Brutal.

While she’s turning that over, can we take her human card? Also maybe confiscate her phone and see what’s on it?

After following a star nobody else could see from (probably) Persia.

Lethal Weapon and Batman Returns, too.

That’s easy to see why!

Sounds like they’re on the mend, and I hope they are- when they’re up to it…. Give him some belly rubs for me?

Will Smith’s iRobot movie loosely based on the short novels by Asimov.

It’s a good film.

I liked the movie, but the short stories were better.

I’m especially fond of the one where they developed the robot religion and supplanted the humans that had assembled them because they were more precise/efficient/safe at the task.

New York had (has?) a similar distinction. It came up in the E Jean Carrol saga; specifically Trump suing for defamation after her lawsuit, because it wasn’t- technically- rape.

IIRC it was dismissed with the judge saying that it fits the modern lay definition of rape and that’s not defamation.

They didn’t call it “sexual assault” either, so I’m inclined to not accept that excuse.

Allison Gill on Daily Beans is t going to drop it.

She’s the one that broke the news that FBI teams had training videos on how to flag mentions of Trump in the Epstein files, as well as that Maxwell’s sex offender status has been waived so she can be in a low security facility (and is actually allowed to leave the facility similar to the original plea deal with Epstein.)

It’s all the cocaine he got bribed with.

For the record, you can get myrrh resin for like 20-30 bucks a 4oz sack on Amazon.

A one pound sack of frankincense goes for about 20.

What was more valuable in the first century is anyone’s guess.

but not collapse so much that whoever is holding your gold is still around. (and if you hold it yourself, that it’s still a useful metal. post apocalyptic gold isn’t going to be worth nearly as much because it’s pretty useless outside of ornamentation.)

Saint Nicolas. No idea how he got all the other stuff- probably more cultural appropriation with yuletide- but he was the one that inspired the whole “going around and giving gifts into stockings” thing.

Also it’s maybe important to note he was about as white as Jesus would have been- he was a Greek dude in Turkey. (Specifically Myra.)

Imagine being told that your family was going to celebrate your birthday on Halloween because they wanted to celebrate Halloween and that’ll let them celebrate it without being “pagan”…. When your birthday was in late spring.

Or someone messed up programming the machine.

But still, that’s a score.

If my napkin math is right*, he was in college between 1951 and 1956; with gas ranging from .24 to .27 dollars a gallon.

Adjusting for inflation that’s be about $2.40.

Sunday I paid 2.90 at Costco. It seems he’s full of shit.

(My napkin math is notorious for breaking the laws of physics. Best do your own… or else we might end up dividing by zero.)

It wasn’t his birthday either. They just celebrate it then because of all the pagan holdiays leaving them out. (Yule… Saturnalia, bacchanalia.)

Humans have pretty much always done something around the winter solstice. Historically, part of it was there really wasn’t much else to do.

Most work could only be done with light. The shortest day of the year had little light and in any case mostly they were just waiting for spring to come while maintaining farms and shit. Also in the north they were kinda sorta trying to stay indoors and out of the frooking cold.

Chunnel went under the ocean, so it’s possible.

I wouldn’t trust Musk to competently tie my shoe and it doesn’t even have traditional laces.