Exactly! If I'm not clutching the mute button for dear life, an I really having a relaxing movie night?

Yes. It's been a few years since I countered a video game that didn't have separate volume sliders for dialog, for music, and for all others sounds.

"Hospitality/ Nevada"

I see we're still playing along with that euphemism. Haha.

"yes", "no", and "ship" is hilarious.

These are so great. Thank you.

Well shoot. We were aiming to create an impression of a big group of us - like if there were 40 or more of us.

please stop taking absolutely everything as a permanent debate.

But I think there's a case to be made that everything is a permanent debate. Let me just paste a quick wall of text here on the topic...

Sorry. Just trying to make you laugh. I will see myself out.

the very fact that there is a big urban/rural cultural divide is one of the things killing America.

I agree wholeheartedly about the problem. But blind highest count vote on every topic is one of the big dividers between rural and urban folks.

Rural folks will simply never have the numbers to influence outcomes in a pure vote count scenario. They're aware of this, and it leads to animosity.

Incidentally, I agree that financial decoupling would be ruinous for both, as well.

The real solution is represtational seats that give everyone a voice - no matter how the voting zone is divided.

I suspect that requires doing away with first-past-the-poll. The winner of that race will almost always be a city person, by raw numeric chance. That's fine, city folks have some good ideas. The problem is when there's no rural voice at the negotiation, at all.

And I think any sensible person realizes we also have to put a stop to all gerrymandering.

Also, we need to give seats to what remains of all of the first nations, while we're at it.

Haha!

But uh...I would watch that. That sounds pretty hot.

Sorry. We need to learn to ask nicely.

Please upgrade to Linux?

sudo upgrade to Linux?

RunAs -Admin upgrade to Linux?

The actual act of exercise is pretty miserable for most of us. It's the hours in between exercises that for better, for me. I just generally feel better when I'm exercising more.

It sounds like you're getting plenty of exercise, so it's time to check into vitamins, meditation, mindfulness exercises and whatever else.

In your shoes, I would keep exercising, to keep that variable controlled while I tried the next change.

Patrick Stewart's Captain Picard trying to teach Brent Spiner's Data how to play poker at the beginning of Picard.