I love the way conservatives say they have no problem with legal immigration… Yes you do.

I’m sure they’ll be fine. /s

I was only asking the country. I think that’s pretty safe.

I think we should give Trump all of the due process he’s giving deportees, to decide his guilt or innocence in this Epstein matter.

I do not have children but I went to school overseas and I think it was the best experience of my life. I think the effect on children is extremely positive.

My family is just three people now, but my wife has a large extended family and she loves to see them, especially the children. Different members come and stay with us several times a year because we live close to the beach.

Making the argument that she could fly home to see them didn’t work. Her telling me she wanted to stay where we were came as a surprise to me as we had discussed throughout our courtship and marriage, living in Europe. Once we both retired (early) I figured we had the green light. I mean just health care alone is reason enough to move there. And we have enough money for trips home when we get the urge.

I hope this doesn’t turn into a I-didn’t-escape-the-country-in-time situation. I often wonder what it was like for people fleeing fascism just a little too late.

I’m sorry, but the OP asked about boucey balls, not bouncy balls. Nice try though.

Why won’t you mention where?

I would love to do this, but my wife won’t leave.

Didn’t know about that. I actually try not to “meet my heroes.” It’s so depressing.

I used to really like him. He came across as really charismatic but after the slap and finding out that he was not in the Scientology box but had his head pressed right up against it, I figured screw this guy.

So the Democratic hoax was really a sting operation that netted no Epstein files, that were totally not on Bondi’s desk, so we don’t need to see them? Got it.

Define kids.

Nothing says that Linux could eventually evolve into the same thing or fail to ever really function for the masses.

You didn’t read it, did you?

Well I’m in crazy town Florida so snow won’t be a problem. Strong storms ripping then off my roof could be. Guess I’ll find out.

Do you have a power bill? If so, when and roughly how much, if you don’t mind?

Yeah, we opted for the battery. It was tough because without the battery the solar definitely pays for itself and the cost wasn’t too bad, but with it it isn’t certain. When calculating that, the inputs rely on you to predict so many things in the future. So I went with my gut. I just feel like energy costs are going to go up much more than “they” are saying. With climate change, AI, greed and the fact that we are installing some things that will consume more energy. I hope I’m right.

How do you like yours?

But you can’t eliminate the connection charge. And as far as I can tell there’s nothing to prevent them from increasing that to very high values. Currently it is $25 where I live but they are arguing to raise that to $30 as I type this. That’s a 20% increase.

Can’t argue with the logic.

No, just the only people who can actually do something about it.

Most people don’t know that it is the legislative branch that’s supposed to create laws. Oh who am I kidding? Most Americans don’t even know there are three branches of government.

I’m on the East Coast. So I wonder what happens if you put enough solar on your house to go off grid and then just don’t pay your power company? They put you in jail? LOL.