I wonder if it was more effective in his era, late 19th century? Leisure travel wasn’t as much of a thing then, especially to other countries/continents, and the tourism industry didn’t exist nearly as much

Oh. How’s it taste?

What if the secret ingredient in Slurm is people?

Unrelated tidbit gleaned from reading the entry:

the name “DirectX” came from one journalist that had mocked the naming scheme of the various libraries. The team opted to continue to use that naming scheme and call the project DirectX.

Having worked in TV news, I’ve long thought the way arrested politicians or whoever that are trying to avoid being filmed leaving a courthouse by holding a folder or coat in front of their face should instead just hold both middle fingers up right in front of their face. The image won’t be used, and if it is, it will make it very clear how they feel about the citizens.

Chevy Equinox? I guess it depends on what you call affordable and how long the $7500 federal tax credit survives

There was never really a need in ICE vehicles since they can primarily use waste heat from the engine.

It’s wild that this room is basically the entire living space. There are two small bedrooms and bathrooms, and then this. They list the kitchen separately but if I’m interpreting the dimensions correctly it’s a 20x24 foot room with a kitchenette, a stripper pole, and a ten-person hot tub. And 8 TVs, 6 of them in the middle of the main window, although I suspect they might be photoshopped in.

I feel like I’d want to just tear this monstrosity down and start again. You could gut it, but there’s nothing to gut! Building houses on the rest of the property and selling them seems to be where the value is, but in western Colorado would you really make enough building and selling the other 11(?) houses to justify $1.5M for 1.6 acres? I’m not sure the price for that much land is that high in my town and we’re a high growth area that keeps being named one of the best places to live in the US!

I mean, that’s just one of many examples of incredibly bad taste

We did the hot tub on our honeymoon and really enjoyed it, but that was our only time. Haven’t gotten back to a place with a private one and just the two of us since then, unfortunately. It significantly increased my desire to buy one but I’d probably have to move someplace without neighbors to enjoy it that way.

The listing says the laundry is in the garage, although I don’t see it pictured

It’s so the “companion” can see the exotic cars while she’s riding the guy in the hot tub and remind herself why she’s suffering through this ordeal, keeping focused on the large cash payout and continuing to pretend enjoying what she’s doing.

I didn’t even notice that!

Maybe try a different password manager and see if its interface is easier for her to use? There are lots of options, not all of them FOSS but this might be a time to accept a well-regarded commercial solution. Or, since she has the iPhone, try using their password solution. They integrate that pretty thoroughly in their apps and OS, and I think with this year’s OS releases across the board they have turned it into more of a fully-fledged password manager with its own apps. I know very little about it, but there might be a way to integrate it with Firefox on desktop now.

“You must smell like feet wrapped in leathery, burnt bacon!”

Go for Papa Palpatine!

I think of this line regularly

This becomes even more confusing with the way people commonly talk in English versus Spanish. In English, residents of the United States of America typically refer to themselves as Americans, and in English “American” typically only refers to someone from the USA. In Spanish, it seems residents of the USA are typically called the equivalent of “United Stateser” and “American” refers more generally to someone from the continent, at least in some parts of the Spanish-speaking world. I once had an apparent native Spanish-speaker online argue that was the correct form in English as well and insisted that the official name of the country is United States (Estados Unidos), not United States of America (Estados Unidos de América), and that America never refers to the country in English. They didn’t appreciate when I asked why in international sporting events the Americans’ shirts always say USA and why the supporters chant “U-S-A” all the time.

Languages are weird. If you’re learning a different language and try to insist that the new language behave the same as your native language, you’re going to have a hard time.

That’s no moon