#26 We have so much in common. Slide Rule, shortwave radio. I listened to Motown radio from my grandparents house in Alabama....I still have the radio. Now i use it to listen to the aircraft that I see fly by window.

Eberly, I don't know how old you are, and I'm not going to tell you my age, but most people I know don't have twitter accounts, and many don't even know what Tik Tok is. Facebook? Yeah, they are all over Facebook, liking and sharing inane ----.

"I discovered Harry always read multiple newspapers daily, to get varied takes on events.

I adopted the habit, and it stunned me how often basic facts claimed differed from article to article"

Me too. Whenever a story breaks, I'm flipping channels with the remote. trying to discern the truth. The underlying facts may be the same, but at each channel the phrasing changes as bias gets inserted. Adjectives matter, even tone of voice changes perceptions.

Unfortunately, "multiple newspapers" isn't enough either. Each original story spawns hundreds of other articles that are just lazy copies with a few phrases changed. The same thing appearing 500 times doesn't make it true.

Note the way they spin it up, taking it back to the primary FACTUAL source:

"I trust my 15 year old nephew to make better decisions online than I do my 70 year old mother."

LOL, this. The elderly are, in some ways, more vulnerable to online exploitation than children. They will literally click on anything, the flashier the better. At least with kids, parents can control router access or use software to limit exposure. The only thing that slows down Granny is when her laptop gets swamped with popups or frozen from malware. When that happens I give her a few days to live with it then I send the 15 year old over to fix it for her.

Maybe if Congresspeople spent less time in DC interracting with lobbyiests and more time in their districts, interracting with their consituents, we would have actual "representative" government that the founders intended.

Simple answer. Merrick Garland did not bring charges because there was no evidence of a federal crime. Garland can't charge state offenses. As to the 17 year old at the sex party in Florida, the circumstances, though aborrhent, would not lead to a reasonable probability of conviction, regardless of the identity of the offender.

I could go into the reasons why, but I'm sure i would be attacked for "defending him" which I am not. He is a creep. Our criminal justice system is set up to protect creeps.

And yes, July is miserable in Florida. December is wonderful

#33 excuse my lack of specificity, but I dint want to go too deep. Yes, it does vary by time of year, and I won't specify which highways because that would give away my location. I would wager it is most of them. Lots of Canadian vehicles on our roads, particularly RV's

As far as cost of living, I was referring to those who relocate here from other places. As a friend of mine says, "the only thing worse than the bugs down here is a Yankee with a u-haul"

Any time of the year, more than half the license plates on Florida highways are from out of state, and half of them are from Canada. ( I know, we used to count them) Lots of snowbirds in all parts of Florida, not just Orlando, Miami and the Keys. British and other high latitude European tourists flock to Florida beaches on both coasts.

Many choose lower cost of living and warm weather over social justice and politics. It is every man for himself.

I'm sure some of this has changed with the advent of electronic transactions, but when I was a server, each employee had a minimum of 10% of their sales added to their W2 as tip income whether they made it or not.

For terrible service, I tip 10%, because the server has to pay taxes on that, and I certainly don't expect a server having a lousy day to actually pay the IRS for the privilege of waiting on me. "Bad service" is often beyond the server's control (kitchen issues, short staffed, no colverage for breaks, etc) Don't punish them.

"Black people don't tip"is a racist lie and self fulfilling prophecy. When you treat a customer with disregard, like you don't expect them to tip you, they can tell, and they won't.

What a remarkable discovery!. I encountered schizophrenics daily throughout my career. I found it fascinating that many schizophrenics had the exact same hallucinations as other schizophrenics they have never met. I theorized (jokingly) that their hallucinations were reality, and the rest of us just lack the ability to see/hear it.

This study "makes it make sense" , because it supports the idea that hallucinations are not just dreams or fantasies manufactured by the imagination, rather, they may have an physiological basis, a processing malfunction or improper filtering of real stimuli.

The implications for this is HUGE, in terms of helping these folks.

The guy in the picture is the prosecutor who decided to file charges against her in the first place. Just as in a similar case in another state last year, those responsible for jailing this woman are elected Democrats. Why?