My wife takes our kids frequently as well. I'm good for one trip a year, but in much more focused in my shopping than they are.

But it's this book or OP has nothing to read for the flight. That's a tough choice, and I know I'm settling on pedo normalization, but I'm not gonna be happy about it.

And you probably do a good job, just like Ford (although I've never seen a single star wars movie and it's going to stay that way).

Ha, very similar story for me, I don't speak a lick of Italian. My grandmother wasn't exactly into the affairs of her brothers and uncles and so I think she chose to insulate the grandkids. Fortunately she didn't insulate us from fantastic cooking.

We mainly stayed in the NY/NJ/PA area, just like everybody else around here.

I'll take a bad movie that knows it's bad over a movie that thinks it's good every day of the week.

In the US some people take a gap four years and go to war. It's the American Vacation.

Yeah, my ancestors are from Ireland and Italy. The Irish half escaped the famine and came here and procreated like it was going out of style. My family from Italy came over to escape the fascism (jokes on them). They brought with them the gabagool.

Hey, mine were criminals too, and they brought some of that classic Italian criminality to Scranton, Pittston, and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, enough to have a lengthy Wikipedia article about it. Funny, because it's not something you recognize at the family parties as a kid.

Simpler times.

Same applies to electrical systems, which is how I read it first.

And nowadays they let you cast to them (sometimes). But even ones that were locked I've gone and just asked for the unlocked remote and maintenance has always provided. The hotel brand cares; the workers do not give a fuck.

Yeah, these rules being put in place don't have to be a barrier to anyone. Get your votes in, don't wait.

And if you applied for mail in but are concerned that you didn't get one or you didn't mail it, check the provisional laws in your state to see what applies.

It was an accidental attempted murder. A mistaken identity assault.

Phistery.

So you're saying the US saved the world from Japan for a second time?

I appreciate that hot take. First books, IMO, tend to be more formulaic. I'm currently reading and on book 5, and there's been a number of times the author's used strong vocaublary or literary devices that I've appreciated. The feel of the series has certainly made some adjustments, and it makes sense considering he's at six and change years writing it at this point.

Lemmy cannot stand jokes while we currently live in a world.

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Yeah, I do my laptop just because I always have it, since I'm always doing work in whatever downtime there is, people showering, whatever. Remote is nice. I have been lazy enough to remote desktop from my phone to the laptop to change things so I didn't have to get up. It is incredibly inefficient.

Accept that you don't care about others' time, got it.

You gotta remember rich people are cheating with insider info on Kalshi and Polymarket, so the numbers are skewed.