DrBob

This is truer than you can imagine. At least from what he told me.

The wads of money stuffed in their pockets act like a pillow suit.

Drainage gaps I would guess.

Dildos have been around a lot longer than that. https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-of-the-dildo

My understanding is that "hysteria" legitimized the use of the vibrator (not unlike how "weight loss" was used in the 1980s to prescribe fentanyl), but they were around before that, and probably would have found another way of entering the mainstream.

There are a lot of executive security firms. If you have the wallet They have emergency doctors on retainer, private hospitals, helicopters on standby. Yes they will take a bullet for you, but you'll pay for that privilege. I knew someone who worked for one of the firms in a managerial role.

I think you are overly optimistic in several points. Trump has already shown that the "ally" thing is meaningless.

We had a free trade agreement (NAFTA) that he didn't like so he tore it up to negotiate the USMCA. Now he doesn't like that and is threatening tariffs. As many people are asking "what use is an ally if you can't trust them to keep their word?". If they negotiate agreements but refuse to hold up their end of the bargain, what value is the agreement?

Trump has withdrawn from the Paris accord, is talking about withdrawing from NATO, and has threatened to withdraw from the G7 if we don't let Russia back in.

We have mineral wealth which he is very interested in right now, and a claim to large sections of the North that are becoming valuable for shipping, and which we are not able to defend. So yeah, we are in a bit of trouble. Blithely ignoring the issues is not helpful at this time.

Could you summarize? I'm not watching that.

Well it was someone else who spent most of their career with FØRTRAN punchcards. By the time I was learning BASIC in the 1980s it had moved to the zero.

Dad was a programmer on IBM 700/7000 series. He always slashed the letter O. Years later in programming people were slashing zeroes and I was mighty confused. Some greybeard explained it eventually.

What's the first vehicle slur?

I've never seen Linden as a woman's name. Interesting to me because the feminine form Linda is so common...so much so that there is a back formation of Lindo for the masculine form.