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My biggest beef with Sweet Home Alabama is, if people are ever singing along with it, or if they're singing it at karaoke. I should mention that I live in the South, so these people singing it are from the South, and even though the song itself isn't racist, the way these people emphasize certain lyrics, it sure sounds like they want it to be racist.

The whole thing makes me uncomfortable.

God I hope so.

Also, if Cornetto did remove the chocolate, that person would probably have to go into hiding.

It's an old grift. If you don't want to actually do something, but you still want credit for doing it, then just say that you're doing it. Many people will be tricked.

It's the same reason the Nazis called themselves "socialists" despite never supporting socialism.

Great point. Trump has never once showed a hint of empathy and only sees things from his own perspective.

Whether he's talking about sexually assaulting women or using the military to assault another country, it's all very similar to him.

Trump's many obvious deficiencies make him one of the least qualified people to negotiate peace with other countries.

Strangely enough, that's the correct name for it. He said that if you buy wheat as wheat berries, it has an extremely long shelf life, but I have not independently verified that.

I have a friend who buys his own wheat berries and grinds it into flour for bread. I don't know how much more work it would be to make pasta flour.

I thought he was on record saying that he regularly takes ketamine therapeutically.

I think that part of a cop's competency is not being malicious. Or in other words, a malicious cop is also necessarily incompetent.

It's absurd that there even exists a method that Trump could use to deny funding. Even if it later gets overturned by courts.

The president shouldn't have this much power.

Why hasn't he retired at 79? Has he been failed by America's shitty social support? Or maybe is he just one of those people who is obsessed with power?

James seems like the least nerdy of the names that have common nicknames. Richard is another one that's not nerdy.

First time I touched the internet would have been around 1990. I dialed up and connected to a BBS and it had a connection to the internet. I think it had gopher, and I couldn't figure out what use it was at the time.

It wasn't until the mid nineties that I really connected and understood what it was.

The criteria is that it's a horror villain of your choice. So, I don't know why you'd choose a boss zombie or one of those really bad variants when you could choose one of the zombies from Shawn of the Dead.

But I'm also not completely sure that a random zombie really counts as a "villain".

The smooth side does indeed face the owner. But it's about maintenance, not appearance. If the fence faced the other way, you'd have to be standing in your neighbor's yard to fix your own fence if it has a broken board.

Of course, that doesn't mean that some people don't install their fences backward.

I mean, that's right on the mark. The reason they called themselves National Socialists isn't because they were socialists, but because they knew that their true beliefs were so abhorrent that they needed to lie about being socialists.

Elon Musk has been recently shown to have done the same thing.

I'd think it would be obvious that a country wouldn't want to depend on a foreign country's proprietary product when an open source alternative exists. Even if it's not spying, what if the US forced Microsoft to put some kill switch on their products? Even if it doesn't affect your most secure systems because of air gap, it could still cripple enough to cause huge problems.

There's simply no reason to take the risk.

If I was running a government, I would strongly desire proof that all of my government software is doing only what I want it to. That means not only do I have access to the source code, but I also need it to be simple enough that my government teams can actually audit all of it.

Obviously, that's not going to be feasible in every situation. There might be proprietary software that is protected from competition via IP laws, and some software is so necessarily complex that it would be really hard to audit completely, but overall, I find it shocking that any foreign government would run a Microsoft product when a feature comparable open source alternative exists.

They have even more cubic feet.

I also over analyze everything, which is why I always remove my eggs from the right side of the carton.

The left side of the carton is always towards me in the refrigerator, and I also always have the left side towards me on the counter.

As a result my first grab out of the fridge is always the most stable grab possible.

The way I figure it is, the most dangerous time is pulling it out of the fridge when I don't always remember where the eggs are and where I have to grab it from one end. I don't want to be surprised by it being heavy away from me.

Once I have it safely in my hand, I no longer have to consciously think about how to hold it, as that can all be done unconsciously.

Salt is scarier than the elements sodium or chlorine because, according to Wikipedia, "Salt is essential for life in general." Without salt, there wouldn't be humans creating things like chlorine gas. Life is scary.