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So, wait a minute. This kid makes a private joke among friends, and his message is intercepted by security services and obviously taken out of context (in that they failed to realize he was privately joking among friends).

Seems to me that the security forces should eat the cost of this. This is the price you pay for spying on everyone and overreacting.

The kid didn't say this publicly

Metaphors, how do they work?

I gasped when I read Apple 1

Well done

Gen-X is a much smaller group than either Boomers or Millennials. It is treated differently mostly because of this. I don't think we're going to start treating Gen-X as the bully, because it just doesn't have the numbers to be an effective bully

No, I'm not surprised at all that Trump is a disappointing candidate

It was the maiden flight. First flights don't always go so well, so it is not at all surprising that it wasn't carrying a space telescope, or the like.

Still, the next flight will be carrying the first flight of a vehicle designed to resupply the space station, if that makes you feel any better

China had a successful methane powered rocket launch in 2023

No shells?

You saved 79%, but somehow so much more was lost

You make a good dementia bot, but is that what you want to be?

In a pinch, these might work

Especially the fourth of July

That's good to hear. I left the bay area almost 20 years ago and I remember there being very little good pizza back then. Don't get me wrong - there was some great food to be found, but the pizza wasn't it

You can too often see the same thing in LED car headlights and tail lights. The most obnoxious of these flicker noticeably all the time. Not much better are the ones that seem to be on continuously when viewed in the center of your vision, but flicker in your peripheral vision. The later I find really distracting

Hydro is easy, except when it isn't

Read the article, then read this summary. Try not to laugh.

67% reduction is way too high. The summary isn't just lacking too much information; it is misleading. The last two paragraphs, for example, concern different companies, but nothing in the summary implies this at all

Now I really want that book

No, no. The Timex Sinclair was my first. The sealed keyboard design was perfect for the occasional milk spills

Nah, it's good planning. While you stand there turning the handle, you have an excellent view of the town and all that's going on. On the Republican side, you have to work with your back to all that's going on, with little to look at but the fence

Well, yeah, and boy did the other kids let me know it

The instructions were probably more helpful for someone who knew what these tubes were. I was probably about 6 at this point, hadn"t been actively involved in much TV repair by this time, and I guess I somehow didn't pick up enough clues from the context of the instructions to put it all together before just leaping into playing with the dials and switches. You know, like a kid