Not both?

For that money, you can buy actual air filtration units. The box fan may be noisy, but something that big is going to have massive surface area and provide a lot of filtration.

And potentially also a banishing.

Phones can also video call, lead you to just about anywhere you want to go on the planet, and store millions of pictures/videos/writings of a person's personal history. Unprecedented.

Same. I try to stay vigilant about it, especially in crowded locations.

1. Punching is usually non-lethal.
2. Not all Yanks are alike.
3. Intentionally killing over things is certainly abhorrent, but physically protecting your personal property is not necessarily a bad thing. We don't support the government conducting unlaw search and seizures, why would we accept that from individuals? Especially when law enforcement is either (a) unlikely to be successful at returning your property, especially cash money, and (b) unwilling to even try.

Found the American!

(I say as an American)

I've met uninformed and opinionated without a basis people who were left leaning, but I've never met anyone as cult-y as the MAGA. There is no way to get through to them--none. Their faces could be on fire, and they wouldn't put out the fire with water if water was proposed by the main-stream media to put out fires.

But where do you get your supply? That's the creepy question.

Fra-gee-lay, must be Italian!

I've had my Pixel 5 since around the time the 6 came out. The battery life isn't great, but I can get by just fine. Maybe Samsung phone batteries are better, but before this I had a Samsung Galaxy. The battery on that was no better. I know this is anecdotal, but I don't plan to switch when my 5 croaks.

I prefer "those who is" and "those who ain't." Binary and inclusive.

You can upvote good discussion and points that are wrong or you disagree with. I downvote assholes and people who add nothing to the discussion.

No idea, but they have the option, just like me.

Yeah, they would wait for me in most meetings. In 75% of the meetings I participate in, I'm a key person and have to provide meaningful information, some of it based on the discussion in the meetings. If I had "mic issues" in them, they'd want me to start showing up early to address them before the meeting. And thus we're back to square one.

I have all that turned off. A new chat pertaining to the meeting is added to the list of chats, but I don't see that unless I'm looking at the Teams window.

Does this guy reminds anyone else of the Walrus and the Carpenter from Alice in Wonderland?

All of them.

Yes, when I was young we had an outdoor cat for like 8-10 years. She had litter after litter of kittens (my parents should have gotten her spayed, or course, but it just didn't happen). One day she didn't come home, which was unusual for her. So, we went looking for her and called out to her. We eventually gave up for the night. We didn't see her the next day, and couldn't find her. A few days later when still looking for her, we spotted her. There were a couple of wooden lots between us and the next neighbor. She was on their porch sitting on their patio furniture. We took her home and gave her love and food. The next day she was gone. She was back at the neighbor's. We just left her because it was clear she was where she wanted to be. She knew how to get back to my house, but she was already home--it just wasn't mine. It was sad, but we weren't going to restrain her. The neighbors didn't mind. So, she got to retire.

We all knew that was a lie for most of them. They just didn't have the power or public support. It's not that they have more support now, but the support is way more public.