Meanwhile in the US the NSA just hoovering up every bit of data ever.

Early to mid 20th century??! Dang, double space was seemingly still very much in fashion even after Y2K. Welp, gotta go yell at some kids on my lawn.

No phones on in classrooms during class. What parent would not be on board?

IOS stock app?

In the US, know that insurance companies hire private investigators to follow and video people making injury claims. Especially higher dollar ones.

*do not

I’d argue that for most of the US it is necessary to have a car. We just have adequate public transport. I’d much prefer that we did, but currently we do not. I suspect one could take an aerial photo of many arenas/stadiums located in densely populated cities in the US and they do not have much parking either.

I’ve never known “college town” to be used as a denigration, though sometimes students from big cities who go to school in college towns are eager to return to what those big cities have to offer and perhaps don’t enjoy the college town vibe as much as others.

College towns are great in my opinion. Especially many of the small(ish) towns where large public land grant universities are located. (Penn State/Happy Valley, University of Florida/Gainesville, heck most every SEC school for that matter, Cornell University/Ithaca, etc.) The towns often grow around the universities. The schools bring in events that the towns otherwise would never have (concerts/plays/art exhibits/speakers/etc) not to mention college sports. You have some of the best and brightest, including students, faculty, researchers, doctors, in a confined local area. Education and diversity are valued. The universities are often the biggest employer in town, pay well, and attract lots of companies and people who benefit from the symbiotic relationship. You have people from all different walks of life. And usually the cost of living is reasonable. All in all, usually pretty good places to live.

I don’t know if you’re serious, trolling, joking, or maybe just referring to the anti-depressant, but it made me chuckle.

They know. The point is to be known to the politician to whom the corporation is pitching monetary woo. And conversely to be known to the corporation to whom the politician is too pitching the woo.

He was an excellent (arguably one of if not the best) race car driver in the American NASCAR series.

I don’t but I’ll give it a try. My problem is that it always clogs in the tip and tends to dry out as I only use it every so often.

This is reddit copypasta. Change the name of the famous person and insert whomever.

Every single time. And forget about getting more than one use without cutting off a portion of the tip. That needle cap thing does nothing.

They will lie, deny, stonewall, and there will be no repercussions nor change.

Your understanding and articulation of the joke is correct.

Roger that. Already learned something new today. Thanks.

Ah, that is outside my wheelhouse then. I do kind of like the idea of the outsized body parts based on how much of that part of the brain is used for that body part (or whatever that etymology said.)

I’m not seeing that definition in the few places I looked, but perhaps it does. I did find this:

homunculus /hō-mŭng′kyə-ləs, hə-/

noun A diminutive human. A miniature, fully formed individual believed by adherents of the early biological theory of preformation to be present in the sperm cell. A tiny human being that may be produced (according to a fancy of Paracelsus) artificially, without a natural mother. A little man; a dwarf. A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. Similar: dwarfmanikin A little man. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain. A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell. A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition •