Nether means low in English and Nederlands is mostly below sea level, but I wonder why it’s plural?

Are you well known to them?

Do you give them your account number or a card or bankbook or a check?

Or maybe you carry a gun?

I ATEN’T DEAD

I tried this and was no longer able to separate my email into Primary Updates and Promotions, and I started getting pings for every stupid ad. So I put it back. I think I’ll start sending weird emails to myself; “teach your kids (the AI) to talk wrong.”

What if the reason homo sapiens out-reproduced Neanderthals is that Neanderthals were so much better at oral sex?

Might be a good moment to ask the Board if they’d like to go another route

I completely agree. That said, a little lip balm while you’re in the waiting room can help with the chapping.

How does that compute with move fast and break things?

Here’s a thought, let’s not infect monkeys with COVID and herpes, eh?

Yup, just assume they are.

Meanwhile, Young Republicans are still “kids” at what ages again?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/first-thing-jd-vance-brushes-off-racist-texts-in-republican-group-chat-as-what-kids-do

I like to think he’s brave enough to leave a spider in his bedroom if it was a harmless house spider. I’m not, but I’m not a superhero. Although he might understandably have PTSD about spider bites.

If he couldn’t get the damn idiotic thing to fly out the window it flew in, he’d tie it up and leave it for the authorities.

The irony of migrating because they oppose migration…

I wouldn’t know, but probably something like “I ain’t payin’ for putting out someone else’s fire! And I sure as hell ain’t payin’ a buncha guys to sit around the firehouse when nuthin’ is burnin’!”

Meanwhile a lot of the work our firefighters do throughout the year is clearing brush, creating and maintaining pre-emptive fire lines so they’ll have places to make a stand when wildfires do erupt, and making sure buildings are less likely to burn in the first place.

Oh that reminds me, I should probably add, “Ain’t nobody gonna tell me what I can do on my property!”

It depends what state/county/city you live in. For instance, battling the Palisades Fire we had the city LAFD, the LA County Fire Department, and CalFire all coordinating resources, including some of the incarcerated firefighters who just got a raise from $1.00/hr to $7.25/hr and are starting to be able to apply for regular firefighter certification when they get out. And yes, our taxes pay for this, one of the most-supported uses of that money. They also do fast-water rescue when we have enough rain to flood the streams and rivers, help extract crash victims and put out flaming vehicles on the highways, and rescue hikers and mountain bikers on the local trails…

Whereas if you live in a rural red area, there may only be volunteers, because there’s not voter support for a professional fire department.

Yeah that makes sense too. My phone is set up for LAFD pings and every couple days they’re out rescuing hikers or bikers in the canyons.

Many years ago our car died in traffic on a hot day and I got out to put up the hood and wave the car behind us to go around, and it sparked to life for an instant and locked me out. Windows closed, 107°F, our toddler and infant secured in car seats, and my quadriplegic husband. Pre-cellphones. I sprinted down the road to the gas station to call 911 and borrow a crowbar. Luckily the fire station was near, and the oncoming lane was clear so the fire engine was there almost as soon as I sprinted back, and they popped open a door. After that we set the toddler’s seatbelts just loose enough they could “Houdini” out in an emergency, since they were trustworthy. And I learned my lesson about doors.

My spouse is quadriplegic and medically fragile in multiple ways. So we live on the edge every day.

Utmost respect for my local firefighters. To tell all the times they’ve saved members of my family and our friends would dox me but they are super. Also always professional and treat people with respect, and solve problems rather than escalate them.

No, Elmer’s doesn’t have enough fumes. I think it’s rubber cement they’ve been sniffing