” . So probably not.

Would that be this Center for Countering Digital Hate? https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/the-uk-files-a-history-of-the-center?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=71rh9

Wait, rights? Civil liberties?

I’m probably in favor of net neutrality legislation (I’m not 100% sold on the concept as the whole issue of monopolistic ISPs is a government created issue, so asking government to resolve it doesn’t necessarily work for me).

But you completely lose me when you equate Internet access with civil liberties and rights. We have no more right to an Internet than we do to an ice cream stand on the corner.

This fantastic. Thank you very much.