Your UPS must be different.

That’s a real treasure! Very nice.

“The Adventures Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” 1984

Great script, great cast, young Johnathan Lithgow and Christopher Llyod, Peter Weller in one of his best rolls, and bonus Jeff Goldblum as they new guy.

Whole thing is still a perfect package, looking like a B movie you’d totally skip.

That’s a bit of a misunderstanding, US Colleges have a bit of catch up period in the first year or 2 of study where you are both getting some exposure to your new topic but also ensuring your prior education is on par with everyone else. We call these “general education requirements” or “gen ed” and it’s because high school graduation isn’t well standardized across the states. Most students can test at the start of College or show their high school work and skip some of the basic writing and math classes to the next level. These “gen ed” classes ensure every student at the school has a basic level of reading, writing, and maths to base the rest of their work on. The amount of these other classes you have to take, is based on your major so for example people majoring in Teaching have more than other majoring in Engineering based on the logic a teacher needs a broader education in everything than an engineer will.

It does sometimes result in odd situations like my Uncle who couldn’t pass a general education language course in his non-native language (Spanish for him) and so was denied a Mathematics Education Degree and needed an extra semester to finish a different mathematics degree that had fewer gen ed requirements.

This all also plays into why US undergraduate degrees are usually 4-5 year programs instead of the shorter degrees tracks in Europe.

That all said, JD has a 4 year degree in Poly-sci and an additional 3 in Law School and he’s still a complete moron. Not even Yale could fix that.

You think that right up until you see and smell how much poop comes from one cow/goat/sheep. If your neighbor had one, you would have complaints.

The people who made “If the 40k Emperor had a Text-to-speech” had to give it up for copyright/trademark reasons so they moved to making World Of Darkness (Vampire the Masquerade, Hunter the Reckoning, etc.) content. Their “Hunter: The Parenting” has been hysterical so far but personally the “Norfolk Wizard Game” has me pausing to cackle like a madwoman. I have played and GMed for WoD over the years and it’s just pure gold. I especially liked the episode “1 hour of Hermetic Propaganda to Fall Asleep To”

Did you even see the earlier Popes? He did everything you say and yet this guy was liberal by every definition compared to the guy he replaced. Benedict was nasty and he knew it.

In the US, checks are still a common way to give money to people as gifts, especially birthdays and weddings and things like that. Also schools will require extra fees like trip costs to be paid by check because they are paid into older bank accounts that they don’t have online payment equivalents.

Paper checks are a pain, but they have lower fees than most other ways of giving money. Once you’ve paid for the book of papers, that’s it. Each check only costs your account the exact amount written for and the recipient’s bank gives them the exact amount you wrote. No extra percentage or flat fee on the transaction and with smartphones you can scan the check and make the transaction happen electronically between the banks in 5 seconds. Every other way to do this has a flat or percentage fee for the money to move but a paper check is free.

If they all have guns then what is the point of arming individually? 1 person with a gun verses several gov agents with guns, the 1 still doesn’t have a chance and shooting 1 or 2 of the people coming for you is t gonna change that. It’s not like the government is gonna back off “Oh shit the liberals got guns now, better stop pushing them.”

They actually swapped which color was representing which party in election years on TV until the 2000 election. The election coverage went on until the almost the end of that year due to contested Presidential Election that went to the Supreme Court but the concept of “red states” and “blue states” was burned into the collective memory so hard they just stayed like that afterwards.

Group homes and supervised living are still a possibility for you. Discuss it with your social worker or even your parole officer. There are still plenty of options for what you are looking for but they aren’t often forced by the courts like what you’re thinking of when you think asylum.

Impedance body fat analysis had a lot of problems, I’ll just get into one:

The measurements, even the palm to feet ones on big machines in medical settings with handles, are based on a known level of how much human skin conducts electric currents. I’m part of a genetic group that I’m missing one of the 5 types of collagen and so my skin conducts electricity differently and the impedance machine gives me the exact same 44% BF reading regardless of my actual weight. My doctor had to tell me that impedance BF measurements will never be accurate for me so I have to have a DEXA or skin fold if I want to know for sure. This would have been fine if I hadn’t already spent years believing those fucking devices that thinking that even though I was losing fat, I must be doing something wrong be the impedance scale didn’t change as they were “scientific”.

They aren’t that accurate for the whole population, and we don’t actually know what percentage of the population they are accurate for because no one has bothered to check.

Tradition or not, there’s no reason the DNC needed Obama to bless a chair candidate. They chose to throw progress and his contributions away.

The cracking in the DNC was obvious. Even back to the 2000 Supreme Court interference with the Bush Gore Election. Kerry was a weak candiate in 2004, Obama only barely got past Hillary Clinton in the primary because he was wildly popular when he should have sailed to victory without issue but then they failed to keep any inovations from that 8 year period (get out the vote, social media savy, youth outreach, etc. ) when Clinton came sweeping back in 2016 and wondered how they lost that momentum.

But name an elected Dem in a leadership position …

That’s the real zinger, ain’t it? The Dem’s don’t have much in the way of actual leaders doing any, ya know, leading. Bernie, AOC, and to a lesse degree Tim Waltz are the only Dem-leaning elected officals doing any particular commenting at all and even they are focused elsewhere.

Bullshit. Everyone who voted for Adams in NYC knows this is fucked. Unlike Republicans, Democrats would be thrilled to get this asshat out of office because we don’t think corruption makes our team stronger. No one is celebrating this because he was a Democrat, there’s nothing a liberal would cheer about this shit show.

Mines a 2017 but they didn’t change this over time as far as I understand. GM had a bad problem with the key-in-ignition a few years ago and will likely never use them again.

It’s got a metal key inside the housing that unlocks the doors and the fob sensor is actually inside the armrest so if the battery is dead you place the fob inside a pocket in the armrest and it authenticates your fob with NFC and you drive away. Closest I’ve seen in a modern car anywhere.

The screen is used for the backup camera and the radio. The fan speed and where the air is directed is buttons but the temp and heat/AC status are controlled via the screen.

I don’t think Chevy’s do any of those either.