France,

Once upon a time you came to America and helped us defeat a king.

Any chance you can come teach us how to protest? You folks seem to have perfected your technique.

Will prices start going down now?

If the claim of invention instills a sense of pride that prevents assholes from tearing it down, then keep pushing that story.

I’m in the US, and every time some right wing jackass mentions Canada’s healthcare, they pull a story out of their ass about someone who died waiting for care. Conveniently ignoring the large number of people in the US who die without even considering the possibility of healthcare because they can’t afford it. Left unsaid: “You don’t understand! The person I know who died was white!”

Jazz Paws!

The media should certainly respond to Trump’s bullshit, but the response should be to ignore it and keep asking what his plans are to reduce prices, end inflation, and all the other impossible, contradictory promises he made to get the morons in this country to vote for him.

All we have is the vacuum. I don’t know about any of their other products.

The vacuum isn’t intelligent enough to capture video, let alone get online and send it anywhere.

It does a good job on the floors, though.

It seems well placed. It isn’t really meant to be routinely turned off. The switch is recessed a bit and covered with a clear flexible cover.

I only turned it off once. It was recently because I didn’t want it to run it’s scheduled task until I could protect the Christmas tree.

Our Eufy vacuum has the power switch on the bottom.

When I still managed a team, at the beginning of every team meeting, we’d have the Two Minute of Hate. Everyone in the team would be able to complain about whatever was bothering them.

Very often, when the hate was work related, the team would come together to solve the problem. It worked really, really well.

Other managers tended to be very uptight about the idea.

Sometimes the hate would last through most of the meeting.

After some fairly distressing and debilitating hates, I added Eye Bleach permanently to the end of the agenda. It was when people would share something to make everyone feel better. It was usually either cute pet or kid pictures, or happy news or uplifting stories.

I still work there, but I’m not a manager anymore. I’m still strangely part of the management team, but I have no direct reports, and I’m not officially a manager.

I’m not really sure I was really the person they wanted managing people. I suppose it’s not too surprising, but the entire management team seems to think they are what keeps the place working. I always saw management as a necessary evil. My team was what kept things working, not their manager.

What’s the hotline for NY State residents to call when their healthcare claims are denied,?

If you really want to discover something crazy, swallow some raisins whole.

My son played saxophone in jazz band in middle school and forgot his mouthpiece at a jazz festival. Trouble was, he was really good. The director made him borrow another kid’s mouthpiece to play.

Aside from how incredibly gross that was, I often wonder how it made the other kid feel.

“You forgot your mouthpiece? Well, we can’t have you not play. Borrow a mouthpiece from that kid. He sucks anyway.”

The biggest mistake so far.

Confirmed by experience.

It needs the tell-tale “gone on top and dusting around the back” stubble that makes it clear shaving his head is the only remaining option.

Neither did my grandparents. Likewise, my parents didn’t update their will when my children and nieces were born.

The attitude among all generations has been: your own kids inherit, and they distribute to their kids as they see fit.

I wasn’t in my grandparents wills, but I ended up with some of their furniture.

It’s $16 now.

I think I understand what jetlag is, but I don’t understand how this smells like that.

As others have pointed out, Neapolitan ice cream is not named after Napoleon.

Extra painful when you consider there is a pastry called Napoleon:

https://ofbatteranddough.com/napoleon-dessert-mille-feuille

I have a treadmill desk at work.