Enough to take the edge off, not so often it interfers with your life. The number will be different for every person and different at every stage of life for a person.

I don’t know that it would help. The longer Americans keep Trump in power, the more their former allies realize that it isn’t “just Trump”.

Vinyls don’t corrode over time. We have vinyl from 80 years ago. Still good. We have CDs from 90s that no longer play. And itunes that have completely disappeared unless than 20years.

Colin James - Fuse

Isn’t it an AI photo?

Been around long enough to know that we are being sold on a lie that’s real purpose is extracting wealth at the fastest rate possible from the lower 99% while providing unknown risks and low likelihood of benefits to most of the population. The only “AI” that currently works well is a very fast database searcher. It is better than a human at that task but requires humans to create the database and all the information in it first in order for it to work. The only “AI” that seems to be possibly “thinking” for itself is hopeless, wrong, and/or very destructive.

Obviously OP has not gotten home and found a cracked egg or two in the dozen they just bought. I always check.

I cannot tell you anything about any ads I have seen in the last few years online. If they pop up and I can’t shut them off, the single thing I am paying attention to is when the skip now button shows up. I literally cannot tell you anything about any of the ads, neither company nor product. Back in the day, you’d run to the other room and do things while the ads came on in TV shows but you were still hooked in because of the jingles. To this day I can remember many of the jingles from the 70s. New online ads, absolutely no idea.
However in the car I listen to radio and have recently started listening to a new station. I am starting to recognize some of the higher rotation ads. The ones I like, I might eventually try the business if it offers a product I need, but the much longer list is the one of companies that I will never do business with since their ads annoy me so much. Name recognition isn’t great if all it promotes is loathing.

So now we have a choice. Did Holytimes mean 1) piss off people who attack others (than), or 2) piss off people and attack people (then).

TIL there is something considered “the wrong spaghetti sauce”.

While there are many things Boomers need help with, as they have been through far more societal changes than anyone younger has and may be losing the ability to adapt to those changes, they are not the only generation desparately needing help. The mental health epidemic, anything googleable health epidemic, unable to form relationships because individually they are all too niche epidemic, the list goes on, are all much younger than Boomer problems. Given that Boomers are 62-85 years old and are now in the dying off phase, I’d be much more worried about those who live their lives by TikTok fad or whatever since they have another 50 years to wreak havoc on everything and everyone around them.

Metro Vancouver fits the bill. North Van you can ski or mountain bike or hike (depending on season) in the morning, then go golf or sail for the afternoon.

Yep there is always a day in a vacation where you ask yourself, what did I just do? Once it was going to stay with a new friend at the family’s small hotel. Sounded great. I would help out with the lunch shift and they would let me stay for free. Woke up the middle of the first night when it sounded like WW3 had started. Apparently the parents liked to get drunk and fight. She didn’t mention that part. Then there was the time we were on a island country and the non-regulated taxi was taking us to an authentic cuisine restaurant. He had driven us around the previous day and seemed ok. This night he needed to refill the car with gas. He drove into what looked like closed gas station and when he started to fill up a group of young men materialized. But they just joked with him and we went on our way - was his younger brother and friends. So a few scary moments but they didn’t turn out to be anything. They did however make us think twice about trying our luck. Still seem to end up in those types of situations though. I’m guess I’m a relatively trusting soul.

There is lots of other football/soccer around. Watch and support it and don’t support FIFA. Why should they change when fans keep rewarding them for what they are doing? Watching, even for free, is supporting them.

CI Armand Gamache. Louise Penny books’ main character. TV show Three Pines.

Funny thing I figured out over the years: widows do not date after their spouse dies for 2 reasons: 1) they were, and still are, madly in love with their spouse, or 2) their spouse/marriage absolutely sucked and they will never ever do that again. The latter is more common.

Ironically that was the cause of the first worst scam calls. The govt had a do not call list that you could put your number on which then became THE phone book for scam calls instead of stopping them. If you’ve ever signed up for anything or paid for anything online and had to give your phone number, it went into a list that was sold on. With auto dialers, they just go through every permeation of possible numbers. I don’t get many calls on my cell because I keep that number private and use my already compromised land line for everything.

I don’t answer anything that isn’t identified and that I recognize. If they leave a message I will check it. It’s a pain that so many in the medical and service industries use unidentified numbers forcing telephone tag and they don’t use email or text only phone calls.

I don’t think his home was invaded and he was raped when he was 30, like she was for “being a successful, beautiful woman”. Nor did he have the drug and alcohol addiction problems as a coping mechanism from that incident. Add in he doesn’t have a genetic condition that impairs his health. All in all, I think she is doing fantastic for all that life has thrown at her. All we see of him is Scientology propaganda photos.

Canadian. I have a chronic issue that I wait long times to see a specialist. Mainly because after seeing them for a few visits to update treatment, I don’t see them for a couple years but can’t immediately go back because I need to be re-referred which can take awhile due to waitlists. But I can see my GP (in person or phone call) very quickly if needed and all free. I had a serious issue not long ago and got seen in Urgent Care in a couple hours (avoided ER), sent to specialist next day, and got all the testing done quite quickly and then treated - less than a week. No cost. Might have been a bit quicker in a pay system but my life wasn’t threatened and I didn’t have to worry about whether or not it would be covered by my insurance or what the copay would be. I know people who complain about the slowness of non life threating issues but they always have the option of paying for care - they just need to leave Canada, and some do. I have a relative who was ticked that the surgeon he saw wouldn’t recommend an operation so he went to the US and paid to have it done only to find that it didn’t really solve his problem (just like his ‘idiot’ Canadian doc had said) and he was now out a load of money and still had a chronic issue. For life threatening issues, all my family and friends have had timely & free service. An aunt went into ER 2 weeks ago for severe stomach pain. Got a CT and was into surgery a day later. Five days in hosptial and she’s now recovering at home with occassional health nurse visits. No charge. Didn’t even have to pay for most of her medication costs because they were mostly covered under Pharmacare.