No no, my rent is payable in cookies.

Every time I use a measuring cup or spoon, I put it somewhere random after I clean it. Then whenever I need to measure something, I look around until my desperation matches my willingness to make due with whatever sizes I happen to have found.

The people who voted for Trump in 2024 are still around. The fact that enough of them got hurt badly enough in the wallet to turn against him this time around doesn't change the fact that they're capable of looking at Trump's first term and thinking "yeah, I'd like another helping of that". Even if the "MAGA" movement in particular guess by the wayside, something else will come along, just as MAGA replaced the tea party folk. We need to stay vigilant.

The earliest I remember is using gopher on the computer in my dad's office to try to find games to download.

Three perfect logicians walk into a bar.
The bartender says "Y'all want something to drink?"
The first logician thinks about it and says "I don't know."
The second logician thinks about it and also says "I don't know."
The third logician says "Yes."

Edit: aw, dang, I see deadbeef beat me to this one... by 4 hours.

Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT 31 == DEC 25.

She is not seeking reelection, but she is still in office until the end of this year.

They already had them ordered by state, why not list the state?

Alabama
Shomari Figures
Terri Sewell

California
Mike Thompson
John Garamendi
Josh Harder
Mark DeSaulnier
Nancy Pelosi
Adam Gray
Jimmy Panetta
Raul Ruiz
Norma Torres

Connecticut
John Larson

Florida
Darren Soto
Kathy Castor
Jared Moskowitz

Georgia
Lucy McBath

Hawaii
Ed Case

Illinois
Brad Schneider
Eric Sorensen

Indiana
Frank Mrvan

Maine
Jared Golden

Maryland
Steny Hoyer

Massachusetts
Jake Auchincloss

Michigan
Hillary Scholten
Kristen McDonald Rivet
Haley Stevens

New Hampshire
Chris Pappas

New Jersey
Josh Gottheimer

New York
Tom Suozzi
Laura Gillen
Josh Riley

North Carolina
Don Davis
Deborah Ross

Ohio
Marcy Kaptur

Oregon
Janelle Bynum

Texas
Henry Cuellar
Vicente Gonzalez

Virginia
Eugene Vindman
Suhas Subramanyam

Washington
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

Ok so, sure, other parents seem to have escalated things in a dumb way, but... for the rest of his life, this kid can say "I was so good at soccer they called the police on me... when I was 3."

You have leaves in your list, too!

AKA 4 in 10 Americans are brain dead.

These images make me wary of dying of dysentery, for some reason...

Abdul: So I’m going to ask you, do you disavow any attempt to read any religious doctrine into the laws of our country?

Tommy: I do not.

Abdul: You don’t disavow that. So, I think it’s you who needs to understand the Constitution, not me.

El-Sayed played him like a fiddle. Rock on.

I was never under the impression that I was in touch.

Oh man, she only lasted half a mooch.

False alarms are certainly not good, but I have to imagine that delaying an alarm by even a few minutes to double check has got to be a tough call.

I used to work at Epic as a software developer. The experience with MyChart isn't particularly surprising. I generally think that Epic is pretty genuinely well-intentioned, as companies go, but they're not particularly incentivized to put more than the bare minimum of effort in this process, since the number of patients who want to opt out is very low, and it's in Epic's interest for patients to be signed up (not, I think, for nefarious reasons like selling data; Care Everywhere data is covered by HIPAA and misuse would be a serious legal liability for Epic. But having more patients lets them tout their exchange numbers, etc).

Some of this can also probably be said about the hospital itself. They probably slapped together a process needed to meet legal requirements, but don't put much effort into it beyond that. It wouldn't surprise me if they simply didn't have the resources to spare for it.

The letters in Japanese that are usually spelled with an R in roman letters represent a phoneme that English doesn't have; it's in between r, l, and d. VAs whose native language does not include this phoneme may find it difficult to make that sound because of lack of practice, and because they consciously or unconsciously approximate it with the nearest phonemes that they're used to.