this summer has been unlike others. you might have done the exact same thing in half the country.

when i was a kid (seems like eons ago) we vacationed there a lot, in north and south dakota (and a little mt and wy). mom and me loved the badlands. the terrain and features, wildlife, the night sky… i don’t remember it ever being “too hot” to be outside. we camped, in a tent or popup; so outside is where we were basically all the time.

the major OEMs build far more systems and pay less for what goes inside. they also pay less for windows licenses and can also make money by preloading shit (they basically get paid to put windows on).

awhile back i saw a toyota prius hybrid with ‘collector’ plates that are used by classic and antique car owners (and cheapskates that want the cheaper plates in exchange for some use limits).

Back when I used them, they were about meeting people,

back then they didn’t suck (as much) because they were still in the ‘acquire users at any cost’ phase.

i remember when gas stations had to fabricate a “1” to put in front when prices first went over $1 per gallon because their price signs didn’t have a ‘dollars’ digit.

they also had to go back and reshoot some, as filming in new york had concluded months earlier.

amazon’s web site has been horrible its entire existence.

the ones that mattered, he did.

she’s totally doing some sort of astrophysics calculation on it.

keep the pressure on. he’s gonna snap and physically assault one of these reporters.

most things have those metal things hiding in packaging or under stickers now.

i haven’t had a handheld or pocket calculator in over thirty years, when i was last in school. so the “still use today” bit is not on an upside-down calculator.

my rent went up every fucking time. i never saw a cent of any of them. and i’m still paying the higher rent today on the same paycheck as then.

the difference being mostly or even entirely the higher taxes on fuel in australia vs the u.s.

which is why you’re seeing more shows releasing as weekly drips instead of season drops.

but it’s still the way to go. one at a time, one month at a time, only when you need or want ‘new’ stuff. the drips you skip over because the whole season hasn’t been posted means you’ve got more time to see if stuff gets renewed, or at least logically-concluded, before investing your own time in watching.

how else would they restrict where you can spend it?

they were only $1400 because joe manchin and the shriveled-up vegetable formerly known as moscow mitch got in the way.

good luck. see ya next week.

eight million, eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-five.

aka 8008135

well, there was that one time recently where he admitted that he was building his own monuments now because “Nobody will do it once I’m gone. When I leave here, nobody will.”