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It may be better than what they were getting back home.

Once they realize that the rest of the world, even Russia or China, is less squalid and oppressive than back home, they start wanting to not live in NK any more. At that point, the only hold that the NK government has left on them is holding their families hostage.

Oh, sorry, I was thinking of the no-touching as a symptom of the extreme introversion.

Dan has implied that most of the main cast are sounding boards for aspects of himself, including but not limited to: Elliot: Desire to be a strong and caring protector/ally Tedd: Pervy, experimental side, scientific inclinations, fetish interests Grace: empathy and public displays of affection, plus the “outsider’s” viewpoint of social conventions Susan: Introversion, logic, wanting to buck expectations Ashley: fantasies with the realization that making them real comes with real consequences.

So, before they started gaslighting their own people to believe that their own leadership are the creators of all modern advancement (e.g. the claim that the Kims invented hamburgers).

Too big to move easily is probably too big, yes. Ideal size is whatever feels good to the wearer—big enough to be sexy, but not so big as to be a physical obstacle. My personal sweet spot is about Ellen’s default size, but I get that some folks enjoy bigger e.g. Elliot’s “extra busty” forms.

Is this the first military expedition outside of North Korea’s region?

My father’s been dead for eight and a half years, and I still catch myself imitating his speech patterns.

Hope could definitely learn from Ellen’s example for coping with how to assert her new sense of self in the face of a previous life’s memories.

What I find fascinating about the Big Rip is that the end state of the universe resembles the inflationary state from the Big Bang, which implies that it may be a cycle wherein the inflation will decay and cease again for long enough for a new matter-dominated era to occur.

Hope is right that she can’t be who Tedd or Susan or Diane want her to be right now—the three of them would want her to be their “grandmother” in a youthened form.

Well, this was before most people thought of “computer equals word processor”.

I would like to mention that some sports drinks such as Gatorade have over 250mg of Potassium per 8-ounce serving, so they are something to look into if you need to supplement your potassium intake.

Zeus was talking about the new rules in public where anyone could see his words in the comments, so he had to assume that unwanted observers would see it (e.g. Voltaire, Helena, or Dimetrius, all of whom are known to have been watching our main cast), thus he kept it cryptic. Hope right now is speaking directly to Sarah, so she has no such concern. It’s less about the knowledge being secret and more about who might be listening.

https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/1842039774359462324 Marjorie Taylor Green came out saying that Democrats are causing Hurricane Milton, and when pressed, she said that yes, they are indeed controlling the weather. Now, most of us know that MTG is loopy, but the obscene part is how many people apparently believe her nutty statements. At this point they have become 100% untethered from reality.

I never saw Beanie and Cecil, but I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle.

The only CRT that I still keep around is for connecting my old pre-HDMI video games and VHS to.

Nah, it should be the F-22 Raptor.

I keep misreading it as Tax avoidance thread.

Oh, since Leonard Nimoy was brought up on the Listening thread, I thought I would mention that Nimoy provides all of the narration for Civilization IV.

5.4 megahertz? I thought it was 5.4 gigahertz? That would make for a wavelength of about 5 centimeters.

While a WiFi router can provide the microwave signal for a separate camera to form an image, routers do not possess the angular resolution to form images on their own—it can only determine the general direction of an object. While this might be enough to get general location and numbers of users/devices (thus fulfilling the literal meaning of RAdio Detection And Ranging, showing devices as blips), it can not form a picture of people’s body shape and poses.

So, my neighbor got a notice from the DMV that she is required to get an engine emissions test done on her Tesla Model 3. Think about that for a moment. Engine emissions test. On an electric car. Truly, the DMV people do not know what they are doing.

In that case a cheaper motor vehicle could be made up as a decoy tank.

Like the sinking of Atlantis?