America also has sales tax

American cities must be terribly poor to need to tax houses

SNL is comedy, and there’s comedy in using a man to portray a woman. That’s not the same as using the wrong sort of person because you think it doesn’t matter

GmailFS was a thing

Browse your own machine as if it’s under alt.film.binaries but more so

That’s a story from thousands of years ago. I don’t think their standards for 1. Death; or 2. Veracity in stories were up to the standards we would like were it non fiction

Grave in this context just means deep. That’s one of the meanings of grave

Brains fail catastrophically and unrecoverably pretty quickly after being starved of oxygen. I don’t like the chances of the frozen people who hope to be reanimated in the future

Better now, maybe. The people in palliative care are drugged heavily if their condition is painful. I suppose it’s different in different places.

The best selfish reason to be good to your children is that they might put you in care. It’s better if you can age and die at home unless you have a really nasty death.

Sure, no guarantees. I have a great grandfather who died in his 30s from an infection from a shaving cut.

The ancient Greeks a couple of generations after agriculture arrived called the tribal past the golden age when gods walked among men. Early English explorers in America called the natives more splendid than an English gentleman in all his finery.

There’s only a small set of spreadsheets in my work life that need multiuser access, most of those are admin shit.

There are more in my home life, planning holidays, household tracking.

Buy most things at home and work have no need to be shared during update

But no one thinks the same about statins, for example

It’s not medication, it’s medication that addresses mental illness

If you made it to five you’d be fine

Kelvins are abbreviated to capital K

Cool to 25, heat to 20 (Canberra, Australia)

IRL 1984 was fine. America was still good; the Soviet Union didn’t nuke us all

Musk is a shit, but lying doesn’t help

I really loved my Trinitron, but it needed so much space

Flat CRTs were excellent though.

You can make a date from a datetime in cell A1 with

=Date(year(A1), month(A1), day(A1))