Came to say “ex” too. We split when engaged and before married, so yes, bullet dodged. We went our own ways before legal/financial/possible children complicated things.

A loaded question is a form of complex question that contains a controversial assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt). Such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner’s agenda.

Speech pathology for the stutter and the slip. You can find some free help online but be careful, trying to fix speech issues on your own can make things worse in some cases. If you can, seek professional input.

Am I reading the techno-babble accurately?

You would muzzle sweep your target with the trigger pressed, and it would fire as your gun is actually aimed for the most-probable strike. If off target = it doesn’t fire = bullets saved and probably better targeting because the shooter isn’t dealing with as much recoil.

So even less training needed and even further removed from human decision making. Soldiers didn’t murder that unarmed civilian, AI did.

Missing some punctuation.

Don’t. Be evil.

Being pigeon holed.

Staying Bond-fit for 15 years.

Declining majority of other projects for the length of tenure as Bond.

Dealing with “fans” who want the character to remain unchanged from the racist and sexist 1960s version.

Dealing with fans in general after 15 years being the face of one of the most recognizable franchises in western film.

Craig specifically had some really nasty body shaming comments slung his way for being too small, too short, not handsome enough, blah de blah.

“Boo hoo, he made millions per movie”. Yes, and he’s vocally ready to make millions from other projects that he finds more in line with his current interests.

Millennial. I had to take a root words class in grade school, with the promise it would help us become lawyers and doctors. It did not. It has helped me win a couple pub trivia rounds.

Nope, no special name that I am aware of. Other than “that bad storm in October that one year”

The storm itself wasn’t abnormally bad, it was the timing and sequence. It was very early so some deciduous trees still had leaves. The storm started with rain, then slush, then it all froze. So tree branches were overloaded with weight and tore down. Oak trees that had survived for a century were downed. Older neighborhoods and towns with power lines on poles instead of buried lines like newer communities would have now had pretty much all lines and poles torn down. Lineworkers from all over the country were brought in to help. I was too young to really follow at the time, but I’m told some of the delay was simply supply chain; getting enough new wires and poles there quickly enough to keep the crews supplied.

Read books. Go to bed early as soon as it’s dark. Empty the fridge if it’s going to be a while longer.

The longest I was without power was as a kid. A winter storm knocked out power lines all over. It was a week before we got power back on, the longest it took for some was 12 days. We had a wood burning fireplace so my parents invited all the elderly neighbors to stay with us. I wasn’t happy about sleeping on the floor while some weird-smelling old person slept in my bed, but looking back now I’m glad my parents modeled civic-minded behavior.

Us kids played a lot of cards and picked fights with each other. Dad had us scooping driveways in the neighborhood and eventually the streets by hand just to keep us active and out of the house. It was not a fun week.

If they want another five movies out of the next Bond actor, I’m not sure that’s Pattinson. Craig has been vocal about not liking being stuck with the character for five movies. And Pattinson already has experience being saddled with a less-than-stellar character for movie after movie (Twilight).

I would be more interested in 007 movies rather than James Bond. Keep the universe, put different characters in the 007 position so we get fresh stories. 27 Bond films seems like plenty, I’m not sure how much more can be said about Bond. I would be more interested to see Pattinson as 007 and free from the Bond baggage.

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Around 48-50 hours. I didn’t want to. I was in excruciating pain and couldn’t take anything due to conflicting conditions. I didn’t hallucinate in the way of seeing people who weren’t there, but I have no idea if any memory from that stretch is real or something I imagined.

It helps knowing you’re not the only one, IMO. Look up people who have left high-control communities (would have been called cults in decades past). People can come out of some pretty horrific backgrounds and with hard work, intention, and support, live good lives.

Not familiar with the acronym “EI”

Employment insurance?

Idk, if they fired you for screaming and threatening someone, seems like they’d have an argument that you were the toxic one. The company didn’t steal your lunch. Even if you could prove you made every possible effort to report the thief and handle it through official channels, falling back on screams and threats would really detract from any argument, IMO.

I’m not Canadian though so I can only say I personally wouldn’t intentionally burn bridges like that over leftovers. To answer your original disbelief that anyone could be so passive about accepting lunch thefts, I’ve not had it happen with any frequency that would make me put my employment at risk by acting out.

If they’re any good at it, you won’t know who stole your food. If I did know who the thief was, yelling/cursing/threatening would get me fired. It’s easier to keep my food at my desk in an insulated lunchbox with an ice pack.

And finally, HR doesn’t give a flying fuck about your lunch. They would laugh in your face if you threatened to sue them.

Lol, who’s profiting? Big coconut oil?

Maybe spreading misinformation that unscientific home remedies are a substitute for modern dentistry, but that’s a larger assumption than I wish to make of OP. I’ll just go with good ol’, “I forgot Google search exists”.

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Curious why you would ask this here instead of just doing a web search? If you don’t like reading search results, you can just get an AI summary. It’s at least as reliable as asking a bunch of internet randos chiming in. Here you’re probably more likely to get “10W-40, twice a day” answers over serious ones.

Personally, I prefer 5W and only oil pull once a month.

Idk why a ban is necessary. Just remove some of the protections so they can be held liable for things they should be held liable for.

They’re currently not liable for third-party content (if they have reasonable moderation policies and respond in a timely manner to requests, yada yada). But if they promote it, they are no longer a passive hosting platform; they are actively promoting content so should be held proportionately liable for that content.

I know very little about the amateur radio scene and don’t quite understand the impact this would have.

When I lived in a Western US state, there was some bad weather and a child went missing. The amateur radio community heavily overlapped with first responders and search & rescue types. Completely on their own, they organized and managed a search, mustering hundreds of people efficiently, while keeping local law enforcement in the loop. Law enforcement simply didn’t have the resources and relied on this volunteer hobbyist community for situations like this.

If public frequencies are turned over to corporations, would that eliminate the ability for such a volunteer effort to spring up? Would they have to pay for frequency access and be subject to whatever limits and censorship some corporation inflicts?