Xenomorph ceviche?

Best shower thought in ages.

Yes, it is.

Complete with a shady “lease” to sign as a promotion.

I’ll buy it. ILY is taught as a gesture to lots of kids these days. Every kid I know knows it.

I think he dropped an /s somewhere.

John Wick with the double-tap … err … save.

This will continue until someone finds a way to reconcile the two major groups who currently call themselves Democrats: the not-very-left centrist and the very-left social-progressive. (My terms for simplicity)

The centrists appear to fear the social progressives and the progressives seem frustrated with the centrists. These groups really need their own parties, but that’s political suicide in the current electoral model.

https://xkcd.com/2030

It’s jwz. I’d say he’s earned it.

I’d suggest looking at 3 things:

1. CAPTCHA. Not a perfect solution and AI will beat most of it soon, but it will help.
2. Anti-bot tools. Something that will do the equivalent of miring up AI web crawlers.
3. Identity systems. Not in the sense of a verifiable ID like a driver’s license, but in the sense of establishing a strong link between a pseudonymous ID and the community it owns or interacts with.

I am Gull, and by this axe I rule!

Whatever name fits your fancy. Go with solid registrars like Namecheap or cloudflare.

Once you get your domain, you can use most any email provider to handle mail for that domain. Fastmail is really good. Or proton if you want the encryption.

But what will happen to the Thrifty ice cream?

I know what’s wrong with it.

Surely not Ted! That mighty hero dines at the Allfather’s banquet, surrounded by the mightiest heros of all the ages!

Tie minimum wage to GDP/GNP, inflation, etc.

Tie congressional salaries to be a fixed multiple of minimum wage.

If congress wants more money, they have to make everyone’s situation better.