Wow, 3 days to escape from American politics, feeling utterly powerless in regards to Russia invading Ukraine, uncontrolled inflation in the face of declining wages, and other signs of late-stage capitalism? Sign me up please! Can I stay for longer, like 6 months? A year? Five??? Please?!?!

Is it on Audible? :-)

Any article that goes something along the lines of "Unexpected Ear Blockage" will end up to be some grodie odie bug that crawled into someone's ear and died. And about 3/4 of the time, that bug is a teeny little cockroach.

I mean, rats have been devastating crops since before true "cities" existed, when civilization was only just beginning, but ok, I looked at that rat.

"Don't Look Up", a new movie on Netflix, brushes on this topic as well.

I wish they could make true classic-looking cars again. The more recent Impalas are the best looking ones in 50 years, but still a far cry from this '62, or the earlier Chevy 4-door models.

Randy Quaid is (all allegedly) a deadbeat who tried to pay an inn $10,000 owed with a phony check, squatted in the guest house of a property he once owned and trashed the place in the process, escaped to Canada but didn't do the required check-in as a non-resident so they booted both him and his wife out of the country, and oh yeah, he's an anti-science conspiracy-spreader and political extremist, which places him in the "Uh, I don't want to pay anything to this asshat" category. I don't even want to buy/rent Christmas Vacation, simply to prevent some residuals from getting into the hands of that guy.

In my time studying at 3 different colleges (it's complicated), I probably never completely read any of the syllabuses. Life is just too short, especially when I was a non-traditional student working a fulltime job while going back to finish school. I'd look at the attendence & work-submission policies, and breeze through the rest. I was on honor roll for the last college attempt, so I obviously got most of the gist. But I wouldn't expect anyone to completely read a syllabus, or if so, the professor has GOT to bulletpoint the contents. Oh, and I just recently was diagnosed with ADHD, so there was no chance.

Oceans 900BC: The Pyramid Scheme - The Fi-Nile Heist, coming this summer and about 3000 years ago.

I've been seeing this shared on Twitter, and without reading the description, I straight up thought it was an ad for the 2nd episode of this season of Doctor Who!

I'm living on the US east coast, and I have many family members living back west, in South Dakota, that are pro-gun. Occasionally, the "Swiss-Stat" comes up, ie: the high rate of gun ownership. But they never talk about the training. To get a hunting permit in SDak, it requires a very short course - mine was 1-2 hours when I was only 14 years old. To become weapons trained in the USAF, I went through a weeks of training and qualification, mainly in the handling of the firearm so I didn't accidentally injure myself or others. But it's usually (not always) the family members with zero military service, and next-to-zero training, that are the most pro-gun. I have no reason to own one, so I don't have any.

Did you notice that he changed the hidden bear in the mountain into a penguin?

I really want to put my hand in there to try to save a plate... but that's probably a terrible idea, right?

Ok, seriously, any new version of an old tale that has been told so many different ways in so many different eras is incredible, especially when it's a few hundred years closer to the source of the tale.