Yapping dogs… Loud cars…

I remember it before ads…

Well, those two in particular were used heavily by my elders growing up in the 70s, so it predates the web by a little bit.

The oft-forgotten full phrase is: “a broken clock is right twice a day, but you still wouldn’t use it to tell time.”

Similarly, often in reference to corrupt cops or politicians: “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch.”

Isn’t it the one getting the blocks knocked out of him?

Nah, they’re run by the laziest chucklefucks you’ve ever met - they’re plugged right into a broadband modem with no firewall running bog standard teamviewer or RDP awaiting any connection (no filtering) because the people setting up and using these systems have no concept of infosec. They know how to set up their industrial system, plug it into the ‘computer thingy’, and hand it off the the municipal water dude who is a flat earth, anti-fluoride, moon-landing hoax, J6-denialist who knows nothing about technology, but wants to run the town’s water treatment from his cell phone.

(not that I’m jaded by small town dynamics or anything)

Or, Alternatively, the original Batman with the soundtrack by Prince and the New Power Generation

I mean, Pratchett and Adams hung around each other and influenced each other’s work, so…

Ramsey is a self righteous dickhead with a religious kick and grind mentality. Love of money is the only value in life. “take 4 jobs to avoid debt at all costs - your kids will thank you some day”.

Bullshit. Spend time with your kids. It’s worth more than anything else.

I believe the ailerons are on the outside half of the wing, and the flaps are on the inside half (toward the fuselage)

Extends the flaps, i.e. makes the chord of the wing longer making it able to be more effective at lower airspeed. (takeoff and landing).

The flaps are retracted at cruise to make the wing more efficient at cruise.

It’s my aeroplane

It’s big and white with a red stripe - it’s like a big Tylenol!

Roger, Roger

Jeb Bartlett

The ‘community’ can object as much as they want but the auction site (assuming it would even be a live auction and not some algorithm api thing) would sell off the property to some mega-conglomerate on behalf of the holding company and nobody Un the community would even be aware until the sheriff kicks out and locks the poor sap out.

I think when people say “destruction of the planet” they are really meaning “our ecosphere and the multitude of species that are currently going extinct”.

Many recognize that we are in a 6th mass extinction period and understand that as the ecosystem goes, so do we. Is the spheroid body of the planet going to crumble or plate tectonics stop working because we’re gone? With all deference to George Carlin, no we know better (we’ll, there is the question about racking-induced earthquakes, but that’s a bit in the weeds).

Found Michael Bolton.

Their budget, like the military, won’t get frozen IIRC. Something about being in the Defense Authorization Act I think.

Since due process is off the table, we’ve determined (without a trial) that you’re not a citizen, and you’re being deported to a country you’ve never been to, where they will imprison you at our request, and they don’t speak any language you do.

Why? Because we’re ICE. Fuck you.