HubertManne

All the biological processes are like that. pooping. sex. you think about sex without being horny and its like. I do that?!

KT-TOT is close. I actually do have a smartphone that I only use for work stuff since companies now usually do bring your own device with phones. it only has work stuff and I keep it off mostly unless im working in an on call position and am on call. I use voip on it with textnow as a backup. Otherwise I use my laptop with voip. Having any type of phone all the time that someone can text or call you at any time leaves you with the issue the OP has. Have to turn it off and actually be unreachable at times. Considering how often im on my laptop im still reachable pretty darn often. I also have a brother who lets me and my other brother know if extended family stuff shows up on facebook. Like weddings and funerals and such. I do try and check facebook once a week as my condo has a group and the aforementioned family stuff but like funerals are tricky as they can happen in less than a week of death with my family.

Thats ridiculous. Its so imporbable that if they did it would be definite proof that allah is the one true god and I totally know that aint so just like them. So they can’t do it.

When you don’t have a smartphone this is not much of an issue.

aibots battle to destroy the evil forces of… the cryptocons. This reminds me of a conversation I had with someone in the mid aughts. It was about how amazing it is that I can say something referencing media and so many people would know what im talking about. The common experiences it gave to americans and many others at the time. He did not think it was that neat but looking at things now I think that period of the three major networks is something we may never see again.

I very much doubt it would but it would likely help to some degree. I can say I did not learn till late in life and am a horrible swimmer but do a decent backstroke and side stroke which are, to me, the more useful basic swim strokes. Learning to float on ones back is most of whats needed for a backstroke. The stroke itself can be fast or slow. Most people can be in neck heigh water and just relax to allow their feet to stop supporting them and keep their face and mouth above water. If they fill their lungs with oxygen the chest should naturally go up to the surface as well. Thats like with the worst body shape.

I believe language learning like most anything varies quite a bit individual to individual. Much of it might come down to interest. I am horrible with language. When graduating college a friend and I exchanged transcripts and his comment was. Wow. Actually you get pretty good grades (im looking at him like did you expect me to do poorly?), oh, except in spanish. When english was a subject in school it was my worst subject. Now my brother on the other hand totally geeks out on spanish and latin culture. He says he does not speak that well but in the right scenario (low light setting) it can take awhile for someone to realize he is white. I think they realize there is something wierd about his accent but figure he is from somewhere they are not or was diluted by being in the us or such.

exactly. not only is it mainly made of their money with whatever retirement and such from those doing better in the middle being a pittance in comparison but they also aren’t really investing and just holding it there because there is no real other option. Meanwhile as wealth disparity gets worse less of the regular folk even have anything in it. So it goes up because people who have money don’t have anywhere else to put it. Should be interesting once we see the us market doing poorly while europe and asia do alright or if the bond markets falls apart.

Sorry no. Not in some time but one thing I did not mention is zorin uses ubuntu stable. Main complaint with people is old because it by no means tries to be bleeding edge. So it is relatively good on older hardware although its not a lightweight distro made to handle very old hardware. So I don’t know how well it will do on a mac book pro but im betting it will do as well as any other.

I like zorin. Comes with libre office, disc burning, rdp client, play on linux to make running via wine easy, windows like interface. Its a nice out of the box distro for installing and going. Its an ubuntu spin and they only make the changes necessary for the look to be windows like and then the out of the box software so otherwise it pretty much behaves like ubuntu. Its a good lazy mans distro.

Which is sorta funny because wasn’t one of the arguments for that system safety.

Not if its the home nation. Shell was a us company in venezuela but if the same thing happened in the US the owners would be lucky to get out of the country with what they could carry and if they worked fast enough maybe they could have a small fraction of what they used to.

This is part of my problem. My wife has medical issues and can’t work which is exaserbated by our higher than typical medical costs. It sucked before but we managed and now it seems like the end.

Im at 42 weeks. My life plane is heading straight down and the rudder is not responding.

This is a pretty good example of why I say even millinoaires and billionaires should support a functional democractic society with taxation and regulation and social safety nets. Its the old penny wise and pound foolish. Getting a sliver more and a sliver more and then you lose it all because the rule of law was thrown out long ago. It won’t necessarily take that long to. At a certain point it could happen at any time. Maybe it will. Maybe it won’t.

Meh. They are fine in moderation but whole communities just about them is to much for me. Its like I block all sports ones to and im not 100% uninterested in sports but its not something I keep up with daily or even weekly.

Personally I block all the meme communities.

yup. they know that once we get a war going no one is going to give this bill the time of day.

I swear I thought there was something like this last year. Like for some reason rederer sits in my mind as the culprit.

Yeah. I never liked our wierd leadership roll but this is totally not the way I wanted to disengage. Wanted others brought up rather than us sinking down.