So Peter Thiel then? Cool cool.

What an awesome doc! Good to know folks like that exist :)

Where was Nickleback on the list?

Cat. My pet cat. It wasn’t her fault, the window was open on the sill she was sitting on and abruptly closed on its own, on her paw.

So she understandably freaked out. When I ran to open it, she bit me on the finger.

Long story short, I went to a couple of Urgent Care centers before the ER. My mom had been told that I was allergic to penicillin when I was a child, so I told the medical staff this. After a couple of days, whatever else they were giving me wasn’t working and I woke up with red streaks going up my arm and my finger swollen to over twice its size.

Went to the ER. They said if I didn’t have penicillin, I could lose my finger. They also said it was common back in the day to mistake a certain reaction to it as being allergic, so maybe I wasn’t allergic. But they monitored me closely just in case.

Penicillin FTW. Not allergic. Spent 2 days in the hospital getting a constant IV drip of this modern medicinal miracle. Still have all 8 fingers and 2 thumbs.

• Andor
• SOE Manual
• A Woman of No Importance

Love these. A Woman of No Importance is a fantastic Virginia Hall book. Just fucking amazing the shit she did.

Others in this genre: Code Name Lise, D-Day Girls, and one of the many Nancy Wake books - Code Name Helene, Nancy Wake: WWII’s Most Courageous Spy, etc.

And you can also get the SOE Manual.

He was literally based off of Richard Nixon (per Lucas), but yes this still checks out.

We need people like you to resist when you feel like it’s the right thing to do. You took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. As cringe as it may sound, we need you and others like you to do that now more than ever…because there is an obvious threat.

Yep, that’s what I was missing. Thanks for the clarification.

sigh

What the fuck is going on in Florida? Was the wording confusing or something? It’s such an outlier compared to even other conservative states with similar ballot measures.

Edit: I just read about the 60% threshold, and thanks to who’s who pointed it out.

wtf man…yeah enjoy your “victory”.

Joanna explains that she and Ed bought and sold three different homes during their first 15 years of marriage, “giving us a comfortable amount of cash to afford us the option to travel and even relocate to anywhere we wanted.”

In 2010, the couple bought a summer home in Northern California and spent eight years or so “going back and forth to San Francisco.”

“I think every married couple needs two places to live, because you’ve got to get away from each other,” adds Joanna, who previously worked as a healthcare executive.

Oh fuck off you entitled POS.

Also: the couple has struggled to make friends, McIsaac-Kierklo has not yet mastered the language (or learned much of it)

Genuine question: Why France? Is that a particularly easy European country for an American to move to? Personally I’d give it a try, but I can speak the language decently enough to get around because I grew up with it.

I thought a lot of Americans were going to Portugal because they were specifically making an effort to entice immigrants.

I definitely remember that, but it was more about saving humanity and being an interplanetary species and stuff. I don’t recall anything specifically referring to his religious/spiritual beliefs or him being an atheist leader, icon, hero, etc, like Dawkins or Harris. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t, I could have missed it, but personally this is the first time I’ve seen him connected to atheism so that’s why I’m a little confused. And sadly I’ve kept a close eye on him over the years because sometimes my job involves interfacing with one of his companies. I don’t love it.

Texas argued that federal monitors would undermine state election laws

Texas: Only we can undermine election laws!

Yeah, I remember all that, I just don’t remember him being part of the “new atheist” group that was popular around that time. Mostly it was the cars and “colonizing” Mars…nothing to do at all with religion or lack thereof, really.

Chevy Bolt? My coworker has one and loves it.

When was he an “atheist hero”?

Oh Tucker, we’ve known this for 20 years after Pat Robertson clued us in.

Try harder.

https://www.mediamatters.org/hurricanes/religious-conservatives-claim-katrina-was-gods-omen-punishment-united-states

God I want this sentence to be more than a small hit of copium.