We’re not all hostile, but that one sure is acting like you pissed in his cereal.

I have volunteered for this several times, including on time in DC.

My wife’s best friend was even a main fundraiser for them, at one time.

A. I enjoy it because I felt it was a way to honor someone’s memory and make a connection between them and the world they left behind. Christmas time, in particular, is a challenging time for both those deployed, and for those left at home. So displaying this kind of symbolic gesture at Christmas time is meaningful for a lot of folks. These kinda of things are really for the living, not for the dead. Watching Shadys wife place a wreath with the child he never knew was particularly heart breaking for me.

B. It started out as them trying to do something with scraps from their tree farm and it became so incredibly popular and demand so high, that’s all they do now.

C. Almost all the logistics and people are donated/volunteer. So the cost of each wreath mostly goes to the company. I can’t speak to how much the owners profit, though I do know they give a significant portion of their profits back to the charity and send some money back to the local wreath organizations.

Your point seems very valid to me.

I don’t even want to buy their products anymore because they constantly cancel them and remove any support.

The only ones they continue, seem to be the ones they can use for data collection .i.e. Pixels and Nests. (I shamefully own both).

It is so frustrating as a consumer. Especially when you know that you have become the product for them to sell.

I eat moldy cheese all the time!

But I imagine bleu cheese mold doesn’t have the toxins these other types do.

When I was young, we had family friends with a small peach orchard. So each year would always get a couple of bushels of tree fresh peaches.

The OP is spot on. I’ve never had a peach come close to how amazing they were.

But to your point, there was still a variance among those peaches too. However that was 95% to do with how ripe they were.

It became a game in our family on timing the peaches peak ripeness. You had to balance on how close you wanted it to get against if someone else might eat it first.

I can’t say much because of the NDA’s involved, but my wife’s company is in a project partnership with Google. She works in a very public facing aspect of the project.

When Google first came on board, she was expecting to see quality people who were locked in and knew what they were doing.

Instead she has seen terrible decision making (like “How the fuck do they still exist as company” bad decision making) and an over abundant reliance on using their name to pressure people into giving Google more than they should.

I remember when their motto was “Don’t be evil”. They are the very essence of sociopathic predatory capitalism.

About a scientific breakthrough in China?

Maybe an AI generated one, lol.

I was thinking of some of the Revolutionary War soldiers, actually and the allies fighting Nazi Germany.

Not really sure where Luigi came from.

Some good things have happened because people sacrificed themselves for the greater good.

Do I wish this wasn’t necessary? Fucking of course.

But history doesn’t repeat itself so much as humans just don’t change.

Are they just mad because they are able to profit off that capital and don’t want to lose it?

If so, then they are no better than the Swiss taking gold from the Nazis.

I went through the schools, at NAS Pensacola, to be a Rescue Swimmer.

I noticed the lights around the quad, in the main barracks, galley, and school house area, all had little metal F-18’s on top of them.

A few days before I transferred off base to the next school in my pipeline, I climbed one of the poles and took one.

It reminds me of the challenges I faced, being young, and to alway keep a bit of “Damn the Man, save the Empire” in my soul.

I have a bit of sand from Normandy which used to just remind me of the sacrifice that so many have made to fight fascism and aggression. Now it also reminds me to fight that same fascism today.

A photo of me in the color guard, for a parade in a town I wasn’t from, for people I didn’t really know, in a state I had never been. It was a summer of adventure that took me all the way across the US. It reminds to embrace the unknown, be friendly, and sometimes just letting the flow take you can lead to new, wondrous things you never could have expected

My wedding ring. It reminds me that despite the heartbreak, despair, and self loathing that came from that relationship, there were two years of delirious happiness. That not all journeys’ ends are happy or avoidable, that we need to bear through them, no matter how much you want to just end everything. You WILL look back and remember the things you got to do because you stayed, and be glad you did. To trust my gut and have the courage to make the choices my heart doesn’t want to make. It is easier to live with your own mistakes than someone else’s.

Fuck Excel and Microsoft for tying auto save to OneDrive.

My favorite thing about Laplace and Fourier transforms was making a fabulous looking F and L.

Their functions are so fucking spectacularly useful, but I just loved writing it out.

I stopped my Ring subscription but kept the doorbell camera.

It wasn’t until a year later when I was moving and the house was almost completely empty (still had internet/wifi setup) and I looked at the wifi app and saw that the ring doorbell still had significant data usage.

They were clearly still capturing my doorbell video.

Wait. Worm brain man says no real proof of a connection?

Now I think there may be one.

So cute, but aren’t baby foxes called kits?

I did deploy a lot, but I recall one of my first cultural lessons and they only mentioned the three.🤷🏾

I really appreciate you taking the time to share some of your knowledge.

Thank you!

Huh,

I lived there for three years and only learned about, Kanji, Katakana and Romanji.

Is Hiragana a more classic version of the language or is it an evolution of Katakana, that it looks similar to?

Same story, different healthcare provider. U.S. VA system for me.

TLDR: Who gives a shit?

A. Is it really necessary to split hairs like this here? You come across as just looking for a pointless, pedantic argument.

Obscure characterization of someone else’s motivation != anything useful. (Am I doing this right?)

B. He fixed his list so it doesn’t matter. And if you did see his original list, then you could just RTFA they linked and figure it out.

Being able to say something != Something should be said.

(Yup it looks just as pretentious when I do it.)