Bill

I only ever stopped using Firefox for a year or two before Chrome became shitty, so I don't need to come back. I resent having to have anything else installed in the first place! But I need Chrome for work, and for some reason Sephora's website never works right in Firefox.

I don't know if there's much point in responding to RFK Jr's anti-Arab rant with examples of Arab accomplishments, but if there is, examples from centuries ago are probably not the most effective. That kind of thing tends to just underscore that you don't know of any recent ones.

Truly don’t know how to convey to the young just how much time and money phone companies used to spend trying to get you to use their long distance service, just a couple decades ago.

Similarly, when my then girlfriend got her first cell phone when we were in grad school and misunderstood the fees, it legitimately bankrupted me for the rest of the academic year. I had less than one hundred dollars left for the next six months.

First five roleplaying games I played: 1. a single session of Dungeons and Dragons 2. My homebrew game after I was told I wasn’t allowed to play Dungeons and Dragons, combining stuff from the Grail Quest books and A Bard’s Tale 3. Marvel Super Heroes 4. Top Secret/SI 5. Gamma World

(Grail Quest was like Fighting Fantasy but with an Arthurian setting—choose your own adventure books with light combat mechanics.)

No one is ever tempted to spend hundreds of dollars on a "collectible" when they actually just want to read an old X-Men issue. I do not have to wait until the next trip to Boston or mail a check to get albums by bands I like. You can drink grapefruit juice on rosuvastatin.

When I first started cooking there were exactly four sources of "spiciness" in the supermarket: Fresh chiles (2 to 3 types) Crushed red pepper Old El Paso salsa Tabasco sauce, one flavor (On the other hand, skirt steak and oxtail were a fuck of a lot cheaper.)

No one is ever tempted to spend hundreds of dollars on a "collectible" when they actually just want to read an old X-Men issue. I do not have to wait until the next trip to Boston or mail a check to get albums by bands I like. You can drink grapefruit juice on rosuvastatin.

I am a lot better at some video games.

No one is ever tempted to spend hundreds of dollars on a "collectible" when they actually just want to read an old X-Men issue. I do not have to wait until the next trip to Boston or mail a check to get albums by bands I like. You can drink grapefruit juice on rosuvastatin.

My mother went from voting Democrat for the first time because of how much she fucking hated Sarah Palin to voting straight Democrat because of how much she hates Republicans. She's in her 80s and spends a lot of her time reading US history books and progressive newsletters.

No one is ever tempted to spend hundreds of dollars on a "collectible" when they actually just want to read an old X-Men issue. I do not have to wait until the next trip to Boston or mail a check to get albums by bands I like. You can drink grapefruit juice on rosuvastatin.

Rare fruit that I read about in cooking magazines as exotic ingredients being used by chefs in other countries is now $4 at a supermarket six miles away.

Published authors: when you're preparing your will (you should have a will), keep your literary estate in mind. And keep in mind that everyone else is going to die too, so maybe don't leave the rights to someone your own age, or remind them to similarly make preparations. I promise, this comes up!

(There is one author, and I don't know the specifics, who inherited the rights to a lot of other peoples' work, and then made no provision for them when he died, so that's a whole big stack of stuff in limbo now.)

Published authors: when you're preparing your will (you should have a will), keep your literary estate in mind. And keep in mind that everyone else is going to die too, so maybe don't leave the rights to someone your own age, or remind them to similarly make preparations. I promise, this comes up!